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State Library of South Australia

The State Library of South Australia, or SLSA, formerly known as the Public Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia. It is the largest public research library in the state, with a collection focus on South Australian information, being the repository of all printed and audiovisual material published in the state, as required by legal deposit legislation. It holds the "South Australiana" collection, which documents South Australia from pre-European settlement to the present day, as well as general reference material in a wide range of formats, including digital, film, sound and video recordings, photographs, and microfiche. Home access to many journals, newspapers and other resources online is available.

State Library of South Australia
The modern Spence Wing entrance of the State Library of South Australia connects the Institute Building (1861, left) and the Mortlock Wing (1884, right)
34°55′14″S 138°36′10″E / 34.920601215637284°S 138.60283092296615°E / -34.920601215637284; 138.60283092296615
LocationAdelaide, Australia
TypeState library
Websitewww.slsa.sa.gov.au/home

History and governance

19th century

 
The 1861 Instritute Building, home of the library before construction of the Mortlock Wing

On 29 August 1834, a couple of weeks after the passing of the South Australia Act 1834,[1] a group led by the Colonial Secretary, Robert Gouger, and solicitor Richard Hanson[2] and a number of prominent colonists, including Ernest Giles, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, John Morphett, Robert Torrens Snr, and John Hindmarsh formed the South Australian Literary Association in Adelphi Chambers, London.[3] Within a month, the more title was changed to the more inclusive South Australian Literary and Scientific Association.[1] Its aim was "the cultivation and diffusion of useful knowledge throughout the colony". Although the Association lapsed and meetings ceased,[3] a collection of books donated by members was intended as the basis of the new colony's library, and the colonists brought the collection to the Colony of South Australia aboard the Tam O'Shanter, which arrived on 18 December 1836.[2]

The first Adelaide Mechanics' Institute (based on the concept of mechanics' institutes developed in Scotland and England in the 1820s, to provide adult education to working men[4][5]) met on 23 June 1838, reported by the Southern Australian newspaper. Running into difficulties, the organisation was merged with a revived Literary and Scientific Association, with the new name of the Adelaide Literary and Scientific Association and Mechanics' Institute, electing a committee in July 1839. Over this time, the membership of the association varied between upper-middle-class and lower-middle-class. The library reopened, but the Institute did not have a permanent location, and the focus was on a programme of lectures. However the lectures dwindled and attendances varied, as the Institute tried to function as an adult education institution as well as a learned scientific society, and its last meeting was held in June 1844.[1]

In September 1844, a group of men founded the South Australian Subscription Library, with a collection created by donation and subscriptions, and in 1845 it took over the collection of the Literary and Scientific Association and Mechanics' Institute. A permanent librarian was employed at this time, and the library served its middle-class members.[1]

In 1847, a new Adelaide Mechanics' Institute was founded, by a group of lower-middle class men, led by schoolteacher W.A. Cawthorne. Various talks, discussions and displays were put on.[1] This organisation merged with the South Australian Library in 1848, creating the Mechanics' Institute and South Australian Library, based in Peacock's Buildings, Hindley Street,[6] and with membership moving back to the upper-middle class.[1] Nathaniel Summers was appointed as the first librarian. It subsequently moved to Exchange Chambers, King William Street, but by 1855 had gone into decline.[6]

Meanwhile, other institutes and societies were established throughout the Adelaide suburbs, including the Adelaide Philosophical Society (which later evolved into the Royal Society of South Australia). Some of these institutes asked the government for financial assistance, and Unitarian publisher John Howard Clark suggested the conversion of the Institute into a public institution. A Bill was proposed in Parliament in 1854.[1] Between 1847 and 1856 another 13 mechanics' institutes started in other parts of the colony.[7][8]

In June 1856 the South Australian Legislative Council passed Act No. 16 of 1855–6, the South Australian Institute Act, which incorporated the South Australian Institute under the control of a Board of Governors,[9] to whose ownership all materials belonging to the old Library and Mechanics' Institute was immediately transferred. This Act also ensured the library would be open to the public free of charge, and granted funding was allocated to it. This made the library very popular particularly amongst artisans and workmen who filled it to capacity in the evenings. At this point it was a lending library, and held a large amount of fictional work.[6] The Act also provided for a museum as part of the new organisation.[9] The suburban institutes became subsidiaries of the SA Institute, as did the Adelaide Philosophical Society and the South Australian Society of Arts.[1]

