Bookmobiles

Date: 1971-1972

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-843

Description: The journey begins at Palmerston North and includes Hawke's Bay, Gisborne and the Bay of Plenty. The van follows State Highway two with frequent deviations from it into various back block localities. Another section of the journey is from Wairoa to Taupo via Lake Waikaremoana and the Kaingaroa Forest. Children as library users and at some of the schools where the van stops are featured. There are a number of photos of the power houses at Kaitawa, Tuai, and Piripaua Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1974, 1978

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-848

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: ca 1938-1967

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0522-1

Description: Photographs of the inauguration of the Country Library Service in 1938 and the service in operation around the country. Also photographs of the Hamilton Country Library Service in 1956 and 1957 and what is probably Auckland Service staff. Names given are: McArthur, Cook, Hamilton, Middleplaats, Tobin, richards, Dibden, Hall, Powell, Hunt, Flanagan, Patterson, Collins, Leigh, Wright, Bennison, Hynes, Lee, Donor(?), Gadd, Phillips, Follett, Lovell, Twonsend, Hoskin, Woods, Turner, O'Neill, Mercer, Frost, Wilson, Taylor, Andesonm Main, Stevenson, Bracken, Gumbley, Russell, Hanna. Some of the photographs are captioned. Also included are some christmas cards sent by Hamilton Country Library Service, one in the shape of one of the book vans. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1972-1974

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-846

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1972

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-847

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1963-1972

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-841

Description: Towns and localities of northern Northland in 1972. Children of the region and a junior Colf Club competition at Towai. The country Library Service's Bookvan features in many of the photographs. There is also a small group of photographs taken at Cape Reinga in 1963. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1973

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-849

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-216

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, Mar-Jul 1948. Includes book-binding; Auckland Sunday School Union mobile van (F E Slattery & W E Archer); shepherds and dogs from Lake Pukaki Station; Mount Cook Manual Training Centre, Wellington (Miss Colleen Dreyer, teacher and her pupils); girls of the Hastings Rangers Company who built a meeting-house of rammed earth with their leader Miss Pauline Tyers; Empire Day ball attended by girls from Auckland and Epsom Grammar schools, Diocesan and St Cuthbert's Collge shown dancing the minuet. Official opening of two bottle stores in Masterton by members of the Licensing Trust (includes J C D Mackley, C C Crawford and F Pickering); children in the audience of a Wellington movie theatre and looking at a poster advertising `Swiss Family Robinson'; Rora Street, Te Kuiti; D H S Riddiford making presentation to Mrs Paki (said to be 108) at Castlepoint Centenary celebrations; party of 22 typists from United Kingdom who were employed on two year contract to work in Government offices in Wellington (all named); M Anthony, skipper of New Zealand yacht Rangi with crew members F Lush and T Hammond; New Zealand flier Captain A A Mansfield, Rt Hon W J Jordan and others. Colleen Saunders wih puppies; New Zealand rugby players in London (Ted Ellisson (Dunedin), Ian McKenzie (Auckland), Arch Beadle (Dunedin), Barry Martin (Petone), Noy Reid (Auckland), Jim Hay (Wellington); Lincoln College float at Christchurch with `Millie the million dollar cow'; Handley Page Hastings, Britain's biggest transport plane at Wigram; children at Pointways, a pony club at Pakuranga; George Rush, Jack Hull, Ray Raynor and Tom Chamberlain at Timaru displaying the large number of salmon they caught; The Pinnacles near mouth of Putangirua Stream, Palliser Bay; rugby player Bob Scott; bodies of women who lost their lives in a blizzard in Copland Pass being brought to the Hermitage by guides, Apr 1848; Mrs M E Rogers of Christchurch with large salmon caught by her husband in Waimakariri River; Salvation Army Centennial Conference held in Dunedin (officers all named). Processes related to export of whiskey at a British distillery; Waitaki Boys' High School team at Otago and Southland secondary school athletic championships held in Dunedin; corvettes Arabis and Arbutus leaving Auckland for Britain; small child milking a cow; Women's Section of Christchurch RSA; Stratford Pipe Band at Inglewood United Rugby Football Club Jubilee celebrations; people under hypnosis; New Plymouth Easter Pilots' Camp; Private Muriel Cousins, Whakatane making memorial medal at Trentham Military Camp; tug Tapuhi towing retiring tug Natone to Shelly Bay; launch Ede launched at Kaikoura; first guests at `Scotlands', the Women's Division of Federated Farmers rest-home at Onehunga, Auckland (Mrs W G Graham, Mrs M A Cruickshank, Mrs A E Escott and Mrs A E Bridge) Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1970

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-844

Description: Journey up the coast out from Eketahuna and Pahiatua into the Central Hawke's Bay District and southern part of the Hastings District. Return via State Highway 50 to the Wairarapa Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1968-1992

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

By: Sutherland, James Hector, 1925-

Reference: PA1-o-840

Description: Mainly a record of the Mobile Library Meet sponsored by U-Bix (photocopiers) and held at Palmerston North on the 10th and 11th of January, 1992. Images of Book vans from various cities are well represented. There are also a number of images of National Library book vans of the 1960s, and one of a more recent van being custom built at Hawke Coachwork Ltd, Takanini, South Auckland. There is an article on Jim Sutherland from the Manukau Courier, 1989, and a paper by him on the Manukau City Mobile Library Service. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1970s

