A pirate ship cabaret and tearooms is one of the treasures housed in a collection of architectural drawings by architect S S Alleman (1901-1978).Read more…
Communist Party centenary: The Party and the hangover
James Hector: a note from the past
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…
Robin Hyde’s papers receive UNESCO recognition
The papers of Robin Hyde, held by Special Collections, and the Alexander Turnbull Library, have been inscribed on UNESCO’s New Zealand Memory of the World Register. Special Collections is marking this occasion with the exhibition ‘torrents of amber’.Read more…
Special Collections: 2020 Christmas hamper
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…
Celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday
Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday. View rare manuscripts of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony by visiting our Special Collections display.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…
Building Bridges: Looking back to the future
Revisit how Auckland Harbour Bridge was built and the Special Collections the library holds about its history and engineering.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
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…
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…
Choose: having your say
A new Special Collections display in the General Library dips into an extensive election ephemera archive to look at two significant, historic referenda issues.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…
Should I be wearing gloves?
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…
Honouring Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki
Holiday treasures unearthed
Critical Encounters Tuia 250
The Fine Arts Library closed at the end of Semester Two 2019
The Fine Arts Library closed on Monday 18th November 2019. From 2020 the Fine Arts books, journals and supporting services will be available from the General Library.Read more…
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
Reo Māori Kūki’Āirani – Cook Islands Language Week
The Architecture and Planning Library is now closed
The Architecture and Planning Library closed at the end of Semester One. From Semester Two the Architecture and Planning books, journals and supporting services will be available from the General Library. Read more…
Play it loud
General Library turns 50
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
Women’s suffrage: Enrolling the new electors
Māori Land Court Minute Books Index now open access
Furniture by New Zealand architects
We, the undersigned
Paid for in blood: Medical rare books display
Resonating through the decades: the From Scratch records
You never know who you’ll meet at university
Journeys of an historic handpress
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
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…