Blogs

See on online gallery of some of powerful and evocative images that are part of the World Press Photo Exhibition 2021 exhibition.

‘Looking back on those early days of gay lib in the 70s,’ Terry Batterham comments as he takes a second stroll through the Library’s Coming out in the 70s exhibition, ‘I sometimes wonder where we got the energy from.’

Underground theatre and cabaret performer Vashti Hughes talks about her one-woman show Dictionary by a Bitch: The Journals of Bee Miles.

To celebrate Library and Information Week, our librarians have selected their favourite adventures in time and space from the Library’s deep collections.

To inspire kids on their own journeys to infinity and beyond in Library and Information Week, our librarians and educators have selected some of their favourite books.

Peter urgently needed plans for a timber model he was working on. But it was May 2020, and the Library was closed.

Charlie Pike wrote some 160 letters to Violet, his sweetheart, which have been recently donated to the Library.

Jess Scully, Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, shares her thoughts on 'bad art'. 

Getting to the local library isn’t always easy for Australians living in regional and remote communities, when the nearest branch may be hours away. But with mobile libraries there to bridge the gap it makes life a little easier.

The gay rights activist and academic visited the Library’s exhibition Coming Out in the 70s.

The great Italian poet Dante Alighieri died in Ravenna, in northern Italy, in 1321. Seven hundred years later, the literary world is commemorating the life of a writer who is considered the father of the Italian language.

A stage and screen writer considers what freedom means now.

A lifelong activist’s early diaries and photographs are a compelling record of grassroots activism in Sydney in the 1970s.

A high school student found surprising and poetic insights in interviews with gay men recorded in the 1980s.

Each year, Library Fellows help uncover new stories and offer fresh insights into our extensive collection of original and published materials.

Some 30 years into her relationship with the Library, professional historian Dr Naomi Parry is still finding unexpected surprises in the collection.