To keep our staff and customers safe we will continue to follow the physical distancing, building capacity limits and increased hygiene practises outlined by the State Government in their roadmap to recovery. When entering the library please make sure you sanitise your hands at the sanitiser stations provided. Bookings are essential.
LIVE AND LEARN FROM THE STATE LIBRARY
Picture This: State Library Images and How to Access Them
Tuesday 21 September 2021 at 11.00am - 12.00pm
Cost: Free
Where: Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
Looking for something a little different to add to social media, want to see what your suburb or town looked like a hundred years ago? Interested in trams, camels, old pubs, historic fashion or football? The State Library currently holds over 300 thousand catalogued images grouped in numerous collections. Each tells a story. Discover some of these collections. Delve into some lesser-known image resources with a Community Engagement Librarian. Learn tips and tricks to make your image searching fast and effective. You may wish to use your smart phone or device to follow along with this presentation. There’ll be time for questions.
Picture This: State Library Images and How to Access Them
Tuesday 21 September 2021 at 11.00am - 12.00pm
Cost: Free
Where: Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
Looking for something a little different to add to social media, want to see what your suburb or town looked like a hundred years ago? Interested in trams, camels, old pubs, historic fashion or football? The State Library currently holds over 300 thousand catalogued images grouped in numerous collections. Each tells a story. Discover some of these collections. Delve into some lesser-known image resources with a Community Engagement Librarian. Learn tips and tricks to make your image searching fast and effective. You may wish to use your smart phone or device to follow along with this presentation. There’ll be time for questions.
VISIT
Thursday 23 September 2021 at 11.00am - 12.30pm
Cost: $20
Adelaide Oval Sculptures Tour conducted by Dr Bernard Whimpress
A guided tour of the Adelaide Oval Sculptures on the exterior of Adelaide Oval by sports historian Dr Bernard Whimpress. Bernard will discuss the historical background to the project, the careers of the sportsmen featured – Sir Donald Bradman, Barrie Robran, Malcolm Blight, Russell Ebert, Ken Farmer, Clem Hill, Vic Richardson and Jack Reedman, and aspects of the work of the various sculptors. The tour will run for approximately 90 minutes and those attending should assemble at the Barrie Robran Statue on the southern plaza near the Southern Entrance Gates to the Oval. The tour will end near the Robran Statue as the Oval café is conveniently located nearby.
Thursday 23 September 2021 at 11.00am - 12.30pm
Cost: $20
Adelaide Oval Sculptures Tour conducted by Dr Bernard Whimpress
A guided tour of the Adelaide Oval Sculptures on the exterior of Adelaide Oval by sports historian Dr Bernard Whimpress. Bernard will discuss the historical background to the project, the careers of the sportsmen featured – Sir Donald Bradman, Barrie Robran, Malcolm Blight, Russell Ebert, Ken Farmer, Clem Hill, Vic Richardson and Jack Reedman, and aspects of the work of the various sculptors. The tour will run for approximately 90 minutes and those attending should assemble at the Barrie Robran Statue on the southern plaza near the Southern Entrance Gates to the Oval. The tour will end near the Robran Statue as the Oval café is conveniently located nearby.
A TUESDAY TALK - BOOKS IN MY LIFE
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Suzi Roux
Tuesday 5 October 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
If books reflect your mind and thoughts then my mind shows no single path of development and is more chaotic than ordered. I have loved and been fascinated by both the sciences and the arts and neither path of human endeavour or creativity has taken precedence. In later years I have found great joy in the study of philosophy and learned much from the Ancient Greek philosophers. And so, from Anne of Green Gables to Aristotle, from William Shakespeare to Charles Darwin, from Dorothy Hewett to Stephen Jay Gould, my mind has wandered and been nourished.
I began my working life working in laboratories and studying science at university, I then turned my working life to theatre and small publications, then on to arts administration and a dash of journalism and finally settled on family and studying, culminating in an intensive study in the field of philosophy of science. Whilst working on my Master’s thesis I read a work by Hilary Kornblith and he succinctly asks two questions that describes my search for knowledge.
What is the world that we may know it? What are we that we may know the world? (Kornblith,H. (1993) Inductive Inference and its Natural Grounds, Cambridge: MIT Press. I will expand more on my disordered reading in October.
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Suzi Roux
Tuesday 5 October 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
If books reflect your mind and thoughts then my mind shows no single path of development and is more chaotic than ordered. I have loved and been fascinated by both the sciences and the arts and neither path of human endeavour or creativity has taken precedence. In later years I have found great joy in the study of philosophy and learned much from the Ancient Greek philosophers. And so, from Anne of Green Gables to Aristotle, from William Shakespeare to Charles Darwin, from Dorothy Hewett to Stephen Jay Gould, my mind has wandered and been nourished.
I began my working life working in laboratories and studying science at university, I then turned my working life to theatre and small publications, then on to arts administration and a dash of journalism and finally settled on family and studying, culminating in an intensive study in the field of philosophy of science. Whilst working on my Master’s thesis I read a work by Hilary Kornblith and he succinctly asks two questions that describes my search for knowledge.
