Hugh Price Collection - who can use, classification, how to use. 

What is the Hugh Price Collection?

A collection of New Zealand school textbooks published in New Zealand to1960. It is housed in Special Collections General Library.  It is a subset of the collection which is listed in:

Price, H. (1992). School books published in New Zealand to 1960. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press with Gondwanaland Press.

A copy is also available from New Zealand & Pacific (Level G General Library) 371.320995 P94 (This book may not be borrowed). Check The Catalogue for copies which are available for loan.
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Hugh Price founded Price Milburn, a publishing company specialising in books for New Zealand schools in collaboration with Jim Milburn in 1957.

Hugh Price has generously donated to the University of Auckland Library a set of school text books.This collection is a subset of the complete Hugh Price Collection which is held at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.

Who may use the collection?

All University of Auckland staff and students and any member of the public may use books from this collection within the Library.

How the collection is arranged

The arrangement is in accordance with the subject classification within the bibliography (categories which are in bold are represented in the collection):

 
  1. Astronomy
  1. Journals
  1. Arithmetic
  1. Manual Training
  1. Bookkeeping and Commerce
  1. Maori Language
  1. Cadets
  1. Mathematics
  1. Chemistry
  1. Music
  1. Civics
  1. Nature Study
  1. Dictionaries
  1. Physical Education
  1. Drawing
  1. Reading Books
  1. English
  1. Religion
  1. French, Latin and German
  1. Science
  1. General
  1. Singing
  1. Geography
  1. Social Studies
  1. Grammar
  1. Speech Training and Drama
  1. Handwriting
  1. Spelling
  1. Health
  1. Story Books
  1. History
  1. Teachers Books
  1. Home Science
  1. Typing

After each subject code there is a running number, e.g. 25/114.In principle, within each subject area the titles run in chronological order from earliest to most recent.

How the collection may be used

The collection which is catalogued may be used for reference or photocopying within the Library. You can search The Catalogue for items in this collection using hugh price as your search terms. From the results list look to the Refine My Results in the right hand column and under Location (expand the list) select General Library Special Collections to view the items.
University teaching staff may, with permission of the Librarian, borrow material on short-term loan for teaching purposes. For access to material in the collection, please request individual titles, quoting catalogue numbers, from the Special Collections Desk, Level G.

Contact: Sue Bradley
File Last updated: January 18, 2010