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Fisher Library, University of Sydney 18 May 2011

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Perkins, Yvonne

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Thomas Fisher

Thomas Fisher, a bootmaker and property investor, bequeathed a large portion of his estate to the University of Sydney to endow its library. Fisher Library bears his name to this day.

University of Sydney

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First proposed by William Wentworth in 1848 as an expansion of Sydney College, the university was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act in 1850 and inaugurated in 1852 before moving to Camperdown in 1859. It is the oldest university in Australia.

Fisher Library

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The main library at the University of Sydney which was established by bequest and government funding. It was originally located off the Quadrangle when the Fisher Library reading room, now known as MacLaurin Hall and and adjoining stack, opened in 1909. The space became inadequate and two new buildings on Eastern Avenue opened to house it, the reference library in 1962 and stack in 1971.