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Te Vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau – Tokelau Language Week 2022

Oct 20, 2022By Libraries and Learning Services

Tâlofa nî! Mâlô nî! Welcome to Te vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau, Tokelau Language Week Sunday 23 October to Saturday 29 October 2022. This year’s theme is “Halahala ki vavau, kae ke mau ki pale o Tokelau” which means “To plan for the future is to understand the past.”Read more…

Oct 20, 2022Libraries and Learning Services
Niue Language Week

Niue Language Week 2022

Oct 12, 2022By Libraries and Learning Services

Fakaalofa lahi atu! It’s Niue Language Week, Faahi Tapu he Vagahau Niue Sunday 16 October – Saturday 22 October 2022. This year’s theme is Fakatūleva e Vagahau Niue mo e Tau Aga Fakamotu ma e Tau Atuhau, which means “SustainRead more…

Oct 12, 2022Libraries and Learning Services
Vaiaso o te Gana Tuvalu Tuvalu Language Week

Vaiaso o te ‘Gana Tuvalu – Tuvalu Language Week 2022

Sep 23, 2022By Libraries and Learning Services

Discover six things about Tuvalu and explore resources, including documentaries on the impact of climate change. Read more…

Sep 23, 2022Libraries and Learning Services
Tālofa!

Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa – Samoa Language Week 2022

May 24, 2022By Libraries and Learning Services

Tālofa! Susū mai! Afio mai! Maliu mai! Welcome to Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa – Samoan Language Week, Sunday 29 May-Saturday 4 June 2022, including Samoa’s 60th year of Independence on Wednesday 1 June 2022. Read more…

May 24, 2022Libraries and Learning Services

Rotuman Language Week 2022

May 6, 2022By Libraries and Learning Services

Rotuman (Fäeag Rotųam) Language Week 2022 will take place from Sunday 8 May to Saturday 14 May. Sustainability is the overarching theme for the 2022 Pacific Language Weeks.Read more…

May 6, 2022Libraries and Learning Services
Graphic of a person pushing a trolley of stacked books

General Library collection changes update

Feb 9, 2022By Libraries and Learning Services

The Pacific Collection is established, New Zealand material is integrated into the Main Collection and the print Statistics Collection has been disestablished now that many statistics are online.Read more…

Feb 9, 2022Libraries and Learning Services

Special Collections: 2021 Christmas hamper

Dec 17, 2021By Libraries and Learning Services
Dec 17, 2021Libraries and Learning Services

Collection changes including the new Pacific Collection

Nov 12, 2021By Libraries and Learning Services

The next time you visit the General Library, you may notice a few changes to the collections. We are in the process of establishing a stand-alone Pacific Collection and integrating New Zealand material into the Main Collection.Read more…

Nov 12, 2021Libraries and Learning Services

Tokelau Language Week 2021

Oct 22, 2021By Libraries and Learning Services

Welcome to Te vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau, Tokelau Language Week 24 – 30 October 2021. This year’s theme is Tokelau! Tapui tau gagana ma tau aganuku, i te manaola ma te lautupuola which means Tokelau! Preserve your language and culture, to enhance spiritual and physical wellbeing. Read more…

Oct 22, 2021Libraries and Learning Services
New Zealand Premier Richard Seddon and King Togia of Nuie, May 1900. Seddon, R.J. (1900). The Right Hon. R.J. Seddon's (the premier of New Zealand) visit to Tonga, Fiji, Savage Island and The Cook Islands, May, 1900. New Zealand government printer. New Zealand Glass Case 919 S44

Kia Tupuolaola e Moui he Tagata Niue – May the Tagata Niue thrive

Oct 15, 2021By Libraries and Learning Services

To mark Niue Language week, Special Collections are pleased to provide online access to a petition sent by Patu-iki Togia-Pule-toaki to the British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, in October 1899.Read more…

Oct 15, 2021Libraries and Learning Services
BSANZ conference logo and decorative image of book

BSANZ 2021 Conference: Communities, books and the power of words

Sep 17, 2021By Libraries and Learning Services

Interested in studies about books, authors, publishing, readers and related topics? Registrations are open for the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 2021 virtual conference, 22-23 November. Read more…

