2012 Library Exhibitions

	Inner Space: a microscopic journey 29 February to 5 April 2012 Explore exciting discoveries from the world of science through the lens of a microscope. Get a new perspective on innovative light metals, wandering cancer cells and ancient insects frozen in time. See how different microscopy techniques combine to give new visions of our world through the unique images presented in this exhibition by the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis. Where: SciTech Library Further information T 9351 5322 E acmm.graduateprogram@sydney.edu.au Image: Invasion by a cancer cell by L Soon and J Lee, colour-enhanced scanning electron micrograph, 2011.

Inner Space: a microscopic journey
29 February to 5 April 2012
Explore exciting discoveries from the world of science through the lens of a microscope. Get a new perspective on innovative light metals, wandering cancer cells and ancient insects frozen in time. See how different microscopy techniques combine to give new visions of our world through the unique images presented in this exhibition by the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis.

Where: SciTech Library

Further information
T 9351 5322
E acmm.graduateprogram@sydney.edu.au

Image: Invasion by a cancer cell by L Soon and J Lee, colour-enhanced scanning electron micrograph, 2011.

2011 Library Exhibitions

	Recognising a Nobel Laureate: Sir Robert Robinson 7-30 November 2011 The Nobel Prize Certificate of Sir Robert Robinson was the centrepiece of a collection of documents, awards and papers purchased by the Library with funds from the Leslie Lillie Bequest. Sir Robert Robinson (1886–1975) was appointed as the first Professor of Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney in 1912. Robinson, then Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids". Robinson's long and illustrious career is well represented in the collection. Apart from the Nobel Prize Certificate, the collection includes the Copley Medal Award Certificate (1942), the Order of Merit Certificate from King George VI (1949), as well as several other awards and testaments to his achievements. Professor Sir John Cornforth, Australia's only other chemistry Nobel Laureate (1975) and a graduate and University Medallist from the University of Sydney was a graduate student of Robinson at Oxford. The purchase of this collection would not have been possible without the Lillie Bequest. The collection is housed in the Rare Books Library. Where: Rare Books & Special Collections, L2 Fisher Library Photo: Detail of the Nobel Prize Certificate

Recognising a Nobel Laureate: Sir Robert Robinson
7-30 November 2011

The Nobel Prize Certificate of Sir Robert Robinson was the centrepiece of a collection of documents, awards and papers purchased by the Library with funds from the Leslie Lillie Bequest.

Sir Robert Robinson (1886–1975) was appointed as the first Professor of Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney in 1912. Robinson, then Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids".

Robinson's long and illustrious career is well represented in the collection. Apart from the Nobel Prize Certificate, the collection includes the Copley Medal Award Certificate (1942), the Order of Merit Certificate from King George VI (1949), as well as several other awards and testaments to his achievements.

Professor Sir John Cornforth, Australia's only other chemistry Nobel Laureate (1975) and a graduate and University Medallist from the University of Sydney was a graduate student of Robinson at Oxford.

The purchase of this collection would not have been possible without the Lillie Bequest. The collection is housed in the Rare Books Library.

Where: Rare Books & Special Collections, L2 Fisher Library

Photo: Detail of the Nobel Prize Certificate

	Isaac Newton and the Temple of Solomon 21 September to 14 December 2011 Isaac Newton wrote on the Temple of Solomon for over 50 years. One of his manuscripts, known as Babson Ms 0434 is an architectural reconstruction of the Temple of Solomon and was written at the same time he was writing the Principia. This exhibition presents the first reconstruction of the Temple of Solomon from Newton's research. This model has never been constructed either virtual or physical before! The exhibition is presented by Dr Tessa Morrison, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in Architectural History, The School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle Callaghan. Where: SciTech Library and Law Library Photo: Dr Tessa Morrison

Isaac Newton and the Temple of Solomon
21 September to 14 December 2011
Isaac Newton wrote on the Temple of Solomon for over 50 years. One of his manuscripts, known as Babson Ms 0434 is an architectural reconstruction of the Temple of Solomon and was written at the same time he was writing the Principia. This exhibition presents the first reconstruction of the Temple of Solomon from Newton's research. This model has never been constructed either virtual or physical before!

