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Alexander Turnbull Library

Alexander Turnbull Library

The Alexander Turnbull Library was established after Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull gifted his collection to the nation in 1918, its collections and services are now housed within the National Library.

Alexander Turnbull Library

Ka whakatūria Te Wharepukapuka o Alexander Turnbull nō muri o te tukunga e Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull kohikohinga ki te motu i te tau 1918. Kei Te Puna Mātauranga aua kohikohinga me ngā ratonga ināianei.

 

Turnbull Services

  • Contact us
  • Ask a librarian for research help
  • Digital Copying Pilot
  • Location
  • Opening hours
  • Tours
  • Preparing for your visit
  • Access items onsite at the Library
  • Making copies of items
  • Copyright and usage
  • Conditions of use of the reading room
  • Borrowing items via interloan

Turnbull Collections

  • Alexander Turnbull Library collections
  • TAPUHI (catalogue of unpublished items)
  • National Library catalogue (published items)
  • Timeframes (digitised images)
  • Papers Past (digitised historical newspapers)
  • Te Ao Hou
  • Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society
  • More digital collections…

About the Turnbull

  • Our role
  • Our history
  • How we're organised
  • National Preservation Office
  • Oral History Centre
  • Guardians/Kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library
  • Friends of the Turnbull Library
  • Scholarships and fellowships
  • Donations and bequests
 

WHAT'S NEW

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New online exhibition

'Simple to sumptuous: Bookbindings 1450 to the present' highlights the variety of binding styles held in the Special Printed Collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.

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National Library Gallery exhibitions

On show from 5 April to 19 July 2008: 'A Capital Suburb: Pipitea Thorndon' and 'Simple to Sumptuous: Bookbindings from 1450 to the present'.

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