Sexual abuse victim seeks compensation from NLA
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is being pursued for compensation by a Balinese man who was the victim of sexual abuse revealed in a book of diary entries by...
Stokes donates $1m to NLA for fellowships
Outgoing council chair of the National Library of Australia (NLA) Ryan Stokes has donated $1 million to support research fellowships at the library. The $1 million gift from the Stokes...
Mason appointed chair of NLA
The federal government has appointed Brett Mason as the new chair of the council of the National Library of Australia (NLA). Mason—a diplomat and academic, as well as a former...
Budget delivers NLA funds for Captain Cook commemoration; cuts to staffing levels
The National Library of Australia (NLA) will share in a $48.7 million investment released in the 2018-19 federal budget to deliver events and programs to commemorate the 250th anniversary of...
NLA launches ambassador program for 50th anniversary
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has launched an ambassador program to help celebrate the library’s 50th anniversary, reports the Canberra Times. Authors Kaz Cooke, Benjamin Law, Anita Heiss, Garth...
NLA celebrates 50th anniversary with exhibition
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is holding an exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the library building’s construction and to further explore the year 1968 in history. The...
New NLA Indigenous curator highlights library’s oral history collection
Newly appointed National Library of Australia (NLA) Indigenous curator Rebecca Bateman has highlighted the library’s ‘Bringing Them Home’ oral history collection, which holds more than 300 spoken-word testimonies from both...
NLA to relaunch CiP service as Prepublication Data Service
The National Library of Australia (NLA) will relaunch the Cataloguing-in-Publication (CiP) service as the Prepublication Data Service on 20 November. The renamed Prepublication Data Service will introduce changes to the...
NLA unveils restored Blaeu map
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has unveiled the restored 1663 map of Australia by cartographer Joan Blaeu for the first time, after acquiring the map in 2013. The map...
Libraries awarded NLA community heritage grants
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of the 2017 Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program, including a number of libraries. In NSW, the Albury Library Museum received...
NLA wins national award for digital replacement program
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has won the Australian Institute of Project Management’s (AIPM) National Project of the Year for its Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement (DLIR) program. The program,...
NLA wins ACT Project of the Year award for digital replacement program
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has won the ACT’s Project of the Year, awarded by the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), reports PS News. The NLA was recognised...
Contributor funds help Trove upload new documents after NLA budget cuts
The Department of Communications and the Arts has told a senate estimates committee that groups have been funding the National Library of Australia’s digital archive Trove to continue to upload...
Ayres appointed NLA director-general
Marie-Louise Ayres has been appointed as director-general of the National Library of Australia for a five-year term. Ayres has served in senior management roles at the NLA since 2002, most...
Woman paid $1500 to read ‘Don Quixote’ at the NLA
Canberra woman Moira Christie will be paid $1500 to read Don Quixote as part of the National Library of Australia’s (NLA) Money to Read program, reports ABC News. In an...
NLA announces 2017 Fellows
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of its 2017 Fellowships, awarded to local and international scholars to ‘make extensive use of the library’s rich and carried...
NLA launches new online bookshop
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has launched a new online bookshop. The redesign features an improved layout and mobile friendly browsing, with new Australian releases given prominent placement on...
NLA acquires inscribed copy of Patrick White’s first book
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has acquired an inscribed copy of Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s first book, Thirteen Poems, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. White’s mother Ruth published around...
Budget: slightly less money to OzCo, NLA to lose staff
Previously announced efficiency dividends and funding cuts have left the Australia Council with a $1.5m reduction in grant and project funding next year, the 2016-17 Federal Budget reveals. While the...
Keneally novel first ebook in NLA’s new digital collection
Author Thomas Keneally has delivered the first ebook to the National Library of Australia’s (NLA) digital collection after new provisions in the Copyright Act 1968 came into effect on 17...