News
News items covering all our announcements and project updates.
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May 18, 2012
Call for nominations for LIAC and the Guardians Kaitikai The Department of Internal Affairs is calling for nominations for the Library and Information Advisory Commission and the Guardians Kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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May 10, 2012
DigitalNZ powers UC CEISMIC CEISMIC, the Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive, has launched a new search function powered by DigitalNZ.
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May 07, 2012
Kermadec: Expeditions and Connections, at The Window in Auckland The National Library Auckland Centre presents an exhibition exploring one of the world's few pristine environments.
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Apr 04, 2012
A Message for Researchers - Availability of Turnbull Collections ATL collections will be temporarily unavailable between the closing of services at Archives New Zealand and the opening of the Molesworth Street building.
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Mar 16, 2012
Kōtui - a virtual library at your place Thousands more library users will have direct access to local and international collections when District libraries in three more regions link to Kōtui.
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Feb 24, 2012
On the move back to Molesworth We're returning to Molesworth Street!
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Feb 23, 2012
Seditious, libellous and blasphemous: read the Maoriland Worker on Papers Past “No ‘quack’ advertisements of any kind whatsoever will be inserted in the columns of the Maoriland Worker.”
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Feb 15, 2012
Rescued from the rubble: read the first 50 years of The Press on Papers Past From the very first issue in 1861 to the grim reports from the front lines of the First World War, the first 54 years of Christchurch’s iconic Press newspaper are now available on the National Library’s Papers Past website.
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Feb 03, 2012
Romantic Voyagers - Voyaging Romantics: Call for conference papers Victoria University of Wellington and the Alexander Turnbull Library are inviting submissions to this international conference.
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Dec 20, 2011
More newspapers saved for posterity on Papers Past Some 80,000 newspaper pages from editions ranging from 1862 to 1945 are to be digitised over the next two years.
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Oct 31, 2011
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Oct 27, 2011
Kōtui delivers results for public library customers Customers using the new Kōtui service in public libraries are loving the improved service.
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Oct 10, 2011
The Turnbull tackles 50 years of All Black greats A unique collection of All Black team photos is amongst the latest additions to Timeframes the Alexander Turnbull Library’s online image collection.
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Oct 03, 2011
Creative talent rewarded by Mix and Mash The digital creativity of New Zealanders, from individuals to entire school classes, has been recognised in the prize list of the second annual Great NZ Remix & Mashup* Competition, announced today.
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Sep 29, 2011
New service opens up libraries 24/7 It’s about to get easier for borrowers and researchers to access the contents of many public libraries, thanks to a new service being coordinated by the National Library of New Zealand.
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Sep 14, 2011
The National Library wants to help save historic newspapers The National Library is inviting libraries, newspapers, institutions and community groups to apply to have historic newspapers from their collections digitised and preserved for posterity online.
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Sep 08, 2011
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May 03, 2011
New National Librarian welcomed Bill Macnaught has been officially welcomed into his position
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Mar 21, 2011
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Mar 21, 2011
75 years of the Auckland Star to be available online The National Library of New Zealand and Auckland Libraries are teaming up to have historic copies of the Auckland Star newspaper digitised.

