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	National Library of New Zealand; Alexander Turnbull Library Seminar Fulbright-Hays 2004
		National Library of New Zealand; Alexander Turnbull Library
		National Library of New Zealand; Alexander Turnbull Library
		The general collections held in the National Library of New Zealand consists of approximately 530,000 titles is built to back up the information resources of all New Zealand libraries, across all subjects, at varying levels of intensity.
	www.fulbright.org.nz /fulbrighthays/seminars/national-library.html (194 words)

	IAML National Reports: New Zealand
		In November 2003, the national Executive held a planning meeting with Robyn Holmes of the National Library of Australia who is a member of the Organising Committee for the joint Conference of Austraian and New Zealand Branches of IAML to be held in Canberra 12-15 September 2004.
		The Annual General Meeting and Seminar of the New Zealand Branch of IAML was held at the National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, on September 8, 1995.
		The 18th AGM of the New Zealand Branch of IAML was held 19-20 October 2000 in Christchurch.
	www.iaml.info /ntnl_reports_NZ.php (1895 words)

	I CARE - Crosspoint Anti Racism
		National Assembly of People with Disabilities New Zealand DPA is an umbrella organisation representing people with disabilities, the organisations involved in advocacy on their behalf, and service providers.
		As a national assembly encompassing people with all types of disabilities - physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric, neurological and age related - DPA is the voice of people with disabilities in New Zealand.
		The New Zealand Government is keen to exempt itself from completing a review of all domestic legislation that violates our human rights commitments.Currently we are looking at providing an alternative report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child when our government's report is due in the year 2000.
	www.magenta.nl /crosspoint/newzealand.html (349 words)

	Access for New Zealanders to the world of information: the National Library of New Zealand's strategies - 1999 Interlending & Document Supply Conference
		The National Library of New Zealand operates in a political environment that is committed to ensuring effective control and value for money of public expenditure.
		New Zealand is a small nation with experience and challenges in the area of interlending that have relevance for both developed and less developed countries.
		New Zealanders need access to the world of knowledge to complement and supplement their own important contribution to the world's knowledge.
	www.ifla.org /ilds/papers/elaine_hall.htm (203 words)

	New Zealand - Ancient and Modern History
		They were offered a new life in New Zealand; a free passage with their families, and a cottage with an acre of land to become theirs after a seven year term, in return for certain military duties.
		Though the campaign was a failure, Anzac (initials of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) has come to stand, in the words of the historian, C.E.W. Bean, "for reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise, recourcefulness, fidelity, comradeship and endurance", remembered each year on April 25th.
		A Standard for the People commemorates the 150th anniversary of the founding of a Jewish community in New Zealand's capital city.
	www.enzed.com /hist.html (1456 words)

	National Library of New Zealand - Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
		The National Digital Forum (NDF) is a coalition of museums, archives, art galleries, libraries and government departments working together to enhance electronic access to New Zealand’s culture and heritage.
		You'll also find useful links and information on how to use the National Library, including the Alexander Turnbull Library, and the various services we offer.
		Workshops are held, on request, throughout New Zealand.
	www.natlib.govt.nz (627 words)

	National Library Catalogues Worldwide
		For this reason, the catalogue of a national library is the best guide to publications issued in the country in question, and anyone wanting information on the publications of that country should make the catalogue of the national library the starting point of their search.
		If the national library has a website, the name of the library will be hyperlinked to the library's website.
		For information on national libraries which maintain websites but do not provide free access to their catalogues via the web, see our guide to national library websites.
	www.library.uq.edu.au /ssah/jeast (279 words)

	Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand - Sustainability, Justice, Democracy, Peace
		New Zealand house prices are being pushed beyond the reach of many ordinary Kiwis thanks to an out of control buy up by foreign investors, but a lack of monitoring means the true picture is hidden.
		The new government is bad news for unions and bad news for New Zealand workers.
		New Zealand First has mostly voted against the ERA, reforms to ACC and most other related legislation, while United Future has been even worse.
	www.greens.org.nz (352 words)

	New Zealand's source for technology news on Stuff.co.nz: National Library to build digital archive
		For years publishers have handed the National Library three copies (soon to become two) of every book, newspaper and journal published in the country as an effort to preserve the country's heritage.
		From later this year, it may become part of the nation's heritage, available for all New Zealanders to look at today and in the future.
		This year the National Library will be collecting and storing material which only exists in digital form, something it has done with printed material for years.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3238488a11275,00.html (954 words)

	National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa) Bill - Green Party
		I think this is an appropriate moment to acknowledge the new National Librarian, Penny Carnaby, and the sense of optimism she brings to her position at this critical juncture in the Library’s history.
		The cultural devastation which peaked in the managerialist era of the late 90s has cast a long shadow over New Zealand’s recent library history.
		The National Library Bill is the culmination of years of hard work, negotiation and compromise among and between people and organisations with a whole range of different vested interests but who all share a commitment to preserving and clarifying the status of both libraries.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/speech6248.html (552 words)

