The University of Sydney - Library News 

25 March to Friday 5 April 2013

ANZAC material from the University Archives and Rare Books and Special Collections is on display in the Fisher Library Level 2 exhibition area until Friday 5^th April.

Notable items include the Gallipoli diary of Francis Badham Oliver, C.E.W. Bean’s personal copy of the ANZAC book which was compiled by troops in the trenches and camps of Gallipoli in 1916, and the Sydney University Union War Service Record of Captain Percy Storkey, recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for acts of bravery in wartime.

The display is open the same hours as Fisher Library.

23 January to 12 May 2013

Painless surgery is a modern phenomenon, but the concept was an ancient one. The exhibition includes many of the pioneering works of 16th to 19th century medical science, which transformed the idea into a reality.

Presented by the Australian Society of Anaesthetists and the University of Sydney Library this joint exhibition features rarely seen books from the University Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections and the Richard Bailey Library, in association with retired anaesthetic equipment from the Harry Daly Museum.

Where: Exhibition Space, Level 2, Fisher Library

Further information
T 9036 6465
E sara.hilder@sydney.edu.au

Image: The administration of nitrous oxide and ether by means of a Clover’s Portable Ether Inhaler, a special form of stopcock, and a detached gas-bag.
Frederick W. Hewitt, Anaesthetics and their Administration (1893)

The new office, reading rooms and staff workroom are on Level 1, Fisher North, on the left hand side of the central corridor.

Contact details are the same:
T 935 12992
F 935 17765
E rarebook.library@sydney.edu.au

Rare Books Library closed Friday 4 May and it will reopen in its new home on Level 1, Monday 7 May.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1947, awarded to Sir Robert Robinson, “for his work on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids” is on display in Rare Books andSpecial Collections, Fisher Library until the end of November 2011.

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Until 16 December 2011, Rare Books & Special Collections, L2 Fisher Library

On display are early works from the collection about lighting, railways and steam engines, bridges, canals, water supply and early transportation such as the automobile and flight.

Find out more at our current exhibitions

Draw back the curtains and peek at the influence of the Victorian world on modern sexuality. Read more…