Breadcrumbs List.
Library news
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UNESCO honour for writer Robin Hyde
2 March 2021
The University of Auckland's City Campus library houses many taonga in its Special Collections area – among those the literary papers of writer Robin Hyde.
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Philcox architecture archive: builder of handsome edifices
30 November 2020
The architectural drawings collection of W. Philcox and Sons provides a unique insight into the activities of an Auckland building firm from around the turn of the 20th century and its associations with many prominent architects.
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Discovery in University library tells fuller story of noted maths professor
1 October 2020
The discovery of a mathematics professor’s prizes in the University of Auckland library has shone light on an early chapter in his life.
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Te Tumu Herenga: our name and our story
10 September 2020
Ko au Te Tumu Herenga, ko te tumu herenga ko au: I am Te Tumu Herenga and the chief tethering post is me.
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Copyright challenges faced by universities during lockdown and beyond
1 July 2020
Melanie Johnson is on the copyright negotiation team for Universities New Zealand. She explains the complexities behind ensuring all students had access to textbooks during the Covid-19 campus closedowns around New Zealand.
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Should I be wearing gloves?
24 April 2020
Readers using rare materials in the Special Collections Reading Room have been asking this question long before wearing protective gloves became a Covid-19-related concern.
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High note in rare Mozart find at University of Auckland
31 March 2020
Rare first editions of two Mozart piano sonatas have turned up in a donated volume of miscellaneous scores at the University of Auckland.
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Jake Bransgrove transcribes diaries of Joseph Banks
31 March 2019
Student and University of Auckland history tutor Jake Bransgrove added to his historical knowledge with a summer project transcribing the journals and letters of Joseph Banks.
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Women’s suffrage: enrolling the new electors
19 September 2018
The Auckland Women’s Franchise League gathered in 1940 to mark the 47th anniversary of women’s suffrage.
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Ngā Kura Māori: The Native Schools System 1867-1969
6 October 2017
Today Kaikohe West School is a rural state primary school but between 1882 and 1969 it was known as Kaikohe Native School and was one of more than 160 Native or Māori Schools in the country.
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The First Girl Graduates: The legacy of Kate Edger
27 June 2017
To celebrate the 140th anniversary of Edger’s graduation, Special Collections explores the lives of five of the University’s early women graduates.
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Architectural traces in the Western Pacific Archives
7 September 2016
A selection of Western Pacific Archives items were shown to Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Charlot Salwai and his delegation during a recent visit to the University.