	New ZealandGenWeb: Resources
		Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand are the principal repositories for New Zealand records.
		Family History Centers in New Zealand, provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
		New Zealand Bound is dedicated to identifying genealogical resources to assist in locating which New Zealand bound ship an immigrant ancestor was aboard.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nzlwgw/resources.html (764 words)

	Te Puna Web Directory > NZ > General and Reference > Libraries
		The Westland District Library, in Hokitika, Westland, New Zealand is a public library serving the 8,280 residents of Westland District between the Taramakau River and Jackson's Bay, along the West Coast of the South Island.
		The Hocken Library is one of the foremost historical research libraries in New Zealand.
		Library at Puke Ariki in New Plymouth, Taranaki.
	webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz /dir/en/nz/general-and-reference/libraries (2519 words)

	Preservation Metadata: Pragmatic First Steps at the National Library of New Zealand
		The 21st Century: The Strategic Direction of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mätauranga o Aotearoa.
		In common with other cultural institutions, the Library is undergoing a period of intense change brought about by the quantity of digital resources that must be managed and the knowledge that the rate at which we accumulate this material will dramatically increase year on year.
		NLNZ has developed a Preservation Metadata Schema [2] designed to strike a balance between the principles expressed in the OAIS Information Model [3] and the practicalities of implementing a working set of preservation metadata.
	www.dlib.org /dlib/april03/thompson/04thompson.html (2665 words)

	LLRX -- An Introduction to New Zealand Law & Legal Information 2002
		Margaret Greville is the Law Librarian at the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand.
		Law firms in New Zealand make good use of their web sites for advertising their specialities, for recruiting, for publishing their newsletters (a very good source of up-to-date commentary on recent changes to the New Zealand legal landscape), and for providing a safe intranet to share with major corporate clients.
		Finally in this general court system is the District Court, usually the court of first instance for most matters, and these courts are to be found in most towns and cities in New Zealand.
	www.llrx.com /features/newzealand.htm (4824 words)

	Newsbytes News Network: New Zealand's National Library To Archive Web Sites - Brief Article
		The National Library Bill seeks to expand the library's records of New Zealand's culture, history and heritage.
		Legislation introduced Thursday in New Zealand will require Web site owners and electronic publishers to provide copies of their works to the National Library.
		"This material is just as important as books in recording New Zealand's heritage."
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_2002_March_15/ai_84873101 (250 words)

	Local Government Online - Default
		New future planned for Waiheke library and service centre Auckland City is currently exploring options to enhance both the Waiheke library and the service centre facilities and is seeking input from the community through an independent users' survey...
		New Disney fantasy to come to the Henderson Valley Studios Waitakere has scored another international film coup, with the announcement that Disney Corporation is coming back to the city to film another top children’s fantasy adventure...
		North Shore set for new express bus service North Shore commuters are facing the first major disruption from their $290 million busway construction, even though two of its bus stations...
	www.localgovt.co.nz (2348 words)

	Ara Nui : Aotearoa / New Zealand Information Directory
		This work is now being continued by the National Library of New Zealand as Te Puna Web Directory.
		We wish the National Library well with their new venture.
		Lincoln University Library would like to thank the many people who supported, commented on or just used Ara Nui over the last 5 years.
	www.lincoln.ac.nz /libr/nz (90 words)

	Friends of the Turnbull Library - general information
		For more information about the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, which is part of the National Library of New Zealand, click here.
		The Turnbull Library Record, a scholarly journal focusing on the history and society of New Zealand and its South Pacific neighbours and on early printed books, the works of John Milton and his contemporaries, and fine printing.
		The Library was founded in 1918, upon the gift to the nation of the extensive private collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, a prominent early Wellington citizen.
	www.turnbullfriends.org.nz (424 words)

	New Zealand Genealogy - Over 550 Links - geneology
		New Zealand Gazette - Justice's of the Peace 1866 A-M and N-Z
		Officiating Ministers within New Zealand of the Free Church Of Scotland-1854
		New Zealand Herald: Deaths extracted from the `New Zealand Herald' 1993 (over 20,000 names)
	www.genealogylinks.net /newzealand (326 words)

	National Library of New Zealand Timeframes
		Well, the National Library of New Zealand has once again proved to be a pioneer in the online world.
		The public release of this service makes available a pictorial snapshot of life in New Zealand and the Pacific.
		Timeframes is an online database of heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, part of the NLNZ.
	city-gallery.com /resource/pa/Reviews/Collections/NLNZ_Timeframes.html (187 words)

