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John Ross, Massey University Early printing ornaments Title: The ecclesiastical history [up to 870] of M. L’Abbe Fleury, with the chronology of M. Tillemont. Author: Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723. Contributor: Le Nain de Tillemont, Louis-Sebastien, 1637-1698. Publisher: London : Printed by … Continue reading →

Suliana Vea, Va’aomanū Pasifika Internship for PASI 428  Preservation work on various collections including the Alan MacDiarmid collection, the Portfolios of Horace Fildes, a VUW student Tramping Club scrapbook, and digitisation of books and audiocassettes. “I get to work with … Continue reading →

  Jane Stafford and Mark Williams, Associate Professors, School of English Film Theatre & Media Studies Anthologising …  “Mark and Jane have been compiling an anthology for Auckland University Press that covers all genres and periods of New Zealand Literature … Continue reading →

Assoc. Prof. Richard A. Sundt, Art History, University of Oregon ‘Manutuke Te Mana o Turanga, 1973’ [Image of a carved panel belonging to a now–destroyed church at Manutuke] From the archival series: ‘Photographic negatives and prints of marae and carvings, … Continue reading →

Meghan Hughes, Honours student, English Robert Ingersoll in New Zealand “The Mistakes of Moses” by Robert Ingersoll. Dunedin: J. Braithwaite [1879], callmark Stout 42/19; “Ingersoll’s Mistakes about Moses” by D. R. Dungan. Dunedin: Mackay, Braken, 1879, callmark Stout 42/22, and … Continue reading →

Dr Ian Welch, School of Engineering and Computer Science The NZTronix collection ‘NZTronix: The Early New Zealand Software Database’ was a project to build a publicly accessible database, initially to gather and preserve information about early New Zealand computer games, … Continue reading →

Professor Lydia Wevers, Director, Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington ‘Many Annotations, One Scholar’ The Brancepeth Station Library – c2000 volumes of late 19th century popular fiction and general works – was presented to VUW … Continue reading →

Polly Cantlon, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Waikato A history of graphic design in New Zealand 1880 – 1950 A History of printing in New Zealand 1830-1940.   Editor: R.A. McKay (Wellington Club of Printing House Craftsmen, [1940]) Description: … Continue reading →

Grant Milburn, Postgraduate student, School of Information Management Architects Education and Registration Board papers Accession A2009/25, donated by the New Zealand Registered Architects Board (NZRAB). “One off-shoot of the ‘leaky building’ syndrome of earlier this decade was the passing of … Continue reading →

Nelson Wattie, Biographer Writing the Life of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Literary archives 1993-2008 from Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (online finding aid at  http://library.vuw.ac.nz/ jcbr/findingaids/description.php?p=cama) “Alistair Te Ariki Campbell liked to talk of himself as ‘always scribbling’. Of the large … Continue reading →