Library Summer Closure

Library Summer Closure

The Library is now closed for the summer break. We wish you all the best for the festive season and look forward to re-opening in the new year on Monday 15 January 2024.
History Week 2023 – Voices From the Past

History Week 2023 – Voices From the Past

An Invitation : listen to First Nations Women’s Voices From Two Sisters, traversing vast desert country, their lives disrupted by the relentlessness of colonial incursions, to Talkin’ up the white woman: Indigenous women and feminism, disrupting the “white...
The Library has re-opened!

The Library has re-opened!

At long last, we can announce that we are back in the Library. We were pleased to find everything intact and no signs of damage. And a quieter air conditioning system! Our thanks to the City of Sydney. We have already commenced the task of getting everything back in...
Library Summer Closure

Library Summer Closure

The Library is now closed for our summer break. Due to the installation of a new air conditioning system, we are unlikely to resume our normal operations until the end of February 2023. The City did try to schedule the works to take place during our normal summer...
Lunch Hour Talk 16 June 2022

Lunch Hour Talk 16 June 2022

16 June Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Catherine Fisher Topic: Sound Citizens: Australian Women Broadcasters claim their voice, 1923-1956 In 1954 Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives, argued that radio had ‘created a bigger...
21 April 2022 Lunch Hour Talk

21 April 2022 Lunch Hour Talk

21 April Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Dr Janet Ramsay  PSO Topic: Anne Jolliffe – First Australian Woman Animator Anne Jolliffe made her career in hand drawn animation. She was part of the pioneering animation industry in Australia and was the first Australian woman...