As new books arrived from Britain, the library expanded and soon needed new accommodation, which was found in North Terrace in 1860.[6] The Adelaide Institute building opened in January 1861, and included rooms for the Adelaide Philosophical Society, the Medical Society and the Choral Society.[8]

The Copyright Act 1878, Part II section 15, required that a copy of every book published in South Australia was to be deposited in the Institute by a process known as legal deposit, for preservation of the books. (After Federation, the Copyright Act (1905) replaced the earlier state copyright legislation with regard to legal deposit, but the State Library continues to collect and preserve locally produced material.)[9]

The Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery Act 1884 renamed the South Australian Institute as Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery, and also broadened the scope of the Board's control to include the expanding network of regional and suburban institutes. It also created a new, independent body, the Adelaide Circulating Library, to take over the business of circulating books on a subscription basis.[9] It also became the location for university lectures.[8]

20th century

The next important piece of legislation affecting SLSA was the 1939 number 44 Libraries and Institutes Act, which repealed the Public library, Museum and Art Gallery and Institutes Act and separated the Public Library from the (newly named) Art Gallery of South Australia and South Australian Museum, established its own board and changed its name to the Public Library of South Australia. The new entity thus became a statutory corporation.[10][11]

Various reorganisations occurred through the years following, but the legislation still governing the Library is number 70 Libraries Act (1982), which repealed the Libraries and Institutes Act (1939–1979) and the Libraries (Subsidies) Act 1955–1977[9] (with the latest version as of July 2019 being 12 May 2011).[12][13]

During the 1990s, the Library became a Division under a series of departments, responsible to the Minister for the Arts. The State Records Act 1997 separated the responsibility for management and disposal of state government records, bringing this under a State Records Council rather than the Libraries Board.[9]

21st century

From 2001 the Library became part of the Division of Arts SA, which was part of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, continuing to report to the Minister for the Arts.[9]

After the election of the Marshall government in March 2018, the post of Minister for the Arts ceased to exist, Arts South Australia (as Arts SA was now known) was dismantled and its functions transferred to direct oversight by the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Arts and Culture section.[14]

Mortlock Wing

 
Mortlock Wing.
 
Mortlock Wing interior, view to south

The building now known as the Mortlock Wing was opened on 18 December 1884 as a "Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery for the colony of South Australia" with 23,000 books and a staff of three. It had taken over 18 years to complete after the initial foundations were laid in 1866. (In 1873 the foundations of the western wing of a proposed new block were laid, but there the matter ended until 1876, when fresh plans were drawn, and another set of foundations put in. Again the work went no further until 1879 when the west wing was finally commenced. The earlier work was condemned, and had to be removed before the Public Library could be started.)[15] The foundation stone was laid on 7 November 1879 by Sir William Jervois and the building was constructed by Brown and Thompson at a total cost of £36,395, and opened in 1884.[16] Supervision for the board of directors was undertaken by secretary Robert Kay (1825–1904), later general director and secretary of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia.[citation needed]

The building is French Renaissance in style with a mansard roof. The walls are constructed of brick with Sydney freestone facings with decorations in the darker shade of Manoora stone.[citation needed]

The interior has two galleries, the first supported by masonry columns, and the second by cast iron brackets. The balconies feature wrought iron balustrading ornamented with gold while the glass-domed roof allows the chamber to be lit with natural light. Two of the original gas "sunburner" lamps survive in the office space located on the second floor at the southern end.

Restoration of the building occurred in 1985 as a Jubilee 150 project by Danvers Architects, consultant architect to the South Australian Department of Housing and Construction. The $1.5 million project was jointly funded by the government and the community.[citation needed]

In honour of a substantial bequest from John Andrew Tennant Mortlock,[17] the Libraries Board of South Australia resolved that a percentage of the South Australiana Collections would be housed in the wing and named the Mortlock Library of South Australiana in 1986.

After the State Library underwent a substantial redevelopment, commencing in 2001 and reaching completion in 2004, the main chamber of the Mortlock Wing became an exhibition space providing a glimpse into the history and culture of South Australia.

