Storying the Archive: Evoking the Fryer Library Indigenous Collection has been published in Open Textbooks @ UQ.
About the book
In Storying the Archive: Evoking the Fryer Library Indigenous Collection, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics, researchers, and professional staff, and non-Indigenous colleagues respond to items held in the Fryer Library Indigenous Collection.

Edited by Professor Tracey Bunda and Dr Laura Deane, the book aims to illuminate the collections through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s experience of them, with the intention being to spark joy and contribute to Reconciliation.
Thirty contributors have written entries organised in five parts:
- Archives, Librarians and Indigenous Collections
- Responding to Colonial Archives
- Activists
- Artists
- Storytellers.
Each entry includes a response to a collection or collection item, photographs of the collection, a contributor biography and portrait, and links to the collection item.
This book is made possible by the Library’s Open Textbooks @ UQ program. We support the adoption or creation of open educational resources, such as this open textbook, that are free for everyone.