page_title: University of Sydney Library
section_title: Herbert Smith Freehills Law Library
hierarchical_section_title: University of Sydney Library / Herbert Smith Freehills Law Library
caption_attribution_description: English: The interior of the Herbert Smith Freehills Law Library at the University of Sydney showing its curved ceiling
context_page_description: The University of Sydney Library is the library system of the University of Sydney. It is composed of twelve locations across the seven campuses of the university. Its largest library, Fisher Library, is named after Thomas Fisher, an early benefactor.
  Amongst the collection are many rare items such as one of the two extant copies of the Gospel of Barnabas, and an annotated first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton, which is also available in the Digital Collections.. In 2017, a member of staff discovered an original Giorgione sketch with a definitive date and cause of death written above it for him, information that had been lost for over 500 years in a 1497 edition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. This copy of the Divine Comedy and the ink inscription and sketch are available in the Digital Collections
context_section_description: Herbert Smith Freehills Law Library opened in 2009 and is located on Eastern Avenue on the Camperdown campus, adjacent to Victoria Park and is housed within the University of Sydney Law School building (F10) The Law Library is a 24 hour space for University of Sydney students and staff.
  The Law library is spread over 5,000 sq metres of floor space and the collections supports the needs of the Law School. The library consists of a ground floor that contains the majority of the collections, staff area, information desk, printing/photocopying facilities and computer access. Upstairs on the mezzanine level are the research collections and 6 more group study rooms. All of these rooms are equipped with computers and can be booked online.
caption: The interior of the Herbert Smith Freehills Law Library at the University of Sydney showing its curved ceiling
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