National Gallery of Australia Research Library and Archives

Since 2020 the Research Library has partnered with Wikimedia Australia to host and support Know My Name edit-a-thons to increase understanding and appreciation of work by Australian women artists.

This is also known as the Documentation Collection, and each individual file can contain press clippings, exhibition flyers, catalogues, receipt books, or price lists preserved in mylar packets and acid-free archival boxes.

[2] The Research Library's Archive and Manuscript collection contains personal papers and records Australian visual art history.

Notable holdings include the papers of Maximilian Feuerring, the Grieve Family, Fred Williams, Richard Boulez, Frances Burke, Frances Derham, Marcella Hempel, Helene Kirsova, Bernard Hall, Jan Dunn, Paul Taylor, Pat Gilmour, Jasia Reichardt, Barbara Tribe and Neil Roberts; and records of the Print Council of Australia, Gallery A, Art Galleries Association of Australia, Art Museums Association of Australia, Arts Libraries Society/Australia and New Zealand, Sir William Dobell Art Foundation.

Notable amongst the collection are 98 interviews by the artist James Gleeson conducted in the late 1970s called the James Gleeson Oral History Collection,[7] which has been inscribed into the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register 2008[8] as being of significant Australian cultural heritage.