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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
