The Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (RNZIH) is a horticultural society in New Zealand .
56-584: According to its website, the RNZIH was founded in 1923. New Zealand's National Library holds minute books from the Institute dating back to 1924. The RNZIH is only National Horticultural Society. Their mission is to "Encourage and improve horticulture in New Zealand by promoting the understanding, appreciation, conservation and use of plants". The New Zealand Gardens Trust (NZGT) is an organisation set up in 2004 by
112-580: A cottage behind Parliament's main building, and the collection grew to 4000 books. After Parliament moved to Wellington in 1862, some books were sent down on a ship, the White Swan , which was wrecked on the Wairarapa coast. Many parliamentary papers and reference books of the inchoate library were lost. The library also lost its accounts in the wreck. Premier William Fox , most of his Cabinet and government officials were on board, but there were no deaths. However,
168-710: A new National Library building, officially opened in August. The architecture of the building is said to have been heavily influenced by the design of the Boston City Hall , but direct reference to the Birmingham Central Library should not be ruled out. In 1988, the National Library became an autonomous government department where previously it had been administered by the Department of Education. The same year,
224-476: A parliamentary information service of documents and newspapers plus an extensive library of international research and literature. The Alexander Turnbull Library was founded in 1920 and grew to hold a "comprehensive collection" of primarily New Zealand culture and history, Māori and non-Māori. The National Library Service, established in 1945, was made up of four divisions: the Country Library Service,
280-520: A statement in support of controlled digital lending and highlighted the degree to which the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for legislation to enable libraries to provide temporary digital access to library holdings. The Library's donation agreement with the Internet Archive was supported by library groups and New Zealand civil society organisations. The overseas published collections project
336-665: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . National Library of New Zealand The National Library of New Zealand ( Māori : Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa ) is charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations" (National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga) Act 2003). Under the Act, the library's duties include collecting, preserving and protecting New Zealand's documentary heritage , supporting other libraries in New Zealand, and collaborating with peer institutions abroad. The library headquarters
392-404: Is now managed by Heritage New Zealand . It is charged under the Act to: Turnbull collected the works of John Milton extensively, and the library now has holdings of Milton's works which are "ranked among the finest in the world" and "good collections of seventeenth-century poetical miscellanies and of Dryden material, ... along with fine sets of literary periodicals." Chief librarians of
448-682: Is now part of National Library but its collections are fully protected by law and may not be sold or otherwise disposed of by the Direction of the National library. Unlike the general collections of the National Library, the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library are normally held in its Wellington building, the National Library building constructed in 1987. Turnbull House, the library's former location in Bowen Street in downtown Wellington,
504-699: Is on the corner of Aitken and Molesworth Streets in Wellington , close to the New Zealand Parliament Buildings and the Court of Appeal . The National Library is New Zealand 's legal deposit library, and the Legal Deposit Office is the country's agency for ISBN and ISSN . The library supports schools through its Services to Schools business unit, which has curriculum and advisory branches around New Zealand. The National Library of New Zealand
560-621: The Department of Internal Affairs . In June 2018 a National Archival and Library Institutions Ministerial Group (NALI) was announced. The purpose of NALI was to examine the structure and role of the National Library, Archives New Zealand and Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision , the position of the Chief Archivist and National Librarian, and the future of collecting, preserving and providing access to New Zealand's documentary heritage, particularly digital preservation and access. Before and since NALI
616-691: The General Assembly Library , is the library and information resource of the New Zealand Parliament . The present building that houses the library was completed in 1899; it survived a fire that destroyed the rest of the General Assembly building in 1907. The first General Assembly Library was housed in a small room shared with the Auckland Provincial Council . It contained 750 volumes in 1860. The library then moved to
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#1733085529956672-407: The "creative sector") and Book Guardians Aotearoa advocate for increased government funding for correct storage and professional curation of the international collection, to encourage and facilitate public accessibility to the threatened books. The Creative Sector does not oppose digitisation, but wishes it to occur within New Zealand as long as it fully respects authors' rights. On 29 November 2021,
728-399: The 600,000 books by writing articles, organising events and publishing a 64 page anthology of writing. Organisations that protect writer and publisher copyright particularly PANZ and NZSA (PEN NZ) are primarily concerned with the interests of their clients and members, e.g. illegal copying of books. Meanwhile, groups like Writers Against National Library Disposals (referred to by government as
784-526: The Alexander Turnbull Library have been: The Friends of the Turnbull Library (FoTL) is an incorporated society that supports the work of the Alexander Turnbull Library by organising events, activities and offering an annual research grant to a scholars using the library’s resources. FoTL also funds the publication of the Turnbull Library Record which publishes information about the activities of
