Development Office

The National Library of Australia is located in the national capital, and welcomes visitors each year from across Australia and internationally. With visits to its website numbering in the millions, and an extensive program of exhibitions and events, it is an institution known and recognised by the majority of Australians.

The Library’s programs and activities are diverse and attract a wide audience. Each year the Library hosts Fellowships for both established and young scholars, and presents lectures, film screenings, concerts, conferences, and exhibitions. To ensure its charter as a national collecting institution is fulfilled, the National Library has developed a travelling exhibitions program, regularly schedules events in other cities, and has embarked on an ambitious digitisation program which compares favourably with those of other great libraries of the world.

A research library of world standing, the National Library in Canberra houses and cares for over six million items, of which two and a half million are books. The remainder of the material consists of serials, manuscripts, music scores, paintings, posters, drawings, prints, photographs, maps, oral history recordings, ephemera, as well as electronic documents.

There are many ways for both individuals and business to form an association with the Library or to support the Library’s significant work. The Development Office at the National Library welcomes your call or email about sponsorship, and about ways to make personal gifts, bequests or donations of material to the collection. Donations to the Library of $2 or more are usually tax deductible, and gifts to the collection may also be tax deductible under the Cultural Gifts Program.

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