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JANUARY 2008: Wattle nationalism / Libby Robin p3. Mary, daughter of William Bligh, a soldier's wife / Martin Terry p7. National treasures from Australia's great libraries exhibition / Justine van Mourik p11. Centenary of Australia's first Surf Life Saving carnival / Ian Warden p14. Christening Canberra / Greg Wood p18.

FEBRUARY 2008: Henry and Frances Jones of Binnum Binnum Station [SA] in the 1800s / Marion Amies p3. Two thousand year old stone set in the foyer floor of the National Library / G.A. Mawer p7. A drought breaks in 1908 / Ian Warden p10. Dell'Arcano del Mare atlas / Bill Geering and Martin Woods p14. Fundraising at the National Library of Australia p18.

MARCH 2008: Refractory girls: Barry York looks at the female factories which existed in the Australian colonies p7. Sally Sloane 'queen of singing folk' / Jenny Gall p11. Lee Christofis previews the 'Ballets Russes in Australia' symposium to be held in Adelaide p15. 'Bridging the distance' exhibition p19.

APRIL 2008: Coverdale bible p3. The corrugated iron house: drawings and letters of Jane Dorothea Cannan p7. Pages of adventure: Baiba Berzins writes about the changing experiences of tourists to outback Australia as described by travel writers of the 1930s to the 1960s p11. Ian Warden describes how roaring fans welcomed Rugby League to Australia in 1908 p14. Bison / Russell Doust p18.

JUNE 2008: Stanley Leighton: colonial Australian tour 1868 / Marion Amies p3. A few words from William Dawes and George Bass / Keith Vincent Smith p7. Charles Ulm: master mind of early Australian aviation / Christobel Mattingley p11. Further glimpses of Mr Gilbert's 'beautiful parakeet' [paradise parrot] / Penny Olsen p15. Betty Churcher and 'Hidden treasures' [television program] p18.

JULY 2008: Behold the pilgrims to the shrine of stoush [Boxing match between Jack Johnson and Tommy Burns 1908] / Ian Warden p3. Raphael Cilento: a life in context / Alex Cameron-Smith p7. From man of the British Empire to proud Australian [Rex Ercildoune Phillips, Shanghai between the wars] / Sophie Loy-Wilson p11. The ascendancy of neo-liberal think tanks in Australia / Andrew Thackrah p15. Rediscovering the location of Victoria's first colonial garden [Churchill Island] / E. Rebecca Sanders p18.

AUGUST 2008: Staggering out of the wilderness: the National Library of Australia building / Christine Fernon p3. Being there: a personal and mostly misty memory of the opening of the National Library building / Carmel Maguire p9. Degrees of refreshment: the fare served at the events surrounding the opening of the Library / Colin Bannerman [food] p13. Building the art of the National Library / Genevieve Carson p17.

SEPTEMBER 2008: Rare books from Korea: Andrew Gosling continues his appraisal of the McLaren-Human Collection p3. Refugee stories: Ann-Mari Jordens outlines an interview project she has conducted with refugees and those who have helped them resettle in Canberra p7. A linguist for the republicans: Sylvia Martin tells the story of Aileen Palmer’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War [Aileen Palmer] p11. Painter, poet and public servant: Jennifer Moran examines the legacy of George Gordon McCrae (1833-1927), one of Australia’s first verse novelists p15. We all get so much out of it!: Sally Hopman celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Library’s Volunteer Guiding program p19.

OCTOBER 2008: His Excellency Sir Gerald Strickland, Count Della Catena KCMG, BA, LLB / Barry York p3. The Great White Fleet in Sydney [American warships] / Ian Warden p7. The Story Bridge [Brisbane]: an engineering feat / Jennifer Moran p11. Mary Jean Officer: life, work and ideology / Jenny Gall p15. Anthony Trollope: travels and travails in 1871 Australia / Nigel Starck p19.

NOVEMBER 2008: Durlacher's journal [John Slade Durlacher] / Barry York p3. Lollies or Lolita?: the perils of modern childhood research / Gwenda Beed Davey p7. A decent and amiable man: Jim Cope MP / Stephen Holt p11. Quack medicine: health worries and associated 'cures' of Australians 100 years ago / Ian Warden p14. Julius Stone: papers / Jonathan Stone p18.