The exhibition is presented by Dr Tessa Morrison, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in Architectural History, The School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle Callaghan.

Where: SciTech Library and Law Library

Photo: Dr Tessa Morrison

	Building blocks of the modern world: engineering marvels and achievements from the 18th to the early 20th centuries 22 August to 16 December 2011 The period from the late 18h century to the early 20th century could perhaps be called the age of the engineer. The developments in many fields during this time radically changed the way people lived and worked and have continued on to the present day. Known as the Industrial Revolution, it was a time of numerous inventions, and industry developed so fast that society could barely keep up. During this period there were major developments and inventions in agriculture, manufacturing, communications, and travel that eventually spread throughout the world. Then came what has become known as The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, which occurred from about 1870 until the advent World War I in 1914. Here the importance lies with the adoption of new technologies and inventions, especially electricity and the internal combustion engine, new materials and substances, including alloys and chemicals, and the development of communication technologies such as the telegraph and the radio. Where: Rare Books and Special Collections, L2 Fisher Library

Building blocks of the modern world: engineering marvels and achievements from the 18th to the early 20th centuries
22 August to 16 December 2011

The period from the late 18h century to the early 20th century could perhaps be called the age of the engineer. The developments in many fields during this time radically changed the way people lived and worked and have continued on to the present day. Known as the Industrial Revolution, it was a time of numerous inventions, and industry developed so fast that society could barely keep up. During this period there were major developments and inventions in agriculture, manufacturing, communications, and travel that eventually spread throughout the world.

Then came what has become known as The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, which occurred from about 1870 until the advent World War I in 1914. Here the importance lies with the adoption of new technologies and inventions, especially electricity and the internal combustion engine, new materials and substances, including alloys and chemicals, and the development of communication technologies such as the telegraph and the radio.

Where: Rare Books and Special Collections, L2 Fisher Library

	Focus on Marine Science 25 July to 6 September 2011 Marine science can take you to wild, sometimes remote and special places. From the tropics to Antarctica, in estuaries, on the coast and in the open ocean the University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science (USIMS) shows the diversity of their current research with contributions from geosciences, biosciences, law and engineering. In this exhibition you will see how geoscientists, working in tropical reef regions, are uncovering clues from past climates that may help us predict how the marine environment will react to future changes in climate. You will get a glimpse of how researchers are unravelling the processes that formed the ancient ocean floors over geological time. You will also be introduced to marine biologists who investigate the affects of ocean warming and acidification on marine organisms and how these organisms will cope with the oceans increasing uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. You will be surprised how ecologists transform plumbing materials into nifty contraptions to study why animals live where they live and how they adapt to their specific habitat. In addition, important contributions are presented from engineering with the development of automated underwater vehicles (AUVs) that can explore the ocean floors for us in depths that we cannot reach. The wide range of research topics, stunning study sites and technologies are sure to inspire you! Where: SciTech Library Photo: Dr Ana Vila-Concejo

Focus on Marine Science
25 July to 6 September 2011
Marine science can take you to wild, sometimes remote and special places. From the tropics to Antarctica, in estuaries, on the coast and in the open ocean the University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science (USIMS) shows the diversity of their current research with contributions from geosciences, biosciences, law and engineering.

In this exhibition you will see how geoscientists, working in tropical reef regions, are uncovering clues from past climates that may help us predict how the marine environment will react to future changes in climate. You will get a glimpse of how researchers are unravelling the processes that formed the ancient ocean floors over geological time. You will also be introduced to marine biologists who investigate the affects of ocean warming and acidification on marine organisms and how these organisms will cope with the oceans increasing uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. You will be surprised how ecologists transform plumbing materials into nifty contraptions to study why animals live where they live and how they adapt to their specific habitat. In addition, important contributions are presented from engineering with the development of automated underwater vehicles (AUVs) that can explore the ocean floors for us in depths that we cannot reach.

