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The building features red-brick exteriors with an entrance with Corinthian pillars below an inscription reading "The Barr Smith Library". [10] It was later expanded twice to increase capacity, reaching a peak of 2.4 million books in 2014. [11] [12] The Reading Room in the library features guilded ivory arches and tall pillars
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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 Online Books Page lists over 2 million books [3] and has several features, such as A Celebration of Women Writers and Banned Books Online. The Online Books Page was the second substantial effort to catalog online texts, but the first to do so with the rigors required by library science. It first appeared on the Web in the summer of 1993 ...
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Adelaide University is a planned public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia.Established in 2024, it will combine the University of Adelaide, the third-oldest university in Australia, and the University of South Australia (UniSA) which has an antecedent history dating back to 1856.
Live Search Books was a search service for books launched in December 2006, part of Microsoft's Live Search range of services. Microsoft was working with a number of libraries, including the British Library , to digitize books and make them searchable, and in the case of out-of-copyright books, available across the web.
The next important piece of legislation affecting SLSA was the 1939 number 44 Libraries and Institutes Act, which repealed the Public library, Museum and Art Gallery and Institutes Act and separated the Public Library from the (newly named) Art Gallery of South Australia and South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.