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We are delighted that Trove’s future has been secured!
The National Library welcomes the announcement of ongoing Trove funding. Read more:
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All this talk about the postal survey will surely mean some ephemera will be created. Help us collect it.
#SSM
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Are you organised, have a sense of humour and love working with the best people? Well, we might have a job for you.
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Don’t forget tomorrow evening is our
#AskaLibrarian
#familyhistoryhour
– ask us a question on Facebook from 4pm AEST
#familyhistorymonth
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The National Library of Australia is deeply grateful for the commitment of the Albanese Government to provide significant ongoing and indexed funding for Australia’s cultural and historical institutions.
Read more:
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The experiences, images and voices of Chinese Australians are currently the subject of a collecting project by the Library. If you are a part of the Chinese community in Australia and would like to share your story, please express your interest here:
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#OnThisDay
in 1895 women won the right to vote in South Australia and, for the first time in the world, the right to stand for Parliament. For more on the suffragettes movement see our new Collection-In-Focus, opening Tues 6 Feb
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And yes, don't forget we're collecting posters, stickers, banners, flyers - any printed material from the same-sex marriage survey for our ephemera collection.
Send it to the Ephemera Officer, National Library of Australia, Canberra. ACT. Thank you.
#yesvote
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The National Library collects a copy of every book published in Australia, this is called Legal Deposit. Every day we receive upward of 60-80 new books.
Our very adaptable cataloguers are ready to catalogue anything from Australian law to Goosebumps on any given day.
#shelfie
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Wordle 249 2/6
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Should have known...
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Today on
#WorldAnimalDay
we honour the weird, the wonderful, the loyal, and the wild. And remind ourselves to respect these incredible critters as well as the habitats they live in.
These images are from our collection - just for the occasion.
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Thankyou to those who donated their
#March4Justice
signs to the Library’s collection after attending yesterday’s Canberra event. We now have a great sample of signs, posters and other ephemera, and are not currently seeking further donations.
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It’s one of our favourite weeks of the year – Library and Information week!
This year’s theme is ‘Find yourself in a Library’, and certainly we were lost to the world last week amongst all of these books at the Hume Repository.
#LIW2018
#findyourself
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#OTD
in 1835 William Buckley, a British convict, emerged from the Aus bush after having escaped authorities & lived with the Wathaurang people for 32 yrs. The phrase 'you've got Buckley's chance or none' was termed after his survival and escape.
✏️:
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Very excited to be one of the partners on the new Culture Loop bus - a free daily bus loop connecting Canberra's major cultural institutions!
Find out more and download the map and timetable here:
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More than 7,000 people gathered at Parliament House on this day in 2008, to hear the National Apology to the Stolen Generations. The words had different impacts on those listening – giving all Australians the chance to come together in reflection.
📷:
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If you’re wanting to escape the terrible Canberra weather today, we know the perfect place…
Trust us, there’s gold at the end of this rainbow.
#VisitCanberra
#YourNLA
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So what did an aspiring young female writer do for inspiration - and her keep - in the early 1900s? If her name was Miles Franklin, she worked as a maid. This rare picture now on show in our
#TreasuresGallery
.
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We know how important it is to take time out and read. Today's the day!
#AustralianReadingHour
@love2readAU
#brbReading
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A portrait of civil rights activist, Faith Bandler, hangs in our Treasures Gallery.
Bandler was instrumental in NSW’s campaign for constitutional amendments to Sections 51(xxvi) and 127-resulting in the successful 1967 referendum on Indigenous rights.
Image: nla.obj-136357720
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In her own words,
@Anne_Rowlands
talks about how she created publicly accessible lists of over 5000 transgender and intersex related resources in
@TroveAustralia
in a bid to help remove barriers to access:
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Prime minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into the hand of Gurindji Traditional Land Owner Vincent Lingiari at Wattie Creek, Northern Territory, 16 August 1975, Mervyn Bishop.
#ReconciliationWeek
#NRW2018
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Happy
#PublicDomain
Day!
We’re very excited by all the material that’s falling out of copyright today, including over 1,300 maps in our collection!
