Category: Manuscripts
Fryer collections update
Until recently, all collections belonging to Fryer Library have been stored in the same building as the library. Increasing space problems mean that some items have been moved out of the building, and now need to be requested in advance of a visit to Fryer Library.
The first collection to be moved was the thesis collection. In recent years, theses are submitted as electronic versions and made available via UQ eSpace, but older theses submitted in print are still regularly requested by clients.
The second, and more recent, collection move was 60 manuscript collections, totalling over 1570 boxes. This freed up much needed space in the Fryer storage areas for incoming manuscript collections. In the library catalogue, these collections have the location 'Fryer mss - preorder info'.
Anyone can request this material, whether they have a UQ Library card or not. The following sets out how to request material:
UQ staff and students, & Alumni borrowers:
Theses: from the catalogue record, use the place a hold
button at the top
Manuscripts: email fryer@library.uq.edu.au, or telephone 07
3365 6236, with the details of the collection and boxes
All other registered library members and non-library members:
Both theses and manuscripts should be requested by emailing fryer@library.uq.edu.au, or telephoning 07 3365 6236 with details of the material
More information can be found on the library website for theses and manuscripts.
As always, Fryer staff are available to help. To ensure that material arrives before your visit, please place your request 3-5 business days in advance.
-- Penny Whiteway, Senior Librarian .
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book:logic and AustESE Workshop
The book:logic series of symposia was established in 2010 to bring together postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, independent researchers and academics whose work involves aspects of textual studies: the scholarly editing of literary works and historical documents, the study of versions of works, editorial theory, physical bibliography, codicology and history of the book.
The 2013 Symposium will meet at UQ on Friday 4 October. For more information and to register, please visit the Symposium blog: http://booklogic2013.wordpress.com/
In conjunction with the book:logic symposium, the AustESE Project (http://austese.net/) is running a workshop on electronic scholarly editing on Thursday 3 October. Information and registration details will be posted on the book:logic blog.
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Collection spotlight: Brisbane City Hall
Brisbane City Hall is now open again, after three years of restoration work. The Museum of Brisbane has opened several new exhibitions on Level 3 of the building, and guided tours and rides to the top of the clock tower are once again possible.
City Hall was originally constructed between 1925 and 1930, at a cost of £1,000,000. The Fryer Library holds an album of photographs taken by Bertha Mobsby which beautifully charts the building's progress. We've compiled the photos into a short video, so you can literally watch the building grow:
Bertha Mobsby was the daughter of photographer Henry William Mobsby, and was one of Queensland's early female photographers and cinematographers. Her album is part of the Daphne Mayo Collection (UQFL119). Mayo was a sculptor who created many works art located around Brisbane, including the tympanum and concert hall frieze in Brisbane City Hall.
To consult any of the Fryer's research collections, simply contact fryer@library.uq.edu.au or visit the Fryer reading room on the fourth floor of the Duhig Tower (building 2), St Lucia Campus.
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Herb Wharton receives Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
On November 22nd, The Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature was given to Herb Wharton.
As an Indigenous writer, poet and storyteller, Herb Wharton is best known for his 1992 breakthrough novel Unbranded (commissioned by The University of Queensland Press), Cattle Camp , Where Ya Been Mate? and Kings with Empty Pockets.
The Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature recognises Mr Wharton's writing for "its unique and untold perspective of Australian rural heritage"; particularly, for continuing to tell stories of the Aboriginal contribution to the Australian pastoral industry.
The Chair of the Australia Council Literature Board, Sophie Cunningham noted that:
(Wharton) is a wonderful advocate for Aboriginal literature and stories, as well as rural history more broadly. The importance of Herb's work in documenting and telling these stories is reflected by the now 20 boxes of his writing, notes and recording of oral histories that are held in the University of Queensland's Fryer Library.
The Fryer Library began to collect Wharton's work in 1996 and the collection reflects his passion for Aboriginal literature and stories. It includes valuable insights into his writing process, such as transforming an oral story into a published work. Wharton's role in this process can be traced from audiotapes of oral stories told by other drovers, working notes, interactions with UQP editorial staff, to the completed drafts of works such as Cattle Camp.
The collection is also unrivalled as a personal archive of this important writer's work. As Mr Wharton told Sue Abbey in a 2007 interview, it contains "the first bit of notes."
"I probably thought about (writing) for fifty years, but it took me forty odd years to write my first notes down".
More information about the $50 000 Lifetime Achievement award, which recognises contributions to Australian literature, is available on The Australia Council webpage. The full text of Sue Abbey's 2007 interview with Herb Wharton is available in Fryer Folios (July, 2007).
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