News

Read the latest news articles and featured stories from the Library.

28
Nov
2023

Changes to the Art & Music Library building

From Friday 8 December the Art & Music Library will be closed because of the hail remediation work on the building.Following that, the Art & Music Library services will operate from the Chifley Library on an ongoing basis and be available 24…

Photograph of the Art & Music Library at night
27
Nov
2023

Menzies Library – upcoming closures

You will have noticed the scaffolding around Menzies Library for the past few months. This has been to enable essential repairs to the roof following the damaging hailstorm of 2020.  We have reached the stage in the repair process where Menzies…

Photo of Menzies Library exterior taken at sunrise
20
Nov
2023

ANU Library invests in new collection about Asia’s Colonial history

Following requests from researchers in the College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), the ANU Library has added an exciting new resource from GALE’s Primary Sources collection as part of the Chifley Flood Replacement project: State Papers Online…

Image reads GALE primary sources State Papers online Colonial and shows Victorian period image of British officers dressed in white uniforms
14
Nov
2023

Digitisation Update 14 November 2023

The ANU Library Digitisation Team are continuing to digitise rare and special materials from the ANU Library and ANU Archives.This update details some of the recent items digitised as part of the ongoing ANU digitisation project.More information…

Black and white image of an elderly woman and a group of young children playing in a river
10
Nov
2023

Hail repair update

Menzies Library  The upper roof is now complete. Scaffolding is being dropped and removed from the upper roof starting on 27 November.  A crane will be onsite on Monday 27 November. Work on the lower roof is professing well. The copper won’t be…

10
Nov
2023

ANU Print Repository relocation

Did you know that the majority of the ANU Library’s print collection is stored off-site?Most print journals and lesser-used items are stored in the ANU Print Repository. This collection takes up around 45kms of shelving! Starting Monday 13 November…

A drone shot of the shelves in the ANU Print Repository from 2018
06
Nov
2023

ANU Library invests in major collections for Early Modern Studies research

The ANU Library has recently added a huge and exciting range of new resources to our collection!Following requests from researchers in the Centre of Early Modern Studies (CEMS) and College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS), the ANU Library has…

Image reads GALE state papers online 1509-1714. Also a portrait on Queen Elizabeth the first
02
Nov
2023

ANU Library celebrates 100 million open access downloads

Knowledge is power. It can be a gateway to social and financial mobility, and a means of generating extraordinary change and advancements, both for individuals and society. As such, knowledge is often commercialised, patented and locked away behind…

image with text reads celebrating 100 million downloads
23
Oct
2023

Get spooky this Halloween with ANU Library

Happy spooky season! Halloween originated as a Celtic pagan celebration of the new year, called Samhain, when people would welcome the harvest and usher in “the dark half of the year”, that is, winter. The Celts believe that the barriers between the…

Image says let's get spooky and shows skeleton hands, pumpkins and bats
19
Oct
2023

Hail repair update

Menzies Library Roofing repairs are progressing well, with the upper roof nearly complete. Images of the progress are available in the slideshow above. As part of the roof remediation works replacement there will also be replacement of damaged…

Photograph of Menzies Library roof repair process - October 2023