In August 2014 the Mortlock Wing featured in a list of the top 20 most beautiful libraries of the world, compiled by the U.S. magazine Travel + Leisure.[18][19]

Collections

General reference collections

The general reference and research material in the State Library was named the Bray Reference Library in 1987 after former SA Chief Justice, Dr John Jefferson Bray, who served on the Libraries Board of South Australia from 1944 to 1987.

Heritage collections

The State Library has a national responsibility to collect, preserve and give access to historical and contemporary South Australian information. The South Australiana collections document South Australia from pre-white settlement to the present day, and the Northern Territory to 1911. The South Australiana collection is one of the most comprehensive in the world due to legal deposit requirements for published material, and through donations of unpublished material. A well known donation is the Bradman Collection of cricketing memorabilia.

York Gate Geographical and Colonial Library

The York Gate Library was acquired from the estate of Stephen William Silver, of S. W. Silver and Co. (William) a London-based company who not only sold clothing, furniture and equipment suitable for emigrants to the British Colonies, but also a series books providing relevant information for such emigrants. William had started to collect objects and books related to the areas to which their customers were migrating. These were kept in his residence at 3 York Gate, London and hence became known as the York Gate Library. When he died on 7 March 1905, the South Australia branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia raised the money to buy the collection of nearly 5,000 volumes and pamphlets so they could be brought to Australia.[20] In 2006, the centenary of the establishment of the library in Australia, the collection was threatened with eviction.[20]

Mountford-Sheard Collection

The Mountford-Sheard Collection is a collection of journals, sound recordings and other works created, written and gathered by Charles P. Mountford,[21][22] which has been inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World. It is of great cultural significance to Aboriginal Australians, particularly those in central Australia, the Flinders Ranges (Adnyamathanha people), Arnhem Land (Yolngu people) and the Tiwi Islands (Tiwi people), and the material is respectful of the people whose lives it documents.[23]

Rare books

 
Using items from its rare books collection, Keith Conlon gives a talk on the 200th anniversary of the death of Matthew Flinders, at the SLSA's Institute Building, 21 July 2014.

The State Library's rare books collection is the major collection of its kind in South Australia. It comprises Australian and international items which have been identified as having a special interest through subject matter or rarity.

Children's Literature Research Collection

The Children's Literature Research Collection was formed in 1959 and has over 65,000 books, periodicals, comics, board and table games, and toys. The collection has been enhanced by donations from South Australian individuals and families and from organisations. It is one of the State Library's heritage collections and is of international importance.

Collaborations

The Library manages, in collaboration with the History Trust of South Australia, the Centre of Democracy on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue.[24] The Centre's gallery exhibits treasures from History Trust and State Library collections, as well as items on loan from State Records of South Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Courts Authority, Parliament House, Government House and private lenders.[25]

National edeposit system (NED)

