Acquisitions (Libraries)

Date: 2000, [ca 1908-1917]

From: Ronnie, Mary Allan, 1926-2023 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7155

Description: A draft article on the Dunedin Public Library, with reference to the first City Librarian, William Barker McEwan, and to other important figures in the early history of the Library. Includes citations and references. Originally written by Ms Ronnie for the New Zealand Library Association. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1999

By: Hurst, Margaret Ann, 1947-

Reference: Eph-D-NATIONAL-LIBRARY-1999-01

Description: An arrangement of text. The billboard was displayed outside the Evening Post office, but was not the version that was displayed outside other retail outlets such as dairies. Refers to the publicised selling off of little-used books from the National Library's collections (not Alexander Turnbull Library). Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy on sheet, 592 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Margaret Hurst in 1999.

Date: 1919-1933

By: Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: qMS-0037

Description: Records name and date of periodicals, and date of their receipt in the Library Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (180 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (33cm, ¼ green morocco, green boards)

Date: 2008

From: Ronnie, Mary Allan, 1926-2023 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9105

Description: Copy of a talk given by Ronnie in connection with the Reed Gallery exhibition `The Happy wanderer: Walking around New Zealand with Alf Reed'. Describes working with A H Reed when he was acquiring and donating material for the Dunedin Public Library in the 1960s and early 1970s Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated, Mary Ronnie, 2008

Date: 1916-1941

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-20

Description: Includes letters and material about Maori place names like Te Papaioea, Maori medicine or rongoa, Maori tribal histories of Tainui - Waikato, letters and printed matter about land claims and correspondence from Stowell's students about their correspondence lessons. Also includes correspondence about his views pertaining to Maori culture on the radio station 2YA and the Wellington Public Library asking for manuscript donations Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (some with ms annotations) and printed matter Processing information: Not all names have been indexed.

Date: Jun 1920-Mar 1999

By: Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: MS-Group-1021

Description: Register of purchases by the Alexander Turnbull Library; divided into local and overseas purchases Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 7 volume(s). 0.28 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (½ calf, boards; 39cm)

Date: 15 April 1989 - 15 Apr 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: Wright, Jean Struthers, 1912-1999

Reference: OHInt-0058/11

Description: Jean Struthers Wright describes her family background, her parent's appearance and personalities and their attitudes to discipline, politics and religion. Notes her father's involvement in the Presbyterian Church. Recalls having no contact with Maori and discusses the lack of Maori in the library profession and possible reasons for this. Talks about being encouraged to read by her parents, joining the Canterbury Public Library, a private library called the Children's Library, the lack of good children's books at the time and mentions the books Dorothy Neal White brought back from America. Details her educational history and her teachers. Talks about early employment aspirations and living through the Depression. Describes her first library jobs at Canterbury Public Library, her fellow staff members, the hierarchy of authority at the library at that time and achieving a library qualification along with Graham Bagnall and Stuart Perry through the English Library Association. Details joining the Country Library Service in Wellington as a Library Assistant in 1938, the role of G T Alley in the Service, his background and personality, selection process, wages, the building where the service was situated, fellow library and office staff and the van. Describes the first van being taken down to Christchurch by Hugh Lorimer and the official opening. Describes her duties, the range of books available initially at the Service and the building up of the collections. Gives background information on the development of library services in New Zealand. Details the formation of the Country Library Service and the development of the National Library. Mentions Cliff Collins, John Harris and Archie Dunningham. Details the way books were imported, the interloan system and the development of Index of New Zealand Periodicals. Describes the state of the main public libraries with reference to the librarians instrumental in their development. Discusses the conflict in the New Zealand Library Association during the late 1940s and the opposition to the Country Library Service from Dunedin Public Library and the National Librarian. Explains the relationship between the Country Library Service and Public libraries, how the `A', `B' and `C' libraries were defined, what services they and the city libraries received from the Country Library Service and the advice and guidance given by the Service. Gives background details about Hugh Lorimer, the first South Island Field Librarian. Gives information about the staff at the Country Library Service and subsequent library careers. Describes her own work in book selection and order work, the impact of World War II on the Country Library Service and the establishment of the War Library Service to military camps and troop ships. Details in depth the development of the Service in Christchurch with reference to staffing, book selection, relationship with Wellington office, the role of the book van drivers, relationship with local councils, budget matters, service given, her own career within the Service and various staff members, librarians and van drivers over the years. Comments on the `B' libraries in the South Island, the development of new libraries, the development of the Service centres throughout the North Island and the development of the National Library of New Zealand, Library School and the Library Association. Talks about librarians and politicians, involved in the development of these library services and about some of the future National Librarians. Reflects back over her career, recalls her library training and association memberships and details her retirement interests. Venue - Christchurch Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Miss Wright's home in Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-00, OHC-00, OHC-00, OHC-00 Tape numbers - OHA CLS 2600, 2601, 2608, 2609, 2610, 2611, 2612 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 304. Printed abstract contains portrait photograph of Jean Wright, a photograph of Jean Wright with G T Alley and Helen Sullivan and a group photograph of early Country Library Service staff outside Parliament Buildings dated ca 1938. Search dates: 1912 - 1989

Date: 6 Nov 1934

By: Andersen, Johannes Carl, 1873-1962

Reference: MS-Papers-3827

Description: The letter addressed to Johannes C Andersen, Alexander Turnbull Library, from employee Cylde Romer Taylor, New Zealand House, London, describing acquisition activities in London, including a visit to Mr Wise. Taylor was on the staff of the Alexander Turnbull Library Accompanying material - With a letter, 16 January 1976, to J E Traue, Alexander Turnbull Library, from C R H Taylor Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 folded leaf). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1922-1923, 1936-1937

By: Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: MS-Group-0817

Description: Vouchers for purchases and subscriptions of the Library, issued by the Department of Internal Affairs (1922-1923, 1936-1937) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1898-1902

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: MSX-8822

Description: Lists accessions 1 to 2827. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (302 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Bound volume, marbled end-papers, black morocco, marbled edges, holograph, 22 cm.

Date: 1997-1999

From: Anderson, Bruce, 1935-2011 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6645-4

Description: Acknowledgement letters from the Alexander Turnbull Library for receipt of donations from Anderson Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1923-1945

By: Mantell family

Reference: MS-Papers-4337

Description: Includes biographical information on Walter and Gideon Mantell, family information, poetry, newspaper clippings, correspondence and photographs; also a Mantell descent line in J C Andersen's hand, and correspondence between Mrs Mantell, widow of Walter Godfrey Mantell, and government officials re deposit of Mantell Library with Alexander Turnbull Library; accounts of geological research, family weddings, death notices etc Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (ca 100 leaves). Physical Description: Mss, printed material (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mr A McLeod, Wellington, 1990

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/3980-F

Description: Tony Murray-Oliver (on the left) with an unknown man looking at a collection of Italian art history books at the Alexander Turnbull House, Bowen Street. Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm