The University of Sydney Library is the library system of the University of Sydney. According to its publications, it is the largest academic library in the southern hemisphere, with a print collection of over 5.1 million items (circa 2005). It is composed of twelve libraries across eight campuses of the university. The main building, 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, a first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton, and the only known extant copy of the little-known but invaluable On the mental inferiority of the people of Southern Africa by Dr David Livingstone.
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