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Notes on Contributors
James Bade , Senior Lecturer in German and Assistant Dean of Arts at the University of Auckland, is editor of and major contributor to The German Connection: New Zealand and German-speaking Europe in the Nineteenth Century , Oxford University Press (1993). A companion volume on the 20th century is due for publication by OUP in 1998.
Ann Beaglehole is an historian who came to New Zealand
after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. She has written about immigrants from
Central and Eastern Europe who settled in New Zealand before and after World War
II, and about the New Zealand Jewish community. Her books include A Small Price to Pay (1988) and Facing
the Past (1990). Currently she is a policy analyst at the Ethnic
Affairs Service, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.
Jennie Coleman graduated MusB (Hons) from the University of
Otago and MMus (ethnomusicology) from the University of London. Her PhD thesis,
'Transmigration of the Piob Mhor' (the Scottish Highland bagpipe), has
encouraged a keen interest in the Gaelic language. Dr Coleman's academic
involvement in things Celtic includes the presentation of papers at Celtic
Studies conferences in Australia in 1992 and 1995.
Kathleen Coleridge is Special Materials Librarian at
Victoria University of Wellington. She has written a number of publications on
aspects of printing and the book trades in early Wellington, including Building a Paper Economy: Advertising in Wellington
Newspapers (1991), and a recent paper on ornamental typefaces.
Roger Collins has recently retired from the French and Art
History departments at the University of Otago. His interest in Franco-New
Zealand contacts has generated numerous articles, the exhibition 'New Zealand
seen by the French', which he curated at the National Library of New Zealand in
1991, and the bilingual journal Antipodes which he edits.
Tony Deverson is a senior lecturer in English at the
University of Canterbury, where he has taught medieval literature and English
language since 1966. His chief research interests are in New Zealand English
lexis and lexicography. He has co-authored (with Elizabeth Gordon) a number of
textbooks on New Zealand English, and is the editor of the second edition of the
New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary (1997).
Nicola Frean is currently establishing a local archives
collection for the Upper Hutt Public Library. She has an MA (Hons) in history
and a postgraduate diploma in librarianship, and has worked at National Archives
and as Newspaper Librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Penny Griffith is a former librarian with a continuing
interest in New Zealand bibliography, printing and publishing history. She is
now a freelance editor and desktop publisher and Managing Editor of the Turnbull Library Record .
George Griffiths was a journalist on newspapers in New
Zealand and England, and spent 30 years with the Otago Daily
Times as sub-editor, columnist, chief editorial writer and book editor.
In 1978 he founded, with Judy Cox, Otago Heritage Books, publishers and
booksellers. He is the author of King Wakatip (1971), Otago University at Cricket (1971), Names and Places in Southern New Zealand (1990) and other works. He
has edited and published over 50 publications through Otago Heritage Books.
Michael Hamblyn is a library manager from Dunedin. He has
written extensively on New Zealand's colonial publishers, has published short
stories and is preparing several books on publishing in 19th-century New
Zealand.
Stephen Hamilton recently graduated PhD in English from the
University of Auckland. His thesis discusses the role of literary magazines in
the development of New Zealand literature between the wars. He is currently
editing the Early Maori Imprint Project at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Ross Harvey , Associate Professor in the Department of
Information Studies at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western
Australia, was formerly Newspaper Librarian at the National Library of New
Zealand. He has published in the field of New Zealand newspaper history, and in
1995 established the Elibank Press with Rachel Salmond, to promote the study of
the history of print culture in New Zealand and Australia.
Robert Holding has been actively involved with Pacific
Island publications since the early 1970s, and established the Polynesian (now
Pasifika) Press and Bookshop in Auckland in 1976. He is also an editor/designer
and consultant on bookshop operations and Pacific Island affairs.
Galumalemana Alfred Hunkin was born in Western Samoa
and has degrees in history and anthropology. He has taught Samoan at community,
Police Department and tertiary levels for 20 years, and is currently Coordinator
and Senior Lecturer of the Samoan Language and Culture programme at Victoria
University of Wellington.
Lynne Jackett reviewed and later selected children's books
for School Library Service, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna
Mätauranga o Aotearoa for nine years, and compiled and edited The Book Corner: Best Books for Young Children (National
Library of New Zealand, 1989-94). She is the Curator of the Dorothy Neal White
Collection, National Library of New Zealand. She would like to acknowledge the
invaluable assistance provided by Mary Hutton and Mary Atwool to her
contribution.
