BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Primary Sources.

Manuscripts

General

Athenaeum, Literary and Debating Society, Records 1887 - 1906, MS 527, APL, Auckland.

Auckland Literary Societies Union & Auckland Union Parliament. Records 1891-1897, NZ MS 526, APL, Auckland.

Auckland Mechanics’ Institute, Members Admission book, 1865-1880, MS 525, APL, Auckland.

Auckland Provincial Council, Index to Superintendent’s Outwards Correspondence, 1872-74, AP4 , National Archives, Wellington.

Auckland Provincial Council, Schedules of Papers dealing with the Executive Council, 1873-5, AP1, National Archives, Wellington.

Auckland Provincial Council, Superintendent’s Inward Correspondence, Nov 1872-February 1877, AP 2, National Archives, Wellington.

Auckland Provincial Council, Superintendent’s Miscellaneous Papers, 1870-76, AP 5, National Archives, Wellington.

Auckland Provincial Council, Superintendent’s Outward Correspondence, August 1873 - January 1876, AP 3, National Archives, Wellington.

Munn/Barr, New Zealand Libraries: survey of conditions and suggestions for their improvement, Christchurch, 1934, NZMS 149, APL, Auckland.

O’Rorke, Sir George Maurice, O’Rorke Letters, Diaries and Papers, ‘Notebook’ 1881, A 40, Auckland University, Auckland.

Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Society, Minutes, 1856-1860, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 1848-1964, MS 786, APL, Auckland.

Library Records

  1. General

Auckland Provincial Council, Books received 1861-63, NZMS 523/2, APL, Auckland.

Auckland Provincial Council, Books taken out and Returned 1856-1866, MS 524, APL, Auckland.

Auckland Provincial Council, Letter from John B. Bennett, Auckland Mechanics’ Institute to Superintendent Auckland Provincial Council, 4 March 1856, NZ MS 595, Session 5, APL, Auckland

Auckland Provincial Council, Letter from Phillip, President, Auckland Mechanics’ Institute to Superintendent, Auckland Provincial Council, 6 Feb 1874, AP 2/33 1812/75, National Archives, Wellington.

Auckland Provincial Council, Libraries; answers from various libraries re circular, MS 595 Box 25/27, APL, Auckland.

Carnegie, Andrew. New Zealand Library Applications, ca 1900-1925. Fms 038-39, WTL, Wellington.

Justice Department, Libraries registered under the Public Libraries Powers Act 1875, 307/64, National Archives, Auckland.

Mahurangi Library, Early Records, Account book, DR 1921 WM 3767, WDM, Warkworth.

Scott’s Landing Library, Cashbook 1899- 1906, DR 491 WM 2531, WDM, Warkworth.

 

  1. Minute books

Auckland Mechanics Institute, Minute books 1842-46, MS 525/2, APL, Auckland.

Auckland Mechanics Institute, Minute books 1846-1856, MS 525/3, APL, Auckland.

Kaipara Flat Library, Cash book, 1878-1910, DR 1809 WM, WDM, Warkworth.

Kaitaia Public Library, Minute book, 1882-1932, KPL, Kaitaia.

Lower Matakana Library, Minute book 1878 -1899, DR 1813 WM, WDM, Warkworth.

Mahurangi Library, Early Records, Minute book, 1859-1911, DR 1914 WM 3764, WDM, Warkworth.

Matakana Library, Minute book, 1871-1888, DR WM 1813, WDM, Warkworth.

Maungakaramea Public Library, Minute book , MPL, Maungakaramea.

Richmond Street Literary Association, Thames, Rules and Minute book, 1869, MS 72, APL, Auckland.

Waipu Public Library, Minute book , 1887-1895, Waipu House of Memories, Waipu.

Whangarei Literary Institute, Minute book, 1871-77, NRm 027 WHA, WPL, Whangarei.

  1. Catalogues and Rules

Auckland Mechanics’ Institute, Catalogue of library and By-laws, 1865 and 1871, APL, Auckland.

Auckland Provincial Council, Catalogue of books recently added to the library of the Provincial Council Auckland, London, 1866, SP 017, APL, Auckland.

Auckland Provincial Council, Rules and Catalogue of the Auckland Provincial Council Library, 1873, GNZ 017, APL, Auckland.

Auckland Provincial Council, Subject Catalogue 1870-1880, NZMS 523/1, APL, Auckland.

Catalogue of the Books in the Waiuku Institute, 1875, Auckland, Herald, 1875, MS Z975, APL, Auckland.

