Enterprise Agreement
The National Library of Australia building.

The Library’s Enterprise Agreement sets out workplace arrangements for the Library’s employees. For the designated period, it covers terms and conditions such as salaries, performance management, working hours and leave

The National Library of Australia (the Library) is a place where people passionate about building and providing access to the nation's documentary heritage learn, grow and flourish.

We:

  • collect and preserve documentary resources, particularly relating to Australia and the Australian people, so Australians can discover, learn and create new knowledge, now and in the future.
  • are a respected custodian of Australia’s published, written, oral, visual and digital heritage, and a world-leading provider of access to that heritage.

Our vision is to is to connect all Australians with national collections, enriching our understanding about who we are and our place in the world.

We employ about 400 staff based in Canberra. Our Library heritage-listed building is a prominent feature of the Parliamentary Triangle and is a destination for many interstate and international visitors.

We offer a range of interesting generalist and specialist roles at the Library including:

  • Digitisation and photography
  • Reference Librarians
  • Collection and data description
  • Conservation and collection care
  • Curatorial and collection research
  • Reader services to online and face-to-face users
  • Information and knowledge management supporting Library systems such as TROVE and internal systems
  • Communications and marketing
  • Oral history support
  • Data and research
  • Community engagement and outreach
  • Indigenous engagement – working with collections, preserving and sharing our collections
  • Digital technology
  • Human Resources
  • Corporate services
  • Finance

Information about who we are and what we do can be found at About us. 

If the Library sounds like a place you would like to work, visit our Jobs Vacancies page.

The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past and present – and through them to all Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Cultural Notification

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this website contains a range of material which may be considered culturally sensitive including the records of people who have passed away.

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