The National Gallery of Australia Research Library supports the research needs and educational program of the Gallery and serves as Australia’s national research collection in the visual arts. Collections are international in scope, encompassing all aspects of Australian and New Zealand art and selectively in Asian, Pacific, European and North American traditions. The collections have special strengths which mirror those of the Gallery’s art collection.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art
- Australian and New Zealand visual arts
- Asian textiles
- Ballets Russes
- Contemporary art worldwide
- Pacific art
- James Gleeson Oral History Collection
Archives and Artists’ Files: The collection consists of more than 80 000 files containing information on the National Gallery of Australia, Australian galleries, and on Australian and international artists, museums, art collectors and curators. Archives include unpublished records documenting Australian and visual arts history and selectively the personal papers of Australian artists.
Searchable holdings (2/2008): 105,988 monograph bibliographic records may be searched as well as 1753 artists’ files, 52 oral histories, 2538 rare monographs, 954 illustrated books held in the art collection, and 1287 serial titles. There are also item level records for the microfiche set of the Art and Architecture subset of The Nineteenth Century Chadwyck Healey microfiche publishing project.
Interlibrary loan: The National Gallery of Australia Research Library is a participant in the Libraries Australia Document Delivery system.
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