Ryan Stokes, Dame Nellie Melba and Patrick White’s reading glasses: this is the story of the National Library of Australia’s $30 million campaign ambitions
How We Raised It
The extraordinary stories of mega gifts and multi-million-dollar campaigns from the arts leaders who delivered them. During the past decade in Austra…Committed to making the National Library’s most impactful and unique cultural heritage truly accessible to all Australians, this is a humble story of extraordinary passion to unlock the treasured voices of its collection through digitation. This story has yet to have its final chapter written.
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