4 Apr 2024
Know someone who would love to research at #UQLibrary?
Apply for our 2024 Fryer Library Fellowship! An amazing opportunity for a researcher in Australian studies to work with #FryerLibrary collections.
Applications close 5 April. Find out more at bit.ly/fryer-fellowship
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27 Mar 2024
πHappy World Theatre Day! π
A day celebrating the valuable contribution of the theatrical arts in our society.
The #FryerLibrary has extensive holdings of #Australian Theatre material, from playscripts, photographs, theatre programs, & other ephemera
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9 Jun 2023
Announcing award-winning writer and artist Dr Anna Jacobson, our 2023 Fryer Fellow!
Read about her project with papers of conductor and Holocaust survivor Rudolf Pekarek held in the #FryerLibrary: bit.ly/fryer2023
Congratulations @poetry_anna! (Author @UQPbooks)
ALT Anna Jacobson smiling - dark curly hair, brown eyes, pink lipstick, pink glasses and black shirt.
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19 May 2023
On Tuesday, the 2022 #FryerFellow @keyvanallahyari gave a lunchtime talk on Australian author, Peter Carey, at the #FryerLibrary. Attendees voted 5 βοΈ! Stay posted for more lunchtime talk events in 2023.
@SimonFarley6 @UQCom_Arts @HASSUQ #UQ
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2 May 2023
QU @ UQ. Visiting the Reading Room @UQ_Library #fryerlibrary. Having a great chat with the archivist on duty about their program. #archives #archiviststalking
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18 Apr 2023
Congratulations to @keyvanallahyari, the #Fryerfellow of 2022, on the publication of his new book after years of intensive research, Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist.π
#FryerLibrary #UQ_Library #PeterCarey @CopyrightAgency
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21 Mar 2023
Just a few days to go π Time to polish up your submission for our 2023 Fryer Fellowship in #AustralianLiterature
Closes 5pm Friday 24 March.
#FryerLibrary #Fellowship
#UniOfQld #UQ #SpecialCollections
16 Mar 2023
π 1 week to apply for our 2023 #FryerLibrary Fellowship! π
$20,000 to help you research with our collections in areas like #AustralianLiterature, architecture, Indigenous studies, and refugee studies.
bit.ly/fryer-fellowship
#UQ #UQLibrary @AustLit #AustLit @UQ_News
ALT 1 week to go - to apply for the Fryer Library Fellowship.
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20 Mar 2023
Last weekend #FryerLibrary featured at the @RHSQ2 event βTurning the pages: History of Libraries in Qldβ. Fryer Librarian, Simon Farley, chaired the session where Drs. Mark Cryle & Melanie Piddocke spoke about the Fryer brothers & the library's origins. #QldHistory @SimonFarley6
ALT Dr. Melanie Piddocke presents at the Royal Historical Society of Queensland about the Fryer Library
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16 Mar 2023
Know someone who'd like to visit #UQ and #research in the #FryerLibrary? Check out our Rae & George Hammer Memorial Visiting Research #Fellowship. Applications are open. bit.ly/HammerFellowship
πΌ: George Edward Johnston Hammer (1923β2008) and Rachel Margaret Hammer (1929β2015).
ALT George and Margaret Hammer smiling, wearing smart formal clothes.
ALT Applications open for the Rae and George Hammer Memorial Visiting Researcher Fellowship.
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16 Mar 2023
π 1 week to apply for our 2023 #FryerLibrary Fellowship! π
$20,000 to help you research with our collections in areas like #AustralianLiterature, architecture, Indigenous studies, and refugee studies.
bit.ly/fryer-fellowship
#UQ #UQLibrary @AustLit #AustLit @UQ_News
ALT 1 week to go - to apply for the Fryer Library Fellowship.
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8 Mar 2023
The first #Objectbasedlearning class at the #FryerLibrary for the semester kicked off last week, with the βFrom Daguerreotype to Instagramβ history of photography class. π· Students gave a collective gasp of awe when an Ambrotype was held up to the light...
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28 Feb 2023
Want to research #SpecialCollections at @UQ_News?
Apply for our 2023 #FryerLibrary Fellowship! π
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Closes 24 March
π $20,000 grant
π Access rare materials
π Full Library access e.g. office space and #digitisation services
bit.ly/fryer-fellowship
#UniOfQld #AustLit
ALT Manuscript letters, rare bottles, historical photos of protests.
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22 Feb 2023
Know someone who would love to research at #UQLibrary?
Apply for our 2023 Fryer Library Fellowship! An amazing opportunity for a researcher in Australian studies to work with #FryerLibrary collections.
Applications close 24 March. Find out more at bit.ly/fryer-fellowship
ALT Fryer Library Fellowship, apply now! Collage of letters, rare bottles, old photos of protests.
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22 Feb 2023
#FryerLibrary hosted over 80 high school history students on Friday. They enjoyed #HandsOnHistory & #ObjectBasedLearning - involving a memorial medal, 18th century rare books & a Convict story, inspired by his original Ticket of Leave document in the collection. @UQ_History
ALT Fryer Librarian, Simon Farley, holding the WWI memorial medal of Charles Fryer - a portrait of Charles is on the screen behind him.
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16 Feb 2023
π Applications are open for our 2023 #FryerLibrary Fellowship! π
$20,000 to help you research with our collections in areas like #AustralianLiterature, architecture, Indigenous studies, and refugee studies.
bit.ly/fryer-fellowship
#UQ #UQLibrary @AustLit #AustLit @UQ_News
ALT Letters, rare books and bottles, photos of protests.
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7 Feb 2023
#OnThisDay we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of John Denis Fryer (11 Sep 1895 β 7 Feb 1923) after whom the #FryerLibrary is named πΉ
A #UQ student, a soldier in #WorldWarI β a man with a joy of life who died too young.
Read his story:
bit.ly/Fryer100years
ALT John Denis Fryer, smartly dressed, neutral expression.
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18 Jan 2023
Thanks @keyvanallahyari, our 2022 #FryerFellow ! The #FryerLibrary looks forward to your upcoming publication after many years of hard work!π
18 Jan 2023
needless to say, I never finished looking at all those boxes, as both collections are monstrous. but Fryer is an oasis for any Australianist, a reminder of the importance of cultural heritage institutions. huge privilege to inhabit that space during the f'ship
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16 Nov 2022
We recently had the privilege to welcome Coordinators from Indigenous Knowledge Centres (IKCs) throughout Queensland to the #FryerLibrary.
Read more about the IKCs and their visit: bit.ly/3hGCJEI
Thank you to the IKC Coordinators for an amazing visit! @slqld
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10 Nov 2022
Check out the amazing display βWeaving Fantasyβ πͺ #UQ_Library (L1 Duhig) celebrating the Festival of Fantastic in Australian & Japanese Arts, hosted at the University of Queensland! #FryerLibrary lent some of the items on display.
@fantasyfestiva2 @AustLit @HASSUQ @UQ_News
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13 Oct 2022
Know someone who'd like to visit #UQ and #research in the #FryerLibrary? Check out our Rae & George Hammer Memorial Visiting Research #Fellowship. Applications are open. bit.ly/HammerFellowship
πΌ: George Edward Johnston Hammer (1923β2008) and Rachel Margaret Hammer (1929β2015).
ALT George Edward Johnston Hammer and Rachel Margaret Hammer smiling at camera, smartly dressed.
ALT Applications open.
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