The stacks in Special Collections contain countless items that deserve close inspection by researchers. Here are a few that caught the eye of Special Collections staff during 2020.Read more…
Philcox architecture archive: Builder of handsome edifices
The architectural drawings collection of W. Philcox and Sons provides a unique insight into an Auckland building firm from the turn of the 20th century. Search the new collection listing.Read more…
Books tell a prize-winning story
A personal library is more than the sum of the books a person owned. The books we keep can provide unique insights into our life story.Read more…
Te Vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau 2020
Celebrate Tokelau Language Week. Consult the Tokelau Dictionary online and explore other Tokelau related resources held by Te Tumu Herenga.Read more…
45 years of the Waitangi Tribunal
45 years after the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal, we reflect on its position in Aotearoa New Zealand society.Read more…
Macawa Ni Vosa Vakaviti – Fijian Language Week 2020
Vaiaso o te ‘Gana Tuvalu – Tuvalu Language Week 2020
Discover six things about Tuvalu and explore resources, including documentaries on the impact of climate change. Read more…
Preserving our roots: protecting our forest taonga
Supporting the International Year of Plant Heath; discover Special Collections resources about our native trees and plants, mātauranga and forestry.Read more…
Experience the art of Tai Tonga
Rennie Atfield-Douglas chose artwork that would get people thinking to display at our new campus in South Auckland.Read more…
Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga – Tonga Language Week 2020
Learn some fun Tongan phrases and enjoy our collection highlights including artwork, music, documentaries and PhD research.Read more…
Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki ‘Āirani Cook Islands Language Week
Welcome to Cook Islands Language Week. Celebrate Cook Island culture by exploring the maps, letters, old records and research we have curated.Read more…
Kiribati Language Week 2020
Watch the playlist and explore selected resources as you celebrate Kiribati Language Week.Read more…
Contribute to a University of Auckland Covid-19 archive
Help future researchers by contributing your pandemic experiences and activities to our Covid-19 archive.Read more…
Picturing Cultural Collections
A series of photographs are hanging in the Special Collections Reading Room in the General Library. Read their backstories and discover more about Cultural Collections.Read more…
Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa – Sāmoan Language Week 2020
24-30 May is Sāmoan Language Week and this year’s theme is Tapena sou ōso mo lau malaga/Prepare yourself a gift for your travels. Explore all the ways in which you can celebrate Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa with Te Tumu Herenga.Read more…
20 years of New Zealand Music Month
To celebrate the milestone, we’ve compiled a New Zealand music playlist which has something for everyone.Read more…
Should I be wearing gloves?
Display celebrates 50 years of the Archive of Māori and Pacific Sound
View the display Celebrating 50 years of the Archive of Māori and Pacific Sound, 1970 – 2020, at Special Collections in the General Library until Friday 3 April.Read more…
Help for Creative Arts and Industries students using library resources
The Fine Arts and Architecture and Planning collections are in their new home in the Library. Visit the General Library and view the new locations.Read more…
Special Collections: delivering tailored services
Special Collections artists’ books display
View the artists’ books display at Special Collections in the General Library until Friday 6 March.Read more…
Cultural Collections: Tape slicing – the reel story
Replacing tape splices on reel-to-reel magnetic tapes is a fiddly but critical task to ensure rare recordings can be preserved and digitised.Read more…
Cultural Collections: Māori Television full back-catalogue now available
Cultural Collections: The art of cleaning
Holiday treasures unearthed
Cultural Collections: Delivering digitised archives
Critical Encounters Tuia 250
Daniel Solander-inspired exhibition and seminar
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
Colin McCahon – cornerstone of our Art Collection
Reo Māori Kūki’Āirani – Cook Islands Language Week
Customary meets contemporary in whakapapa-inspired artwork
Frances Hodgkins works on show
Capturing New Zealand’s transmissions
Play it loud
General Library turns 50
Artwork: A powerful presence
Opening the Archives
On your bike: ‘Biketivism’ on campus
Summer road trip
End of First World War centenary project
First World War armistice: Clear the line
International award nomination for University Art Collection
Women’s suffrage: Enrolling the new electors
Māori Land Court Minute Books Index now open access
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori with TV and Radio
Furniture by New Zealand architects
We, the undersigned
University of Auckland Art Collection
Paid for in blood: Medical rare books display
Celebrate NZ Music Month with TV and Radio
50th anniversary of the Wahine disaster
Resonating through the decades: the From Scratch records
You never know who you’ll meet at university
30th anniversary of Waipapa Marae
Journeys of an historic handpress
Visit the 1920s Takapuna seaside with TV and Radio
From the collections: History serials pass 50-year mark
Broadsheet magazine 1972-1997
Ngā Kura Māori: The Native Schools System 1867-1969
Launch of Chinese rare books catalogue
100 Years of Architecture and Planning
“The First Girl Graduates”: The legacy of Kate Edger
Miss Butterfield’s busy year
From Crack of Dawn to Croak of Dusk: The Solar Plexus records
‘The Balloon of the Mind’: Yeats, Donnelly and Cuala Press
Two displays, two cartoonists: Steve Bell and Frank Dromgoole
A clean slate
New Zealand prisoners of war 1914-1918
Display of Sir Hugh Kawharu papers
Architectural traces in the Western Pacific Archives
Holloway Press records
Manicules: signs of reading
TV and Radio: Explore recorded, recently screened and live broadcasts
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…