The wide range of research topics, stunning study sites and technologies are sure to inspire you!

Where: SciTech Library

Photo: Dr Ana Vila-Concejo

	Nyonin Geijutsu (Women's Arts) 1928-32 What were they fighting for? 8 July to 12 August 2011 Nyonin Geijutsu (Women's Arts) was a left-wing feminist arts journal which appeared in Japan from 1928 to 1932. Many of the journal's contributors went on to become leading writers, poets and journalists in the following decades. The journal had a distinctive visual style, which we celebrate in this exhibition. Where: Law Library Photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Japan-oldphoto/en?uselang=ja

Nyonin Geijutsu (Women's Arts) 1928-32
What were they fighting for?
8 July to 12 August 2011
Nyonin Geijutsu (Women's Arts) was a left-wing feminist arts journal which appeared in Japan from 1928 to 1932. Many of the journal's contributors went on to become leading writers, poets and journalists in the following decades. The journal had a distinctive visual style, which we celebrate in this exhibition.

Where: Law Library

Photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Japan-oldphoto/en?uselang=ja

	Let's Face It From 24 May and extended to 30 June 2011 This photographic exhibition by Sarah Barker documents survivors of the Kinchela Boy's Home (KBH), and is presented with the support of members of the KBH Aboriginal Corporation. From 1924 until 1970, between 400 and 600 Aboriginal boys were forcibly removed from their families and placed in the Kinchela Boy's Home on the NSW Mid North Coast. The harsh treatment, punishment, deprivation and sexual abuse they suffered were documented in Bringing them home, the report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. The photographs are portraits of some of the men who were stolen in infancy, forbidden from speaking their Indigenous languages, brutalised as children, and sent into the world without family or complete education. Ray Minniecon, consultant for the KBH men, comments that the men lost their family, land, culture, and language, and were not able to pass a knowledge of their culture, identity or history to their own children. Sarah Barker is a Sydney–based photographer who has been working as a volunteer photographer for the KBH Aboriginal Corporation since 2002. Patrons are respectfully advised that this exhibition contains images of people who have passed away. This exhibition brought to you with the support of the University Library is part of Head On Photo Festival and Reconciliation Week at the University of Sydney. Where: Levels 3 and 4 Fisher Library

Let's Face It
From 24 May and extended to 30 June 2011
This photographic exhibition by Sarah Barker documents survivors of the Kinchela Boy's Home (KBH), and is presented with the support of members of the KBH Aboriginal Corporation.

From 1924 until 1970, between 400 and 600 Aboriginal boys were forcibly removed from their families and placed in the Kinchela Boy's Home on the NSW Mid North Coast. The harsh treatment, punishment, deprivation and sexual abuse they suffered were documented in Bringing them home, the report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.

The photographs are portraits of some of the men who were stolen in infancy, forbidden from speaking their Indigenous languages, brutalised as children, and sent into the world without family or complete education. Ray Minniecon, consultant for the KBH men, comments that the men lost their family, land, culture, and language, and were not able to pass a knowledge of their culture, identity or history to their own children. Sarah Barker is a Sydney–based photographer who has been working as a volunteer photographer for the KBH Aboriginal Corporation since 2002.

Patrons are respectfully advised that this exhibition contains images of people who have passed away.

This exhibition brought to you with the support of the University Library is part of Head On Photo Festival and Reconciliation Week at the University of Sydney.

