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.

On November 22nd, The Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature was given to Herb Wharton.

Fryer Library was delighted to recently add to its collection a silk theatre handbill. With black print on cream silk and a fringed edging, it is a very early example of this genre in Brisbane.

As advertised in yesterday's The Australian, a call for applications has been announced for the 2013 Fryer Library award.

Each year the Fryer Library awards $10 000 and provides institutional support for a successful applicant to undertake research in Australian literature, history and culture, using the collections of the Fryer Library.

8 November marks 165 years since author Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland. Fryer Library holds two letters written by Stoker. The first dates from December 1884 and was sent to Edmund Hodgson Yates; the other dates from July 1903 and was sent to Edmund's son, Edmund Smedley Yates.

Writing? Under 35? Written at least 30,000 words? Interested in The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award?

The Fryer Library will be closed for the Queen's Birthday public holiday on Monday, October 1.