Fryer Library

Alumni Friends of The University of Queensland Inc. have donated $50,000 to launch the Library’s fundraising project to create a dedicated teaching space within the Fryer Library.

Manager of Fryer Library, Simon Farley, reflects on what fifty years of friendship with the Alumni Friends of UQ has meant to the Fryer Library. From gifts of rare first editions to financing the purchase of precious manuscripts and creating new purpose-built spaces for students to interact with unique and rare collections, UQ alumni have been important to the development of the Fryer Library.

The Xavier and Sadie Herbert collection contains notebooks, manuscript drafts, proofs and other papers relating to Capricornia, Poor Fellow My Country, Disturbing Element, Soldiers' Women and The Little Widow together with short stories, poems, articles, publications, newspaper cuttings and correspondence. When these papers were donated to the Fryer Library, they would arrive in the very same chest that they were stored in at the house at Redlynch.

Ernestine Hill's descriptive and travel writings from the 1930s and 40s had a keen Australian readership...

The Fryer Library Fellowship is an initiative aimed at supporting research projects in the Humanities areas. It provides financial assistance and access to Fryer’s collections and services for a six-month period.

A new online architectural research tool was launched to coincide with the International Day for Monuments and Sites, the UQ eSpace database now lists the rolls of architects from the Queensland Government Gazette from 1930 to 1980.

The University of Queensland acquired the remarkable Father Edwards Leo Hayes Collection in 1967. To mark the 50th anniversary, we have curated a display to showcase some of the treasures that contributed to the reputation of the Fryer Library as a pre-eminent research collection. 

Artist and academic Dr Catherine Bell reflects on her research project on Daphne Mayo using the Fryer Library collection. This reveals how the unique materials in Daphne Mayo's archive inspired Bell's artworks in the 'Bringing Daphne Back' series that she created after researching in Fryer.

Historian and academic, Dr Lyndon Megarrity remembers some of the hidden gems he has used in his research projects in the Fryer Library collection. For his PhD and CAUL ASA Fellowship he used collections in the Fryer Library on Queensland history, politics and culture.

The Rae and George Hammer Memorial Visiting Research Fellowship provides up to $2,500 a year for Honours, Masters and PhD students from Universities outside of Brisbane to use the collections held in The University of Queensland’s Fryer Library. Applications are now open and they close on the 24 February 2017.