Inside Story

Essays & reportage What is a library? Kieran Hegarty 6 November 2024 Targeted by hackers and sued by publishers, the Internet Archive continues to push boundaries National affairs Asia illiteracy Edward Aspinall 27 May 2020 A national institution’s inward turn comes at a strange time National affairs “It’s a cultural thing — isn’t it?” David Stephens 5 September 2018 A parliamentary inquiry seems to be carefully avoiding the real challenge for Australia’s national museums, archives and libraries Essays & reportage Dream library takes shape Robyn Holmes 5 April 2016 Why did Robert Menzies, no longer prime minister, lay the National Library’s foundation stone fifty years ago? Robyn Holmes scoured the archives to unravel a mystery