Where: Levels 3 and 4 Fisher Library

	Bradfield: the Bridge and Beyond 2 May to 1 July 2011 SciTech Library JJC Bradfield was one of the great visionaries of Australian engineering. Famed as the designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge project, he also produced a range of brilliant and influential works that remain relevant today. These include the iconic Story Bridge in Brisbane, the famous "Bradfield Scheme" for the irrigation of inland Australia, and his important plans for Sydney's railway system which began as the first doctorate of science in engineering awarded by the University of Sydney. This exhibition, in partnership with the School of Civil Engineering, will showcase a range of Bradfield's work, from electric railways to his scheme to irrigate Australian farmlands. Join us for the launch 6pm, Monday 9 May 2011 Guest Speaker Tim Wilkinson Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering Where: SciTech Library, Level 1, Jane Foss Russell Building, 160 City Road Darlington. Win a Sydney Harbour BridgeClimb ticket Visit the exhibition and fill out the competition entry form between 2 May and 5pm, 1 July 2011 to go in the draw to win a Sydney Harbour BridgeClimb Gold Gift Certificate. The competition is open to University of Sydney students and staff (excluding Library staff) and to the public. The first correct entry drawn at the SciTech Library after the competition closes 1 July will be the winner. The winner will be notified by 4 July 2011. 4 July 2011: The winner of the BridgClimb Gold Gift Certificate is Trisha Mathews. Congratulations Trisha! Photo: Sydney Harbour Bridge photograph collection. 'Bridge Roadway 7/1/1932'.

Bradfield: the Bridge and Beyond
2 May to 1 July 2011
SciTech Library
JJC Bradfield was one of the great visionaries of Australian engineering. Famed as the designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge project, he also produced a range of brilliant and influential works that remain relevant today. These include the iconic Story Bridge in Brisbane, the famous "Bradfield Scheme" for the irrigation of inland Australia, and his important plans for Sydney's railway system which began as the first doctorate of science in engineering awarded by the University of Sydney. This exhibition, in partnership with the School of Civil Engineering, will showcase a range of Bradfield's work, from electric railways to his scheme to irrigate Australian farmlands.

Join us for the launch
6pm, Monday 9 May 2011

Guest Speaker
Tim Wilkinson
Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering

Where: SciTech Library, Level 1, Jane Foss Russell Building, 160 City Road Darlington.

Win a Sydney Harbour BridgeClimb ticket

Visit the exhibition and fill out the competition entry form between 2 May and 5pm, 1 July 2011 to go in the draw to win a Sydney Harbour BridgeClimb Gold Gift Certificate.

The competition is open to University of Sydney students and staff (excluding Library staff) and to the public. The first correct entry drawn at the SciTech Library after the competition closes 1 July will be the winner. The winner will be notified by 4 July 2011.

4 July 2011: The winner of the BridgClimb Gold Gift Certificate is Trisha Mathews. Congratulations Trisha!

Photo: Sydney Harbour Bridge photograph collection. 'Bridge Roadway 7/1/1932'.

	One Thousand Paper Cranes From 18 April 2011 12 Sydney University students contributed to the making of the One Thousand Paper Cranes (Sen-ba-zuru / 千羽鶴) which is a symbol of mourning and peace from Japanese Tradition. "Upon the hazardous earthquake which hit Japan in March 2011, we the team made this to remember what happened, people suffered, and the memories we should not forget. We also would like to dedicate this not only to the people in Japan, but also to the people in New Zealand, Iraq, Libya and all the places in the world who are suffering pain and hard times in their lives." Noriyuki Ishii. Contributors: Noriyuki Ishii, Ryutaro Kawamura, TsuneariYahiro, SeiraYahiro, Tomoka Moro, Taishi Tanaka, ShoNakatani, Taro Ooka, Misato Goto, Michelle Lee, George She and Hitomi Sasaki. Where: Level 3 foyer Fisher Library.

One Thousand Paper Cranes
From 18 April 2011

12 Sydney University students contributed to the making of the One Thousand Paper Cranes (Sen-ba-zuru / 千羽鶴) which is a symbol of mourning and peace from Japanese Tradition.

"Upon the hazardous earthquake which hit Japan in March 2011, we the team made this to remember what happened, people suffered, and the memories we should not forget. We also would like to dedicate this not only to the people in Japan, but also to the people in New Zealand, Iraq, Libya and all the places in the world who are suffering pain and hard times in their lives." Noriyuki Ishii.

