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[Sydney Uni Library @Sydney_Library]

All Library spaces and services will be closed during the university shutdown period.

Our final day of operation for 2024 will be Friday 20 December. We will re-open in the 2025 on Tuesday 7 January.

Please visit our opening hours page on our website https://t.co/0zRCQACbLL

[Sydney Uni Library @Sydney_Library]

Join us next Wednesday evening at Fisher Library.

Free registration: https://t.co/Er2g1w9WdD

[SACE | School of Art, Communication and English @usydsace]

Prof. Catharine Lumby, the author of the first biography of Frank Moorhouse, will discuss Moorhouse’s life-long opposition to censorship both in his writing and his activism. 🗓️Wed, 4 Dec 2024, 5.30pm, Fisher Library
➡️https://t.co/xuNnYN2LiE

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We’re looking forward to seeing you at this Saturday’s Alumni Fest!

Fisher Library will be open, so come and look around and reminisce.

📆 Saturday 30 November
⏰10am til late
👉 https://t.co/yWRyuuCE96
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#UsydLibrary

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✏️ Exams are just around the corner, so the Library has organised a range of events to help you study effectively, keep healthy, connect with others and ace your exams.

Here's some of next week's event highlights. Visit https://t.co/2NnnTeus9S to view our full program.

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Fisher Library is holding weaving workshops in the lead up to exams.

Sit, chat, relax & learn weaving techniques from the educators at Koori Kinnections. These workshops are the perfect hands-on activity to relax before the upcoming exam period.

👉️ https://t.co/v0irPKZbJs

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#SydneyRareBookWeek kicks off next week 📖🎉

As part of the program, we invite you to attend a free public lecture on the works of iconic Australian artist Norman Lindsay.

📆 Tue 22 Oct, 4.30-5.30pm
📍 Fisher Library
🎟️ https://t.co/q0nFmK3NvD

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Need to take a study break? Ensure you leave a Be Right Back (BRB) card on your desk for up to 30 mins. Cards can be picked up at info desks and around Library locations.

Please remember it is your responsibility to take your valuable belongings with you when taking a break.

[SydneyConMusic @sydneycon]

This Saturday, join us at @statelibrarynsw to hear bush ballads, Indigenous songs and the waltzes of Sydney’s saloons reimagined in concert, featuring performers and scholars from the Con.

🎟️ Register: https://t.co/MfN3jrFlr5

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Some of our staff are in Brisbane this week at the @IFLA Information Futures Summit, including our University Librarian Philip Kent #IIFS #IIFS24 📚

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Last year, the Library responded to over 7,000 enquiries through Live Chat. Whilst it may look like just a small, orange button, Live Chat has become one of our most vital services, now running for almost a decade.

Read more: https://t.co/07TWfo6kp0

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Did you know that the Sydney eScholarship Repository collects and provides global access to @Sydney_Uni research?

In July and August, 299 new items were added to the SeS Repository and there were 72,617 downloads.

👉 https://t.co/TaO5aUT1AO

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Please note that there will be a planned network outage in the Law Library this Saturday from 7am-7pm. Wi-Fi, internet and borrowing will be unavailable.

Fisher Library, right next door, will be fully functional during these times if you need an alternate place to work.

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Join us next week for 'The Trouble with Hardy Wilson' with Prof. Julie Willis.

📍 Auditorium, Charles Perkins Centre
📆 Thurs 19 Sept
🕚 6pm - 7.30pm
🎟️ https://t.co/aLObxxFj4t

This lecture is linked to the exhibition ‘Hardy Wilson’s Old Colonial Architecture’ at Fisher Library

[Sydney Uni Library @Sydney_Library]

Join us for the next Rare Bites lunchtime lecture, presented by Cameron Logan and Matthew Devine, focusing on the story behind Fisher Library's building design.

📆 Wed 18 Sep, 1-1.30pm
📍 Fisher Library

Book your free spot: https://t.co/k6itMN3l2n

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Our 2024 Printer in Residence, Keg de Souza, has started working in the Piscator Press Workshop. Come along to an open studio session this week to learn about the printing press and see Keg's work.

📆 Thu 19 Sep, 11am or 1pm
📍 Fisher Library

Book now:
https://t.co/Gayjsyi2Tp

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Love a great read? Join the Library’s Indigenous staff for a yarn about Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller.

This book is a spooky read about Stacey and Laney, and the dark dreams that creep in for Stacey when Laney disappears one night.

https://t.co/ou0qaWfIcj

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We had a full house last night for our talk by Nadia Wheatley on Charmian Clift's ‘The End of the Morning’, presented by the Friends of the Library.

Become a Friend of the Library to receive invitations to our upcoming talks and events. 👉https://t.co/mx2ANRNal2

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Join us for this upcoming talk by Dr Lynette Olson, exploring a great multicultural story of how a family of Sydney-based Italian craftworkers were inspired by a highly illustrated Celtic gospel book.

📆 Thu 12 Sept
🕜 5.30-6.30pm
📍 Fisher Library

https://t.co/DzOQQ7NldZ

[Sydney University Press @SydneyUniPress]

On Wednesday 14 August,SUP held the launch for "The Old Songs are Always New". We were treated to beautiful performances from a group of visiting Tiwi singers, including Molly Munkara, Cathy Stassi, Ella Puruntatameri, Francillia Puruntatameri, Karen Tipiloura, and Francis Orsto.

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'Cantus Interruptus: Epic Tales from Roncesvalles to Ramsay Street' is now on display in Fisher Library. The exhibition was curated by Professor Emeritus Nerida Newbigin and includes selection of epic treasures from our Rare Books and Special Collections.

https://t.co/mpRSQri0dN