BSANZ Conference Call for Papers
[posted on behalf of the BSANZ]CALL FOR PAPERS--Deadline in 10 daysThe BSANZ (Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand) wishes to remind readers that abstracts for its annual conference, to...
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Ephemera #4: Keepsakes Printed on Silk
Courtesy of the Otago Settlers MuseumSilk and the book have a long history together. Chinese scribes were using the material as a writing surface in their manuscript books as early as the fourth or...
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Publication Announcement: Treasures of the University of Canterbury Library
Treasures of the University of Canterbury LibraryEdited by Chris Jones and Bronwyn Matthewswith Jennifer Clement$40.00 NZD[from the U of C Press website]The University of Canterbury is the guardian of...
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Exhibition Announcement: Joking Aside: Caricatures, Cartoons and Comic...
Joking Aside: Caricatures, Cartoons and Comic IllustrationsAuckland Central City Library28 March to 15 July 2012Though over a month in, there is still plenty of time for locals (and some non locals) to...
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Exhibition Announcement: 'Our Will & Pleasure: Royal Autographs, Letters and...
The exhibition 'Our Will & Pleasure: Royal Autographs, Letters and Memorabilia of the British Monarchy' opened last night in the Reed Gallery, Heritage Collections, Dunedin City Library. This is...
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Rare Book School 2013, Dunedin
The eighth Australian and New Zealand Rare Book School is being hosted next year by the Centre for the Book, University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand.Running from 28 January to 1 February 2013, the...
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Rare Book Week in Melbourne
Kay Craddock's Bookshop156 Collins St.Next month sees the launch of the inaugural Melbourne Rare Book Week in conjunction with the biennial University of Melbourne Cultural Treasures Festival and the...
View ArticlePetition to Save the Mendham Collection
The following was posted on Exlibris-l on 19 July. I encourage everyone to please not only sign the petition, but to also circulate it far and wide in an effort to save this historic...
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Early Printing for Te Wiki o te Reo Maori
Today (Wednesday) marks the mid point of Maori Language Week (Te Wiki o te Reo Maori). The theme this year is arohatia te reo (to cherish the language). As such, this week's post highlights six of the...
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Katherine Mansfield in the News
I initially planned to write this week about a sixteenth-century document I happened upon in the A. H. Reed provenance files. This weekend, however, is shaping up to be a rather hectic one, so I will...
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'Omnibus Christi fidelibus': A Sixteenth-Century Deed Uncovered
In my previous post, I mentioned coming across a sixteenth-century document amongst the Reed provenance files. These files generally consist of pages from book dealer catalogues (occasionally with...
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Exhibition: Dunedin and Antarctic Exploration
Next Stop Antarctica: Dunedin's Role in Polar ExplorationReed Gallery, Third Floor, Dunedin City Library6 September to 2 December 20122012 is the centennial year marking the death of Robert Falcon...
View Article'An Unknown Vision of Middle-Earth'
Paul Tankard, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Otago, has published a piece in the Times Literary Supplement on previously unknown illustrations by Mary Fairburn for J. R. R. Tolkien's The...
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Major Ornament Study Digitized And Freely Available
[The following was posted to Exlibris-l by Shef Rogers, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Otago]Samuel Richardson by Mason ChamberlinThe Department of English at the University of Otago and Dr....
View ArticleCanterbury Tales (Of A New Zealand Variety)
The University of Canterbury and Canterbury Museum have joined forces to create a collaborative exhibition called 'Canterbury Tales', which explores the early history of the Canterbury Region and its...
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'Affair of Honour': A Second Duelling Letter Identified
[Apologies for the long silence. I was away attending a conference towards the end of October and the last fortnight has been pretty hectic!]On 26 January 2012, I published a post about the gentleman...
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The Oldest English Binding in New Zealand
The oldest English binding in New Zealand has been identified by Donald Kerr, Special Collections Librarian, University of Otago, and reported in the Otago Daily Times. The binding by Rood and Hunt,...
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Recent Acquisitions III: Boswell to the South Pole
[With Christmas just around the corner, my final post of 2012 highlights some of the year's notable purchases made by the Heritage Collections, Dunedin City Library. I'll be back in 2013 with more...
View ArticleExhibitions into the New Year
My first post of 2013 highlights some of the Australasian rare books and special collections exhibitions that opened late in 2012 and carried over into the New Year.'Art in the Service of Science:...
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Edward Wakefield's Annotated Copy of Dieffenbach's Travels in New Zealand
The Dunedin City Library is fortunate to hold three first edition copies of Ernst Dieffenbach's two-volume Travels in New Zealand (London, 1843), possibly the most reliable early book on New Zealand's...
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