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The University of Queensland Library (UQ Library, founded in 1910) provides
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access to students of the
University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = ...
in
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. It developed from a small provincial university library into a major
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.East, John W.: ''A Brief History of the University of Queensland Library'', 2006. It was first housed in the Old Government House building of George Street from 1911 to 1923. From 1923 to 1948, it was housed in the Art Block of the Central Technical College in George Street, next to the university. In late 1948, the library moved to the new
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campus, residing in the Duhig Building. By 1954, it had already exceeded its capacity. For decades the library suffered from neglect. Some of this was due to the lack of a formal
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, and other problems were due to the lack of funds during the early decades of the university's history. The early building in George Street was riddled with white ants and borers, and later lack of space. After the move to St Lucia, the Duhig building was expanded in 1964, and smaller libraries sprang up to support Department needs. In 1974, the Duhig building had exceeded its capacity and hence the Central Library was built, under the direction of then University Librarian, Derek Fielding. A four- storey Biological Sciences Library building, to accommodate the growing science collections, was built in 1976. The same year, the
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and
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libraries were amalgamated into one place, the Zelman Cowen building, named for the
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and soon-to-be
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was opened in 1984 at the
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, an amalgamation of many smaller medical libraries. The
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and
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Library was opened in 1990, and the Law Library gained another floor that same year. After the closure of the Thatcher
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Library and Ringrose Libraries in 1993, which specialised in
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resources, the university acquired the library of the Queensland Agricultural College at Gatton, as part of its amalgamation with the university in 1989. Today the UQ Library is the
University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = ...
's network of libraries, encompassing thirteen distinct branches.


Branches


Architecture and Music Library

Biological Sciences Library
*
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Engineering and Sciences Library (including the C.S. Davis Mathematics Library,
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Geology Library and Thomas Parnell Memorial Physics Library) * Fryer Library * Gatton Library * Graduate Economics and Business Library
Herston Health Sciences Library

UQ/Mater McAuley Library

Rural Clinical School Libraries (RCS)

Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellence Library (PACE)Rural
* Social Sciences and Humanities Library (SSAH) * Walter Harrison Law Library


University Librarians

Past heads of the library include- * 1910-1925 Honorary Librarian - F.W.S. Cumbrae Stewart. Assistant Librarian R.J. Cholmeley. 1918-1958 Assistant- Ellen "Nellie" McIver * 1934-1939 Part time librarian - A.C.V. Melbourne * 1939-1946 James Forsyth Librarian - Richard Pennington * 1946-1948 James Forsyth Librarian - Norman Gould * 1950-1962 University Librarian - Harrison Bryan. 1956-1965 First Deputy University Librarian-Barry Scott. 1959-1997-first Reference Librarian appointed-Spencer Routh. * 1963-1964 Acting University Librarian - Barry Scott * 1965-1992 University Librarian - Derek Fielding. 1966-1972 Deputy University Librarian Sid Page; 1973-1977 John Cummings; 1978-1981 Eric Wainwright; 1982-1985 Earle Gow; 1986-1998 Deputy University Librarian George Eichinski * 1992-1993 Acting University Librarian - George Eichinski * 1993-2005 University Librarian
Janine Schmidt
* 2005-2006 Acting University Librarian - Mary Lyons * 2006-2011 University Librarian - Keith Webster * 2011-2012 Acting University Librarian - Mary Lyons * 2012–2018 University Librarian - Robert Gerrity *2018-2019 Acting University Librarian - Annette McNicol *2019–Present University Librarian - Caroline Williams


References


Further reading

* Biskup, Peter: ''Richard Pennington, University of Queensland's First James Forsyth Librarian, 1939-1946.'' Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 27 (1996): 229–249. * East, John:
The University of Queensland Library: A Centenary History, 1910-2010
" St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Library, 2010. * Scott, D.B.: ''A History of the University of Queensland Library.'' Australian Library Journal, 10 (1961): 68–87. * Thomis, Malcolm I. A Place of Light & Learning: ''The University of Queensland's First Seventy-five Years.'' St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1985.


External links


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Fryer Library
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