840-709: The General Assembly Library returned to become part of the Parliamentary Service , changing its name in 1987 to the Parliamentary Library . When it separated from the National Library, the National Library then took guardianship of hundreds of thousands of international volumes previously acquired by the General Assembly Library, and the National Library continued to curate the traditional international library. In 1987, staff and collections from 14 different sites around Wellington were centralised in
896-456: The Government would build a new archives building on the site of the former Defence House on Wellington's Aitken Street between the present Archives NZ and National Library buildings. The new NZ$ 290 million building will also host archives repository and specialist facilities for the National Library, Archives New Zealand and Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. In 2015, the National Library signalled
952-729: The Index ceased on 21 June 2024, though the historic entries will remain available. Established in 2007, the Aotearoa People's Network Kaharoa (APNK) provides internet access to the public through local libraries in New Zealand. The service provides funding for internet connectivity and computing hardware. In 2009 the service won an award from the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa. New Zealand Parliamentary Library The New Zealand Parliamentary Library ( Māori : Te Whare Pukapuka o te Paremata ), known until 1985 as
1008-416: The Internet Archive uses controlled digital lending to "prevent illicit copying and ensure that copies are loaned to one person at a time" and that "controlled digital lending provides a way to ensure protection for content creators as well as the ability for people to be able to access and use the work that's been created." The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) issued
1064-428: The Library took on the te reo Māori name Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, which translated means: the wellspring of knowledge, of New Zealand. In early 1998 an ambitious $ 8.5 million computer project was scrapped. The National Library building was to be expanded and upgraded in 2009–2011, but the incoming Fifth National Government greatly scaled down the scope of the work, reducing the budget for it and delaying
1120-407: The Library's growing digital heritage collections will, despite technical obsolescence, be preserved and remain accessible to researchers, students and library users now and in the future. The Papers Past website, run by the National Library of New Zealand, provides free access to digitised newspapers, magazines, journals, letters, diaries, and parliamentary papers from the 19th and 20th centuries. It
1176-419: The National Library of New Zealand announced that it was "reconsidering" its contract with Internet Archive, and would make an announcement in early 2022 regarding its continuation or cancellation. The National Library of New Zealand has also stated that it would enter into consultation with all the authors' rights and creative sector groups concerned, in 2022. On 31 October 2022, in a letter that seems to bring
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#17330855299561232-549: The National Library’s functions, in line with our legislated mandate and collections policy." In September 2020, the review and weeding of overseas published book collections began to be discussed in the New Zealand media. The review attracted both positive and negative international and local media coverage. The review revealed that some of the books may be of pertinence to New Zealand/Aotearoan history and on-going narratives. Concerned that researchers would lose access,
1288-585: The New Zealand Society of Authors lodged an appeal against the legality of the National Library's donation to Internet Archive with the attorney-general , arguing that the donation breached copyright law and expressing concern about the future of the books should the archive be ordered to close. In October 2021, British novelist Philip Pullman , the President of the British Society of Authors , criticised
1344-506: The Overseas Collecting Plan, and in alignment with the 2015 National Library Collections Policy. A large part of the National Library's international collection is therefore the legacy of the General Assembly Library, and its disposal has become highly contentious within New Zealand and overseas. In 1966 the General Assembly Library became by law a founding entity of the new tripartite National Library of New Zealand ; much of
1400-607: The Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. According to its website, the NZGT "promotes the best in New Zealand gardens and horticulture" and runs a system to assess gardens that the public can visit and provide visitors with information on those gardens. Gardens in the NZGT register are rated out of four levels, ranging from three stars to six stars. A six star rating indicates that "these gardens provide New Zealand’s top garden experiences. These gardens achieve and maintain
1456-574: The School Library Service, a National Library centre and Library School in Wellington. In 1974, the Archive of New Zealand Music was established at the suggestion of New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn . In 1976 Mary Ronnie became the first female national librarian in the world, due to becoming New Zealand's first female National Librarian, at the National Library of New Zealand. In 1985,
1512-531: The aegis of the Department of Internal Affairs, operations began in 2018 to dispense with 625,000 "overseas published" books, out of a total of overseas published collections amounting to 710,000 items. In October 2019, the library announced its intention to offer the books to local libraries, prison libraries, and community groups. The library stated the weeding was being done to create "room to continue to grow our Māori, Pacific and New Zealand collections and to build well-managed coherent collections that support
1568-548: The beginning of a review process of their international collections, comprising the General Assembly international library in its guardianship of General Assembly collections and substantial post-1965 acquisitions. The National Library classified these collections as "overseas published collections". This was done in consultation with New Zealand’s library sector. The review process was publicly announced in December 2019. Under
