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SydneyCity Library Broken Hill City Library The public libraries in New South Wales are operated by local councils, in some cases cooperatively as "regional libraries". [ 9 ] There are 89 library services which operate more than 350 public libraries across the state. [ 10 ]
Thirroul District Community Centre and Library. In June 2009, the new Thirroul District Library and Community centre was opened. This library offers email and word processing, inter-library loans, photocopying and printing, free Internet access and children's programs. [21]
Wollongong (/ ˈ w ʊ l ə n ɡ ɒ ŋ / WUUL-ən-gong; Dharawal: Woolyungah) is a city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.The name is believed to originate from the Dharawal language, meaning either 'five islands/clouds', 'ground near water' or 'sound of the sea'. [3]
The name Tertangala was thought to mean "smoke signals" in an Indigenous language. [1] The name originated when the University of Wollongong was a campus of UNSW, and was chosen to correspond with its then-sister paper Tharunka, whose name was thought to mean "message stick" [1] However, an investigation in 2000 found that Tertangala was simply a nonsense word and had no roots in any recorded ...
The earliest reference to Wollongong was in 1826, in a report written by John Oxley, about the local cedar industry. The area's first school was established in 1833, and just one year later the Surveyor-General arrived from Sydney to lay out the township of Wollongong on property owned by Charles Throsby-Smith.
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The University of Wollongong has developed into a multi-campus institution, both domestically and globally. The Wollongong campus, the university's main campus, is on the original site 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-west of the city centre, and covers an area of 82.4 hectares (204 acres) with 94 permanent buildings.
The Illawarra Mercury is a daily newspaper serving the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.It has been published since 1855, making it one of Australia's oldest newspapers and the second-oldest regional newspaper in New South Wales. [1]