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Shining a spotlight on our multicultural collection this #RefugeeWeek. 📚 The Library has over 70,000 books in 43 different languages, ranging from popular fiction to children’s books, classic literature and more. The best part is you can borrow these books for FREE through your local public library. Just head to your nearest library and ask for books in your language! #StateLibrary #StateLibraryNSW #Reading #Books #NSWPublicLibraries #PublicLibraries #Libraries @multiculturalnsw | The State Lib

Shining a spotlight on our multicultural collection this #RefugeeWeek. 📚 The Library has over 70,000 books in 43 different languages, ranging from popular fiction to children’s books, classic literature and more. The best part is you can borrow these books for FREE through your local public library. Just head to your nearest library and ask for books in your language! #StateLibrary #StateLibraryNSW #Reading #Books #NSWPublicLibraries #PublicLibraries #Libraries @multiculturalnsw | The State Lib

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Check out this rare book with GIANT bird illustrations 🦩

Check out this rare book with GIANT bird illustrations 🦩

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Libraries. One of the few places you can exist without any need to spend money! This Library and Information Week, here are just some of the resources you can get for free through your State Library. Learn more: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/join | The State Library of New South Wales

Libraries. One of the few places you can exist without any need to spend money! This Library and Information Week, here are just some of the resources you can get for free through your State Library. Learn more: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/join | The State Library of New South Wales

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Books that break all the rules. Our new exhibition 'Paper Universe: The book as art' is now open – and we can't wait for you to experience it! See close to 100 rare and beautiful works by contemporary artists who have transformed the idea of a book into playful, provocative and powerful creations. Ready to dive in? Come along to one of our free events and get an insider-look with exhibition curator, Maria Savvidis. 📔 Curator talk: Artists’ books 🗓️ Tue 19 Aug, 12.30 pm 🎟️ Book here: https://o

Books that break all the rules. Our new exhibition 'Paper Universe: The book as art' is now open – and we can't wait for you to experience it! See close to 100 rare and beautiful works by contemporary artists who have transformed the idea of a book into playful, provocative and powerful creations. Ready to dive in? Come along to one of our free events and get an insider-look with exhibition curator, Maria Savvidis. 📔 Curator talk: Artists’ books 🗓️ Tue 19 Aug, 12.30 pm 🎟️ Book here: https://o

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Let’s take a look inside. 👀 ‘This Ferral Australis’ by John Hinds is an artists’ book that explores ideas of language, history and colonisation. It’s a concertina book, made from one piece of paper folded back and forth in a zig-zag pattern, and is wrapped in maritime canvas covers with a red wax seal. As you unfold the book, you can see where the artist has printed over facsimiles of colonial publications and documents with animal skulls, antique suns and fake ‘Shakespearean’ sonnets. This is

Let’s take a look inside. 👀 ‘This Ferral Australis’ by John Hinds is an artists’ book that explores ideas of language, history and colonisation. It’s a concertina book, made from one piece of paper folded back and forth in a zig-zag pattern, and is wrapped in maritime canvas covers with a red wax seal. As you unfold the book, you can see where the artist has printed over facsimiles of colonial publications and documents with animal skulls, antique suns and fake ‘Shakespearean’ sonnets. This is

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What's Inside The Oldest Library in Australia | State Library of New South Wales | Sydney 2025

What's Inside The Oldest Library in Australia | State Library of New South Wales | Sydney 2025

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This year marks a significant milestone for the Library. For 200 years, we've been a place of curiosity and storytelling. Now is our time to come together to celebrate this Library and libraries everywhere. Be among the first to see our 200th Anniversary program by subscribing to our enewsletter. Subscribe here: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/enews | The State Library of New South Wales

This year marks a significant milestone for the Library. For 200 years, we've been a place of curiosity and storytelling. Now is our time to come together to celebrate this Library and libraries everywhere. Be among the first to see our 200th Anniversary program by subscribing to our enewsletter. Subscribe here: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/enews | The State Library of New South Wales

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Weird and wonderful fish in a rare book from 1719 🐠

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Is this the most influential book on witchcraft ever written? 🔮

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Celebrating 50 years of the multicultural book service! Since 1974 the State Library has provided books in community languages to the people of NSW through the public library network. Today we offer over 69,000 books in 43 languages, ranging from children's books and YA, to fiction and non-fiction. To request books in your language, simply speak to staff at your local library about using this FREE service. Learn more: https://ow.ly/NCAg50SeTE5 | The State Library of New South Wales

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How many exotic plants can you identify in this rare book? 🥭

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How old is the State Library of NSW?

