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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Return chutes – temporarily closed
Due to the building power shut down, the Barr Smith Library return chutes are closed until Monday morning.
In the meantime, library items can be returned to the Security Office.
Apologies for any inconvenience.
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: A Selection of Illustrated Fauna from Rare Books & Special Collections
Cabinets of Curiosity are often considered to be precursors to museums.
They began to emerge around the 16th century and served as encyclopaedic
collections of objects which were not yet defined. The contents of these cabinets
would vary, containing objects from categories such as natural history, geology archaeology, antiquities and much more.
The books featured in this exhibition contain […]
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The Hugh Martin Weir Prize – applications open for 2016
The Barr Smith Library is pleased to invite applications for the 2016 Hugh Martin Weir Prize.
The Prize is to honour the memory of Lieutenant Hugh Martin Weir (1915 – 2004) and his fellow prisoners of war. Hugh was a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Java for three and a half years between 1942 […]