Early nineteenth-century gazettes served as general newspapers as well as government gazettes. Before 1940, territory ordinances, including those of the ACT and Northern Territory, were published in ...

The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state. The three sources most commonly used to ...

Search our catalogue - most maps are catalogued, and some are digitised Tip: Narrow your search to only maps by selecting the 'Map' format limit Maps are usually catalogued by ‘place’ – country, state ...

Following a comprehensive process, the library has selected the open-source FOLIO library services platform for its next-generation library management system. A library management system is the ...

The arrival of an ancestor in Australia is a key moment in a family's history. They may have arrived as a fare-paying passenger, as an 'assisted' migrant, a member of a ship's crew, in military or ...

Locating the last resting places of our family and forebears can be an important aspect of our genealogical research. For many, it will eventually lead to a journey to those places and to the exact ...

Sam Wallman, 2023 Creative Arts Fellow supported by the Friends of the NLA. Applications for the 2025 Creative Arts Fellowships have now closed. The National Library is undertaking a review of its ...

Part 1: Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Policy Part 2: Disaster Actions. The first part deals with disaster preparedness and preparation and is used by Preservation Staff as a manual in routine ...

Copyright is a legal right that gives copyright owners the right to control certain activities with their works. These activities include copying and re-use, such as ...

Australian newspapers in the Library's collection are categorized and stored according to format. You can identify if the newspaper you have located in our catalogue ...

You may find that not all information about a convict is recorded on the Ticket of Leave Butts 1827-1867, particularly for earlier records. There were consequences for not producing a Ticket of Leave ...

1901—The Australian constitution comes into effect with the federation of Australia. There are two sections referring to the Aboriginal people that marginalises and excludes Australia’s Indigenous ...