Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, Australia

Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW

Support the Library

The Library of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust is supported in many ways: 

By the many Library volunteers who have been unburying and organising the heritage collections and in a thousand other ways of supported the two library staff. 

By the Friends of The Gardens who have donated over $150,000 in recent years for a range of projects - a considerable part of this funding comes from long-time generous supporters of the Library such as Dorothy and Alex Robinson and Bill and Sally Nelson. 

By the donation of large and valuable works or collections such as the anonymous donor of our set of Banks' Florilegium for which the Gardens will be forever grateful, John Slade's magnificent donation of orchid books and other early botanical works, the bequest of Thomas Savige's Camellia collection and research notes ... right down to the donation or loan of a single family photo of the Gardens.

By the Royal Botanic Gardens Foundation who it is hoped will be supporting the Library in a number of projects in preparation for the Garden's Bicentennary in 2016. The projects needing funding include the digitising of 134 years of catalogue cards and journal indexing records, refurbishing the public & staff working areas of the Library, digitising collection images and documents and conserving fragile and damaged collection items. 

There are a number of ways to help support the Library, by the donation of:

  • funds to purchase new books or the donation of recently published titles or historic works
  • original botanical illustrations and artworks for the Library's developing collection
  • photographs or illustrations of Gardens and the Domain, Mount Annan & Mount Tomah at any time of their history
  • funds to restore some of the many historic and rare books, photos, manuscript and other non-book materials urgently in need of repair
  • funds to digitise images and documents to make them available online
  • funds to digitise the card catalogue
  • funds for the next stage of the refurbishment of the Library
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Panoramas in pieces
The 3 stunning 1904 Domain panoramas found in 10 pieces in different locations

Panoramas conserved
Conserving the Domain panoramas

Photo acquisitions
Historic photos of the Gardens purchased with donor funding