新西兰国家图书馆Papers Past电子资源

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About Papers Past

Here are some answers to a few frequently asked questions about Papers Past:

How many items are on Papers Past?

Check out our stats page for details on the current collection.

Is Papers Past finished?

We will continue to add more full-text material to Papers Past, including additional newspaper and journal titles.

What if I see something that needs fixing?

We want your feedback so that we can continue to improve the service. To send us your comments and suggestions, please email paperspast@natlib.govt.nz.

Can I make corrections to the OCR text?

We haven’t enabled this feature yet, but we know lots of people want this feature and we’ve now put most of the building blocks in place to support this. We will get there.

Papers Past is divided into five sections:

1 – Newspapers

The Newspaper section contains digitised NZ and Pacific newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Each newspaper has its own page containing information about the publication, including the date range which is available online. You can find links to all the newspapers on the Explore all newspapers page.

The newspapers on Papers Past are only a proportion of all New Zealand newspapers. If you cannot find what you are looking for online, it may be available as a paper copy or microfilm. Check the National Newspaper Collection page on the National Library website for more information.

National Newspaper Collection

Māori newspapers

In 2015 the National Library added a collection of historic newspapers published primarily for a Māori audience between 1842 and 1935. This is based on the digital Niupepa Collection developed and made available in 2000 by the New Zealand Digital Library Project, at the Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato. The source material for this digital collection is ‘Niupepa 1842-1933’, a collection of newspapers published in Māori or for a Māori readership, filmed by the Alexander Turnbull Library (1988) and made available on microfiche (1996).

There were three main types of Māori newspapers published; government sponsored, Māori initiated, and religious. Further information about the newspapers can be found in Rere Atu Taku Manu! Discovering History, Language & Politics in the Māori Language Newspapers, edited by Jennifer Curnow, Ngapare Hopa, and Jane McRae (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002).

Titles currently available:

There are also some Māori periodicals available in the Magazines and Journals section:

The digital Niupepa Collection is available on the New Zealand Digital Library website.

Māori Niupepa Collection — New Zealand Digital Library website

2 – Magazines and Journals

The Magazines and Journals section contains digitised NZ journal publications. Many of the publications were mixed in with the newspapers in the previous Papers Past, so if you can’t find an existing title in the Newspapers section, try the Magazines and Journals section as well.

There are also two publications which were delivered in their own stand-alone websites:

Te Ao Hou (1952-1975)
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1868-1960)

These two publications were processed using a different method to the majority of titles, so there are some differences in presentation. The most noticeable is that search term highlighting on the page image is not available.

Each magazine or journal has its own page containing information about the publication, including the date range that is available online. You can find links to all of them on the Explore all magazines and journals page.

3 – Letters and Diaries

The Letters and Diaries section contains digitised full-text manuscripts. Currently this section only contains the papers of Sir Donald McLean.

4 – Parliamentary Papers

The Parliamentary Papers section contains digitised reports from volumes of the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHRs) and the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives.

You can find further information about the AJHRs on the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives page.

Statement from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, 2012

The Votes and Proceedings from 1854 to 1856, the Appendices to the Journal of the House of Representatives from 1858 to 2002, and from 2003, the Parliamentary Papers series, are all published by order or under the authority of the House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House controls and directs the printing of parliamentary documents. As Clerk of the House of Representatives, I fully endorse this project to digitise the Votes and Proceedings and the Appendices to the Journal of the House of Representatives as it is important to have these vital records available to the public in an easily accessible and searchable form.

Volumes from 1854 to 1930 have now been digitised and the collection is complete in that all volumes from that period have been accounted for but they should not be relied upon as the authoritative source. The Office of the Clerk will continue to hold the authoritative copy of record in bound volumes. Copies are available for viewing either at my Office or at the Parliamentary Library. Hardcopy sets are also held at the National Library, university libraries and some large public libraries.

Mary Harris

Clerk of the House of Representatives (2007-2015)

5 – Books

The Books section contains a range of New Zealand books that were digitised as part of two pilots in 2012 and 2015. It also contains nineteenth century te reo Māori material listed in the bibliography Books in Māori/Ngā Tānga Reo Māori.

Only a small portion of New Zealand publications are currently available in the Books section. Other online collections of historic New Zealand books include Early New Zealand Books (run by the University of Auckland) and the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (run by Victoria University of Wellington).

Early New Zealand Books

New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

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