News
Read the latest news articles and featured stories from the Library.
Two classic Australian books turn 100
This year we are celebrating the 100-year anniversary of two very influential Australian books – Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and The Magic Pudding. The Snugglepot and Cuddlepie series was written and illustrated by May Gibbs. The books are about two…
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 the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On this night, people would light bonfires…
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 from the University of Melbourne, where she was Associate Director, Information Governance in the…
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 the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” Matilda,…
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 funder requirements. ANU is the first university in the world to join this international initiative…
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 Arab Emirates (UAE). This year long initiative will feature a series of events in the UAE and…
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 Library, Press and Archives has been launched to frame our current priorities and future directions…
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. Located in a secure warehouse in Hume, the collection is managed by ANU Library staff. The resources…
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 its publication in 1818. Written by Mary Shelley, this novel is many different genres stitched…
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 their theses. The ANU Library is currently digitising the theses of ANU students to make them…