Sep 17, 2021Libraries and Learning Services
Dancers performing a lakalaka during the Coronation of King Tāufa'āhau Tupou IV celebrations at Mala'e Pangai, Nuku’alofa, Tonga in 1967

Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga – Tonga Language Week 2021

Sep 3, 2021By Libraries and Learning Services

To mark Tonga Language Week 2021, the Archive of Māori and Pacific Sound presents the first two episodes of the AMPS 50th Anniversary Podcast, a series of talanoa (conversations) with five significant academics from the University of Auckland. Read more…

Sep 3, 2021Libraries and Learning Services
Handwritten Kiribati from the papers of Sir Arthur Grimble

Kiribati Language Week 2021

Jul 9, 2021By Libraries and Learning Services

The 32 atolls and coral islands that form the Republic of Kiribati are most often associated with the immediate impacts of global climate change and rising sea levels. However, Kiribati also has a unique oral tradition, art and culture.Read more…

Jul 9, 2021Libraries and Learning Services
Detail of a tapa cloth

Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa – Sāmoan Language Week 2021

May 28, 2021By Libraries and Learning Services

30 May to 6 June 2021 is Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa – Sāmoan Language Week. Explore all the ways in which you can celebrate Sāmoan Language Week with Te Tumu Herenga.Read more…

May 28, 2021Libraries and Learning Services
Children get on to a school bus in Hakupu, Niue

Niue, the Rock of Polynesia

Oct 16, 2020By Admin

Captain James Cook famously gave Niue the unwanted name of Savage Island after he struggled to come on to shore. Luckily, this name didn’t stick.Read more…

Oct 16, 2020Admin

Macawa Ni Vosa Vakaviti – Fijian Language Week 2020

Oct 1, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services
Oct 1, 2020Libraries and Learning Services
Installing Tainui Begat (1988) by Brett Graham at Te Papa Ako o Tai Tonga.

Experience the art of Tai Tonga

Sep 18, 2020By Admin

Rennie Atfield-Douglas chose artwork that would get people thinking to display at our new campus in South Auckland.Read more…

Sep 18, 2020Admin

Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga – Tonga Language Week 2020

Sep 4, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

Learn some fun Tongan phrases and enjoy our collection highlights including artwork, music, documentaries and PhD research.Read more…

Sep 4, 2020Libraries and Learning Services

Make a great start this semester

Jul 24, 2020By Admin

Achieve your learning goals by developing new skills and creating new habits this semester.Read more…

Jul 24, 2020Admin
Christmas Island (Kiritimati), 1941. Detail. Survey map by N. J. Hill. Digital cartographic collection, Research Services.

Kiribati Language Week 2020

Jul 10, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

Watch the playlist and explore selected resources as you celebrate Kiribati Language Week.Read more…

Jul 10, 2020Libraries and Learning Services

Learning Online Toolkit now on Canvas

Apr 23, 2020By Admin

Next time you log in to Canvas you will find a toolkit put together by our Learning and Teaching Development team to help you learn online.Read more…

Apr 23, 2020Admin
Dame Anne Salmond’s Nagra IV-D tape recorder in the Archive of Māori and Pacific Sound

Display celebrates 50 years of the Archive of Māori and Pacific Sound

Mar 10, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

Mar 10, 2020Libraries and Learning Services

Honouring Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki

Feb 5, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services
Feb 5, 2020Libraries and Learning Services
Reel-to-reel magnetic tape player

Cultural Collections: Tape slicing – the reel story

Feb 5, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

Feb 5, 2020Libraries and Learning Services

Te Vāiaho o te Gagana Tokelau – Tokelau Language Week

Oct 30, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Oct 30, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Niue Language Week

Oct 15, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Oct 15, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Critical Encounters Tuia 250

Oct 4, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Oct 4, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Daniel Solander-inspired exhibition and seminar

Sep 26, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Sep 26, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Reo Māori Kūki’Āirani – Cook Islands Language Week

Aug 5, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Aug 5, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Start your semester on the right track

Jul 22, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Jul 22, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Pasifika dual language resources

Apr 4, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Apr 4, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

Architectural traces in the Western Pacific Archives

Sep 7, 2016By Libraries and Learning Services
Sep 7, 2016Libraries and Learning Services

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