1624-505: The commencement, arguing concerns about the cost of the project and the reduction in the accessibility of collections and facilities during the construction work. The building closed for two years, reopening in June 2012, while refurbishment continued. On 25 March 2010 the Minister of State Services announced that Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand would be subsumed under
1680-502: The current service operates from centres in Auckland and Christchurch. Services to Schools has three priorities: School libraries can keep up-to-date with research on school libraries, and gain advice on management, finance and staffing, collection management, library systems, and teaching and learning. Reading engagement encompasses advice on supporting children's reading and children's and young adults literature. Digital literacy supports
1736-476: The donation for allegedly breaching copyright laws. Wellington QC Hugh Rennie also alleged that the National Library was receiving advice from a lawyer unauthorised to practise in New Zealand, in response to Tohatoha copyright adviser Michael Wolfe's statement in support of the donation agreement. The lawyers Andrew Brown QC and Jack Oliver-Hood also opined that the deal made the library liable for copyright infringement in New Zealand courts. The Library states that
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1792-639: The former National Computer Centre in Whanganui. The library has three main groups: the General Collections which includes New Zealand published and overseas published volumes, the Schools Collection, and the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Physical access to some of the collections may be requested through digital portals, and digital acquisitions are possible through products and online resources. The General Collections focus on supporting
1848-671: The foundation stone. The fireproofing saved the General Assembly Library from the fire of 1907, which destroyed the rest of the wooden parliament buildings. (Coincidentally, the same thing happened in Ottawa , Canada, in 1916—with fire doors saving the Library of Parliament when the Centre Block of the Canadian Parliament burned. ) Like Parliament House, the building was strengthened and refurbished between 1993 and 1995. The building design
1904-485: The guardianship of the National Library. The Parliamentary Library is now solely an information repository and research service for members of Parliament and parliamentary staff. Access to the building is generally restricted to those on parliamentary business, although research publications produced are available to the public. The current library building occupied by the Parliamentary Library in Wellington
1960-450: The highest levels of presentation, design and plant interest throughout the year." As of 2019, sixteen gardens have received six stars, including Ayrlies Garden (Auckland), Otari-Wilton's Bush Native Botanic Garden (Wellington), Larnach Castle Garden (Dunedin), and Te Kainga Marire (New Plymouth). This article about an organisation in New Zealand is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This horticulture article
2016-477: The information needs of New Zealanders through services to individuals, schools and researchers, with notable collections such as the Dorothy Neal White Collection. The Schools Collection contains books and other material to support teaching and learning in New Zealand schools. From the foundation of the National Library in 1965 until 1986 the General Assembly Library was one of the three pillars of
2072-493: The institution. The General Assembly Library had previously acted as a de facto National Library, offering recess privileges to the public when parliament was not in session. In 1924, for example, "6,135 books were issued during the recess period, and 670 recess access cards had been granted". The Chief Librarian further notes that "the New Zealand General Assembly Library is the only legislative library in
2128-698: The library and showcases the Library’s collections. First published in 1940, digital issues of The Turnbull Library Record are available through Papers Past. The library houses a number of specialty collections: The unpublished material held by the Turnbull Library can be searched in Tiaki. The He Tohu exhibition displays three nationally significant documents which are on loan from Archives New Zealand's holdings. The documents were moved from Archives New Zealand on 22 April 2017 under tight security. The National Library has been providing support to schools since 1942 and
2184-539: The library's collection (close to half a million volumes) was moved to various National Library locations, while certain texts inseparable from parliament's functioning remained in the Gothic building. In 1985, the General Assembly Library distinguished its function, becoming henceforth, the "New Zealand Parliamentary Library", and left the National Library to become part of the newly-formed Parliamentary Service. In so doing, it left its wide-ranging "non-parliamentary" collection in
2240-454: The offering of this privilege had its opponents at different times. The writer Katherine Mansfield had borrowing privileges when parliament was not in session, accessing books by Heinrich Heine , Nietzsche , a translation of Bushido by Dr Inazo Nitobe, the English poets, Ibsen , Maeterlinck , and a book on the psychology of women. The General Assembly Library continued to grow throughout
2296-519: The order to jettison cases of papers and books in an effort to right the ship after it struck a reef, caused those cases to be swept into the Pacific. They were never seen again, despite pleas for their return. In subsequent years, it became common to blame the wreck of the White Swan for failure to produce documents which it was "thought inexpedient to produce". The library then moved to six large rooms behind Parliament in Wellington. The earliest catalogue
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2352-563: The parliamentary activities of the Library were isolated and newly identified as Parliamentary Library, the international library, begun with allocation of funds in 1856, fell into neglect within the National Library, resulting in a 2018 directive of the Minister responsible for the former General Assembly/National Library approving "the removal of all overseas publications from the Overseas Published Collections, excluding those in subject areas identified as collecting priorities in