📷:
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Today on
#NationalReconciliationDay
we recognise the history of the oldest living culture in the world and strive for a future of empathy, respect and understanding.
📷:
#ReconciliationWeek
@RecAustralia
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Did you know the word kangaroo comes from the Guugu Yimithirr peoples of North QLD & was recorded during the Endeavour voyage in August 1770?
Find out more about First Nations peoples in the Pacific in our exhibition opening next week:
#CookAndThePacific
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In celebration of
#WorldBookDay
Librarian Andrew has written a blog post about four gems from our Special Collections:
If you could own any rare book what would it be?
#rarebooks
#originofspecies
#natureprinting
#finepress
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#Onthisday
in 1813, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published by Thomas Egerton, following an earlier rejection by publishers Cadell & Davies. It's now one of the most popular novels in the English language, winning the hearts of readers everywhere.
Image: nla.obj-135993896
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We thought you'd like Dombrovskis - but 5000 visitors in under 2 weeks? Love your work.
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Kick off International Year of Indigenous Languages by meeting some iconic Aussie animals—in Kaurna language! Our kids' book 'Ngana ngai? Who Am I?' includes lovely illustrations from our collection and a Kaurna
pronunciation guide:
#IY2019
#NLAPublishing
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Happy 50th birthday to….us!
#OnThisDay
in 1968 our building was officially opened. We marked the anniversary by welcoming more than 8,000 people to our Open Day, where they joined with Director-General Marie-Louise Ayres and ambassador, Kaz Cooke in the birthday celebrations.
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Today we remember
#NevilleBonner
, an elder of the Jagera people and the first Indigenous Australian member of the Parliament - born
#OnThisDay
in 1922.
His greatest achievement in the Senate? ‘I think the fact that I was there. That an Aboriginal was there.'
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Controversial opinion: Billy carts are superior to e-scooters, and not just for their pet passenger capabilities.
📷:
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We've recently digitised over 50 cookbooks and you can now access them from home in Trove.
Thanks to a generous multi-year gift from the Australian Ethical Food Group, there's also more cookbooks on the way!
Browse cookbooks in Trove:
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Farewell John Clarke. The funniest of men.
Image: John Clarke as Fred Dagg by Rennie Ellis, 1982.
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We’re refreshing our Treasures Gallery this November. If you’re nearby, visit us to see some of the Library’s greatest treasures currently on display, including Sarah Stone’s watercolour of an Australian glossy black cockatoo, made 230 years ago:
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Today we celebrate Jagera man, Neville Thomas Bonner, on his 100th Birthday. Neville Bonner was an Australian politician and became the first Aboriginal person to sit in the Commonwealth Parliament in 1971.
📷:
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Little is known about this early 20th-Century women’s cricket team from Tilba Tilba, NSW. While it was considered ‘unladylike’ for women to play cricket at this time, this portrait suggests that the team was taken seriously in their community.
📷:
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The National Library is delighted that our rare Blaeu map – Archipelagus Orientalis, sive Asiaticus (Eastern and Asian archipelago) 1663 – has been added to the
@UNESCO
Australian Memory of the World Register!
View the full map and find out more:
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Vale Jack Charles
Today we mourn the loss of Jack Charles, proud Boon Wurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung, Woiwurrung and Yorta Yorta senior Elder. Uncle Jack was a much deeply respected stage and screen actor, musician, potter, author and Elder and will be missed.
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#Onthisday
in 1808, NSW governor, Admiral William Bligh was arrested by the NSW Corps (nicknamed the ‘Rum Corps’) following his efforts to reign them in and shut down the rum trade.
It’s the only time in Australian history that a government was overthrown by a military coup.
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Brrrr, today is the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere. How are you spending
#WinterSolstice
?
Image: Cotton, Olive. (1937). Winter willows, Bendemeer,
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Journey ends: NLA staff install a rare 1663 map - the one used as a template for all maps of Oz pre-Cook - in the
#TreasuresGallery
today.
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Every day we receive boxes & parcels of new Aus books for legal deposit - that's around 30,000 new titles a year from around 3,000 Aus publishers.
