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The University of Auckland Library includes the General Library plus twelve specialist libraries with over two million print volumes as well as a world-class collection of electronic resources. Collections of national interest include New Zealand and Pacific, Asian Languages, Architecture, Engineering, Law and Medicine as well as important Business, Arts and Science collections.
Full details of the Library's collections are set out in the Library's Collection Management Plan.
The Library collects and maintains unique or rare materials in a range of special collections, and has an active programme of digitisation that aims to enhance access to significant local collections to support the teaching, research, scholarship and creative work of the University.
Special Collections
General Library Special Collections
Special Collections in the General Library collects, preserves and makes available materials deemed worthy of special treatment because of their uniqueness, rarity, value or other qualities. Materials collected relate mainly to Arts, Business and Economics, and Sciences. Printed collections include the General Glass Case, New Zealand Glass Case, Gilderdale, Price, Forder and Asian Languages. The Manuscripts and Archives collection contains over 1,400 metres of material covering mainly Auckland organisations and individuals, with an emphasis on trade union and political material, as well as people connected to the University. One of the major archival collections is the Western Pacific Archives, which includes the records of the Western Pacific High Commission, British Agent and Consul (Tonga), and the New Hebrides British Service, from 1877 to 1978.
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Architecture & Planning Library Special Collections
The Architecture & Planning Library houses several special collections. The Sheppard Collection features articles, cuttings, photographs and ephemera related to architects in New Zealand. The Architecture Archive includes original architectural drawings and related material by New Zealand architects, with particular reference to the Auckland Region. The Library also houses the Historical Collection (mid-1600s to early 20th Century) and the Folio Collection (mainly 19th Century).
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Archive of Māori & Pacific Music
The Archive contains the world's largest ethnographic sound collection relating to the music of the indigenous people of New Zealand and those of the people of the Pacific. It features commercial and field recordings of vocal and instrumental music, oral histories, stories and language resources.
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Chapman Archive
The Chapman Archive is New Zealand's largest and most comprehensive collection of broadcast news and current affairs, comprising approximately 95,000 hours of radio and television broadcasting. Since mid-1984 the recording of news and current affairs programmes has been continuous, and more than 122 hours of television and radio content are archived each week.
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Davis Law Library: Marylyn Mayo Rare Book Room
The Marylyn Mayo Rare Book Room features two rooms of rare and historical books and a reading room, which also contains facsimile reprints of legal classics. The Room houses published works by members of the Faculty of Law, along with the archive collections of Peter Mahon and Martyn Finlay.
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Engineering Library Special Collections
Special Collections in the Engineering Library include the Glass Case Collection of historically important engineering books including New Zealand material, two aerodynamics collections (the Bolt and Walsh Collections) and an Oral History collection based on interviews with retired staff and professional engineers.
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Fine Arts Library Special Collections
The Fine Arts Library maintains a range of special collections including INZART: Index to New Zealand Art (indexes Art-related materials in New Zealand newspapers and magazines, New Zealand journals held in the Fine Arts Library, as well as New Zealand material in overseas journals held in the Library), the Elam Archive, the Artists' Books collection, the Snaps Gallery Archive, a small number of original works of art, and a New Zealand artists' file.
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Music & Dance Library Glass Case Collections
The Music & Dance Library Glass Case contains a collection of important facsimile editions, including the series "Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile", along with comparatively rare and early editions of works. Some rare items (mainly 18th Century editions) are held in the Glass Case of the General Library Special Collections.
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Philson Library Historical Collection
The Historical Collection is a reference-only collection of heritage medical books, including pre-1800 and 19th Century books as well as important early 20th Century texts. This collection is housed in the Ernest & Marion Davis Library (Auckland City Hospital).
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Sylvia Ashton-Warner Library, Epsom Library, Special Collections
The Sylvia Ashton-Warner Library's Archives Collection contains the records of the former Auckland College of Education and its predecessor organisations; it includes archives, photographs, multimedia items, artefacts and personal papers of former College staff and students. The Library also maintains the Sylvia Ashton-Warner Collection which holds material related to the life and work of Sylvia Ashton-Warner. The General Library's Special Collections houses the Gilderdale Collection (children's literature) and the Hugh Price Collection (historic New Zealand school textbooks and school readers).
