News

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

16
May
2024

ANU Archives celebrate the Australian Agricultural Company at Beef

Last week ANU Archives’ Rachel Armstrong headed to Rockhampton in Queensland as part of Beef Week to curate and host an exhibit celebrating 200 years of the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo). The exhibition featured photographs, drawings and a…

Photo of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with team from the Australian Agricultural Company
08
May
2024

Open Research Repository upgrade

The ANU Open Research Repository is getting an upgrade! Our staff have been working hard behind-the-scenes to upgrade the Repository to DSpace7. This will have a variety of benefits, including a more streamlined user experience, a modern look,…

Image of laptop and book merging
18
Apr
2024

Privacy Awareness Week 2024

It’s Privacy Awareness Week from 6 to 12 May 2024.The theme this year is ‘Power up your privacy’. It’s a great reminder to think about your personal privacy, both online and in the real world. With a few simple actions, you can make things safer for…

Text reads Power up your privacy and image is of a hand about to press a power button
03
Apr
2024

Digitisation Update 3 April 2024

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…

Scanned photo circa 1920s of agricultural works sitting on hay bales
27
Mar
2024

Hail update – Law Library level 2 and Hancock Levels 2 & 3 reopened

Law Library We are very excited to announce that the Law Library level 2 roofing work is now complete. The library is once again water-tight, and we have a new ceiling and lighting. We are pleased to reopen this space in time for the long…

photograph of the copper roofing on Menzies Library
04
Mar
2024

Exciting new additions to Library collections!

During 2023 the ANU Library acquired hundreds of amazing new resources to support students and academics in their research in disciplines across the humanities, arts and social sciences. These new additions represent a major investment in the…

collage of different historical images from the new collections
26
Feb
2024

ANU Archives renews MoU with AIATSIS

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and the Australian National University (ANU) have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) about access to archives for Indigenous people seeking to trace…

Screen shot of the AIATSIS website family history page
16
Feb
2024

ANU Library receives significant donation from the Lal family

The ANU Library is appreciative to have received a generous donation from the family of Professor Brij Vilash Lal, AM, OF, FAHA (1952-2021), an ANU PhD graduate and former Deputy Director, School of Culture, History and Language at ANU.…

Photo of Brij Vilash Lal
05
Feb
2024

New Read and Publish Agreement with the American Psychological Association

We are very pleased to announce that the ANU Library has a new Read and Publish (RAP) agreement with leading publishers in the field of psychology, the American Psychological Association (APA).The new agreement will accelerate progress towards open…

illustration of a brain, a photo of the dictionary entry for psychology and a floral collage image
23
Jan
2024

New Read and Publish Agreement with CSIRO Publishing

We are very pleased to announce that the ANU Library has a new Read and Publish (RAP) agreement with CSIRO Publishing.The new agreement will accelerate progress towards open science and allow ANU authors to publish open access in all 22 CSIRO…

image of a female student with a robot, a person holding a box of vegetables, a person standing in the foreground and wind turbines in the background and an image of a bee hovering above a flower