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- Media release
Australian Libraries join forces to build national digital collection
12 August 2019
Australia’s national, state and territory libraries have come together in a world-first collaboration to build a national digital collection, with the...
- Announcement
Phil Cummings exhibition extended due to popular demand
12 July 2019
We are very excited to announce that due to overwhelming popular demand, the Phil Cummings: Stories behind the books exhibition has now been extended...
- Media release
Nominations now open for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
27 June 2019
Nominations are now open for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature , one of Australia’s richest and most prestigious literary awards. The...
- Media release
Phil Cummings: Stories behind the books at the State Library
29 April 2019
Phil Cummings: Stories behind the books, now open at the State Library of South Australia, takes you into the creative mind of award-winning South...
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- Media release
Pioneer aviators Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith’s personal papers now online
4 April 2019
The personal papers of South Australian pioneer aviators Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith, held by the State Library of South Australia, have been...
- Article
Say a prayer for the cowboy
13 February 2019
When the death of the Canadian writer and performer Leonard Cohen was announced on 7 November 2016, how many of his admirers would think of the State...
- Media release
The best press photos of 2018 on show at the State Library
31 January 2019
See the biggest stories of 2018 in sport, politics and daily life through the lenses of Australia's best press photographers in a compelling...
- Article
‘Stop me not, but let me jog; For I am Bob, the driver’s dog’
24 January 2019
In 1882 Bob, a scruffy brown German collie dog covered with thick shaggy hair, was born in Macclesfield, South Australia. He travelled the railways of...
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- Article
A place by any other name: From Bismarck to Weeroopa to Brooklyn Park
16 January 2019
In South Australia, in the midst of World War One, many places were renamed. But which ones? The South Australian Government Gazette holds the answer...
- Article
The ticking of the Mortlock clock
15 January 2019
The South Australian Chronicle reported on 25 June 1887: There has just been erected in the Museum, North-terrace, a large and handsome clock, the...
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- Article
Transcribing Tales: The diary of Augustus Short, first Bishop of Adelaide
13 January 2019
Augustus Short (1802-1883) was consecrated in Westminster Abbey on 29 June (St Peter's Day) 1847 as the first Anglican Bishop of Adelaide. Two months...
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- Article
Transcribing Tales: From ironworker to everyman soldier to star of the screen
8 January 2019
In 1914 Frederick Leopold 'Leo' Terrell was a foundry worker in Port Pirie and Broken Hill, holding tenuously onto work while economic times became...