DECEMBER 2008: Long before Gutenberg: the oldest book in the library / Andrew Gosling writes about Chaoying Fang and his Chinese treasures p3. Nellie Stewart / Ian Warden p7. Eliezer Montefiore: from Barbados to Sydney / Roslyn Russell p11. Our national capital: Mahkoolma / Greg Wood p15. What makes a library building successful? / Russell Doust p19.

Formerly National Library of Australia news.

MARCH 2009: Sylvia Marchant describes some of the beautiful bindings and artists' books in the National Library of Australia's possession p3. Allen Mawer describes the ingenious creation of 'Aurora Australis': the first book written and published in Antarctica p8. Ann Nugent celebrates the acquisition of an exceptional natural history album by one of Canberra's prominent early residents (Marrianne Campbell) p12. Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports uniform worn by Sir Robert Menzies / Ian Warden p16. Penny Olsen discovers that the author of an eighteenth-century folio of parrots was as colourful as his subjects (Francois le Vaillant) p18. Stephen Holt investigates the papers of a family that served the nation's Parliament for more than 80 uninterrupted years (Tom Pettifer and John 'Jack' Pettifer) p21. R.G. Watt and Australia's international conscience / Nicholas Brown p24. Cultural pariahs: the National Library of Australia's collection of Australian romance comics / Margot Harker p28.

JUNE 2009: The great French naturalist [Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire] and the platypus / Ann Moyal p2-7. Elizabeth Gould: mother of Australian bird study / Roslyn Russell p8-11. Lewin's lepidoptera [John Lewin and his book on moth's] / Jennifer Moran p12-15. Gone out to Australia [handwritten book by H.G.H. Sandeman] / Ian Warden p16-17. Preaching purity [Australian romance comics] / Margot Harker p18-20. The Ballets Russes in Australia 1936-1940 / Lee Christofis p21-3. Ian Warden looks back at what motivated the founders of Australia's iconic agricultural shows p24-7. The sporting diva: Dame Joan Hammond / Sara Hardy p28-30.

SEPTEMBER 2009: Damien Cole examines some of the military maps in the library's collection, including a new acquisition of Second World War escape maps p3-7. Jennifer Moran discusses the beauty of artist Ferdinand Bauer's fish drawings and their scientific value [Ferdinand Bauer] p8-11. Nigel Starck describes storyteller Russell Braddon's remarkable life during and after suffering slavery in Changi Prison Camp [Russell Braddon] p12-15. Real estate posters in the Ferguson Collection / Ian Warden p16-17. The literary statesman: Alfred Deakin and his papers / Graeme Powell p18-20. Ian Warden looks at some of the work-seeking ingenuity of the battling 'train jumpers' of the Depression years p21-3. Martin Woods explains the importance of rare early documents on loan to the library relating to the exploration of the Dutch East Indies and Australia p24-7. Russell Doust finds a 1910 news item that sends him on a search into the 'superiority' of the 'new domestic science' [early electrical equipment for the kitchen and cookery] p28-30.

DECEMBER 2009: Australia's wild places / Roger McDonald p2-7. Honouring in colour: illuminated addresses from 1862 to 1968 / Sylvia Marchant p8-11. A vacant lot: D.H. Lawrence and the Sydney real estate scene / Stuart Mackenzie p12-15. The puzzling allure of jigsaws / Ian Warden p16-17. Indonesia before independence: through the Kern collection / Andrew Gosling p18-20. David Elliott Theatrical Postcard Collection [postcards] / Ian Warden p21-3. Feisty females: some early Australian 'lady pilots' / Christobel Mattingley p24-7. John Bolton and the Apollo 11 moonwalk / Peter Robertson p28-30.

Vol.2 no.1 MARCH 2010: Hilda Rix Nicholas / Gwen Rankin p2. The opportunity of distance / Geraldine Brooks p8. Leonard French: stained glass windows at the National Library of Australia / Judith Fuller p12. Piping through the manuscripts collection / Ian Warden p16. Marcie Muir and her magnificent collection [of Australian children's books] / Stephanie Owen Reeder p18. Vida Goldstein / Ian Warden p21. Botanical art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s / Leonie Norton p24. Australia's involvement in the history of international exhibitions / Louise Douglas p28.

Vol.2 no.2 JUNE 2010: The Dunera Boys / Susannah Helman p3. Joseph Backler painting 'View of Brisbane' / Timothy Roberts p8. Charles Scrivener, surveyor, and Canberra / Greg Wood p12. Carved emu eggs: a unique Australian art form / Ian Warden p16. Medals in the National Library of Australia / Ian Warden p18. Fairies in children's books of the 1890s to 1920s / Stephanie Owen Reeder p21. Magic apparatus catalogues, early to mid-twentieth century / Philip O'Brien p25. Library photographers' work and changes in photography over the years / Clare McHugh p28.

Vol.2 no.3 SEPTEMBER 2010: A pioneer of polar photography [Frank Hurley] / Helen Ennis p3. Portrait sculptures in the collection / Ian Warden p8. Rare books collection / Margaret Dent p12. The Blue Jacket journal 1855 of John Thomas Baines (1820-1875) / Ian Warden p16. Royal wedding of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra, Princess of Denmark 1863 / Margot Harker p18. The South Pole in 'Tasmanian views' / Harald Ostgaard p21. An 18th century account of life in Indonesia by Ernst Christoph Barchewitz / James J. Fox p24. A plan for Australian newspapers (preservation, digitisation) / Hilary Berthon p28.

Vol.2 no.4 DECEMBER 2010: Penny Olsen describes the challenges presented to the European order by Australia's curious animals p2. Java emerging: unfolding cartographic views / Col Simpson p8. Gwenda Beed Davey returns to primary school to compare today's playground activities with those of previous decades p13. The squatter's map [Map of the colony of New South Wales by Robert Dixon 1837] / Ian Warden p16. Michelle Potter reviews Meryl Tankard: her prize-winning and world famous choreographic achievements both in Australia and overseas p18. Kate Jennings gives the second Ray Mathew lecture p23. Reverend John Cross and his bible [Port Macquarie] / Roslyn Russell p27.

Vol.3 no.1 MARCH 2011: Peter Dombrovskis: photographer, champion of wilderness p2. Atlas of the fish of the Indo-Pacific by Pieter Bleeker p8. The legacies of Bernard Smith and Rex Nan Kivell p12. Letters of Captain David Collins (1756-1810) and his wife Maria (d.1830) p16. The notebook of William Bligh p18. 'Portrait of Bungaree' by Augustus Earle p21. Cara David: a forgotten feminist p24. Ernest Auguste Goupil: a young man and his art p27.

Vol.3 no.2 JUNE 2011: Treasures from China, Korea and Persia p3. Drawing of a squatter reprisal 1843 [Thomas Domville Taylor, Tummaville, Darling Downs, Qld] p8. John Gould: his reputation for ruthless ambition p12. Album of photographs of Australian goldfields by Walter Woodbury, compiled by Nellie Babcock 1856-61 p16. Budgerigars p18. Australian supernatural [ghosts] fiction p22. William Westall record of a reef wreck: The Porpoise 1803 p25.

Vol.3 no.3 SEPTEMBER 2011: The library's new Treasures Gallery / Nat Williams p3. Japanese influence on the Australian performing arts at the turn of last century / Michelle Mortimer p8. On the Fly: the Great Barrier Reef experiences of Joseph Beete Jukes [pioneering geologist] / Terry Birtles p12. The finest birds in the world [W. Becker] / Ian Warden p16. Nora Heysen: her first letter / Christobel Mattingley p18. Wolfgang Sievers: images of Australian industry / Helen Ennis p21. The centenary of the Petherick Collection / Andrew Sergeant p25. Who was H.G.H. Sandeman? / Marion Amies p28.

Vol.3 no.4 DECEMBER 2011: Ten centuries of manuscript treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin p2. Australian butterfly and moth illustrations p8. Alexander Crane, social worker, Sydney 1920s and 30s p11. Lillie Younghusband and her album of keepsakes, South Australia, 19th century p12. Sandow's right arm [Eugen Sandow 1867-1925, strongman] p16. Ray Mathew lecture: Susan Johnson p18. Australians abroad: ballet designs by Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd p21. Marketing Australia in the 1930s p24. John Dixon and the comic strip 'Air Hawk' p28.

