Curious what our Fellows are up to? 🤔💭 This week we welcomed our 2026 Fellows and Artists in Residence! As always, we’re thrilled to see such a broad range of topics covered – from trade history and crime fiction, to education and architecture. We look forward to sharing more about their research as it develops. Learn more about our Fellowships program: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards-fellowships/fellowships Not pictured: Sarah Thomas for 'Tracing Extinction: The role of natural history
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Curious what our Fellows are up to? 🤔💭 This week we welcomed our 2026 Fellows and Artists in Residence! As always, we’re thrilled to see such a broad range of topics covered – from trade history and crime fiction, to education and architecture. We look forward to sharing more about their research as it develops. Learn more about our Fellowships program: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards-fellowships/fellowships Not pictured: Sarah Thomas for 'Tracing Extinction: The role of natural history
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Meet Warren 👋 Warren uses his Seniors Card every week to save on groceries, eating out and much more! Find out what discounts are near you here 👉 https://www.seniorscard.nsw.gov.au/ Looking to add a digital version of your Seniors Card or Senior Savers Card to your Service NSW Mobile App? Find out how here 👉 https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-nsw-seniors-card-or-nsw-senior-savers-card | Seniors Card NSW
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Meet Warren 👋 Warren uses his Seniors Card every week to save on groceries, eating out and much more! Find out what discounts are near you here 👉 https://www.seniorscard.nsw.gov.au/ Looking to add a digital version of your Seniors Card or Senior Savers Card to your Service NSW Mobile App? Find out how here 👉 https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-nsw-seniors-card-or-nsw-senior-savers-card | Seniors Card NSW
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Hello seniors in NSW! 👋 Have you heard about the NSW Seniors Card? Enjoy discounts on public transport, shopping, dining, and more. It’s our way of showing appreciation for your contributions to our community. Don’t miss out—sign up today and start enjoying the perks! 🎉 Learn more 👉 bit.ly/SeniorsCardNSW | NSW Government
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Hello seniors in NSW! 👋 Have you heard about the NSW Seniors Card? Enjoy discounts on public transport, shopping, dining, and more. It’s our way of showing appreciation for your contributions to our community. Don’t miss out—sign up today and start enjoying the perks! 🎉 Learn more 👉 bit.ly/SeniorsCardNSW | NSW Government
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“When we started with Seniors Card we started getting many mid-week stays from people using the card...it was noticeable almost immediately” - Rosemary, proud NSW Seniors Card participating business owner. Check out how Sur La Mer Boutique B&B in Austinmer unlocked increased customer loyalty by offering a NSW Seniors Card discount. | Seniors Card NSW
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There are over 5,700 businesses that are part of NSW Seniors Card and we're working to make the program even bigger and better for you to enjoy! You can help - tell us where you'd like to shop with your Seniors Card for your chance to win a $500 shopping spree! Head here to nominate your favourite business to join the program: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Localbusinessblitz | Seniors Card NSW
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🗞️ Extra! features all things Seniors Card, including exclusive new offers, competitions and much more! 👏👏 Check out past issues here: https://bit.ly/2DSUBcf | Seniors Card NSW
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Help us to record, collect and preserve the voices of NSW. Funds raised will go towards a state-of-the art sound studio and an innovative program to capture contemporary voices across the state. We want to share stories of achievement, hardship, family life, creativity and love — from the extraordinary to the ordinary. Support our Annual Appeal: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/appeal | The State Library of New South Wales
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Say hello to our new State Librarian! It was Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon's first day at the Library, and we couldn't wait to ask her a few questions. We hope you enjoy getting to know Caroline a little bit better, and we look forward to sharing more as she settles in. Read our full Q&A with Caroline here: https://ow.ly/vRkq50Q7KTe | The State Library of New South Wales
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In the 1880s Arthur K Syer strolled through the streets of Sydney with his parcel-wrapped, hand-held 'Detective Camera', which allowed him to take rarely seen photographs of Sydney at the time. We retraced Arthur's steps around Sydney to recreate some of these scene and show them as they are now. Watch and compare the lives of 1880s Sydney-siders with those in the city today. Our free exhibition 'Crowd Source' featuring these snapshots of 1880s Sydney is on until Sunday 23 August 2015. See it be
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The Library is open all long weekend for reading, research and recreation! We have 7 free exhibitions on display right now, featuring all kinds of gems from the collection. Finish off the day with a drink at The Library Bar, open Friday and Saturday from 4–10pm. See what's on: https://ow.ly/6wfH50Qubt1 View opening hours: https://ow.ly/KoNa50Qubt0 | The State Library of New South Wales
