State Library of South Australia Information

In a welcoming and comfortable environment, you can keep up-to-date with the latest international newspapers and magazines, read travel guides or find information on any topic. You can use computers for email, internet, word processing and other software. There are computer facilities for people with disabilities. There are self-service photocopiers and printers, and a copy centre provides colour copying and imaging services and a fax service.

The library has an excellent general reference collection with information and books on most topics, travel guides, a map collection, newspapers and periodicals and online full text databases. People interested in family history will enjoy seeing the specialist South Australian resources in the Family History area.

The State Library preserves South Australia’s memories through collecting original diaries, letters, photographs, oral histories and published material. Some of these items can be seen in permanent exhibitions.

There are regular art exhibitions in the Flinders University City Gallery and the gallery of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts. There is also a lending library on the ground floor run by the City of Adelaide.

Take a discovery walk through the Spence Wing on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11am.

The library combines the new and the old, with award winning Catherine Helen Spence Wing with its iconic glass foyer flanked by the 19th century splendour and charm of the Mortlock Wing and the Institute Building.