Vol. 4 no.1 MARCH 2012: Old, rare and beautiful books on India p2. Naval hero sunk: Vice-Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins KBE CB 1899-1989 p7. The life of Patrick White p8. Indigenous contemporary dance collection p12. Landscapes painted on gum leaves p16. Captain John Hunter on Norfolk Island p18. Kenneth Myer tapestry p22. Matilda Magazine p28.

Vol.4 no.2 JUNE 2012: The naming of banksias p2. The life and times of Hedley Gates p7. Owen Stanley and the 'Rattlesnake' p8. Two expatriates in Europe [friendship between Russell Drysdale and Paul Haefliger] p12. The other Banks [Sarah Sophia Banks 1744-1818, sister of Sir Joseph Banks] p16. The Queensland shearers' strike in the 1890s p18. The transit of Venus: then and now p21. Australian Inland Mission centenary p24. The UNESCO Memory of the World program turns 20 p28.

Vol.4 no.3 SEPTEMBER 2012: Charles Ulm notebook, 'Southern Cross', first trans-Pacific flight p2. Alice Otton p7. Lady Violet Braddon p8. The Rossel Island massacre p12. Charles Alexandre Lesueur 1778-1846 p16. From Australia to Barbados p18. Wartime correspondence of a mother and daughter: Roberta Jull and Henrietta Drake-Brockman p21. Billy Hughes and his radical son [Ernest Morris 'Bill' Hughes] p24. John William Lewin p27.

Vol.4 no.4 DECEMBER 2012: Singing thro' the golden light' (Christmas carol by William James and John Wheeler) p3. Social networking: 19th century style [letters of introduction] p7. What do people eat in Antarctica? p11. The Tivoli Theatre and J.C. Williamson collections p15. The Gettysburg cyclorama p18. Bagging the bunyip: William Sharp Macleay, a true-blue naturalist p24. Jules Joubert: Australia's 19th century exhibition impresario p27.

Vol.5 no.1 MARCH 2013: Canberra: then and now / Geoff Page p3. The dream of a century: the Griffin's in Australia's capital [Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin] / Christopher Vernon p7. Siam and the Sun King [Louis XIV] / Andrew Gosling p12. A grand café [Café Australia, Collins Street, Melbourne] / Ian Warden p16. The treasure of the Surat Basin [Qld] / Luke Keogh p18. The noble brotherhood of oars [2 books about rowing, Frederick Kelly] / Robert Holden p21. 'Back to' celebrations in Australian towns and suburbs / Geoffrey Burkhardt p24. The secrets of Syd the Showman [Sydney Piddington] / Nigel Starck p27.

Vol.5 no.2 JUNE 2013: Marine masters: the Gregory family of artists [George Frederick; Arthur Victor] / Alexander Ibels p3. Zora Cross p7. Appealing the the ladies: Ferdinand Mueller and colonial women botanical artists / Penny Olsen p12. A mountain lake for Canberra / Dianne Firth p16. Pocket globes / Denis Shephard p20. Nurturing the feeble flame of Canberra's early musical life [Charles Daley] / Jenny Horsfield p24. Searching for Australian words [in Trove; Australian National Dictionary Centre] / Julia Robinson p28.

Vol.5 no.3 SEPTEMBER 2013: The graphic novels of Kyokutei Bakin / Emiko Okayama p3. The 'Resolution' table and the David Roche collection / Nat Williams p7. In the margins: the scrapbook of Arthur J. Vogan / Luke Keogh p10. Mark Strizic: experimenter and collaborator / Martyn Jolly p14. Two kentle's of fish [John Caddy and Captain Cook] / Linda Groom p18. Bookplates / Stephanie Owen Reeder p20. 'I was there': eyewitness accounts from the past / Ian Warden p24. From Trebatsch to Australia [Ludwig Leichhardt] / Roslyn Russell p27.

Vol.5 no.4 DECEMBER 2013: Mapping our world: Terra Incognita to Australia p2. William Henry Fernyhough, artist, and his portraits of aborigines p8. Underground Australia p12. A poster born in flames [Chinese, Spring Creek, Vic., fire] p16. Japanese woodblock frontispieces p18. Canberra as a symbol of Nationhood and unity [papers of Sir Earle Page 1880-1961] p21. Digitisation of Australian newspapers p24. Arundel Del Re: many exiles p28.