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libraries
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
Essays & Reportage
Reading aloud
Ian McShane
3 March 2010
Should the loud and proud rhetoric of public libraries be reconsidered, asks
Ian McShane