Learn about the origins of some of Canterbury’s libraries and reading rooms. Damian Cairns, who cares for rare books and special collections in the Macmillan Brown Library, will share some gems from the University of Canterbury collection and explain the pivotal role The Canterbury Association, and its supporters, had in establishing libraries in Canterbury.
Items will be on display during the talk and if numbers / time permits there will be an opportunity for a tour of the stacks at the Macmillan Brown Library.
Where: University of Canterbury, Undercroft 101 (Beneath the Central Library on the Ilam Campus)
When: 2pm, Thursday November 2, 2023
RSVP: Please rsvp to cantage@gmail.com by 30th October
Parking: Paid parking is available on campus for visitors. Parking options and location of Library on map below.
The Lubeck Bible (1494) Gifted to the Canterbury Association by Arthur Philip Perceval.
Library (Puaka-James Hight) is circled and paid parking options marked.
Since 2022 the University of Canterbury Library has been using the Omeka S platform to showcase digitised material from the collections of the Macmillan Brown Library. The platform has been made available for staff and students to use for academic and library projects.
The site, Digital Voyages, provides a homepage for these digital projects which are accessible to staff, students, and the public. The site shows four recent projects which have used Omeka S; UC in Print, Historical Christchurch, Margaret Stoddart: Garden Scene, and The University of Canterbury Provenance site. Digital Voyages also provides access to past digital projects from UC’s staff and students.
UC in Print was created in response to the University of Canterbury’s 150th anniversary celebrations this year. The site is still under development, but you can access published material produced by staff and students including The Chronicle, (issues 1963-1991 currently available), Canta, (issues 1930-1958 currently available), The Canterbury College Review (1897 – 1948), Caxton Club Press works from 1933, the three issues of Canterbury Lambs, as well as the two official histories of the University (1927 and 1973).
Historical Christchurchwas created in support of the Sociology of the City course offered at UC, and compliments the Ōtautahi – Christchurch subject guide by providing digitised copies of many of the historical works mentioned in the guide. Historical Christchurch categorises the digitised material under the headings, Christchurch the Garden City, Industry and Commerce, Workers and Unions, Christchurch as a Peace City, Socialism, and the Built Environment.
UC Library Provenance allows the user to discover the social and intellectual life of books and collections held at the University of Canterbury Library by exploring the signs of provenance, such as bookplates, inscriptions, inserts and stamps.
The three sites mentioned here are ongoing and will be added to as more material comes to hand, if you have any questions comments or corrections, please do contact Damian Cairns (Research Services Librarian) at the Macmillan Brown Library.
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