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The Sydney Film Festival is back at the Library! See this year's most anticipated literary films and adaptations in our underground auditorium, screening from 4–15 June. Highlights include: Orwell: 2 2=5, On Swift Horses, Exergue - on documenta 14, How to Build a Library, Come See Me in the Good Light, Blue Road – The Edna O'Brien Story, Happyend, Enzo, Songs Inside, The Golden Spurtle and more. Tickets on sale now! See the full program here: https://www.sff.org.au/ | The State Library of New So
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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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Ready to be wowed by our state-of-the-art auditorium!? Deep beneath the Mitchell Library Reading Room is a spectacular 350-seat new venue. The main entryway is a stunning glass-ceiling atrium outside the Governor Marie Bashir Reading Room. The flooring features the last known Wombeyan marble, which has been held in storage for over 20 years. In this clip, watch as we work to: ⛏️ Remove of 1000m³ of sandstone 🔩 Add 93 tonnes of structural steel 🪵 Line the acoustic walls with 8723 individual tim
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Library people 🤝 Cat people This International Cat Day we're sharing one of our biggest books on felines! 'Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats' by Daniel Giraud Elliot was published in 1883. Inside there are over 40 hand-coloured lithographic plates of cats, big and small. The book was a collaboration between Elliot and natural history illustrator, Joseph Wolf. Elliot gives a description of each animal and writes about where they live, how they get food, their behaviours and habits. The
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The Library is the place to be. 🙌 We're excited to share our 2025 program — a year filled with transformative storytelling, compelling programs and more unforgettable experiences. From the underground auditorium to the rooftop bar — and across the state — we’re bringing new stories and ideas to life. Our program features creative collaborations with leading yidaki (didgeridoo) player and composer William Barton, Skye McIntosh and The Australian Haydn Ensemble, and Stephen Page, renowned directo
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Here are 3 exciting research opportunities at the Library right now. 1. The Imago Creative Writing Fellowship We have just launched a new creative writing fellowship valued at $50,000 – supported by an anonymous donor! This opportunity is open to all emerging writers to produce a fiction or non-fiction work of any genre. 2. The Summer Scholars Program This exciting program will provide 10 tertiary students and creatives with the opportunity to learn archival research skills. The successful recip
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Today we say yeeraboabo and farewell to our State Librarian Dr Alex Byrne who is retiring after five incredible years at the Library. Here’s a snapshot of how we will best remember his leadership, his good humour and his many talents. The staff at the State Library wish Alex all the very best. Alex has shared this message: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/news/retirement-message-state-librarian | The State Library of New South Wales
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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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📣 New Seniors Card website, now live! We’ve redesigned our website based on feedback and user research. It has a fresh modern look, and easier pathways to get you quickly to the information you want. Our deals and discounts map is easier to use than ever. Keep in touch with our news, competitions, activities and games. We’ve also made it simpler for you to manage your card details and make updates when you need to. Explore our new improved website today - https://www.nsw.gov.au/community-servic
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Libraries are here for everyone, and we’re committed to making our spaces, collections and services more accessible. This International Day Of People With Disability we're sharing 5 ways we're improving access in, and around, the Library. Learn more: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library/access-inclusion/access-library | The State Library of New South Wales
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We’re proud to be supporting the Sydney Film Festival this year! 🎬 See it your way with nearly 250 films, in 13 venues, across 12 days. See what’s screening at the Library from 5–16 June: https://www.sff.org.au/info/venues/state-library-of-nsw | The State Library of New South Wales
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We've just added 12 rare books to the Amaze Gallery! Be the first to see some of the significant rare books acquired last year, thanks to the generous supporters of the Library Foundation’s Annual Appeal. Landmark works, published between 1498 to 1847, cover architecture, mining, mathematics, literature, religion, economics, philosophy, history and more. Also on display are the newly acquired sketchbooks by Sydney artist Michael Kelly, original artwork for 'Horrible Harriet and the Terrible Tant
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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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Want to be Friends? 💞 Helena is here to take you on a tour of our beautiful Friends Room. Located on the ground floor of the historic Mitchell Building, the Friends Room started its life as the original Mitchell Library Reading Room, opening to the public in 1910. The room has retained many of its original features, including the original bookshelves that now hold 1000 editions of the Spanish classic novel, Don Quixote. It's the perfect space to unwind, read a book or socialise over a cup of te
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