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The Barr Smith Library is the main library of the University of Adelaide, situated in the centre of the North Terrace campus. It is named after its early benefactor Robert Barr Smith and was formally established in 1882, though its history dates back to 1877 when it purchased its first book.
Public libraries in South Australia are run by local councils and Libraries South Australia. [4] Public libraries in SA are all part of the One Card Network, a library consortium which allows a member of any SA public library and return and borrow books from another public library in the state. [5]
The University of Adelaide is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia.Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. Its main campus in the Adelaide city centre includes many sandstone buildings of historical and architectural significance, such as Bonython Hall.
The next important piece of legislation affecting SLSA was the 1939 number 44 Libraries and Institutes Act, which repealed the Public library, Museum and Art Gallery and Institutes Act and separated the Public Library from the (newly named) Art Gallery of South Australia and South Australian Museum, established its own board and changed its name to the Public Library of South Australia.
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The online services mentioned above, and more, are accessible via the Trove service, which was launched in 2009. Trove is an online library database aggregator, a centralised national service built with the collaboration of major libraries of Australia. [54] Trove's most well known feature is the digitised collection of Australian newspapers.
The Barr Smith Press imprint (named after the university's main library) was established in 1991, and published the correspondence of Joanna Elder and Robert Barr Smith in 1996. From 2005 to 2007, four books were published with the renamed 'University of Adelaide Barr Smith Press' under the directorship of John Emerson, who also ran the press ...
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