	New chapter in online books - The Washington Times: Metropolitan - February 28, 2005
		We are working with the national library of New Zealand, who went to all their premier authors asking for permission to make their books available in a digitized version and 37 authors agreed, including some of their top people.
		Early on, the children met with Library of Congress specialists to discuss selection criteria, but most of what they do each week concerns design matters and how best to use the library.
		Druin admits, "but being an international library makes it both harder and easier.
	www.washtimes.com /metro/20050227-101610-1015r.htm (1105 words)

	SLANZA
		There is now an award for principals who have enabled the development of their school library to support student learning and who have promoted the importance of excellent school libraries to the wider community.
		Examples of job descriptions for the library team and a flowchart of the job description process.
		SLANZA is offering 15 study grants for 2006 to those working in a school library.
	www.slanza.org.nz (330 words)

	Archives New Zealand. Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
		These records provide essential evidence of people's rights and entitlements, of the government's impact on New Zealand (both positive and negative) since 1840, and of what has happened in the past to individuals, whanau, communities and to society as a whole.
		Archives New Zealand works to ensure there is an authentic and reliable record of government.
		We preserve and provide access to those records that need to be kept permanently, and are responsible for millions of such items including the Treaty of Waitangi, immigration and legal records, films and photographs.
	www.archives.govt.nz (109 words)

	TKI - Index New Zealand (INNZ) Online
		Index New Zealand Online has been developed to support teaching and learning in New Zealand and is managed by the National Library of New Zealand.
		The index is private to New Zealand schools and requires a login.
		This list is grouped by subject area on Index New Zealand titles by subject.
	www.tki.org.nz /e/tki/innz (149 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : www.nzedge.com : Katherine Mansfield
		The New Zealand she made up in ‘Prelude’ and ‘At the Bay’ is by no means escapist or classless or wishful, and yet the small, often petty domestic world of the Burrells is wonderfully enlarged by a sense of discovery and possibility.
		And yet her masterpieces—the long stories ‘At the Bay’ and ‘Prelude’—are lovingly detailed recreations of a New Zealand childhood, reports from the fringe—the edge of the world as she felt it to be.
		His new wife, whom he called ‘Tig’ (they were now ‘the two tigers’ and he was ‘Wig’), obliged with a suite of New Zealand stories: ‘The Woman at the Store’.
	www.nzedge.com /heroes/mansfield.html (4903 words)

	Libweb - Libraries on the Web
		National Library of New Zealand Wellington, New Zealand
		Palmerston North City Library Palmerston North, New Zealand
		New Zealand Library and Information Association Wellington, New Zealand
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /Libweb/aus.html (211 words)

	Cyndi's List - New Zealand
		Anzac Day is a National Day of Remembrance consecrated in Australia, New Zealand & Turkey in memory of those brave soldiers who lost their lives in Word War I at the Dardanelles in Gallipoli, Turkey.
		For those researching the Royal New Zealand Fencibles, a corp of retired soldiers from Britain and Ireland who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand 1847-1852 and formed the defence force which protected the early settlers of Auckland.
		Shipwreck on the coast of New Zealand in 1862.
	www.cyndislist.com /newzealand.htm (2243 words)

	PictureAustralia National Library of New Zealand
		The Alexander Turnbull Library, a division of the National Library of New Zealand, holds the nation's pre-eminent collection of books, manuscripts, music, maps, sound recordings, ephemera, photographs, cartoons, paintings, drawings and prints.
		The picture collections cover the social and natural history of New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica from the earliest European contact to the present.
		Information about searching the database, copyright and ordering copies of images from the Library's collections, can be found on the Timeframes site.
	www.pictureaustralia.org /nlnz.html (199 words)

	New Zealand Art and Culture
		It wants to represent New Zealand's international population as a global network that is an asset, not a brain drain.
		Founded in 1994 as a non-profit, apolitical organisation dedicated to building bridges of understanding between New Zealand and Asia.
		New Zealand's Information Network is dedicated to providing informative unbiased information on Travel Tourism, Accommodation and Transportation along with comprehensive travel guides for popular destinations, activities and 'all things New Zealand'.
	www.zeroland.co.nz /newz.html (207 words)

	Gallery of features - New Zealand History website
		It includes insights into their perceptions of New Zealand culture, how their staff were treated, how they got around, where they lived, and what it was like to be the wife of a governor-general.
		To mark the 150th anniversary of the first parliamentary elections in New Zealand in 1853, the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage was commissioned to write a history of the vote, Adventures in Democracy by Neill Atkinson.
		This feature explores the role of New Zealanders in the North African Campaign with particular emphasis on the times those who served were not in action.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /GalleryContentFrame.html (2407 words)

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