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Subscription Library, & Australian Library Literary Institution. (1826). Rules and regulations for the conduct of the Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room : Approved at a general meeting held on 16 March. Sydney: Printed at the Gazette Office, by R.Howe, State Library
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On 29 July 1834, an Act was passed which allowed the library to own land and sell shares and changed its name to the “Australian
Subscription Library.” Around this time there were offers to erect a permanent building for the Library at the government's expense but this was turned down as the members
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Incorporation and renamed itself the ‘Australian Library and Literary Institute’, in effect making it a public company with 1000
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On 13 March 1826, an elite group of gentlemen rendezvoused at the Sydney Hotel to set up the 'Sydney
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Australia. Started in 1826 as the 'Sydney Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room' it shortened its name to the 'Australian Subscription Library' in 1834, and then in 1853 changed its name to the 'Australian Library and
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Library Literary Institution, Australian Subscription Library, & Free Public Library. (1866). Catalogue of books recently added to the Australian Library and Literary Institution, Bent street, Sydney, 1866. Sydney, N.S.W.: A.W. Douglas, State Library of New South Wales,
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Inspector of Public Charities, was appointed its new Librarian, while Mr Hawley, the old Librarian, was appointed as his assistant. The new libraries collections included transfers of books and records held in other Government Departments and the addition of the
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Rushcutters Bay to raise money to start work on a new building at Bent and Macquarie Streets. Commenced in 1843, it was finally completed in November 1845. It became the first permanent building specifically designed to house the collections.
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Australian material. On 30 September the building reopened as the Free Public Library with the new management. After 40 years work, there was a library in Sydney with free access to magazines, journals and books.
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in that part of the prolongation of Bent Street, intervening between the site of the old windmill, at the end of Macquarie Street, and the Botanical Gardens.
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in 1869, and it became the 'Free Public Library'. As the collections and services provided by the 'Free Public Library' expanded it became the
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continued membership. The Library's first reading room was opened at No. 1, Terry's Buildings in Pitt Street, Sydney in December 1827.
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