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

By: Sutherland, James Hector, 1925-

Reference: PAColl-5553-1

Description: Quantity: 99 colour original photographic print(s). 80 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1978

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-845

Description: Beginning at Snell's Beach opposite Kawau Island the journey is through the Rodney, Whangarei and Kaipara districts. The images in the album end with Muriwai Beach south of the Kaipara Harbour. Included is a photograph of the gravestone of Gordon Coates at Matakohe, public war memorials at Waipu, the station and railway yards at Waiotira, and the public libraries at Leigh, Kaipara flats, and Te Arai Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1974 - 1975

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958- : Collection

Reference: F-094-1/3

Description: Three plans for a book bus commissioned by National Library of New Zealand for the Country Library Service (Hamilton). Information includes a schedule of weights in pounds, tyre loading weights, and plan, side, front and rear views of the van. The van is a 1974 Bedford VAS 3 model Other Titles - Bookvan Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo plans, sizes varying up to 1190 x 850 mm Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts - From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-2148.

Date: 10 July 1969

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/273

Description: A New Zealand achievement is the Country Library Service and at the end of Book Week 'Open Country' tours out of the way parts of the Nelson Province in a C.L.S. van. Behind the wheel is Leslie Armstrong, raised near Dannevirke and the first stop is Riverside Community Settlement near Motueka which he describes. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Short transcript at MS-Papers-1239, folder 86 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0279 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 13 Minutes Duration.

Date: 22 November 2000

From: Upper Hutt oral history project

Reference: OHC-030242

Description: Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). Search dates: 22/11/2000 Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.

Date: ca 1950s-1960s

Reference: PAColl-6992

Description: Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/4-103954 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1954-1989

By: New Zealand. Country Library Service

Reference: PA-Group-00840

Description: Photographic prints and negatives relating to the National Library of New Zealand's Country Library Service (Hamilton) taken circa 1950s-circa 1980s by a range of photographers, mostly unknown. Also includes photographic prints relating to the Country Library Service and School Library Service units based in the National Library building in Palmerston North taken circa 1980s by Bruce Watt Photographic studios Ltd. Images include book vans (bookmobiles) on the road, interiors of book vans, staff librarians and rural patrons. Some photographs have identifying information on the back of the photographs. Negatives show views of book vans ED317 and ED103 and other vans parked outside a small wooden building, possibly former Hamilton Country Library building taken by unknown photographers circa 1950s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Envelope annotated by Country Library Service Librarian James Hector Sutherland. Handwriting identified by former colleague Librarian Joan McCracken. Envelope held at PAColl-10080. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s) including 3 with corresponding original negatives. 10 colour original photographic print(s). 8 b&w original negative(s) including strips, comprising 8 images. Physical Description: Photographic prints and negatives Provenance: Donated by National Library of New Zealand, School Services (Hamilton) 2012 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - (MS-Group-2148: Country Library Service (Hamilton)). See also Ephemera Eph-A-LIBRARY-1960s-1 for postcard and Drawings, Paintings and Prints DP-2013-020 for plans of book van..

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: A H & A W Reed (Firm); Blennerhassett, Jean Elizabeth, 1919-2008

Reference: Eph-A-LIBRARY-1960s-01

Description: Postcard shows a photograph of the Country Library Service's book van parked outside a wooden building with a short glass turret. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 102 x 153 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2148..

Date: 15 March 1989 - 3 May 1989

By: Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; New Zealand Oral History Archive; National Library of New Zealand

Reference: OHColl-0058

Description: The National Library of New Zealand commissioned the NZOHA in 1988 to record life history interviews with 12 former staff members or users of the Country Library Service. The interviews are with Field Librarians who drove book vans, with librarians who ran the `A' and `B' libraries which were supplied by the Country Library Service and with librarians who worked at the Country Library Service. The interviews describe the setting up, development and running of the Country Library Service and the `A' and `B' libraries. Some of the interviews also discuss library training, the development of the National Library of New Zealand and other libraries and library associations. The work of the Field Librarians is described in detail. The impact of Country Library Service on smaller and rural communities is discussed. Reference is made to many people involved in the library profession during the period 1930-1970. Accompanying material - Backfile contains research material collected for the project including articles, notes and chronologies. This includes articles written by Alan Mercer and Helen Sullivan who are interviewed for the research interview. Sponsored by - National Library of New Zealand Abstracted by - Hugo Manson and Judith Fyfe Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson and Judith Fyfe Quantity: 30 tape(s). 12 printed abstract(s). 13. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. The printed abstracts contain photographs of the interviewees, various library buildings and country library book vans Search dates: 1930 - 1970 Processing information: Note that the research interview has not yet been abstracted

Date: 1938, 1955-1956, 1970-2012

By: New Zealand. Country Library Service. Hamilton

Reference: MS-Group-2148

Description: Collection comprises correspondence and published material relating to the Country Library Service. Also newsletters from the National Library Service and vehicle plans for the Country Library Service bus. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photographs, printed matter Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from there. - To Photographic Archive - Photographs of the Country Library Service bus and Library users. - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans for the Country Library Service bus. (DP-2013-020;F-094-1/3) - To Ephemera Collection - Postcards of the Country Library Service bus..