As a member library of National and State Libraries Australia, the organisation collaborated on the creation of the National edeposit (NED) system, which enables publishers from all over Australia to upload electronic publications as per the 2016 amendment to the Copyright Act 1968 and other regional legislation relating to legal deposit,[26] and makes these publications publicly accessible online (depending on access conditions) from anywhere via Trove.[27]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Cooper, Janet K. (June 1970). The Foundation of Culture in Adelaide: A Study of the First Colonists' Transplantation of Ideas and Art: 181836–1857 (MA). University of Adelaide. pp. 2–30. hdl:2440/113377. PDF
  2. ^ a b "History of the State Library of South Australia: Home". State Library of South Australia. LibGuides. 5 May 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b "About the Society". Royal Society of South Australia. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  4. ^ Kelly, Thomas (November 1952). "The Origin of Mechanics' Institutes". British Journal of Educational Studies. Society for Educational Studies. 1 (1): 17–27. doi:10.2307/3119430. JSTOR 3119430.
  5. ^ "What is a Mechanics' Institute?". Prahran Mechanics' Institute. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d "VII.—Educational". South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 – 1889). No. 27 October. 1863. p. 4.
  7. ^ "About Institutes of SA" (Video). Institutes of South Australia. 16 September 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  8. ^ a b c Hancock, Joelie (Winter–Spring 2021). "Beginnings of Institutes in South Australia". Useful Knowledge. Mechanics' Institute of Victoria (55): 20-21. Retrieved 3 January 2022 – via Institutes Of South Australia.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g "History of the State Library of South Australia: Board members & legislation". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  10. ^ "National Gallery of South Australia (Record ID 36484115)". Libraries Australia. Libraries Australia Authorities – Full view. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Art galleries". Adelaidia. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  12. ^ "Libraries Act 1982, Version: 12.5.2011" (PDF). 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ "Libraries Act 1982". legislation.sa. Government of South Australia. Attorney-General's Dept. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  14. ^ "About arts and culture". South Australia. Dept of the Premier and Cabinet. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  15. ^ "An Important Institution". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 4 June 1898. p. 5. Retrieved 4 May 2014 – via National Library of Australia. This reference contains interesting details of the "cultural precinct" of North Terrace and list of chairmen of the Board of Governors to 1898.
  16. ^ Australia, State Library of South. "LibGuides: History of the State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing". guides.slsa.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  17. ^ Valmai A. Hankel, 'Mortlock, John Andrew Tennant (1894–1950)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 426–427.
  18. ^ Travel + Leisure > Most Beautiful Libraries in the World Accessed 5 August 2014.
  19. ^ Adelaide's library in world's beautiful top 20 891 ABC Adelaide Accessed 5 August 2014.
  20. ^ a b Henderson, Kelly. "York Gate Geographical and Colonial Library" (PDF). icomos.org. ICOMOS. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  21. ^ "Mountford-Sheard Collection". State Library of South Australia Collection. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  22. ^ "Mountford-Sheard Collection". State Library of South Australia LibGuides. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  23. ^ "#21: Mountford-Sheard Collection". Memory of the World. UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Program. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  24. ^ "About". Centre of Democracy. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  25. ^ "Supported by". Centre of Democracy. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  26. ^ "What is legal deposit?". National Library of Australia. 17 February 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  27. ^ "What is National edeposit (NED)?". NED. Retrieved 6 May 2020.

Further reading

  • Hancock, Joelie (20 September 2021). "South Australian Institute". Institutes of South Australia.
  • Talbot, Michael R. (2008)The Library of the South Australian Literary and Scientific Association: a combined short-title list arranged by contributor