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Digital Collections
The database contains a selection of digitised images from the Department of Anthropology Photographic Archive, The University of Auckland. It contains over 5000 social anthropology and archaeology photographs from New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tokelau. |  | | | | | The Architecture Archive image collection features a selection of drawings, plans, elevations and photographs from the University of Auckland's collection. The archive's holdings range from the nineteenth century to the present with strengths in the Auckland region and the modern movement. |  | | | | | The Archive of Maori and Pacific Music comprises the world's largest ethnographic sound collection relating to the Pacific. Two collections of festival activities are currently online - the South Pacific Arts Festival, 1976 and the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, 1981. The digital collections includes video clips, audio clips, photographs, colour slides, programmes, leaflets and song texts.
For more information on the collections, please see http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/ampm/ |  | | | | | The Bookshelf (Digitised Texts Collection), developed by staff at The University of Auckland Library, provides keyword-searchable online versions of a variety of books, journals and newsletters. Selection criteria include relevance for New Zealand and Pacific studies, existing availability and functionality online, and anticipated usage. Material created at The University of Auckland is given further priority. The individual titles are catalogued with direct links in The University of Auckland Library Catalogue.
|  | | | | | Photographs of the Fanning Island cable station, buildings and people, and Norfolk Island scenes. |  | | | | | The ENZB database contains the full text of over 240 19th century books about New Zealand between 1800 and 1870. The text can be searched by keyword and the database includes an index of variant spellings.
The individual books are catalogued with direct links in Voyager, the University of Auckland Library catalogue. |  | | | | | Early New Zealand Statutes is an Open Access collection of assent versions of New Zealand ordinances and statutes covering 100 years law-making from 1841. Subsequent amendments to amend or repeal any of these laws are not noted on the assent versions.
A downloadable PDF file has been created for every Ordinance or Act. The text of all or some of the statutes can be searched with the 'Search'and 'Advanced Search'functions. The collection can also be browsed by year. Optical character recognition of the text is approximately 95% accurate. |  | | | | | PDF texts of centennial histories of faculties and departments, and photographs of staff and buildings. |  | | | | | The Polynesian Society is a non-profit organization based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Founded in 1892, the Society’s aim was the scholarly study of past and present New Zealand Māori and other Pacific Island peoples and cultures. It has pursued this aim primarily through the Journal of the Polynesian Society, a quarterly publication begun at the Society’s inception and enduring to the present.
The early issues of the Journal contain a rich repository of indigenous texts and traditions contributed by Pacific peoples, as well as by missionaries and other sojourners, often published in local languages with English translations. Among the scholars who have long contributed articles to the Journal are social/cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists and physical/biological anthropologists working in Micronesia and Melanesia, as well as Polynesia. More recently they have been joined by sociologists, political scientists, economists and other scholars. |  | | | | | The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre ( nzepc) is a project based at the University of Auckland to set up an electronic gateway to poetry resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific region. It aims to coordinate existing archival and publishing information, and to present some full-text electronic publication of poetry and commentary in consultation with authors and their publishers. nzepc also promotes live poetry events as and when resources permit and is committed to extending and documenting locations for poetry in the digital environment and its real-world counterpart. The site was established in July 2001. |  | | | | | A collaborative project to digitise, preserve and provide searchable access to a range of cultural & heritage resources from research collections of partner institutions. The geographic scope of the resources includes the subregions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. |  | | | | | Oral histories relating to the University of Auckland. |  | | | | | Video and audio of public lectures, seminars and interviews from the University of Auckland. Primarily locally produced for public use but note that some content may be restricted to staff and students of the university as stipulated in the recording agreements. |  | | | | | ResearchSpace is a digital repository or online archive for The University of Auckland, and contains Full Text Theses and other Research Outputs.
ResearchSpace is harvested in a controlled way with copyright protection for authors. We are harvested by all the major search engines, including the Kiwi Research Information Service KRIS, a web gateway to the open-access research documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand.
|  | | | | | Smithyman Online: Collected Poems 1943-1995 by Kendrick Smithyman. Edited & with notes by Margaret Edgcumbe & Peter Simpson.
The purpose of this website is to make available as widely as possible the life's work, in the form in which he wished it to be preserved, of one of New Zealand's most prolific and fascinating poets. We are convinced that, although Smithyman's work is not widely known beyond New Zealand, he will find many enthusiastic readers wherever good poetry in English is appreciated. The website also includes a chronology of Smithyman's life and a section for the publication of articles or notes about his work. Readers are warmly invited to submit material to be considered for publication in this section. |  | | | | | An archive of broadcast television content collected by the University of Auckland library, including a collection of Maori television programmes. This archive is for the use of staff and students of the University of Auckland. |  | | | | |
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