Contributors: Noriyuki Ishii, Ryutaro Kawamura, TsuneariYahiro, SeiraYahiro, Tomoka Moro, Taishi Tanaka, ShoNakatani, Taro Ooka, Misato Goto, Michelle Lee, George She and Hitomi Sasaki.

Where: Level 3 foyer Fisher Library.

	Inoue Yasushi on the Silk Road: Photographs of Dunhuang by Otsuka Seigo 15 April to 12 May 2011 Inoue Yasushi (1907–91) was one of Japan's most prominent and popular postwar writers. He is particularly well-known for his historical fiction set in Japan and western China, including the novels Lou-Lan and Tun-huang (Dunhuang), which received the Mainichi Art Award in 1960. Nearly 20 years later, Inoue visited the oasis town of Dunhuang at the edge of the Gobi desert in western China. Otsuka Seigo, an eminent photojournalist, joined him there for the making of the NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) TV documentary series, The Silk Road. This exhibition showcases Otsuka's photographs of what touched Inoue's heart and mind - the exuberant Buddhist sculptures and paintings, created between the 4th and the 14th centuries, in the cave temples of Dunhuang. The exhibition is presented by the Inoue Yasushi Memorial Foundation, the University Library and the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney, and Masanori and Momoe Ohtani, with the support of Canon Australia. The exhibition is curated by Mika Nishimura. Where: Levels 3 and 4, Fisher Library. Photo: Otsuka Seigo

Inoue Yasushi on the Silk Road: Photographs of Dunhuang by Otsuka Seigo
15 April to 12 May 2011

Inoue Yasushi (1907–91) was one of Japan's most prominent and popular postwar writers. He is particularly well-known for his historical fiction set in Japan and western China, including the novels Lou-Lan and Tun-huang (Dunhuang), which received the Mainichi Art Award in 1960. Nearly 20 years later, Inoue visited the oasis town of Dunhuang at the edge of the Gobi desert in western China. Otsuka Seigo, an eminent photojournalist, joined him there for the making of the NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) TV documentary series, The Silk Road. This exhibition showcases Otsuka's photographs of what touched Inoue's heart and mind - the exuberant Buddhist sculptures and paintings, created between the 4th and the 14th centuries, in the cave temples of Dunhuang.

The exhibition is presented by the Inoue Yasushi Memorial Foundation, the University Library and the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney, and Masanori and Momoe Ohtani, with the support of Canon Australia. The exhibition is curated by Mika Nishimura.

Where: Levels 3 and 4, Fisher Library.

Photo: Otsuka Seigo

	Frontiers of Science Competition Display 28 March to 21 April 2011 University of Sydney students were invited to enter the Library's competition with the task of visually communicating an original scientific idea related to global warming. Entries are now on display. Where: SciTech Library, Jane Foss Russell Building, 160 City Road Darlington. Left, image credit: Evolution competition entry by Wei Kang The Winner 6 April, SciTech Library: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki presented Charlotte Scotton an iPad 2 for her winning entry. See Charlotte's entry and photos from the presentation on the Library's > Facebook page

Frontiers of Science Competition Display
28 March to 21 April 2011
University of Sydney students were invited to enter the Library's competition with the task of visually communicating an original scientific idea related to global warming. Entries are now on display.

Where: SciTech Library, Jane Foss Russell Building, 160 City Road Darlington.

Left, image credit: Evolution competition entry by Wei Kang

The Winner
winner

6 April, SciTech Library: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki presented Charlotte Scotton an iPad 2 for her winning entry.

See Charlotte's entry and photos from the presentation on the Library's > Facebook page

	Frontiers of Science 21 February to 21 April 2011 Frontiers of Science was an innovative comic strip which enjoyed worldwide success. It was syndicated in over 600 newspapers from 1961 until 1982. Professor Stuart Butler from the School of Physics, journalist and film-maker Bob Raymond, and artists Andrea Bresciani and David Emersen, each played a part in popularising science through the engaging series. Frontiers of Science communicated scientific concepts, theories, processes, discoveries and developments to the public in an entertaining style. Where: SciTech Library, Levels 1 and 2, Jane Foss Russell Building, 160 City Road Darlington. Image credit: Frontiers of Science W http://frontiers.library.usyd.edu.au/ WIN AN IPAD: enter the Frontiers of Science competition!