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Inside Australia’s Oldest Library | State Library of NSW Tour & History

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Did your family come to Australia from Greece? We've got news for you! The Library recently acquired a collection of Greek-Australian oral histories, and some of these interviews are now available online. We’ve collaborated with UNSW to develop a new website where you'll find stories and photographs that document the lives of Greek people in Sydney. This is a growing website and we look forward to adding more content in the future. We hope this collection will help generations of Greek-Australia

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"Drop bear" spotted in a rare book (just kidding, it's a koala) 🐨

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2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards

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Concertina book inspired by Australia's landscape

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Which book is your favourite? This World Book Day, curator Sarah Morley shares five first editions from the collection: 📚 Matilda (1988) 🐷 Charlotte’s Web (1952) 🫙 The Bell Jar (1963) 💤 The Big Sleep (1939) 🏔️ Lord of the Rings trilogy (1945–1955) But what makes first editions so special? They show us how the book first appeared to readers, with the original cover art and publicity blurbs – before the authors or stories became famous. The Library collects first editions to illustrate the hi

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2025 NSW History Awards

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For the bird lover in your life. 🦜 The 'Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds' is one of the most trusted handbooks used by birders across the country ... especially during the Aussie Bird Count! First published in 1970 and still in print today, the guide is principally authored by Australian ornithologist, artist and photographer Peter Slater (1932-2020). The Library acquired Slater's significant archive in 2020 which includes around 3,500 illustrations of Australian birds, many that were pro

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How good are librarians? ❤️ Janelle is one of our passionate family history librarians. Every day she helps people find connections to their past. "To be a librarian, you don't have to know everything, but you need to know how to find the answer to everything." Join us for Family History Month and enjoy a range of online and onsite events to help you with your research. Visit the pop-up Family History desk in the Macquarie Street foyer on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays from 11am to 1pm. See what'

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Could this be the greatest flower book of all time? 'The Temple of Flora' by Robert Thornton, published in 1799, is widely prized not for its scientific detail, but for its dramatic and sumptuous imagery. Thornton closely coordinated the production of each image selecting the plant, deciding on the layout and the background for each specimen. The exotic landscape backgrounds, sometimes completely unrelated to the natural habitat of the flower are a particular feature of his design. The 31 plates

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A big book of birds! 🦜 The Library has just acquired a beautiful volume of parrot illustrations by Edward Lear, published in 1832. 'Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or Parrots' features 42 spectacular hand-coloured lithographs of parrots, many from Australia. Lear worked in great detail, from the beak down to the claws. He used opaque watercolours and applied touches of egg white on the feathers, to give them a lifelike sheen. On Wed 17 July you can come into the Library and get up c

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Getting to the Library just got easier. 🙌 If you're heading to the city on the new Sydney Metro, here's how to reach the Library in under 5 minutes. 1️⃣ Get off at the Martin Place stop 2️⃣ Follow the signs for the Hunter Street exit 3️⃣ Take the escalators (or lift) up to street level 4️⃣ Walk up Hunter Street for a few minutes 5️⃣ Cross the road at Macquarie Street And you'll reach the Library! Whether you're looking for a quiet spot to study, a place to meet with friends, or free exhibitions

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Watch this if you love rare books and cats! 🐱

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The Library That Made Me

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Is that a drop bear? Of course not, it’s a koala! 😉 Maggie is back to share some of her favourite #RareBooks this #WorldWildlifeDay … this time featuring some of Australia’s most iconic animals. ‘The Mammals of Australia’, a three-part work by John Gould published between 1845-1863. This ground-breaking series was intended to be a comprehensive study of all known Australian mammals. Inside you’ll find over 180 beautiful hand-coloured plates of animals, big and small … from kangaroos and koalas

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Australia’s Oldest Library | State Library of NSW

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This rare book captures the magic of marine life! 🐠 'Various fish from Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires ...' was published in 1719 in Amsterdam by Louis Renard. The book's 460 brilliantly hand-coloured engravings show marine creatures in the East Indies. It's the earliest known book on fish with colour illustrations. The Dutch publisher Louis Renard never left the Netherlands but relied on drawings and information from travellers and natural histor

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