Friday, the 8th of March is International Women's Day. Celebrated internationally on this date since 1913, Women's Day recognises women for their achievements, reflects on past struggles and accomplishments, and looks forward "to the opportunities that await future generations of women".

The 2013 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was awarded to Stephany Steggall last night at Adelaide Writers' Week.

Amongst Fryer's manuscript collections is a folder of papers relating to the 1948 St Patrick's Day clash in Brisbane. The papers form part of the collection of Connie Healy, whose husband, Mick Healy, was secretary of the Trades & Labor Council of Queensland at the time. Mick Healy was the leader of the protest march that was met with such violence by the Queensland police.

The inaugural Stella Prize Longlist was released today. The announcement, for the first ever longlist of the best work of literature published in 2012 by an Australian woman, even trended on twitter. The award is named after one of Australia's most important female authors, Stella Maria 'Miles' Franklin.

As the 2013 academic year commences and UQ campuses welcome new students this week, here is the 'undergraduate look' from ninety-one years ago, courtesy of the Fryer Library University of Queensland photograph collection.

In the seventeenth century, many members of the upper classes collected objects for 'cabinets of curiosities', amusing their guests with rare and unusual specimens of natural history. Shells were one of the most popular objects among collectors, and in the eighteenth century, as major voyages of discovery made available new and previously unrecorded species, these shells came to be studied in a more scientific way.

The Fryer Library is open on this Saturday the 26th of January, but closed for the Australia Day Public holiday on Monday, 28th of January.

You can check all of UQ Library's opening hours online.

In early 2013, the Fryer thesis collection is on the move to a warehouse space. This move will bring the whole of the Fryer thesis collection back together in one storage area.

Access to all theses will be unavailable until at least the week beginning 7 January, to allow the movers access to the collection.

Please note that the Fryer Library closes this Friday, 21st of December, at 5 pm and reopens on Wednesday, 2nd of January, at 9 am.

All UQ Library opening hours are available online.