Bibliographies and indexes
A useful overview of these, though now rather dated, can be found in J.E.
Traue's New Zealand Studies: A Guide to Bibliographic
Resources (1985). As well as general guides, it very briefly
covers the following formats: printed monographs, printed serials,
theses, manuscripts, music, Mäori music, oral history, film,
visual images and maps.
Bibliographies may be
comprehensive in scope, such as a national bibliography, or limited by
format such as theses, newspapers or Mäori printed material.
Bibliographies on specific subject areas are outside the scope of this
section.
The most significant
New Zealand bibliography is the six-volume New Zealand
National Bibliography to the Year 1960 (1969-85) compiled by
A.G. Bagnall. As well as being a listing of New Zealand imprints it
includes books and pamphlets published overseas with New Zealand
content. This replaces earlier attempts at comprehensive bibliography,
in particular the work of T.M. Hocken (1909) supplemented by A.H.
Johnstone (1927) and L.J.B. Chapple (1938) and also that of A.S. Thomson
(1859) and J. Collier (1889). Although heavily inclusive, some
categories of material are excluded—these are listed fully in
the introduction to volume 2—such as school textbooks, local
election leaflets and parliamentary papers. Volume 1 (in two physical
parts) covering the period to 1889 has full bibliographic description,
annotations, and the library symbol where the copy was seen. Indexes
contain subject entries, titles, added entries for joint authors,
illustrators and other types of responsibility, and a chronological
index. Volume 5 contains addenda, and an index to the 1890-1960 volumes.
Material after 1960
can be found in the annual 'Current National Bibliography', issued by
the National Library Service until the formation of the National Library
of New Zealand (in 1965) which continued to produce the New Zealand National Bibliography (NZNB) . It
appeared in print form until 1983 and is now available in microfiche or
online through the New Zealand Bibliographic Network (NZBN). In addition
to monographs NZNB lists new, changed and ceased
serial titles, as well as maps, music, art prints and sound recordings.
Works currently
available for sale are listed in New Zealand Books in
Print (1957-), published irregularly at first, but now annual,
and complemented by the specialist New Zealand
Children's Books in Print (1988-). Individual publishers'
catalogues may also be useful.
The New Zealand
Library Association (NZLA) published a number of useful items including
John Harris's Guide to New Zealand Reference Material
and other Sources of Information (2nd ed. 1950, with
supplements in 1951 and 1957). An attempt was made by Massey University
Library in the 1970s to update this, but after eight subject parts had
appeared the project was abandoned. Another NZLA venture, A Bibliography of New Zealand Bibliographies
(1967) compiled by Simon Cauchi, is still a good starting point for
early material. A useful annual production for information on recent and
current work, compiled by Tony Millett and published by Waikato
University since 1980, is Bibliographical Work in New
Zealand: Work in Progress and Work Published .
A bird's-eye view of
material up to the late 1970s can be found in the New
Zealand volume of the World Bibliographic Series (1980)
compiled by Ray Grover. This useful volume contains 878 annotated
entries arranged in 40 broad subject groupings covering aspects of both
the people and the country designed to express the culture. Most of the
items are monographs, though some periodical articles are included when
they are more topical. This publication is currently being updated.
There is no
comprehensive listing of New Zealand serials though details of recently
published titles can be found on NZBN, and Nielsen Publishing's biannual
Media Directory (founded in 1976 as the Advertising Directory and Media Planner ) is a
useful source of information on current periodicals (by subject) and
newspapers, including community newspapers. The Union
List of Serials in New Zealand Libraries (1970 and 1975
supplement) contains full bibliographic information for earlier titles
and also where they are held.
Although there is no
comprehensive bibliography of New Zealand newspapers a good substitute
is Ross Harvey's Union List of Newspapers Preserved in
Libraries, Newspaper Offices and Museums in New Zealand (1987).
Newspapers published in New Zealand are arranged by town of publication
and then by title. A title index is provided and microform holdings are
also noted.
The bibliographic
control for theses submitted to New Zealand universities is fairly
comprehensive. Originally published in 1965 as the Union List of Theses of the University of New Zealand, 1910-54
there have been nine supplements taking coverage up to 1992, with
current theses being catalogued on NZBN. The Union
List and supplements are arranged in broad subject groups with
author indexes and subject indexes after 1962. All the universities
provide some regular form of listing for recently presented theses, some
are in the calendar and others are produced more informally.
Bibliographical
control of manuscripts and archives is not comprehensive and it is
particularly difficult to find the holdings of many small repositories.
