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Summer reading and viewing at ANU Library
Now that exams are over and you have some free time on your hands, what are you going to do? Check out some of our novels and DVDs! The ANU Library has an excellent collection of fiction and films, just waiting for you to explore. Here are some…
Scholarly Portals Team receives Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award
The Digital Collection Transformation: Scholarly Portals Team was one of the recipients of the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Innovation & Excellence in Service at the Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Awards ceremony held on 22 November. The…
Colour a collection series: Elizabeth Durack
The Australian National University Library holds rich and diverse historic collections that are significant not only for their rarity, but for the continued impact they have on research and researchers worldwide. The ANU Library Colour a collection…
Getting your ORCiD digital identifier
ANU encourages all researchers, including PhD students, academic staff and research-active professional staff, to register for an ORCID identifier and share your iD with us to assist in your research career. ORCIDs are progressively being added to…
Celebrating Jane Austen
Tuesday 18 July marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, one of England’s most popular novelists. To mark the occasion, the ANU Library is highlighting resources that can help you understand her work and its impact – something for…
Stress less with ANU Library 'Colour a collection'
The Australian National University Library holds rich and diverse historic collections that are significant not only for their rarity, but for the continued impact they have on research and researchers worldwide. The ANU Library Colour a collection…
ANU Library collaborates with Yangon University Library on digitisation capabilities
Professor Ni Win Zaw, Head of the Department of Library and Information Studies at University of Yangon, recently visited ANU Library to work on a digitisation research project with University Librarian Roxanne Missingham. The project aims to…
Peruvian Ambassador donates significant works to ANU
Over 400 years ago the first work by Garcilaso de la Vega, known as El Inca or Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, was published. He was the first author born in the Americas to enter the western literary tradition. Born of an Incan Princess and a…
Four student exhibitions open across the Library
Students from the Exhibition Design & Delivery course officially opened four exhibitions today, one in the Art & Music Library, one in Hancock Library, one in Chifley Library and the other in the Menzies Library. Each exhibition…
Classic childrens books continue to delight
Over a number of years in the 1970s, the ANU Library expanded its academic collection in a somewhat unusual direction—children’s literature. Acquired from an antiquarian bookseller in London, Mr Harold Mortlake, the Mortlake Collection consists of…