External links

  • State Library of South Australia

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The State Library of South Australia or SLSA formerly known as the Public Library of South Australia located on North Terrace Adelaide is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia It is the largest public research library in the state with a collection focus on South Australian information being the repository of all printed and audiovisual material published in the state as required by legal deposit legislation It holds the South Australiana collection which documents South Australia from pre European settlement to the present day as well as general reference material in a wide range of formats including digital film sound and video recordings photographs and microfiche Home access to many journals newspapers and other resources online is available State Library of South AustraliaThe modern Spence Wing entrance of the State Library of South Australia connects the Institute Building 1861 left and the Mortlock Wing 1884 right 34 55 14 S 138 36 10 E 34 920601215637284 S 138 60283092296615 E 34 920601215637284 138 60283092296615LocationAdelaide AustraliaTypeState libraryWebsitewww wbr slsa wbr sa wbr gov wbr au wbr home Contents 1 History and governance 1 1 19th century 1 2 20th century 1 3 21st century 2 Mortlock Wing 3 Collections 3 1 General reference collections 3 2 Heritage collections 3 3 York Gate Geographical and Colonial Library 3 4 Mountford Sheard Collection 3 5 Rare books 3 6 Children s Literature Research Collection 4 Collaborations 4 1 National edeposit system NED 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksHistory and governance Edit19th century Edit The 1861 Instritute Building home of the library before construction of the Mortlock Wing Further information Mechanics institutes of Australia and South Australian Museum 19th century On 29 August 1834 a couple of weeks after the passing of the South Australia Act 1834 1 a group led by the Colonial Secretary Robert Gouger and solicitor Richard Hanson 2 and a number of prominent colonists including Ernest Giles Edward Gibbon Wakefield John Morphett Robert Torrens Snr and John Hindmarsh formed the South Australian Literary Association in Adelphi Chambers London 3 Within a month the more title was changed to the more inclusive South Australian Literary and Scientific Association 1 Its aim was the cultivation and diffusion of useful knowledge throughout the colony Although the Association lapsed and meetings ceased 3 a collection of books donated by members was intended as the basis of the new colony s library and the colonists brought the collection to the Colony of South Australia aboard the Tam O Shanter which arrived on 18 December 1836 2 The first Adelaide Mechanics Institute based on the concept of mechanics institutes developed in Scotland and England in the 1820s to provide adult education to working men 4 5 met on 23 June 1838 reported by the Southern Australian newspaper Running into difficulties the organisation was merged with a revived Literary and Scientific Association with the new name of the Adelaide Literary and Scientific Association and Mechanics Institute electing a committee in July 1839 Over this time the membership of the association varied between upper middle class and lower middle class The library reopened but the Institute did not have a permanent location and the focus was on a programme of lectures However the lectures dwindled and attendances varied as the Institute tried to function as an adult education institution as well as a learned scientific society and its last meeting was held in June 1844 1 In September 1844 a group of men founded the South Australian Subscription Library with a collection created by donation and subscriptions and in 1845 it took over the collection of the Literary and Scientific Association and Mechanics Institute A permanent librarian was employed at this time and the library served its middle class members 1 In 1847 a new Adelaide Mechanics Institute was founded by a group of lower middle class men led by schoolteacher W A Cawthorne Various talks discussions and displays were put on 1 This organisation merged with the South Australian Library in 1848 creating the Mechanics Institute and South Australian Library based in Peacock s Buildings Hindley Street 6 and with membership moving back to the upper middle class 1 Nathaniel Summers was appointed as the first librarian It subsequently moved to Exchange Chambers King William Street but by 1855 had gone into decline 6 Meanwhile other institutes and societies were established throughout the Adelaide suburbs including the Adelaide Philosophical Society which later evolved into the Royal Society of South Australia Some of these institutes asked the government for financial assistance and Unitarian publisher John Howard Clark suggested the conversion of the Institute into a public institution A Bill was proposed in Parliament in 1854 1 Between 1847 and 1856 another 13 mechanics institutes started in other parts of the colony 7 8 In June 1856 the South Australian Legislative Council passed Act No 16 of 1855 6 the South Australian Institute Act which incorporated the South Australian Institute under the control of a Board of Governors 9 to whose ownership all materials belonging to the old Library and Mechanics Institute was immediately transferred This Act also ensured the library would be open to the public free of charge and granted funding was allocated to it This made the library very popular particularly amongst artisans and workmen who filled it to capacity in the evenings At this point it was a lending library and held a large amount of fictional work 6 The Act also provided for a museum as part of the new organisation 9 The suburban institutes became subsidiaries of the SA Institute as did the Adelaide Philosophical Society and the South Australian Society of Arts 1 As new books arrived from Britain the library expanded and soon needed new accommodation which was found in North Terrace in 1860 6 The Adelaide Institute building opened in January 1861 and included rooms for the Adelaide Philosophical Society the Medical Society and the Choral Society 8 The Copyright Act 1878 Part II section 15 required that a copy of every book published in South Australia was