Catalogue of the Port Albert Library, Auckland, William Atkin, 1874, NZ MS 595 Box 59, APL, Auckland.

Maungakaramea Library, Bylaws of the Maungakaramea Library, MS 3959, WTL, Wellington..

Matakana Library, Library Catalogue, April 1878, DR WM 1813, WDM, Warkworth.

Otahuhu Public Library, Catalogue, 1873, William Atkin, Auckland, 1873, NZ MS 595 Box 59, APL, Auckland.

Rules of the Whangarei Literary Institute and Catalogue of the Library, 1872, Auckland, Herald, 1872, MS 975, APL, Auckland.

Tamaki Public Library, Catalogue, 1859, APL, Auckland.

Tokatea Institute, Laws and Constitution of the Tokatea Institute, Auckland , 1873, Coromandel School of Mines, Coromandel.

  1. Reports

Auckland Mechanics’ Institute, Librarian’s Reports, October 1868 - March 1873, MS 525, APL, Auckland.

Printed Material

a) Official Publications

Acts and Proceedings of the Auckland Provincial Council, 1853-1876

Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, 1860 - 1911.

Census of New Zealand, 1871- 1896.

Journals of the Auckland Provincial Council, 1862-1876

New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, 1860-1911.

New Zealand Statutes, 1875 -1911.

Statutes of New Zealand, 1868- 1875.

  1. Newspapers

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist.

Auckland Free Press.

Auckland Independent and Operatives Journal.

Auckland Telegraph.

Auckland Times.

Coromandel Mail

Coromandel News.

Coromandel Sun.

Daily Southern Cross.

Kamo and Hikurangi Echo.

New Zealand Herald.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette.

New Zealander.

Northern Advocate and Whangarei County Gazette.

Southern Cross.

Te Aroha News and Upper Thames Advocate.

Weekly News.

  1. Almanacs, Directories, and Guides:

Chapman’s Auckland Almanac, Town and Country Provincial Guide and Trade Directory, Auckland, Chapman, 1872, Auckland University, Auckland.

  1. Articles

Baker, E.A., ‘The Classification of Fiction’, Library World, 1,1899, pp. 198-200, 216-220.

Poole, William F., ‘Some Popular Objections to Public Libraries’, The American Library Journal, 1, 30 November 1878, pp. 45-51.

Putnam, Herbert, ‘ The Relation of Free Public Libraries to the Community’, North American Review, CLXVI, 1898, p. 660-72.

Romanes, George J, ‘Recreation’, Nineteenth Century, XXXI, September 1879, pp. 401-424.

Stanley Jevons, W. , ‘The Rationale of Free Public Libraries’, The Contemporary Review, 39, 1891, p. 385-402.

  1. Books

Davis, James Davidson, Contributions towards a bibliography of New Zealand, Wellington, Lyon and Blair, 1887.

Hocken, T. M., A Bibliography of Literature Relating to New Zealand, Wellington, Mackay, 1909.

Holgate, C.W., An Account of the Chief Libraries of Australia and Tasmania, London, C. Whittingham and Co., Chiswick Press, 1886, reprinted Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971.

Holgate, C.W., An Account of the Chief Libraries of New Zealand. With an Appendix containing the Statutes Relating to Public Libraries of that Colony, London, Dryden Press, 1886.

Schofield, Guy H., New Zealand in Evolution. Industrial, Economic and Political, London, Leipsic, T F Urwin, 1909.

 

Secondary Sources.

a) Articles

Allred, John R, ‘The purpose of the Public Library: the Historical View’ Library History, 2, 5, 1972, pp. 185-204.

Colgan, Wynne, ‘The Auckland Public Library - Towards a History’, Journal of the Auckland-Waikato Historical Societies, 5, 1964, pp. 3-11.

Colson, John Calvin, ‘The Writing of American Library History, 1876-1976, Library Trends, 1, 1976, pp. 7-21.

Dain, Phyllis, ‘Ambivalence and Paradox: The Social Bonds of the Public Library,’ Library Journal, 100, 1975, pp. 261-6.

Durrant, Patricia, ‘ Australia’s First Public Library’, The Australian Library Journal, August, 1971, pp. 5-8.

Fain, Elaine, ‘ Manners and Morals in the Public Library: A Glance at some new history’, Journal of Library History, 10,2, 1975, pp. 99-105.

Fairburn, Miles, ‘ Local Community or Atomised Society? The Social Structure of Nineteenth-Century New Zealand’, New Zealand Journal of History, 16, 2, 1982, pp. 146-167.

