Cultural and historical collections

From Monday 12 October, the way you access Fryer Library materials in the FW Robinson Reading Room is changing. Find out about our new opening hours and how to book an appointment in this blog post.

We are pleased to announce the Fryer Library Fellow for 2020 is Dr N.A.J. Taylor.

As part of The University of Queensland's NAIDOC Festival 2020, we were joined by Professor Tracey Bunda, Professor Sandra Phillips and Mia Strasek-Barker, the Library's Reconciliation Action Plan Officer to discuss Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander related material from the Fryer collections.

The Fryer Library offers internships for students in different disciplines. This guest post by GEND3001 intern, Ellen Nixon, details her research into LGBTI ephemera collections for her research project.

We’re making it easier for you to connect with our special collections online and in the FW Robinson Reading room with updates to our webpages.

In this guest blog post from Fryer intern Emma Newman, find out more about award-winning Australian author Frank Moorhouse and his manuscripts held in the Fryer Library.

How have you been keeping up communication during this period of physical distancing? Have you considered sending letters to your friends and family? In this guest blog, celebrated Brisbane writer David Malouf reflects on the lost art of letter writing.

A new book about John Denis Fryer, for whom the Fryer Library is named, and the rest of his family has been published by Boolarong Press.

In a guest blog post, intern Emma Newman discusses D.H. Lawrence's 1923 novel Kangaroo several editions of which are held in the Fryer Library.

In this guest post from Fryer intern Amanda Chambers, find out more about one of the more unusual items in the Library's collection: a nineteenth century portable medical cabinet.