Browse photographs from the 1956 Melbourne Olympics to learn the top tips for how to watch a sports game.

Australian explorer Sir Douglas Mawson established a wireless station at Macquarie Island as a staging point from Hobart to the Main Base of the expedition at Cape Denison in the Antarctic.

Inspired by sports-related exhibition, Grit & Gold: Tales from a Sporting Nation, we’ve compiled a list of study tips with a sporting twist to help you in the educational arena. Now let’s kick some goals!

Join us in stepping away from the AFL competitions and tennis championships to find your axe, put on your skates and grab a beer. Below are some of the lesser-known sports that need more attention.

Anna Dziedzic’s current research explores the moment of constitution-making, when the people of a nation decide to change their constitution or make a new one.

In the second part of our sports stories series, we turn our attention to books by and about the Australian athletes on the basketball and tennis courts and in the swimming pool.

2023 National Library of Australia Fellow Dr Lorinda Cramer started her 12-week fellowship to trace how consumers were educated about the quality of their woollen garments in the twentieth century but once she started exploring the Library’s collections, her research expanded into brand new woolly strands.

In our second blog, find out how to find information on births, deaths, addresses and property records.

In the first of two blogs, learn about birth certificates, First Nations family history, electoral rolls, and cemetery records.

On 15 August 1968, Prime Minister John Gorton officially opened the National Library of Australia; the first major construction along the shores of the four-year-old Lake Burley Griffin.

Since the Library was founded, our goal has been to collect and share Australian stories. Recently, we have been particularly focused on exploring Australian sports stories through our exhibition, Grit & Gold: Tales from a Sporting Nation.

Many of us learn a musical instrument at some point in our lives. Some in childhood; others later on.