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Bookshop | Call: +61 2 6262 1424 Email: library.shop@nla.gov.au For wholesale, merchandise and sales enquiriesCall: +61 2 6262 1150 Email: nlasales@nla.gov.au |
CafesFor Bookplate and Paperplate enquiries. | Call: +61 2 6262 1154 Email: bookplate@nla.gov.au |
Friends of the National Library | Call: +61 2 6262 1698 Email: friends@nla.gov.au |
Media enquiriesFor journalists, press and media releases. | Call: +61 401 226 697 Email: media@nla.gov.au |
PhilanthropyFor enquiries about donations and bequests. | Call: +61 2 6262 1336 Email: philanthropy@nla.gov.au Director of Philanthropy |
SecurityFor accessible access and after hours venue enquiries. | Call: +61 2 6262 1376 Email: security@nla.gov.au |
Tours, group bookings and school programs | Call: +61 2 6262 1207 Email: bookings@nla.gov.au |
Venue hireFor event bookings and meeting room hire. | Call: +61 2 6262 1234 Email: venuehire@nla.gov.au |
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Bookplate cafe
Photo of Dorothy Tangney and Enid Lyons entering Parliament House in 1943, from the Papers of Dorothy Margaret Tangney, 1938-1986, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3190082597
Images (left to right): David Moore, Portrait of Dawn Fraser, Melbourne, 1963 (detail), nla.obj-140402089 [left hand upper]; Serena Ovens, Portrait of Louise Sauvage, 1996 paralympian (detail), nla.obj-136368441 [left hand lower]; Bruce Howard, Sydney's Warwick Capper taking a spectacular mark over Mick Martin of the Kangaroos in a game at the MCG on Anzac Day, 1991 (detail), nla.obj-148148262; Steve Holland, Australian cricketer Shane Warne holding a cricket ball and stump at the end of the Fourth Test of the Ashes Series, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, 2006 (detail), nla.obj-137980452.