Oct 3, 2012 | Digitise, News, Print
This beautiful early geological map of Otago once hung in the University of Otago’s Geology Museum. It was sent north to be conserved in the 1970s but somehow went missing for 25 years. Rediscovered and returned to the Hocken Library, the map was fully conserved and...
Oct 3, 2012 | Andy Fenton, Digitise, News, Print
The Treaty 2 U touring exhibition was jointly curated by Te Papa, Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand. It told the story of New Zealand’s founding document: the Treaty of Waitangi, from the back of a truck! The centrepiece of the exhibition...
Mar 10, 2012 | Digitise, Microfilm, News
Creating a web version of the New Zealand Official Yearbooks back to 1893 was a landmark project for Statistics New Zealand. The Yearbooks are a fascinating window into NZ’s economy and society, stuffed with facts, figures and essays about how we lived, the goods we...
Oct 18, 2010 | Digitise, News
Yet another fantastic project which NZMS was proud to be involved in. The Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) index books cover land transaction from the 1850s to 1924 and contain a wealth of information about New Zealand and New Zealanders, through their property...
Oct 18, 2010 | Andy Fenton, Lianza, News
NZMS would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone involved in organising LIANZA Conference 2010 – what a resounding success. We would also like to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who visited the NZMS stand: to comment on the conference bags; admire the wobbly stand;...
