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Watch Dr Kate Warren's Fellowship presentation titled 'Cut-out-and-keep: magazines and the popularisation of Australian art in the 1950s and 1960s'.

Q&A with 2022 National Library of Australia Fellow Dr Kate Warren
16 Mar 2023

The National Library has a range of Fellowships and Scholarships available to researchers, writers, artists, and younger scholars.

Dr Kate Warren, a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National University, was a 2022 recipient of a National Library of Australia Fellowship.


 

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Rare Books Swimming - Roger Lever

Frontispiece and title page of Melchisédech Thévenot, The Art of Swimming. The second edition. London: Printed for John Lever, 1764, nla.cat-vn7756220

Rare book highlights – Swimming in 1764
27 Feb 2023

This blog, by the Library’s Rare Books and Music Curator Dr Susannah Helman, explores this charming little book, just in time for the last days of summer. It may even be helpful the next time you take the plunge!

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Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski

Australian pride histories and biographies: Recommendations from the National Library
22 Feb 2023

To mark WorldPride 2023 and the 45th Anniversary of the Sydney Mardi Gras, the National Library has curated a selection of books on the LGBTQIA+ experience and culture.

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Photograph of Florence, Ella and Hazel Porter, circa late 1940s, with sewing and knitting tools, including a wooden darning egg.

Community Heritage Grant: Miss Porter's House
20 Feb 2023

The Community Heritage Grant program supports local groups to access professional cultural heritage expertise.

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Library Lovers’ Day
14 Feb 2023

Visitors to the National Library were recently asked to nominate what it is they love about the Library.

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That's Out! by Dickie Bird

That's Out! by Dickie Bird

What's hot in non-fiction: Summer reading suggestions your National Librarians
27 Jan 2023

Reading suggestions of the non-fiction kind for readers young and not-so-young.

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The Library A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduw

Recommended reads for Library Lovers' Day
27 Jan 2023

To celebrate these places of learning, exploration and relaxation, we have created a list of our top picks to help bookworms and library lovers of all ages get in the Library Lovers’ Day spirit!

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Conserving John Gould’s Australian Bird Pattern Plates
13 Jan 2023

While the National Library of Australia is the custodian of millions of books, among its treasures are items that show how books were made.

 

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Special presentation copy of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, London: Chatto & Windus, 2014. Image: National Library of Australia

2022 new collection item highlights
10 Jan 2023

The National Library is always adding new and exciting items into its collections every year, and 2022 was no exception.

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