Graham, Ruth, ‘The Adaption of Pre-1850 British Library Models in Colonial New Zealand: The Early History of the Karori Library 1844-1902’, New Zealand Libraries, 48, 7, 1996, pp. 133-140.

Hapgood, Kathleen, ‘Library Practice in the Bristol Library Society 1772 -1830’, Library History, 5, 5, 1981, pp. 145-153.

Harris, Michael, ‘The Purpose of the American Public Library. A Revisionist Interpretation of History’, Library Journal, 98, 1973, pp. 2509-14.

Hassenforder, Jean, ‘Comparative studies and the Development of Public Libraries, Unesco Bulletin for Libraries, 22,1, 1968, pp. 13-19.

Jackson, Louise and Michael Day, ‘ The Wyoming Literary and Library Association, 1870 - 1878’, Journal of the West, July 1991, pp. 14-24.

Miller, Euan, ‘Public Libraries in South Australia’, RLR, 6, 2, 1989, pp. 113-118.

Pownall, L.L., ‘Metropolitan Auckland 1740-1945: The Historical Geography of a New Zealand City’, New Zealand Geographer, 6, 2, 1950, p. 107-123.

Richards, Susan L., ‘Carnegie Library Architecture for South Dakota and Montana: A Comparative Study’, Journal of the West, July 1991, pp. 69-78.

Robson, Ann, ‘The Intellectual Background of the Public Library Movement in Britain’, Journal of Library History, 11, 1976, pp. 187-205.

Jesse H. Shera, ‘On the Value of Library History’, Library Quarterly, 22, 1952, pp. 240-251.

Snape, Robert, ‘Betting, Billiards and Smoking: Leisure in Public Libraries’, Leisure Studies, 11, 1992, pp. 187-199.

Steig, Lewis F., ‘Notes on the Origins of Public Libraries in California, 1850-1900’, Library Quarterly, 22, 1952, pp. 263-269.

Sturges, Paul, ‘Public Libraries and Technical Education 1850-1902: A Re-evaluation’, Journal of Librarianship, 18, 3, 1986, pp. 180-192.

Sutherland, J.H., ‘Rural Libraries in the North’, New Zealand Libraries, 4 , 8, 1984, pp. 141-44.

Tolley, C.W., ‘Library Legislation and Government Aid. Part I – The Provincial Period’, New Zealand Libraries, 22, 8 1959, pp. 169-78.

Tolley, C.W. , ‘Library Legislation and Government Aid. Part II – Legislation for Libraries’, New Zealand Libraries, 2, 9 1959, p. 193-200.

Tolley, C.W., ‘Library Legislation and Government Aid. Part III—Subsidies for Libraries,’ New Zealand Libraries, 23, 1, 1960, pp. 1-12.

Traue, James, ‘Once Upon a Time in New Zealand. Library Aspirations and Colonial Reality in the Early Years of European Settlement, or, ‘The Tone and Character to Civilization’, Stout Centre Review, 3,2, March 1993, pp. 3 -8.

Williams, Robert V. , ‘The Public Library as the Dependent Variable: Historically Oriented Theories and Hypotheses of Public Library Development’, Journal of Library History,16, 1981, p. 328-341.

b) Books

Altick, Richard D., The English Common Reader. A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1957.

Altick, Richard D, Writers, Readers and Occasions, Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1989.

Bade, James Northcote, ed., West Auckland Remembers, v.2., Henderson, NZ, West Auckland Historic Society, 1992.

Bailey, Peter, Leisure and Class in Victorian England. Rational Recreation and the Contest for Control, 1830-1885, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.

Barr, John, The City of Auckland New Zealand, 1840 - 1920, Auckland, Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd., 1922.

Barr, John, Three Score Years and Ten. Auckland Public Libraries, 1880-1950. A Brief Historic Description, Auckland, Library Committee of the Auckland City Council, 1950.

Bennett, Tony, ed., Formations of Pleasure, London, Routlege Paul, 1983.

Biskup, Peter, Libraries in Australia, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Centre for Information Studies, 1994.

Black, Alistair, A New History of the English Public Library. Social and Intellectual Contexts, 1850 -1914, London, Leicester University Press, 1966.

Borchardt, D. H. and W. Kirsop, eds, The Book In Australia. Essays Towards A Cultural & Social History, Melbourne, Australian Reference Publications in association with the Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, 1988.

