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A inside, two page, view of Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh's tapa-covered notebook

Special Collections: 2020 Christmas hamper

Dec 10, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

Dec 10, 2020Libraries and Learning Services 0 Comments
Milne and Choyce department store extensions (sheet 3 detail), W. Philcox and Sons Builders architectural drawings collection (PX11).

Philcox architecture archive: Builder of handsome edifices

Nov 30, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

Nov 30, 2020Libraries and Learning Services 0 Comments

Books tell a prize-winning story

Nov 13, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

Nov 13, 2020Libraries and Learning Services 0 Comments
image of book cover: 5 Simphonies arrangeés en Quintett pour 2 Violons, 2 Violes et Violoncelle con Contrabasso

Celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday

Nov 2, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday. View rare manuscripts of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony by visiting our Special Collections display.Read more…

Nov 2, 2020Libraries and Learning Services 0 Comments
a little girl holding a pointer stick in front of a board

Te Vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau 2020

Oct 22, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

Celebrate Tokelau Language Week. Consult the Tokelau Dictionary online and explore other Tokelau related resources held by Te Tumu Herenga.Read more…

Oct 22, 2020Libraries and Learning Services
historical illustration of the harbour bridge

Building Bridges: Looking back to the future

Oct 15, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

Revisit how Auckland Harbour Bridge was built and the Special Collections the library holds about its history and engineering.Read more…

Oct 15, 2020Libraries and Learning Services
Sir Hugh Kawharu speaking at the opening of the Waipapa Marae.

45 years of the Waitangi Tribunal

Oct 2, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

45 years after the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal, we reflect on its position in Aotearoa New Zealand society.Read more…

Oct 2, 2020Libraries and Learning Services

Macawa Ni Vosa Vakaviti – Fijian Language Week 2020

Oct 1, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services
Oct 1, 2020Libraries and Learning Services
etail from Whakairo carved by Tim Coyre in Te Herenga Mātauranga Whānui (General Library).

Preserving our roots: protecting our forest taonga

Sep 18, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

Supporting the International Year of Plant Heath; discover Special Collections resources about our native trees and plants, mātauranga and forestry.Read more…

Sep 18, 2020Libraries and Learning Services
Reserve area of Tawa Ngake on the eastern side of the atoll of Pukapuka, Cook Islands

Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki ‘Āirani Cook Islands Language Week

Jul 31, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

Welcome to Cook Islands Language Week. Celebrate Cook Island culture by exploring the maps, letters, old records and research we have curated.Read more…

Jul 31, 2020Libraries and Learning Services
poster opposing the 1910 referenda

Choose: having your say

Jul 27, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

Jul 27, 2020Libraries and Learning Services
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
Open laptop on a desk with Covid-19 brochures set out next to it

Contribute to a University of Auckland Covid-19 archive

Jun 5, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

Help future researchers by contributing your pandemic experiences and activities to our Covid-19 archive.Read more…

Jun 5, 2020Libraries and Learning Services
The photographs are on display in the Special Collections Reading Room, General Library.

Picturing Cultural Collections

May 29, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

May 29, 2020Libraries and Learning Services

Should I be wearing gloves?

Apr 24, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services
Apr 24, 2020Libraries and Learning Services

Help for Creative Arts and Industries students using library resources

Feb 21, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

Feb 21, 2020Libraries and Learning Services

Special Collections: delivering tailored services

Feb 20, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services
Feb 20, 2020Libraries and Learning Services
The book of exile. G. Haffern (1992). General Library Special Collections Artists' Books, AB 92-4

Special Collections artists’ books display

Feb 7, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services

View the artists’ books display at Special Collections in the General Library until Friday 6 March.Read more…

Feb 7, 2020Libraries and Learning Services

Honouring Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki

Feb 5, 2020By Libraries and Learning Services
Feb 5, 2020Libraries and Learning Services

Holiday treasures unearthed

Dec 18, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Dec 18, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Critical Encounters Tuia 250

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

The Fine Arts Library closed at the end of Semester Two 2019

Sep 17, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

Sep 17, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

Sep 6, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Sep 6, 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

The Architecture and Planning Library is now closed

Jun 18, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

Jun 18, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Play it loud

May 13, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
May 13, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

General Library turns 50

Apr 12, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Apr 12, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Opening the Archives

Feb 17, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Feb 17, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

On your bike: ‘Biketivism’ on campus

Jan 29, 2019By Libraries and Learning Services
Jan 29, 2019Libraries and Learning Services

Summer road trip

Dec 11, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
Dec 11, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

End of First World War centenary project

Nov 12, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
Nov 12, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

First World War armistice: Clear the line

Nov 7, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
Nov 7, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

Women’s suffrage: Enrolling the new electors

Sep 19, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
Sep 19, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

Māori Land Court Minute Books Index now open access

Sep 10, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
Sep 10, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

Furniture by New Zealand architects

Aug 22, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
Aug 22, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

We, the undersigned

Jul 30, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
Jul 30, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

Paid for in blood: Medical rare books display

May 8, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
May 8, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

Resonating through the decades: the From Scratch records

Mar 13, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
Mar 13, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

You never know who you’ll meet at university

Feb 19, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
Feb 19, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

Journeys of an historic handpress

Jan 30, 2018By Libraries and Learning Services
Jan 30, 2018Libraries and Learning Services

From the collections: History serials pass 50-year mark

Dec 14, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Dec 14, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

Broadsheet magazine 1972-1997

Nov 22, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Nov 22, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

Ngā Kura Māori: The Native Schools System 1867-1969

Oct 6, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Oct 6, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

Launch of Chinese rare books catalogue

Sep 14, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Sep 14, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

100 Years of Architecture and Planning

Aug 29, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Aug 29, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

“The First Girl Graduates”: The legacy of Kate Edger

Jun 27, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Jun 27, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

Miss Butterfield’s busy year

Jun 15, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Jun 15, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

From Crack of Dawn to Croak of Dusk: The Solar Plexus records

May 26, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
May 26, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

‘The Balloon of the Mind’: Yeats, Donnelly and Cuala Press

Apr 27, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Apr 27, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

Two displays, two cartoonists: Steve Bell and Frank Dromgoole

Mar 1, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Mar 1, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

A clean slate

Feb 2, 2017By Libraries and Learning Services
Feb 2, 2017Libraries and Learning Services

New Zealand prisoners of war 1914-1918

Dec 5, 2016By Libraries and Learning Services
Dec 5, 2016Libraries and Learning Services

Display of Sir Hugh Kawharu papers

Oct 30, 2016By Libraries and Learning Services
Oct 30, 2016Libraries and Learning Services

Architectural traces in the Western Pacific Archives

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

Holloway Press records

Aug 25, 2016By Libraries and Learning Services
Aug 25, 2016Libraries and Learning Services

Manicules: signs of reading

Aug 24, 2016By Libraries and Learning Services
Aug 24, 2016Libraries and Learning Services

A botanical dictionary with personality

Oct 30, 2015By Libraries and Learning Services
Oct 30, 2015Libraries and Learning Services

Hidden treasures from the papers of Isabel Maud Peacocke

Nov 21, 2011By Libraries and Learning Services

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…

Nov 21, 2011Libraries and Learning Services

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