Jaap Jasperse is the editor of the New
Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research and a science
publisher with the Royal Society of New Zealand. His contribution is mainly
derived from his PhD thesis, 'Publishing New Zealand science on CD-ROM: an
action research approach' (1992).
Stephen Jelicich , resident of Auckland, is an architect,
researcher, historian and prominent member of the Dalmatian-Croatian (formerly
Yugoslav) community in New Zealand. He has written articles about, presented
papers on and completed a book-length history of his ethnic community.
Patrick King worked as a translator and editor of European
and Polynesian languages with the Translation Service of the Department of
Internal Affairs in Wellington between 1975 and 1985, apart from three years
freelance work.. He is a founding director of the New Zealand Translation Centre
Ltd (1985) where he is currently senior editor.
Robert Leek , Senior Lecturer, Department of English,
University of Auckland, was born in the Netherlands, and emigrated to New
Zealand in 1957, gaining a PhD from the University of Auckland in 1974. He has
published on linguistic and sociolinguistic topics, and on drama, notably on
Shakespearean translations and performances in the Netherlands. His article 'The
Dutch and their language in New Zealand' appeared in the Atlas
of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the
Americas (1996). He has also published two works of fiction: Passion (1990) and Sweet and Sour
Cocktails (1993).
Peter Lineham is a senior lecturer in History at Massey
University in Palmerston North. He is the author of There We
Found Brethren (1977), No Ordinary Union (1980),
Transplanted Christianity (1987), Religious History of New Zealand: A Bibliography (1984 and three later
editions), Bible and Society (1996) and numerous articles
on religious history in England and New Zealand.
Douglas Little was born in Dunedin and taught Classics at
the Universities of Otago and Texas. His published work includes translations of
Lucan's Pharsalia , and Plutarch's Lives of Galba and Otho.
Don Long has edited Pacific resources for the official
agencies for education in New Zealand, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Western Samoa, Niue and
Fiji. He currently edits Pacific resources at Learning Media Ltd. His own
stories for children have appeared in local and overseas publications, and have
been translated into Samoan and Cook Islands Mäori. He sits on the
editorial committee of Unesco's Asian/Pacific co-publication programme.
Rick McGregor graduated in English and Scandinavian studies
at the University of Auckland and earned a postgraduate diploma in librarianship
at Victoria University of Wellington. In 1993 he completed a PhD at the
University of Otago, comparing the narrative methods of Swedish novelist Per
Olof Sundman with those of the Icelandic sagas. His thesis has been published by
the University of Gothenburg. He has studied and worked in Sweden and taught
Swedish at the Universities of Auckland and Otago.
Brian McKeon , Wellington City Librarian 1973-94, advises
on print copyright in universities, acts as joint editor of New Zealand Libraries (journal of the New Zealand Library and
Information Association), and serves as member of the Executive Committee of
Writers' and Readers' Week, New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.
Jane McRae is a lecturer in Mäori oral literature
in the Mäori Studies Department of the University of Auckland.
Keith Maslen , Honorary Fellow, Department of English,
University of Otago, has published The Bowyer Ledgers
(1991) and An Early London Printing House at Work (1993);
also on such New Zealand topics as Wise's directories, the community libraries
of early Otago, and early Dunedin printers. He has printed editions of New
Zealand verse through the Bibliography Room, University of Otago Library.
Current research interests are the Otago book trade, and Samuel Richardson as
printer.
Jean Mitaera is a New Zealand-born Cook Islander with a
particular interest in writing on Pacific representations of identity and how
these can contribute to Pacific people's cultural, political and economic
development in Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is currently employed by the Ministry
of Women's Affairs as the analyst responsible for Pacific women's issues.
Nigel Murphy , Published Collections Librarian at the
Alexander Turnbull Library, is completing for the New Zealand Chinese
Association A Guide to Laws and Government Policies Relating
to the Chinese in New Zealand, 1871-1996 . He has contributed to the
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Exhibitions he
has curated include 'Chee Kung Tong: the Hung League in New Zealand' for the
National Library.
James Ng ONZM, is a history-loving medical practitioner of
Dunedin who has written Windows on a Chinese Past , with
three of four volumes published.
