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Newspaper editions added to Trove
  • Media release

Grants available for digitisation of South Australian community newspapers

4 April 2023

The State Library of South Australia is celebrating the first success story of the Community Newspaper Digitisation Project with the Port Lincoln...

State Library of South Australia
  • Announcement

Building works and services updates

7 March 2023

Over the coming months, the State Library will undergo building works and service changes, including updates to opening hours from Monday 3 April 2023...

Press Union Dinner, 1955
  • Media release

State Library serves up menus from the collections in new exhibition

28 February 2023

Sweet and savoury: Menus from the collections of the State Library is a new free exhibition now showing at the State Library of South Australia. It...

A group of festival promotional files
  • Article

Wanted! Adelaide Fringe and Festival promotional material

27 February 2023

Do you end up with a collection of promotional materials from Festival and Fringe events? Well don't recycle them, be a part of preserving South...

Behind the lines exhibition
  • Media release

New exhibition at the State Library celebrates the art of political cartooning

7 February 2023

Behind the Lines: the year in political cartoons 2022 is the latest free exhibition to open at the State Library of South Australia. This travelling...

Legal deposit - mix of covers
  • Article

The low-down on Legal Deposit

9 December 2022

Legal deposit is a statutory provision that requires publishers to lodge copies of their publications with designated libraries. 'Publishers’ include...

Aerial view of Henley Beach
  • Article

Douglas Darian Smith Photographic Collection

8 November 2022

The Library has acquired a significant pictorial collection by famed South Australian commercial photographer, Douglas Darian Smith – adding more than...

Large Christmas tree in the Mortlock Chamber
  • Media release

Giant Christmas Tree to light up this festive season in the Mortlock

3 November 2022

Adelaide’s largest indoor Christmas tree will light up for the first time this festive season on Pageant Day at the State Library of South Australia...

Giant water lilies
  • Article

eResources: Sometimes you just need a little help

1 November 2022

Sometimes you just need a little help to find that extra bit of information. Perhaps you need to check a product review or maybe you are a keen...

Passengers disembarking at Port Misery, South Australia
  • Article

Protecting our heritage: Disaster risk management training

7 October 2022

At the State Library of South Australia, the preservation and protection of the state’s heritage items are fundamental to our work. As for all...

Two Magarey Medals
  • Announcement

Football exhibition extended due to popular demand

29 September 2022

We are pleased to announce that due to popular demand, the Our footy, our people, our stories: 145 years of the SANF L exhibition has now been...

Picture of a row of new books
  • Article

New research books

20 September 2022

Ready to read and reference! Our Research Library is full of reference books ready for you to browse and explore. We regularly add new books to the...

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