Frontiers of Science
21 February to 21 April 2011
Frontiers of Science was an innovative comic strip which enjoyed worldwide success. It was syndicated in over 600 newspapers from 1961 until 1982. Professor Stuart Butler from the School of Physics, journalist and film-maker Bob Raymond, and artists Andrea Bresciani and David Emersen, each played a part in popularising science through the engaging series. Frontiers of Science communicated scientific concepts, theories, processes, discoveries and developments to the public in an entertaining style.

Where: SciTech Library, Levels 1 and 2, Jane Foss Russell Building, 160 City Road Darlington.

Image credit: Frontiers of Science
W http://frontiers.library.usyd.edu.au/

WIN AN IPAD: enter the Frontiers of Science competition!

	The love that dared speak its name: Same-sex desires in the Victorian world 21 February to 31 July 2011 Draw back the curtains and peek at the influence of the Victorian world on modern sexuality. Trace the publication of rare and censored books. Discover how homosexual scandal and the fight for lesbian and gay rights were represented in a variety of different cultural milieus. Find out about the authors and theorists whose interest in same-sex desires contributed to our current understanding of freedom. After viewing this exhibition, you may conclude that Stonewall was the noisy grandchild of an older sexual reform. Please note this exhibition includes sexually explicit images and language, which may offend some people. The exhibition is brought to you by the University Library in association with the 2011 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. Where: Rare Books & Special Collections, Level 2, Fisher Library. Image credit: Geschlechtskund. IV (1930), Tafel XXXV.

The love that dared speak its name: Same-sex desires in the Victorian world
21 February to 31 July 2011
Draw back the curtains and peek at the influence of the Victorian world on modern sexuality. Trace the publication of rare and censored books. Discover how homosexual scandal and the fight for lesbian and gay rights were represented in a variety of different cultural milieus. Find out about the authors and theorists whose interest in same-sex desires contributed to our current understanding of freedom. After viewing this exhibition, you may conclude that Stonewall was the noisy grandchild of an older sexual reform.

Please note this exhibition includes sexually explicit images and language, which may offend some people.

The exhibition is brought to you by the University Library in association with the 2011 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Where: Rare Books & Special Collections, Level 2, Fisher Library.

Image credit: Geschlechtskund. IV (1930), Tafel XXXV.

	WOOL: Sheep, Squatters and the early Australian Pastoral Industry 10 October 2010 to 30 April 2011 The wool industry buoyed the economy in the 19th century and helped shape the character of rural Australia. Nugget, a 5 year old ram from Collaroy Stud near Merriwa, one of the major studs of New South Wales, was a fine example of the merino breed which was adapted to Australian conditions. The exhibition contains early publications about sheep farming, sheep diseases, and squatters and also features handbooks, early cookbooks and fiction, including a manuscript poem by Henry Lawson about the NSW Minister for Agriculture, Donald Macdonell. Where: Rare Books & Special Collections, Level 2, Fisher Library.

WOOL: Sheep, Squatters and the early Australian Pastoral Industry
10 October 2010 to 30 April 2011
The wool industry buoyed the economy in the 19th century and helped shape the character of rural Australia. Nugget, a 5 year old ram from Collaroy Stud near Merriwa, one of the major studs of New South Wales, was a fine example of the merino breed which was adapted to Australian conditions.

The exhibition contains early publications about sheep farming, sheep diseases, and squatters and also features handbooks, early cookbooks and fiction, including a manuscript poem by Henry Lawson about the NSW Minister for Agriculture, Donald Macdonell.

Where: Rare Books & Special Collections, Level 2, Fisher Library.

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