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What’s got us talking

World Book Day

An impassioned exploration of the books that get our hearts pumping and our blood boiling. Watch it online.

Cassie McCullagh (co-host of Radio National’s The Bookshelf & ABC Radio Sydney presenter)

Events online

Catch up on popular Library events featuring authors, scholars, artists and curators.

Openbook magazine

Inside each issue you'll find stories that are inspiring, thought-provoking and surprising.

Openbook autumn

What about the sheilas?

Peter Kingston couldn’t please everyone in his artist’s book Sheilas, but the result is a special piece of work.

Collection buzz

War diaries of George Gittoes

A selection of visual diaries of Australian artist George Gittoes, covering the period between 2001 and 2014, have been recently digitised by the Library.

Detail from Image 8, Item 24: George Gittoes art diary, ca. April 2009-ca. December 2009

Kathleen’s voyage: A love story

These beautifully illustrated logbooks record a detailed account of the circumnavigation of the world by the deep-sea cruising yacht Kathleen Gillett.

Detail: [The Kathleen Gillet in full sail], oil on card, Kathleen's voyage number 2, Thursday Island to Christmas Island, July-August 1947

Sydney's Bungaree

Bungaree (c 1775–1830) is a remarkable and enigmatic figure in Sydney and Australia’s colonial history.

Bligh’s Bounty logbooks

The logbooks of William Bligh, which document the most notorious mutiny in history, were officially inscribed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World register.

William Bligh's Logbook