Today on
#WorldBookAndCopyrightDay
we’d like to thank these publishers for the work they do. Learn more:
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Today on
#NationalSorryDay
we remember the Stolen Generations.
Listen to stories of affected Indigenous people & others in our oral history collection:
*First Nations peoples are advised the collection may depict deceased peoples*
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In the mid-1800s, bird’s eye view maps became popular in Europe, the US & Aus.
This one of
#Sydney
was produced in 1888 & many of the buildings shown still stand today. Can you pick them?
See it in our Treasures Gallery or online:
#TreasuresTuesday
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Due to the need to contain the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), the Library building is closed to visitors until further notice.
Behind the scenes, our staff are ensuring popular digital services are still available, so stay connected with us.
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We have something for every teacher and student.
#DigitalClassroom
provides free online educational resources for every year level that are aligned to the Australian Curriculum.
Tune into our digital community:
#NLADigitalCommunity
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We are spending the day bee-ing grateful for bees and other pollinators who are critical to sustaining life on Earth as we know it.
📷:
#savethebees
#WorldBeeDay
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Vale national treasure, author and cooking legend Margaret Fulton.
📸: Greg Barrett, 1993,
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NLA, NLA treasures, wherefore art they? Right in front of you this Sunday, 12 August, when you come to our Open Day to mark the building's 50th birthday.
This 1886 pocket Shakespeare collection, and a myriad of other treasures, will be on show.
#nla50
#nlaopenday
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Good morning. We'd like to toast the arrival of
#Vegemite
to Australia
#OnThisDay
in 1923. Feel free to spread the word.
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Today on
#WorldTeachersDay
we thank all the teachers who impart knowledge, inspire passion & instill a love of books & stories in children. We even thank those teachers who made us wear our hats, pull up our socks, or wear white P.E uniforms and pose for a photo like this…
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#JaneAusten
died
#OnThisDay
in 1817 but her writing, seen here in one of our treasures - the 1799 letter she wrote to her sister Cassandra - will live forever.
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From our maps team, a close up of a 1545 world map with the southern hemisphere land mass titled 'Australia' at the top – well before its time.
View the full woodcut illustration here:
#worldmap
#historicalmaps
#woodcut
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📷 Our robot ISAAC is a common sight in the stacks this
#LibraryShelfieDay
. Besides book delivery, he enjoys machine learning, the works of Isaac Asimov and hosting cob loaf parties.
Share your
#LibraryShelfieDay
photos below!
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As children across Australia prepare to dress up as their favourite book character for
@TheCBCA
's Book Week this week in the theme 'Find Your Treasure', we take a look at some of our very tiny treasures from our collection.
Which is your favourite
#BeatrixPotter
book?
#CBCA2018
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Want to work at the National Library? Do you have a passion for libraries, love to learn and are keen to contribute ideas. Applications are now open for a number of Reference Librarian positions.
Read all about it here: …
Image: Geoff Pryor, 2002.
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What’s 4cm, fit for royalty and the smallest of its kind ever printed? Atlas of the British Empire, 1925, a copy of the atlas made for Queen Mary’s doll’s house. It was uncovered in the
@nlagovau
by
@TroveAustralia
's Romina Villanueva for
#LibraryLoversDay
.
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It's
#BookLoversDay
, one of our favourite days of the year. So tell us, what book do you love?
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In early 20th C Daisy Bates recorded many Aboriginal languages, which would otherwise be lost today. Now her papers have been digitised and are available through the new platform Bates Online. Join us for the live-streamed launch at 4pm (AEST) today:
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Sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll … and a missing Prime Minister. Discover more about the tumultuous year that was 1968 in our upcoming exhibition.
Opens 1 March.
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Congratulations to Dr Marie-Louise Ayres who has just been named our new Director-General.
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Such a treat to welcome
@PeterGreste
- he was here on a film shoot but took time out to see the new
@nlagovau
home of his papers
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In Canberra? Need to escape the heat? We have exhibitions, WordPlay for the kids, and coffee. Also shopping, wifi, and aircon.
Did we mention aircon?
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Applications for the 2022 NLA Fellowships program are now open. Apply now for the opportunity to undertake a 12-week residency at the National Library – applications close 26 April 2021:
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How did the crew of the Endeavour spend
#ChristmasDay
in 1768?
