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325: 199: 364:. The opening of the library at the end of 2001 brought together the collections which had outgrown the spaces available at the Medical Library on the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital site and the Dental Library housed in the Perth Dental Hospital. At the time of its official opening in April 2002 by Sir Ronald Wilson, it was recognised as the largest medical and dental collection in Western Australia. The library is named after Professor 27: 129: 352:, which ruined nearly 12,000 items in the collection. The new EDFAA Library, which was re-opened in February 2012, was designed by UWA graduate Honey Hiranandani and includes group study rooms with multimedia equipment for student collaboration, a teaching room for flexible learning and RFID technology for self-service loans. 384:
The library's Special Collections are housed on the second floor of the Reid Library building and focus on Australian literature and the history of the Indian Ocean Region. The Australian literature collection includes over 700 volumes of poetry by Western Australian writers and personal papers from
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The Indian Ocean collections also include the Frank Broeze Memorial Library which contains a considerable amount of Dutch and German material on maritime history and shipping, and the Erulkar Collection focused on the history of the Eastern Indian Ocean region, especially the maritime history of
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A steady increase in the number of UWA students owning laptops and tablets resulted in demand for student IT support and for the first time in Semester 1, 2013, students could go to the information desks in the libraries for assistance with Pheme passwords, Unifi connections, Learning Management
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The library developed and manages the UWA Research Repository which is an open access platform to capture, store, index, and distribute globally a wide range of research outputs produced by the university's researchers and postgraduate students. It contains peer-reviewed journal articles, book
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The Institutional Research Data Store (IRDS) provides researchers with a centralised, secure and UWA-supported data storage facility in which to store electronic research data, enabling ongoing access to these assets. This service is now managed by Information Governance Services (IGS);
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as a space for practice and performance, and is now called the Wigmore Music Studio. The Music Library collection, now housed in Reid Library, includes scores, performing editions of musical works, sound recordings, DVDs/videos, reference books, and scholarly journals.
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Technological improvements became even more significant in the 1980s as Arthur Ellis, Jolley's successor as University Librarian, worked to expand the collections of audio-visual and electronic materials and began the process of computerising the library's catalogues.
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became the patron and they hosted their first talk with Mr G.G. Allen presenting on 'Old Books in a Modern Library'. Over the years, the Friends have supported the library and donated many rare and valuable items for Special Collections in the Reid Library.
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Named after Sir Alexander Reid (UWA Chancellor 1956–1968), the Reid Library opened its doors to readers in February 1964, with its official opening taking place the following May 1964. The building opened to widespread acclaim, winning the
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is a library system consisting of five library sites on and near the campus. The libraries are known to support a wide range or services and facilities, including teaching. learning, research and IT support, and learning spaces.
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A Music branch library had been set up as early as 1935, many years before the UWA Music department was established. In the 1960s, the library was named the Wigmore Music Library following substantial gifts from violinist
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When the University of Western Australia began teaching students in 1913 and the first building was constructed at the Irwin Street site, just ÂŁ2000 was set aside to purchase roughly one hundred books.
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Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts: a collection of more than eighty finding aids for literary manuscript collections in major Australian research libraries (using
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The J Robin Warren Library (formerly known as Medical and Dental Library) is located on Monash Avenue next to the Oral Health Centre of Western Australia and the
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and Indian trade in the later 18th century, and an original 1650 map of the southern ocean, Polus Antarcticus by Dutch cartographer
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Research Data Online (RDO) provides open or mediated access to research datasets held at the University of Western Australia.
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AustLit is a resource for information about Australian literature, for which the UWA Library is the Western Australian node;
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A panoramic view from the first floor entrance of the Reid Library looking North in the direction of the Tropical Grove
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The library (previously, as Information Services) developed two digital services for the management of research data:
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The Friends of the UWA Library held their inaugural meeting in Winthrop Hall on July 25, 1965. Later that year, Sir
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The Education, Fine Arts and Architecture (EDFAA) Library is located on the Nedlands campus and was opened in 1993.
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chapters, books, conference papers, creative works and UWA theses (masters and doctorate degrees by research).
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System (LMS) troubleshooting, online class registrations (OLCR) and other university applications and systems.
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https://www.library.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/2131036/History-of-collections.pdf
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The library has also developed or contributed to the following Australian digital services:
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which contain more than 2,000 pages of correspondence and documents relating to the
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Seeking Wisdom: a Centenary History of The University of Western Australia
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Special Collections houses many rare materials including the papers of
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Burrows, Toby. "Collecting and informing: the University Library", in
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The EDFAA Library sustained significant flood damage during the
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HuNI (Humanities Networked Infrastructure) Virtual Laboratory.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 18, (MUP), 2012.
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