In volume 1 of the Union Catalogue of New
Zealand and Pacific Manuscripts in New Zealand Libraries
(1968) is an incomplete listing of the holdings of a number of
institutions other than the Alexander Turnbull Library, the holdings of
which appear in volume 2 (1969). In 1979 another attempt was made to
list this material but this time in a looseleaf format with
comprehensive indexes by time, area subject and proper names. The National Register of Archives and Manuscripts in New
Zealand appeared irregularly in paper and microfiche form until
December 1992, but the publication is currently suspended as there have
been difficulties with many smaller institutions being unable to submit
information. A working group is currently looking at this and it is
hoped it will be possible to provide some online access in a less
complex form. Archifacts , the journal of the
Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) lists recent
collections of archives, and the Alexander Turnbull Library's manuscript
acquisitions are listed in the Turnbull Library
Record .
Early Mäori
imprints are listed in H.W. Williams's Bibliography of
Printed Maori to 1900 (1924, supplement 1928) was updated by an
unpublished typescript which includes material to 1945, prepared by A.D.
Sommerville as a library school bibliography. Entries are arranged in
chronological order with title pages bibliographically transcribed, and
useful notes describing contents. The Alexander Turnbull Library is
working on a complete revision incorporating a large amount of new
information, including entries for many items unknown to Williams. The
new publication, expected within two years, will be in book form.
Although there is no
general bibliography of maps, some useful publications dealing with
specialised areas have been produced. A notable contribution has been by
R.P. Hargreaves who between 1962 and 1971 produced eight compilations,
mainly dealing with 19th-century material, including: French Explorers' Maps of New Zealand; Maps of New Zealand
Appearing in British Parliamentary Papers and Maps in New Zealand Provincial Council Papers . For older maps
the best means of access is through the catalogues of libraries such as
Alexander Turnbull Library and the Hocken Library; other map collections
can be located through The Directory of New Zealand
Map Collections (1989). Maps currently produced have been
included in the current New Zealand National
Bibliography since 1966 as a continuation of the map section of
Copyright Publications (1949-65).
For accessing the
contents of New Zealand periodical literature, the most important and
useful tool is Index to New Zealand Periodicals
(1941-86) and its successor Index New Zealand
(INNZ , 1987-). The coverage of periodicals and the subject
headings used have changed over time, with earlier volumes tending to
concentrate on the needs of public libraries. The final volume of the
Index in 1986 states in the introduction that
it includes 186 titles and covers only articles of lasting value.
Articles relating to New Zealand in overseas journals are included, as
well as some conference proceedings. The emphasis is on humanities and
social science particularly after 1980 when New
Zealand Science Abstracts was established to cover scientific
material.
The Index appeared in annual paper volumes and on microfiche, but
was not cumulated, so each year must be searched individually. INNZ is an online database on the National
Library's Kiwinet service from which annual microfiche issues have been
produced with a cumulation covering 1987-91. In 1994 a CD-ROM version
was produced which is now updated quarterly. Some periodicals are
comprehensively indexed while others may be covered selectively, as only
articles of at least half a page in length are included. Some material
is covered from major metropolitan newspapers as well as biographical
material from some 20 provincial newspapers. Book reviews are listed
under the book title, continuing the practice of including book reviews
in the earlier Index .
Scholarly journals in
the social sciences, art and humanities are indexed as well as some
monographs in series, chapters in books, theses and conferences in these
disciplines. All entries for this research-type material include an
abstract in a similar fashion to the three annual volumes of New Zealand Social Science Research Abstracts
which cover material from 1985 to 1987. Newzindex
(1979-) is a monthly index (also available on Kiwinet) of New Zealand
business and trade articles with selected items from magazines,
newsletters and newspapers.
Parliamentary papers
and other official publications are a rich source of information on a
very broad range of topics of print culture interest, referred to
throughout this book. Such material can be complex to identify and
trace, but J.B. Ringer's Introduction to New Zealand
Government (1991) is an invaluable guide to anyone exploring
this material.
Access to books
printed before 1801 and held in New Zealand libraries has been greatly
improved by the publication of Early Imprints in New
Zealand Libraries: A Finding List of Books Printed before 1801 held
in the Wellington Region (1995). This publication, part of the
Australian and New Zealand Early Imprints Project, is intended as a
guide to the location of holdings. Individual entries are brief, with
reference to authoritative bibliographies. Many of the items are held in
the Alexander Turnbull Library, but items from 18 other libraries in the
lower North Island are also included. The Alexander Turnbull Library
also holds the master file of records of holdings elsewhere in New
Zealand, some of which are searchable on the Internet via the British
Library's ESTC database.