Brett, Henry and Henry Hook, The Albertlanders. Brave Pioneers of the ‘Sixties, Auckland, Brett Publishing Co., 1927,

Bryan, Harrison and Gordon Greenwood, eds., Design for Diversity. Library Services for Higher Education and Research in Australia, Queensland, University of Queensland Press, 1977.

Bush, G.W.A., Decently and In Order. The Government of the City of Auckland 1840-1971. The Centennial History of the Auckland City Council, Auckland, Collins, 1971.

Calder, Alex, ed., The Writing of New Zealand: Inventions and Identities, Auckland, Reed,1993.

Carrier, Esther Jane, Fiction in Public Libraries 1876 - 1900, New York, Scarecrow Press, 1965

Carrier, Esther Jane, Fiction in Public Libraries, 1900 - 1950, Littleton, Colorado, Libraries Unlimited, 1985.

Childers, Joseph W., Novel Possibilities. Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

Colgan ,Wynne, The Governor’s Gift. The Auckland Public Library 1880 - 1980, Auckland, Richards Publishing and Auckland City Council, 1980.

Corrigan, Philip and Val Gillespie, Class Struggle, Social Literacy, and Idle Time. The Provision of Public Libraries in England, Brighton, UK, John L. Noyce, 1977.

Dalziel, Margaret, Popular Fiction. One Hundred Years ago: an Explored Tract of Literary History, London, Cohen & West, 1957.

The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol. Two, 1870-1900, Wellington, Bridget Williams Books: Department of Internal Affairs, 1993.

Eigner, Edwin M. and George J. Worth, eds., Victorian Criticism of the Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Fairburn, Miles, The Ideal Society, and its Enemies. The Foundations of Modern Society 1850-1900, Auckland, Auckland University Press, 1989.

Fairburn, Miles, Nearly Out of Heart and Hope: The Puzzle of a Colonial Labourer’s Diary, Auckland, Auckland University Press, 1995.

Flint, Kate, The Woman Reader 1837-1914, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993.

Grainger, John, The Auckland Story. New Zealand’s Queen City and Its Citizens Through the Years, Wellington, AH & AW Reed, 1953.

Griest, Guinevere L., Mudie’s Circulating Library & The Victorian Novel, Devon: David & Charles, 1970.

Halfpenny, Edward, ed., Bachelor Block. A Story of Albertland as related in the Letters and Manuscripts of the Brookes Family, Wellsford, Albertland and District Museum, 1991.

Hamer, D. A, ed., New Zealand Social History, Auckland, University of Auckland, 1980.

Harris, Michael H, The Role of the Public Library in American Life: A Speculative Essay, Illinois, University of Illinois, School of Library Science, Occasional Paper 11, 1975.

Harris, Tim, ed, Popular Culture in England, c1500-1850, London, Macmillan, 1995.

Jackson, Sidney L., Libraries and Librarianship In The West. A Brief History, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1974.

James, Louis, Fiction for the Working Man 1830-1850. A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England, London, Oxford University Press, 1963.

Kelly, Thomas, A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain, 1845-1975, London, The Library Association, 1977.

Kelly, Thomas and Edith, Books for the People. An Illustrated History of the British Public Library, London, Andre Deutsch, 1977.

Keys, Herbert John, Mahurangi: the Story of Warkworth, New Zealand, Warkworth, Cameo Press, 1954.

Kirsop, Wallace, Books For Colonial Readers. The Nineteenth -Century Australian Experience, Melbourne, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand in association with the Centre for Bibliographical Studies Monash University, 1995.

Koch, Thomas Wesley, A Book of Carnegie Libraries, New York, A.W. Wilson, 1917.

Lynravn, Norman, Libraries in Australia, Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire, 1948.

Lyons, Martyn and Lucy Taska, Australia Readers Remember. An Oral History of Reading 1890- 1930, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992.

McLeod, A. L., ed., The Pattern of New Zealand Culture, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1968.

McLintock, A.H., ed., An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, v.2., Wellington, Government Printer, 1966.

Maungakaramea Past and Present, Maungakaramea, Maungakaramea Reserve Board, 1985.

[MacDonald, Winifred (Maskell)] "Fair Morning" Glimpses of Everyday Life in Pioneer Days of the Auckland Province and Nearby Districts, from Contemporary Sources, [Auckland] Published for Ellen Melville and Pioneer Women’s Halll [1949].

Moore, Lucy, The Library at Warkworth 1859-1914, Warkworth, Warkworth and District Museum, 1986.

