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Vote now for the 2022 Visualise Your Thesis People's Choice Award!
Voting is now open for the 2022 Visualise Your Thesis People's Choice Award. To help make your decision, view all of this year's wonderful submissions in the 2022 submissions showcase and then vote for your favourite! Winner receives $250 and the glory of being most-voted by their peers.
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Friends of the Library presents Take Two Oboes
We are thrilled to announce that this postponed event is now back on the calendar! This is a not to be missed musical celebration in the beautiful heritage listed Barr Smith Library Reading Room. Celebrate 90 years of Library memories and commemorate Jiri Tancibudek.
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Welcome to new and returning students
A big welcome from the Library on the first day of Semester 2 2022! To offer some help to new (and returning) students, we'veÌýcompiled a list of the services and support offered during your time at the University. We are here to help you succeed.ÌýFor theÌýfull list of library services available, check out ourÌýServices for StudentsÌý±è²¹²µ±ð.
How a comic about Australian internment camps made it to Comic-Con 2022
A unique series of comic books will be showcased by a University of Adelaide researcher at the 2022 Comic Con International in San Diego. A recent by Dr Aaron Humphrey, Media Studies, and Dr Simon Walsh, German Studies, has described the extraordinary significance of a sequence of five small autobiographical comic books produced by a pseudonymous author in the Holsworthy Internment Camp around 1918.
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NAIDOC Week reading recommendations
The Library is launching with some great reads from our Yaitya Ngutupira collection. This collection collates works by Aboriginal authors and scholars across a wide array of subjects including law, linguistics, history, fiction, and more.
Discovery Event with Cheryl Hoskin
Come along to this Friends of the Library event on June 30 2022 and discover one of the Library’s most beautiful rare books with Cheryl Hoskin:ÌýBerthe Hoola van Nooten’sÌýFleurs fruits et feuillages choisis de l’ile de Java,Ìýpublished in 1880.
Register today for the 2021 Visualise Your Thesis competition
Registration is now open for the 2020 Visualise Your Thesis competition.ÌýThe winnerÌýreceives a prize of $1000Ìýand the opportunity toÌýcompete in the International online showcase!
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Welcome to Adelaide Connect
This new showcasesÌýdigitised content from ourÌýspecial collections and is a powerful resourceÌýfor researchers and the community.Ìý
Friends of the Library event with Garry Hiskey
Come along to the first Friends of the Library event of the year: Maralinga with Garry Hiskey on Thursday 25 March.
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Winner of the 2021 Hugh Martin Weir Prize
The Barr Smith Library and Weir family are pleased to announce Jade Ryles as the successful applicant for the 2021 Hugh Martin Weir Prize.