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HSC – The Library is here to help!

About to start your exams? Or is your HSC journey just beginning? We're here to help.

The Bridge: a new Library podcast

This five-part series retraces the fascinating and tumultuous history of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge. Listen now on iTunes, Google Podcasts or Soundcloud.

 

The Bridge: The Arch That Cut the Sky. A five-part series starring Australia's favourite icon, the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Designing for learning

Follow the journey to a new learning centre at the Library.

JB Fairfax learning centre

Ethnographic Video Online: Indigenous Voices

500 hours of documentaries, feature and short films by indigenous filmmakers and communities - Ethnographic Video Online: Indigenous Voices.

Collage of images from Ethnographic Video Online: Indigenous Voices

Collection buzz

Rose de Freycinet poem

A recent addition to the collection, a poem dedicated to Rose de Freycinet, shows us how this remarkable woman was perceived by those she met on her voyage around the world.

Text of a poem in French

Who was Kath?

The Library recently acquired an album of photographs, with no details of the owner or the subjects of the photographs – except for one named person. But who was Kath?

Austinmer 1930

F. S. Burnell's album

Australian journalist and radio presenter, Frederick Spencer Burnell's (1880-1958) was as a special correspondent with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force during World War One. His recently digitised album contains 99 black & white photographs that documenting this experience.

Burnell WW1 PXA 2165 SLNSW 009

Mallarmé publications that broke the mould

It seemed to me that I was looking at the form and pattern of a thought, placed for the first time in finite space. 

Front Matter: un coup de dés jamais n'abolira de hasard, par Stéphane Mallarmé, Ed́itions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1914, State Library of New South Wales RHQ/1003

Across the curator’s desk: Elizabeth Gould letters, 1828-1839

Elizabeth Gould was the wife of ornithologist and artist, John Gould, and a talented natural history artist.

Crosshatched letters written in brown ink

Growing community gardens

The Library recently acquired a collection of 60 digital photographs documenting the growing trend of community-run gardens across Sydney.

Camperdown community garden

A plan for the Espresso Rialto Coffee Lounge

The Library has acquired the architectural plan for one of Sydney's first Italian style coffee bars. 

Espresso Rialto Coffee Lounge

Capturing counter-culture

These recently digitised photographs by Roger Marchant from the 1970s and 80s are a time capsule of the early alternative lifestyle movement in Australia.

Rainbow Archives - Roger Marchant