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Peruvian Ambassador donates significant works to ANU
Over 400 years ago the first work by Garcilaso de la Vega, known as El Inca or Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, was published. He was the first author born in the Americas to enter the western literary tradition. Born of an Incan Princess and a…
Four student exhibitions open across the Library
Students from the Exhibition Design & Delivery course officially opened four exhibitions today, one in the Art & Music Library, one in Hancock Library, one in Chifley Library and the other in the Menzies Library. Each exhibition…
Classic childrens books continue to delight
Over a number of years in the 1970s, the ANU Library expanded its academic collection in a somewhat unusual direction—children’s literature. Acquired from an antiquarian bookseller in London, Mr Harold Mortlake, the Mortlake Collection consists of…
New digital home for student research in ANU Open Research Repository
Coursework students at The Australian National University (ANU) can now publish their research in the University’s Open Research Repository following the creation of the Student Output collection. The new collection, the culmination of a successful…
ANU Library creates colouring book using rare Chinese book
Coinciding with the Library's exhibition of two Chinese texts from the Xu Dishan Collection, the Library has created a colouring book featuring images from Laojun bashiyi huatu or Lord Lao's Eighty One Transformations, Illustrated 老君八十一化图.…
Library’s historic collections open up a world of research possibilities
Students, researchers and staff of The Australian National University (ANU) have access to rich and diverse historic collections via the ANU Library; collections that are significant not only for their rarity, but for the continued impact they have…
ANU receives award for digital excellence
The Australian National University has been presented with a National Archives of Australia Award in Digital Excellence for the seamless integration of digitalised processes with an Electronic Records Management System (ERMS). A new digital process…
ANU Archives’ records now searchable in Trove
With just a few clicks from their desktops Researchers all over the world can now find University Archives and Noel Butlin Archives Centre collections via Trove, the National Library of Australia's (NLA) database. ANU Archives staff worked with the…
ANU Press publishers & contributors honoured in Australia Day Awards
The ANU Library is excited to congratulate ANU Press publishers and contributors Emeritus Professor Peter Drysdale, Professor Sue Stocklmayer and Professor Warwick McKibbin on their appointments to Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) at this…
ANU opens Australia’s first Taiwan Resource Centre for Chinese Studies
An agreement to establishes the Taiwan Resource Centre for Chinese Studies (TRCCS) at The Australian National University (ANU) Library was officially signed this morning, inaugurating the first TRCCS in Australia. Professor Ian Young AO, ANU Vice-…