2408-406: The protection of the Alexander Turnbull Library. The Alexander Turnbull Library was founded in 1919 by Alexander Turnbull (1868–1918), whose bequest to the nation included the 55,000 volume nucleus of the current collection. In later years, the library made its own acquisitions and his bequest was augmented with books from the General Assembly Library collections. The Alexander Turnbull Library
2464-530: The protests and the process of disposals to some kind of resolution, the director of the New Zealand National Library announced that the library is "developing a new policy for removing and disposing of collection items". Details of this new policy are expected to be made public in 2023 prior to the next general election. The National Library's collections are stored in the main building in Wellington and several other locations in New Zealand such as
2520-543: The school library's role in developing digital literacy and inquiry learning . Other services include: Established in 2004, the National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) is a partnership between the National Library, Ex Libris and Sun Microsystems to develop a digital archive and preservation management system. A digital storehouse, the system ensures that websites, digital images, CDs, DVDs and other 'digitally born' and digitised items that make up
2576-408: The then General Assembly Library from the main entrance section. The third storey of the design was not built to save money (costs had reached £50,000) and it was completed by the government architect John Campbell . He redesigned the parapets, gables and roof to take account of the building's reduced height. Turnbull dissociated himself from the entire project and asked for his name to be removed from
2632-401: The twentieth century. When, in 1965, it became one of the three bases of the newly formed National Library, it continued to function in the same bipartite manner, as parliamentary service and wide-ranging resource of international thought, art and literature. During 1965 to 1985 the international part of the library expanded significantly as a well-funded core element of the National Library. When
2688-557: The weeding of over 600,000 books was challenged by the advocacy group Book Guardians Aotearoa. The books in question are housed in Wellington and Whanganui . In July 2021 the Library announced it had made a donation agreement with the Internet Archive to take the books and digitise them, making them available to researchers on their Open Library platform. In September 2021, the Publishers Association of New Zealand and
2744-471: The world from which volumes may be taken out during the recess". Until 1986, its collections included a significant overseas collection and copious parliamentary documents. The General Assembly Library became a stand-alone institution in 1986, when it restricted its focus to documents of immediate pertinence to parliamentary activities. Many of its overseas collections remained with the National Library and some works, particularly its rare books, then entered under
2800-577: Was an author catalogue published in 1867 (8vo, pp. 213). The next was a classified catalogue, published in 1872, the library then contained 8,700 volumes. In 1875, an elaborately classified catalogue of 11,450 books was compiled by Ewan McColl (8vo, pp. 351). In 1880, the library contained 18,562 works, and by 1897 it held close to 40,000 volumes. It was New Zealand's finest library and source of overseas ideas, philosophy and literature for representatives and staff. Premier and poet Alfred Domett supported access for some non-parliamentarians, although
2856-540: Was completed for the General Assembly Library in 1899. It is the oldest of the extant buildings in the Parliament complex . It stands to the north of Parliament House (to its right, looking from the front). The library was originally designed as a three-storey building by Thomas Turnbull in Gothic Revival style. It was fire resistant, being constructed of brick made at Mount Cook gaol with an iron firedoor separating
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#17330855299562912-545: Was formed in 1965 when the General Assembly Library, the Alexander Turnbull Library, and the National Library Service were brought together by the National Library Act 1965. The General Assembly Library was founded from money voted by Parliament in 1856 and soon became "a magnificent national treasure house in a splendid building". From its beginnings until it became the National Library, it always comprised
2968-485: Was launched in 2001. In 2014 it included an estimated 3.3 million digitised pages. Since 12 September 2024 a correctable text feature has been added, allowing users to correct automatically generated text. Index New Zealand (INNZ) is a freely accessible online index of articles from journals, magazines and newspapers covering New Zealand and the South Pacific, with some links to the full text of articles. Updating of
3024-430: Was replicated to match the original designs. The ornate main foyer, which was damaged by another fire in 1992, was refurbished. The Gothic elements of the roof, including ironwork, turrets, and finials , were recreated. The original iron door (that saved the General Assembly Library in 1907) was restored. The building was registered on 7th July 1989 by Heritage New Zealand (formerly New Zealand Historic Places Trust) as
3080-687: Was set up concern has been expressed about the National Library being part of the Department of Internal Affairs. In December 2020, the Department of Internal Affairs confirmed that the National library along with Archives New Zealand and Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision would move to a new purpose built business park called the Horowhenua Business Park in Levin at an unspecified date. In February 2022 Internal Affairs Minister Jan Tinetti , Archives NZ chief archivist Stephen Clarke and Māori iwi (tribe) Taranaki Whānui Te Āti Awa confirmed that
3136-776: Was supported by the library sector including the Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL), Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) and the Library Information Advisory Committee (LIAC), which advises the Minister of Internal Affairs. However, several groups including the Book Guardians Aotearoa, the Publishers' Association, the Society of Authors and Writers Against National Library Disposals have been opposing moves to donate
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