Trove | National Library of Australia (NLA)

Two women standing behind a trolley with books on it in the Library stacks.

2022 Asia Study Grants recipients Ms Younghye Whitney and Dr Mei-Fen Kuo.

With your support, a new generation of thinkers can use our collections to create important and transformative works.

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By donating to digitise our physical collections, you can help make the treasures of the National Library freely available to everyone, all the time.

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Improve access to our collections

Help make the National Union of Australian University Students and Australian Union of Students collections accessible to more people.

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Using Trove

Search Trove to explore amazing collections from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day.

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Corflutes donated from the 2013 election, with NLA staff members

Thank you for bringing Australian democracy to life

We are grateful to our donors who generously gave over $320,000 to help make our election ephemera collection available to the world on Trove. Your support will allow us to share the vivid story of our Australian democracy.

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Staff member at Claremont Museum. Image courtesy Claremont Museum.

Making history with Trove

Making it possible for local community collections to be part of Trove

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Three men at the peak of a mountain looking at the view with binoculars and pointing

Herbert H. Fishwick & Fairfax Corporation, Three men with binoculars and tripod at the top of Mount Kaputar looking over the mountain range to the west, New South Wales, 1932, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-162757741

Introduction to Trove searching

Learn how you can search across millions of newspapers, journals, books, pictures, maps, and many other items from cultural, community and research collections around Australia.

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