What is the world that we may know it? What are we that we may know the world? (Kornblith,H. (1993) Inductive Inference and its Natural Grounds, Cambridge: MIT Press. I will expand more on my disordered reading in October.
LIVE AND LEARN FROM THE STATE LIBRARY
Ship Ahoy: Tales from Shore and Riverbank
Tuesday 19 October 2021 at 11.00am - 12.00pm
Cost: Free
Where: Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
South Australia's maritime history and shipping memorabilia is explored in a slideshow of stunning images from the State Library of South Australia’s collections including photographs, lantern slides, shipboard diaries, rare books, menus and children’s toys. Your forebears may have emigrated on the City of Adelaide clipper ship or maybe your family took the Gulf Trip on MV Moonta—if so revive some memories with us. In stormy seas we discover the wrecked SS Admella and the Star of Greece. In gentler waters you will encounter rivercraft from paddle steamers to Popeye, and revisit childhood memories of classic books on boating. In more recent times we learn about the wonderful Paul McGuire Maritime Library and its local donors.
Ship Ahoy: Tales from Shore and Riverbank
Tuesday 19 October 2021 at 11.00am - 12.00pm
Cost: Free
Where: Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
South Australia's maritime history and shipping memorabilia is explored in a slideshow of stunning images from the State Library of South Australia’s collections including photographs, lantern slides, shipboard diaries, rare books, menus and children’s toys. Your forebears may have emigrated on the City of Adelaide clipper ship or maybe your family took the Gulf Trip on MV Moonta—if so revive some memories with us. In stormy seas we discover the wrecked SS Admella and the Star of Greece. In gentler waters you will encounter rivercraft from paddle steamers to Popeye, and revisit childhood memories of classic books on boating. In more recent times we learn about the wonderful Paul McGuire Maritime Library and its local donors.
VISIT
Thursday 27 October 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: TBA
Ayers' House and Museum
More details coming soon.
Thursday 27 October 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: TBA
Ayers' House and Museum
More details coming soon.
A TUESDAY TALK - BOOKS IN MY LIFE
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Jo Peoples
Tuesday 2 November 2021 at 11.00am-12.00pm
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
Jo Peoples is an actress, musician (double bass) and former Curator of the Performing Arts Collection of SA, which she helped Colin Ballantyne establish in 1979. Now part of the Adelaide Festival Centre, this Collection is an incredible resource for researchers, and includes programs, photos, posters, costumes, costume designs, set models documenting Adelaide’s rich performing arts history. As an actress Jo worked with Jim Vilé’s ensemble at the University Theatre Guild, for various other theatre companies, and small roles in film and television.
Jo still plays double bass with the Unley Symphony orchestra (which she joined 40 years ago), and has over the years played in the pit for countless musicals, and in the SA Youth Orchestra!
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Jo Peoples
Tuesday 2 November 2021 at 11.00am-12.00pm
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
Jo Peoples is an actress, musician (double bass) and former Curator of the Performing Arts Collection of SA, which she helped Colin Ballantyne establish in 1979. Now part of the Adelaide Festival Centre, this Collection is an incredible resource for researchers, and includes programs, photos, posters, costumes, costume designs, set models documenting Adelaide’s rich performing arts history. As an actress Jo worked with Jim Vilé’s ensemble at the University Theatre Guild, for various other theatre companies, and small roles in film and television.
Jo still plays double bass with the Unley Symphony orchestra (which she joined 40 years ago), and has over the years played in the pit for countless musicals, and in the SA Youth Orchestra!
A TUESDAY TALK - BOOKS IN MY LIFE
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Janet & Sue Scarfe of Anlaby
Tuesday 7 December 2021 at 11.00am-12.00pm
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
Anlaby is the home of the oldest Merino Stud in South Australia, settled in 1839.
Janet Scarfe is a professional historian whose research interests include family history and biography, Australian army nurses in World War One and Two, and controversies around the ordination of women in the Anglican Church in Australia. Suzanne (Sue) Scarfe is a genealogist with a keen interest in family history. They are the great grand-daughters of Hugh and Margaret Campbell, the first of three generations to live and work on Anlaby. Sue began the project with her genealogical research and Janet added her historical skills. The result is a new book The Campbells of Anlaby, 1860-1940 (published this year) a social history of three generations of Campbells and the communities in which they lived and worked.
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Janet & Sue Scarfe of Anlaby
Tuesday 7 December 2021 at 11.00am-12.00pm
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
Anlaby is the home of the oldest Merino Stud in South Australia, settled in 1839.
Janet Scarfe is a professional historian whose research interests include family history and biography, Australian army nurses in World War One and Two, and controversies around the ordination of women in the Anglican Church in Australia. Suzanne (Sue) Scarfe is a genealogist with a keen interest in family history. They are the great grand-daughters of Hugh and Margaret Campbell, the first of three generations to live and work on Anlaby. Sue began the project with her genealogical research and Janet added her historical skills. The result is a new book The Campbells of Anlaby, 1860-1940 (published this year) a social history of three generations of Campbells and the communities in which they lived and worked.
