James Hector (1834-1907) was a leading scientist and administrator in Aotearoa. For Hector Day, Special Collections highlights a handwritten note by Hector left in a zoological journal.Read more…
James Hector: a note from the past
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Short Loan at the General Library is now self-service
You no longer need to queue for your short loan items in the General Library. Read more…
Te Tumu Herenga: Our name and our story
Celebrate Māori Language Week and learn the story behind our name, Te Tumu Herenga.Read more…
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Māori Land Court Minute Books Index now open access
Furniture by New Zealand architects
The ClockTower: a winning design
Journeys of an historic handpress
Broadsheet magazine 1972-1997
Ngā Kura Māori: The Native Schools System 1867-1969
The tomokanga of Te Herenga Mātauranga Whānui
“The First Girl Graduates”: The legacy of Kate Edger
Miss Butterfield’s busy year
A clean slate
New Zealand prisoners of war 1914-1918
Display of Sir Hugh Kawharu papers
Architects’ tools from the Architecture Archive
Now showing: A history of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Architectural traces in the Western Pacific Archives
Holloway Press records
Manicules: signs of reading
A botanical dictionary with personality
Hidden treasures from the papers of Isabel Maud Peacocke
While checking the inventory of the papers of New Zealand children’s book author Isabel Maud Peacocke, I saw that one box contained a number of framed prints of ‘unidentified subjects’. Thinking that I could provide researchers with more detail than this,Read more…