On Boxing Day, Cook recorded the ship was off course. He wrote: ‘yesterday being Christmas day the People were none of the Soberest.’
#CookAndThePacific
re-opens tomorrow from 10am.
✏️:
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The National Library building was opened in 1968, but did you know our collections have lived (and do live in) other buildings?
Read about the history of our our beautiful heritage building:
📷:
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While Bennelong is a well-known name, the truth of the man is misunderstood by many. Join
@kfullagar
on Thurs July 22, at the Library or online, to uncover more of Bennelong's history.
Free admission. Bookings and information:
📷:
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We've come across this manuscript fragment in shorthand - 19th century vintage - and would love to know what it says.
If it's a treasure, it may go into our collection. If it's someone's shopping list, it probably won't.
Can anyone decipher?
#shorthand
#help
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Today is the 54th anniversary of our beautiful building on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra! 🎉
Our building was opened
#OnThisDay
in 1968.
Read the history of our building:
📷: &
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The internet of the 18th and 19th centuries is now online.
Thanks to a generous donation, the National Library of Australia has digitised over 150 almanacs in the collection and made them freely available online from anywhere in the world through Trove
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Seek inspiration from our collections like
@irelandincolour
did when they colourised this Frank Hurley photograph taken on the 1914-1916 Shackleton expedition to Antarctica.
Share how our collections have inspired you!
#NLADigitalCommunity
📷:
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This week we remember the lives of two people who contributed greatly to our National Library and knowledge of Australian history. 🖤
Vale Stuart Macintyre. Vale Babette Smith.
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What will you be reading today for Australian Reading Hour?
Our Director-General Marie-Louise Ayres started reading to her granddaughter when she was just two weeks old. A year later, as you can see, her love of books has grown just as much as she has.
#ReadingHour
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A chap walks into the National Library and asks for a book about cliffhangers. The librarian says …
#InternationalJokeDay
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We lost one of our best recently. We honour her memory today with colourful socks, one of her favourite things. We'll miss you Julie!
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If you’ve mastered Monopoly, how about looking further afield for your next games night inspiration? The National Library holds one of the largest board game collections in the world. Read more at
📷:
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That’s a wrap Canberra!
Thank you to all who came out today to support us and explore our beautiful building and the treasures within.
We are glowing with gratitude.
#NLAOpenDay
#NLA50
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#OTD
in 1923 Vegemite was launched. 36 years later this recipe book was published.
If you're feeling a bit adventurous, you could try the recipe for a ‘Vegemite Lifesaver’. Bonus points if you send us a photo of your creation.
For more exciting recipes:
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Join us on 21 July at 2pm as Kamilaroi woman, Magistrate Louise Taylor, reflects on her life, and her efforts to improve access to justice for women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Book your ticket:
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When she died in 1835, Captain Cook’s widow Elizabeth had outlived her husband by 56 years. They were married for 17, he was only home for 4, & she gave birth to 6 children.
She was known for giving away portraits of her late husband such as this one...
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100 years ago today, more than 8 million women were granted the right to vote in the UK.
We’re celebrating the day with the opening of our Collection-in Focus ‘Deeds not Words: Women’s Suffrage in Britain’.
Image: nla.obj-409666072
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Thanks to your generous support we’ve now digitised an extra 5,500 pages from our James Cook collection. Why not explore and let us know what you find?
Image: Letterbook of James Cook, nla.obj-517562649
#JamesCook
#Donations
@TroveAustralia
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Deeds not words: the Bessie Rischbieth Collection. A lifetime of amassed
#suffragette
items will be on a display in the Treasures Gallery 6 Feb – 19 Aug.
We’re also hosting a special dinner to celebrate women’s right to vote, 9 Feb, 6-9pm. Book here:
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In the 1930s when a woman’s place was considered to be the home, Maude Rose ‘Lores’ Bonney decided she preferred the sky.
#OnThisDay
in 1932, Bonney became the first aviatrix to circumnavigate Australia, piloting a single engine Gipsy Moth biplane.
📷 nla.obj-159943480
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