University of Sydney Library
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The University of Sydney Library is the largest library in the southern hemisphere, with a collection of over 5.1 million items (circa 2004). The Library itself is composed of 20 libraries across 9 campuses. The main building, Fisher Library, is named after Thomas Fisher, an early benefactor.
Amongst the collection are many rare items such as one of the two extant copies of the Gospel of Barnabas, and a first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton.
Fisher Library
Fisher Library, located on Eastern Avenue in the Darlington/Camperdown campus of University of Sydney and adjacent to Victoria Park, is the main building. It actually consists of two conjoined libraries, which were built separately due to funding issues in the early days of the university.
Fisher Undergraduate library (Building F03), holds multiple copies of texts commonly used by undergraduate students of the university.
Fisher Research library (Building F04), is an accessible stack library with a larger and more historical collection. There is additional space in the F04 building which is used by the School of Psychology. The basement of the building also houses the Fishery Café, a location largely unknown to most of the student population probably because it is unable to be accessed from the front of the building nor from within the library itself.
Other libraries
Most of the other libraries of the University of Sydney Library are associated with particular Schools and Faculties. While these libraries specialise in their collections, there is no restriction on the use of any of these libraries by borrowers.
- Architecture Library (Wilkinson Building, Darlington Campus)
- Badham Library - Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Biological Sciences (Badham Building, Camperdown Campus)
- Burkitt-Ford Library - Public Health, Medicine (Sir Edward Ford Building, Camperdown Campus)
- Camden Library - Veterinary Science, Agriculture (Camden Campus)
- Curriculum Resources Collection - Education (within Fisher Undergraduate Library, Camperdown Campus)
- Dentistry Library (Sydney Dental Hospital Campus)
- East Asian Collection (within Fisher Research Library, Camperdown Campus)
- Engineering Library (PNR Building, Darlington Campus)
- Health Sciences Library (Building R, Cumberland Campus)
- Law Library (St James Campus)
- Madsen Library - Chemistry, Geosciences, Molecular and Microbial Biosciences (Madsen Building, Camperdown Campus)
- Mathematics Library (Carslaw Building, Camperdown Campus)
- Medical Library (Bosch Building, Camperdown Campus)
- Music Library (Seymour Centre, Darlington Campus)
- Narrabri Library - Agriculture (Watson Wheat Research Centre)
- Nursing Library (Building F, Mallett Street Campus)
- Orange Library (Building 24, Orange Campus)
- Physics Library (Physics Building, Camperdown Campus)
- Rare Books (within Fisher Research Library, Camperdown Campus)
- Schaeffer Fine Arts Library - incorporating the Power Research Library of Contemporary Art (Mills Building, Camperdown Campus)
- Storage - Darlington Repository Library (Darlington Campus)
- Sydney College of the Arts Library (Sydney College of the Arts Campus)
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music Library (Sydney Conservatorium of Music Campus)