News

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

31
Oct
2018

Happy Halloween from ANU Library »

Boo! It’s Halloween. Halloween originated as an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain. The Celts believed that on October 31, the boundary between...
10
Oct
2018

ANU welcomes new University Archivist Kathryn Dan »

The Australian National University (ANU) is thrilled to welcome Ms Kathryn Dan, who has been appointed as University Archivist. Kathryn joins ANU...
04
Oct
2018

30 years of Roald Dahl’s Matilda »

“Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on...
04
Oct
2018

ANU launches Data Management Planning service – world first use of eduGAIN for DMPTool »

ANU is delighted to announce that students and academics can now use the DMPTool to easily create data management plans that meet institutional and...
19
Sep
2018

United Arab Emirates Embassy donates significant works to ANU »

2018 has been declared the Year of Zayed, to mark 100 years since the birth of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the United...
18
Sep
2018

New vision for the ANU Library, Press and Archives »

Libraries are rightfully at the heart of our university – supporting education, research and community engagement. A new vision statement for the ANU...
13
Sep
2018

Take a journey through our off-site collection – all 32km of it! »

Did you know the majority of the ANU Library collection is off-site? The ANU Print Repository houses around 80% of the ANU Library’s collection....
12
Sep
2018

200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein »

Frankenstein, the story of a scientist who creates a human monster in his laboratory, has loomed large over the literary and pop-culture world since...
19
Jul
2018

5,000th ANU thesis digitised »

Theses provide deep insights and are the culmination of many years of deep research. ANU students have produced extraordinarily valuable insights in...
08
Jun
2018

Tunnel Vision at ANU Archives »

Ever heard about the ANU Archives in the Acton Underhill?? It’s one of Canberra’s best kept secrets — and with over 21km of records, it’s one of...

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