University of Waikato - Library

Library

The University of Waikato Library has extensive holdings in four locations, and provides access to a range of electronic periodicals and books.

The University has a history of digitising material that supports research on New Zealand history and in developing aids for finding otherwise less-accessible New Zealand material.

Te Kohikohinga o Aotearoa - The New Zealand Collection contains more than 100,000 items relating to New Zealand and selected areas of the Pacific, as well as literary works written by New Zealanders.

Te Kohikohinga o Aotearoa - The New Zealand Collection’s archives include:

• Pei te Hurinui Jones papers

• The Selwyn Collection of early Māori documents, which are a collection of 210 letters to Bishop Selwyn, dated from 23 February 1842 to August 1872. An author index has been compiled, as well as a chronological listing of the documents.

• Rosemary Seymour Collection

• Wattie Whittlestone papers

• The Raupatu Document Bank, prepared by the Waitangi Tribunal, consists of copies of documents held by the National Archives of New Zealand relating to land claims in New Zealand from the 1870s to 1960s, together with statutes relating to confiscated land.

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