Morrell, W.P. , The Provincial System in New Zealand 1852-76, 2nd ed., Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1964.

Morrison, Elisabeth and Michael Talbot, Books, Libraries and Readers in Colonial Australia, Victoria, Graduate School of Librarianship, Monash University, 1985.

Munford, W.A. Penny Rate. Aspects of British Library History 1850 - 1950, London, Library Association, 1951.

Munn, Ralph and Ernest Pitt, Australian Libraries. A Survey of Conditions and Suggestions for Their Improvement, Melbourne,, Australian Council for Educational Research, 1935.

Nadel, George, Australia’s Colonial Culture. Idea’s, Men, and Institution in Mid-Nineteenth Century Eastern Australia, Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1957.

Oliver, W. H., ed., with B. R. Williams, Oxford History of New Zealand, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988.

Olle, James G, Library History. An Examination Guide Book, 2nd edn, London, Clive Bingley 1971.

Pemberton, John, Politics and Public Libraries in England and Wales, 1850-1970, London, The Library Association, 1977.

Platts, Una, The Lively Capital: Auckland 1840-1865, Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints Limited, 1971.

Richardson, Alan D., Library Service in New Zealand. New Zealand Libraries in the 90’s, Masterton: Wairarapa Education Resource Centre, 1993.

Riddle, Janet, Salt Spray and Sawdust, Coroglen, New Zealand, Gumtown Publishing, [c1996]

Ronnie, Mary, Books to the People: A History of Regional Library Services in New Zealand, Monash University, New Zealand Library Association in conjunction with Ancora Press, Graduate Department of Library, Archives and Records, 1993.

Rust, A. M., Whangarei Districts’ Early Reminiscences, Whangarei, Mirror Printing and Publishing Co., 1936.

Seymour, Whitney North and Elizabeth N. Layne, For the People: Fighting for Public Libraries, New York, Doubleday, 1979.

Shera, Jesse H, Foundations of the Public Library. The Origins of the Public Library Movement in New England, 1629-1855, Hamden, Connecticut, The Shoe String Press, 1974.

Sinclair, Keith, A History of New Zealand, London, Allen Lane, 1980.

Sinclair, Keith, A History of the University of Auckland, 1883-1983, Auckland, Auckland University Press: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Smiles, Samuel, Self Help; the art of achievement illustrated by accounts of the lives of great men, first pub. London, 1859, this edition, London, Sphere, 1968.

Snape, Robert, Leisure and the Rise of the Public Library, London, Library Association, 1995.

Stevens, T.G.R., Kaukapakapa across the Years, 1860-1956; A History of the District and Souvenir Booklet [Auckland: Printed by the Institute of Printing and Publishing Society, 1986].

Sutherland, John, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction, Longman, London, 1988.

Sutherland, John, Victorian Fiction, Writers, Publishers, and Readers, London, Macmillan, 1995.

Taithe, Bertrand, The Essential Mayhew. Representing and Communicating the Poor, London, Rivers Oram Press, 1996.

Waites, Bernard, Tony Bennett and Graham Martin, eds, Popular Culture: Past and Present, London, Croom Helm, 1982.

Walton, John K. and James Walvin, eds, Leisure in Britain 1780-1939, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1983.

Wellard, James Howard, The Public Library Comes Of Age, London, Grafton, 1940.

Wheeler, Michael, English Fiction of the Victorian Period 1830-1890, 2d ed, London, Longman, 1994.


Williams, Raymond, Culture and Society 1780-1950, London, Chatto & Windus, 1958.

  1. Theses, Research Essays and unpublished papers.

Elphick, Judith, Auckland 1870-74. A Social Portrait, MA thesis, Auckland, University of Auckland, 1974.

Gillespie-Needham, Dulcie, A Colonial and His Books, PH.D. Thesis, Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington, 1971.

Hanham, H.J., The Political Structure of Auckland, 1853-1876, MA thesis, Auckland, University of New Zealand, 1950.

Husbands, Paul, The Peopling of Freeman’s Bay 1880-1914, MA thesis, Auckland, University of Auckland, 1992.

McGarvey, R. D., Local Politics and the Auckland Province, 1853-62, MA Thesis, Auckland, University of Auckland, 1954.

Scoble, A. N., History of the Hauraki Goldfield, MA thesis, Auckland, University of Auckland, 1948.

Traue, James, ‘Legislating for Un-Free Public Libraries; the Paradox of New Zealand Public Library Legislation 1869-1877’, as yet unpublished article held by author.