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nstitute extension 1907 e j woods mortlock 1884 hassell and mitchell giurgola spence wing 2003 other information director megan berghuis website www slsa sa gov au home view of the mortlock wing 2008 the state library of south australia or slsa formerly known as the public library of south australia located on north terrace adelaide is the official library of the australian state of south australia it is the largest public research library in the state with a collection focus on south australian information being the repository of all printed and audiovisual material published in the state as required by legal deposit legislation slsa s holdings include rare books maps manuscripts and ephemera it holds the south australiana collection which documents south australia from pre european settlement to the present day as well as general reference material in a wide range of formats including digital film sound and video recordings photographs and microfiche as of october 2025 update the director of the library is megan berghuis who was appointed in 2024 after the retirement of geoff strempel the library collection was based on a number of forerunning societies and subscription libraries until the south australian institute was incorporated in 1855 and a new building opened in 1861 to house the institute s collection of books the institute building opened in 1861 the institute became a statutory body named the public library museum and art gallery in 1884 the year that the first purpose built library building opened now the mortlock chamber designed by colonial architect e j woods in 1967 the bastyan wing was opened behind the institute building and finally in 2003 the glass foyered spence wing which connected the bastyan wing to the mortlock wing the institute building and the mortlock wing have been state heritage listed in august 2025 the library was ranked second in a global literary tourism initiative called 1000 libraries history and governance edit 19th century edit the 1861 institute building home of the library before construction of the mortlock wing further information mechanics institutes of australia and south australian museum 19th century on 29 august 1834 a couple of weeks after the passing of the south australia act 1834 by the british parliament 1 a london based group led by the colonial secretary robert gouger and solicitor richard hanson 2 and a number of prominent colonists including ernest giles edward gibbon wakefield john morphett robert torrens snr and john hindmarsh formed the south australian literary association at the city s adelphi chambers 3 within a month the title was changed to the more inclusive south australian literary and scientific association 1 this change aimed for the cultivation and diffusion of useful knowledge throughout the colony although the association lapsed and meetings ceased 3 a collection of books had been donated by members with the intention of becoming the basis of the new colony s library and the colonists subsequently brought the collection to the colony of south australia aboard the tam o shanter which arrived on 18 december 1836 2 the first adelaide mechanics institute based on the concept of mechanics institutes developed in scotland and england in the 1820s to provide adult education to working men 4 5 met on 23 june 1838 with the event reported by the southern australian newspaper running into difficulties the organisation was merged with a revived literary and scientific association with the new name of the adelaide literary and scientific association and mechanics institute electing a committee in july 1839 over this time the membership of the association varied between upper middle class and lower middle class the library reopened but the institute did not have a permanent location and the focus was on a programme of lectures however the lectures dwindled and attendances varied as the institute tried to function as an adult education institution as well as a learned scientific society and its last meeting was held in june 1844 1 in september 1844 a group of men founded the south australian subscription library with a collection created by donation and subscriptions and in 1845 it took over the collection of the literary and scientific association and mechanics institute a permanent librarian was employed at this time and the library served its middle class members 1 in 1847 a new adelaide mechanics institute was founded by a group of lower middle class men led by schoolteacher w a cawthorne various talks discussions and displays were put on 1 this organisation merged with the south australian library in 1848 creating the mechanics institute and south australian library based in peacock s buildings hindley street 6 and with membership moving back to the upper middle class 1 nathaniel summers was appointed as the first librarian it subsequently moved to exchange chambers king william street but by 1855 had gone into decline 6 meanwhile other institutes and societies were established throughout the adelaide suburbs including the adelaide philosophical society which later evolved into the royal society of south australia some of these institutes asked the government for financial assistance and unitarian publisher john howard clark suggested the conversion of the institute into a public institution a bill was proposed in parliament in 1854 1 between 1847 and 1856 another 13 mechanics institutes started in other parts of the colony 7 8 in june 1856 the south australian legislative council passed act no 16 of 1855 6 the south australian institute act which incorporated the south australian institute under the control of a board of governors 9 to whose ownership all materials belonging to the old library and mechanics institute was immediately transferred this act also ensured the library would be open to the public free of charge and granted funding was allocated to it this made the library very popular particularly amongst artisans and workmen who filled it to capacity in the evenings at this point it was a lending library and held a large amount of fictional work 6 the act also provided for a museum as part of the new organisation 9 the suburban institutes became subsidiaries of the sa institute as did the adelaide philosophical society and the south australian society of arts 1 as new books arrived from britain the library expanded and soon needed new accommodation which was found in north terrace in 1860 6 the adelaide institute building opened in january 1861 and included rooms for the adelaide philosophical society the medical society and the choral society 8 the copyright act 1878 part ii section 15 required that a copy of every book published in south australia was to be deposited in the institute by a process known as legal deposit for preservation of the books after federation the copyright act 1905 replaced the earlier state copyright legislation with regard to legal deposit but the state library continues to collect and preserve locally produced material 9 the public library museum and art gallery act 1884 renamed the south australian institute as public library museum and art gallery and also broadened the scope of the board s control to include the expanding network of regional and suburban institutes it also created a new independent body the adelaide circulating library to take over the business of circulating books on a subscription basis 9 it also became the