to be deposited in the Institute by a process known as legal deposit for preservation of the books After Federation the Copyright Act 1905 replaced the earlier state copyright legislation with regard to legal deposit but the State Library continues to collect and preserve locally produced material 9 The Public Library Museum and Art Gallery Act 1884 renamed the South Australian Institute as Public Library Museum and Art Gallery and also broadened the scope of the Board s control to include the expanding network of regional and suburban institutes It also created a new independent body the Adelaide Circulating Library to take over the business of circulating books on a subscription basis 9 It also became the location for university lectures 8 20th century Edit The next important piece of legislation affecting SLSA was the 1939 number 44 Libraries and Institutes Act which repealed the Public library Museum and Art Gallery and Institutes Act and separated the Public Library from the newly named Art Gallery of South Australia and South Australian Museum established its own board and changed its name to the Public Library of South Australia The new entity thus became a statutory corporation 10 11 Various reorganisations occurred through the years following but the legislation still governing the Library is number 70 Libraries Act 1982 which repealed the Libraries and Institutes Act 1939 1979 and the Libraries Subsidies Act 1955 1977 9 with the latest version as of July 2019 update being 12 May 2011 12 13 During the 1990s the Library became a Division under a series of departments responsible to the Minister for the Arts The State Records Act 1997 separated the responsibility for management and disposal of state government records bringing this under a State Records Council rather than the Libraries Board 9 21st century Edit From 2001 the Library became part of the Division of Arts SA which was part of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet continuing to report to the Minister for the Arts 9 After the election of the Marshall government in March 2018 the post of Minister for the Arts ceased to exist Arts South Australia as Arts SA was now known was dismantled and its functions transferred to direct oversight by the Department of Premier and Cabinet Arts and Culture section 14 Mortlock Wing Edit Mortlock Wing Mortlock Wing interior view to south The building now known as the Mortlock Wing was opened on 18 December 1884 as a Public Library Museum and Art Gallery for the colony of South Australia with 23 000 books and a staff of three It had taken over 18 years to complete after the initial foundations were laid in 1866 In 1873 the foundations of the western wing of a proposed new block were laid but there the matter ended until 1876 when fresh plans were drawn and another set of foundations put in Again the work went no further until 1879 when the west wing was finally commenced The earlier work was condemned and had to be removed before the Public Library could be started 15 The foundation stone was laid on 7 November 1879 by Sir William Jervois and the building was constructed by Brown and Thompson at a total cost of 36 395 and opened in 1884 16 Supervision for the board of directors was undertaken by secretary Robert Kay 1825 1904 later general director and secretary of the Public Library Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia citation needed The building is French Renaissance in style with a mansard roof The walls are constructed of brick with Sydney freestone facings with decorations in the darker shade of Manoora stone citation needed The interior has two galleries the first supported by masonry columns and the second by cast iron brackets The balconies feature wrought iron balustrading ornamented with gold while the glass domed roof allows the chamber to be lit with natural light Two of the original gas sunburner lamps survive in the office space located on the second floor at the southern end Restoration of the building occurred in 1985 as a Jubilee 150 project by Danvers Architects consultant architect to the South Australian Department of Housing and Construction The 1 5 million project was jointly funded by the government and the community citation needed In honour of a substantial bequest from John Andrew Tennant Mortlock 17 the Libraries Board of South Australia resolved that a percentage of the South Australiana Collections would be housed in the wing and named the Mortlock Library of South Australiana in 1986 After the State Library underwent a substantial redevelopment commencing in 2001 and reaching completion in 2004 the main chamber of the Mortlock Wing became an exhibition space providing a glimpse into the history and culture of South Australia In August 2014 the Mortlock Wing featured in a list of the top 20 most beautiful libraries of the world compiled by the U S magazine Travel Leisure 18 19 Collections EditGeneral reference collections Edit The general reference and research material in the State Library was named the Bray Reference Library in 1987 after former SA Chief Justice Dr John Jefferson Bray who served on the Libraries Board of South Australia from 1944 to 1987 Heritage collections Edit The State Library has a national responsibility to collect preserve and give access to historical and contemporary South Australian information The South Australiana collections document South Australia from pre white settlement to the present day and the Northern Territory to 1911 The South Australiana collection is one of the most comprehensive in the world due to legal deposit requirements for published material and through donations of unpublished material A well known donation is the Bradman Collection of cricketing memorabilia York Gate Geographical and Colonial Library Edit Main article York Gate Library The York Gate Library was acquired from the estate of Stephen William Silver of S W Silver and Co William a London based company who not only sold clothing furniture and equipment suitable for emigrants to the British Colonies but also a series books providing relevant information for such emigrants William had started to collect objects and books related to the areas to which their customers were migrating These were kept in his residence at 3 York Gate London and hence became known as the York Gate Library