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.
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.
While most of our iconic images of adventurous archaeologists are born from
page or screen (perhaps, Cairo Jim, Indiana Jones, or Murder in
Mesopotamia?) this September, Fryer's treasure of
the month explores the life of John Henry Iliffe - a noted British
Archaeologist and the first curator of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum -
whose life, archaeological work, and contribution to the Antiquities collection
at UQ are captured in his papers…<
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