location for university lectures 8 20th century edit the next important piece of legislation affecting slsa was the 1939 number 44 libraries and institutes act which repealed the public library museum and art gallery and institutes act and separated the public library from the newly named art gallery of south australia and south australian museum established its own board and changed its name to the public library of south australia the new entity thus became a statutory corporation 10 11 various reorganisations occurred through the years following but the legislation still governing the library is number 70 libraries act 1982 which repealed the libraries and institutes act 1939 1979 and the libraries subsidies act 1955 1977 9 with the latest version as of july 2019 update being 12 may 2011 12 13 during the 1990s the library became a division under a series of departments responsible to the minister for the arts the state records act 1997 separated the responsibility for management and disposal of state government records bringing this under a state records council rather than the libraries board 9 21st century edit from 2001 the library became part of the division of arts sa which was part of the department of the premier and cabinet continuing to report to the minister for the arts 9 after the election of the marshall government in march 2018 the post of minister for the arts ceased to exist arts south australia as arts sa was now known was dismantled and its functions transferred to direct oversight by the department of premier and cabinet arts and culture section 14 geoff strempel was appointed director of slsa around 2017 during which time he oversaw increased digital preservation before his appointment he was associate director of the 140 public libraries in south australia in this position he establishment of the one card network linking all of the libraries and facilitating quick and efficient inter library loans among the public libraries he was awarded the hcl anderson award the australian library and information association s highest honour recognising his outstanding service by late 2024 slsa had digitised and uploaded around 2000 pages of newspapers to trove the national library of australia s website that allows free public access to a large amount of digitised historical documents the library has also acquired over 100 000 images by renowned local aerial photographer douglas darian smith as well as film memorabilia from filmmaker scott hicks personal archive strempel retires on 18 october 2024 clarification needed but an exhibition of hicks items is already planned for 2025 15 clarification needed after strempel s retirement on 30 september 2024 clarification needed megan berghuis was appointed director starting on 4 november 2024 she had been working at the city of unley for the previous 12 years in various managerial roles and sits on the libraries board of south australia where she is chair of the public libraries committee 16 berghuis remains director as of october 2025 update 17 buildings edit the library occupies several buildings the institute building opened 1861 the mortlock wing opened 1884 and the modern linking wing the spence wing which replaced the bastyan wing opening in 2003 18 institute building edit the south australian institute building on the corner of north terrace and kintore avenue is adelaide s first cultural centre and the oldest cultural building on north terrace over the years it has been used as a library art gallery museum society meeting place and offices place of adult education administration headquarters and information centre it was designed in victorian renaissance style by colonial architect edward angus hamilton who was in 1858 commissioned by the government of the colony to undertake the project construction was completed in july 1860 with the official opening taking place on 29 january 1861 presided over by acting governor sir charles cooper the chief justice it stood alone on north terrace at that time 19 and included rooms for the adelaide philosophical society the medical society and the choral society 8 when first opened the central entrance hallway feature a grand staircase the ground floor housed the circulating library a large reading room which also accommodated lectures with a stage at one end a coffee room offices and a board room the housekeeper s accommodation was at the rear meeting rooms occupied the first floor along with a 21 3 metres 70 ft long room for the art gallery and museum lit by skylights gas lighting was first used and full electric lighting of the building was not installed until 1921 19 after the new jervois now mortlock wing was opened in 1884 the art gallery moved into that area 19 extensive expansion took place on the north side under the direction of superintendent of public buildings charles edward owen smyth with the new addition opened on 12 june 1907 by governor sir george le hunte the new building included a separate two storey caretaker s residence facing kintore avenue and the north terrace entrance stairway was relocated to the new extension 19 in 1965 the royal geographical society s rooms were converted into a lecture theatre after the society relocated to the jervois wing the state library continues to control and use the building but it has been home to a number of other organisations including the institutes association of south australia 1912 80 the women s information switchboard 1978 97 the women s studies resource centre 1979 84 the history trust of south australia 1981 97 and the friends of the state library of south australia 2007 the bradman collection was exhibited in the building 1998 2008 before being rehoused at the adelaide oval 19 the state library has always hosted lectures of various kinds which have been held in three different locations over time 20 reading room ground floor 1856 1906 lecture room first floor 1907 1967 lecture theatre ground floor since 1967 since 2006 called the anne and basil hetzel lecture theatre named for medical researcher basil hetzel and his wife anne 19 20 as of 2025 update the institute building is still home to and provides exhibition space for the south australian society of arts and the anne and basil hetzel lecture theatre as well as meeting rooms in the building are regularly hired for various events 19 the institute building was listed on the south australian heritage register on 24 july 1980 21 22 mortlock chamber edit the building now known as the mortlock chamber 23 has formerly been known as the jervois wing 24 and mortlock wing 25 mortlock wing the building was designed by colonial architect e j woods who amended an earlier design by r g thomas 26 the foundation stone was laid on 7 november 1879 by sir william jervois and the building was constructed by brown and thompson at a total cost of 36 395 valued at gbp 5 779 512 24 roughly a 12 065 787 56 accounted for today s inflation and opened in 1884 26 supervision for the board of directors was undertaken by secretary robert kay 1825 1904 later general director and secretary of the public library museum and art gallery of south australia citation needed the building was opened on 18 december 1884 by the governor of south australia sir william robinson 26 as a public library museum and art gallery for the colony of south australia with 23 000 books and a staff of three employees it had taken over 18 years to complete after the initial foundations were laid in 1866 in 1873 the foundation...