When he died on 7 March 1905 the South Australia branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia raised the money to buy the collection of nearly 5 000 volumes and pamphlets so they could be brought to Australia 20 In 2006 the centenary of the establishment of the library in Australia the collection was threatened with eviction 20 Mountford Sheard Collection Edit The Mountford Sheard Collection is a collection of journals sound recordings and other works created written and gathered by Charles P Mountford 21 22 which has been inscribed on UNESCO s Memory of the World It is of great cultural significance to Aboriginal Australians particularly those in central Australia the Flinders Ranges Adnyamathanha people Arnhem Land Yolngu people and the Tiwi Islands Tiwi people and the material is respectful of the people whose lives it documents 23 Rare books Edit Using items from its rare books collection Keith Conlon gives a talk on the 200th anniversary of the death of Matthew Flinders at the SLSA s Institute Building 21 July 2014 The State Library s rare books collection is the major collection of its kind in South Australia It comprises Australian and international items which have been identified as having a special interest through subject matter or rarity Children s Literature Research Collection Edit The Children s Literature Research Collection was formed in 1959 and has over 65 000 books periodicals comics board and table games and toys The collection has been enhanced by donations from South Australian individuals and families and from organisations It is one of the State Library s heritage collections and is of international importance Collaborations EditThe Library manages in collaboration with the History Trust of South Australia the Centre of Democracy on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue 24 The Centre s gallery exhibits treasures from History Trust and State Library collections as well as items on loan from State Records of South Australia the Art Gallery of South Australia the Courts Authority Parliament House Government House and private lenders 25 National edeposit system NED Edit As a member library of National and State Libraries Australia the organisation collaborated on the creation of the National edeposit NED system which enables publishers from all over Australia to upload electronic publications as per the 2016 amendment to the Copyright Act 1968 and other regional legislation relating to legal deposit 26 and makes these publications publicly accessible online depending on access conditions from anywhere via Trove 27 See also EditSouth Australian Museum Art Gallery of South AustraliaReferences Edit a b c d e f g h Cooper Janet K June 1970 The Foundation of Culture in Adelaide A Study of the First Colonists Transplantation of Ideas and Art 181836 1857 MA University of Adelaide pp 2 30 hdl 2440 113377 PDF a b History of the State Library of South Australia Home State Library of South Australia LibGuides 5 May 2020 Retrieved 4 July 2020 a b About the Society Royal Society of South Australia Retrieved 4 July 2020 Kelly Thomas November 1952 The Origin of Mechanics Institutes British Journal of Educational Studies Society for Educational Studies 1 1 17 27 doi 10 2307 3119430 JSTOR 3119430 What is a Mechanics Institute Prahran Mechanics Institute 8 November 2012 Retrieved 4 July 2020 a b c d VII Educational South Australian Advertiser Adelaide SA 1858 1889 No 27 October 1863 p 4 About Institutes of SA Video Institutes of South Australia 16 September 2021 Retrieved 3 January 2022 a b c Hancock Joelie Winter Spring 2021 Beginnings of Institutes in South Australia Useful Knowledge Mechanics Institute of Victoria 55 20 21 Retrieved 3 January 2022 via Institutes Of South Australia a b c d e f g History of the State Library of South Australia Board members amp legislation State Library of South Australia Retrieved 31 July 2019 National Gallery of South Australia Record ID 36484115 Libraries Australia Libraries Australia Authorities Full view Retrieved 30 July 2019 Art galleries Adelaidia Retrieved 9 May 2019 Libraries Act 1982 Version 12 5 2011 PDF 2011 Retrieved 31 July 2019 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Libraries Act 1982 legislation sa Government of South Australia Attorney General s Dept Retrieved 31 July 2019 About arts and culture South Australia Dept of the Premier and Cabinet 26 June 2019 Retrieved 1 August 2019 An Important Institution South Australian Register Adelaide 4 June 1898 p 5 Retrieved 4 May 2014 via National Library of Australia This reference contains interesting details of the cultural precinct of North Terrace and list of chairmen of the Board of Governors to 1898 Australia State Library of South LibGuides History of the State Library of South Australia Mortlock Wing guides slsa sa gov au Retrieved 21 October 2022 Valmai A Hankel Mortlock John Andrew Tennant 1894 1950 Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 15 Melbourne University Press 2000 pp 426 427 Travel Leisure gt Most Beautiful Libraries in the World Accessed 5 August 2014 Adelaide s library in world s beautiful top 20 891 ABC Adelaide Accessed 5 August 2014 a b Henderson Kelly York Gate Geographical and Colonial Library PDF icomos org ICOMOS Retrieved 3 February 2019 Mountford Sheard Collection State Library of South Australia Collection Retrieved 30 May 2022 Mountford Sheard Collection State Library of South Australia LibGuides 30 January 2020 Retrieved 13 November 2020 21 Mountford Sheard Collection Memory of the World UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Program Retrieved 13 November 2020 About Centre of Democracy Retrieved 3 August 2019 Supported by Centre of Democracy Retrieved 4 August 2019 What is legal deposit National Library of Australia 17 February 2016 Retrieved 6 May 2020 What is National edeposit NED NED Retrieved 6 May 2020 Further reading EditHancock Joelie 20 September 2021 South Australian Institute Institutes of South Australia Talbot Michael R 2008 The Library of the South Australian Literary and Scientific Association a combined short title list arranged by contributorExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to State Library of South Australia State Library of South Australia34 55 15 S 138 36 08 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