Elizabeth Nichol is Manager of the Literature, Arts and
Music Department, Auckland Public Library. She graduated BMus from the
University of Otago and MA from the University of Western Australia. After
gaining the diploma of the New Zealand Library School, she worked at the
Parliamentary Library in Wellington before becoming Music Librarian, Auckland
Public Library.
Edwin Nye was born in Belgium and educated partly in
France. He is a physician, and was formerly engaged in medical research, mainly
in New Zealand, but for some years in Sweden. He has a long-standing interest in
the Swedish language and teaches that language as well as being a member and
one-time chairman of the Otago Scandinavian Society. He was awarded a Swedish
order of knighthood for services to the Swedish language.
Alan Preston is the founder and managing director of Unity
Books (Wellington) Ltd (1967) and of Unity Books (Auckland) Ltd (1989). He
completed a BA in history at Victoria University of Wellington in 1978.
Hugh Price studied at Victoria University College and
Wellington Teachers College. His career in the book trade has included
bookselling and positions as Art Editor at the Department of Education's School
Publications Branch, as Manager, Sydney University Press, and Manager of Price
Milburn until his retirement. He was on the Book Council executive for ten years
and has been a committee member of the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties
since the 1950s.
Bruce Ringer graduated with an MA from Auckland University
in 1974 and has since mostly worked as a librarian. He is currently Team Leader
Reference and Research, Manukau Community and Information Service. He has
published books on New Zealand government and on cycle touring.
John Ross majored in English at Victoria University of
Wellington, becoming interested in printing through taking Don McKenzie's
'Scholarship' course in 1962. In the mid 1960s, with McKenzie, he edited A Ledger of Charles Ackers (1968), and subsequently
edited two comedies by Thomas Shadwell for a University of London PhD. In 1973
he took up a drama teaching position in Massey University's English Department.
He has published editions of four Restoration comedies, and articles on early
18th-century London printing.
Theresa Sawicka is a research fellow in the Department of
Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington. One of her research interests,
the subject of her PhD thesis, is Polish migration to New Zealand. She is
currently working with the Youth and Family Project, a cross-cultural study of
intergenerational relationships and the transition to adulthood in New Zealand.
Sydney Shep is the printer at Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria
University of Wellington, and President of the Book Arts Society of New Zealand.
She is currently researching phormium tenax (New Zealand flax) and its use in
19th-century New Zealand papermaking.
Reverend Lagi Sipeli JP, QSM, was born in Niue. After
secondary schooling he moved to New Zealand, becoming the first Pacific Islander
to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand at the Pacific
Islanders Church in Auckland. He is currently minister of the independent St
James Niue-speaking congregation in Newtown, Wellington, and is compiling a
comprehensive Niuean dictionary and revising the Niuean hymnbook. He has
contributed to many community and government bodies on issues of concern to all
Pacific Islanders.
Ross Somerville has worked as a music librarian, cataloguer
and reference librarian in public libraries and the National Library of New
Zealand (including a stint on the New Zealand National Bibliography). In 1988 he
joined the editorial staff of the Dictionary of New Zealand
Biography where he is now Assistant Editor (Production and
Publication). He would like to acknowledge the generous assistance of Fergus
Barrowman, Elizabeth Caffin, Andrew Mason and Bridget Williams in the
preparation of his contribution.
Jane Stafford teaches English at Victoria University of
Wellington, and researches in the area of 19th-century British and New Zealand
literature.
Clark Stiles has worked at the Alexander Turnbull Library
for the last ten years, where he is currently the Curator, New Zealand and
Pacific Published Collections.
Luke Trainor has recently published British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and
Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century (1994) and edited Republicanism in New Zealand (1996). He has an interest
in the history of the reproduction of British culture in New Zealand and
Australia.
Andrew Trlin is Associate Professor, Department of Social
Policy and Social Work, Massey University, Palmerston North. New Zealand-born of
Dalmatian parents, he is the author of Now Respected, Once
Despised: Yugoslavs in New Zealand (1979) and has published
extensively on aspects of immigration, demography, social policy and social
change in New Zealand.
Noel Waite graduated BA Hons in English and French. His PhD
thesis 'Adventure and art: literature publishing in Christchurch 1934-96' (1997)
is looking for a publisher. Noel will be curating an exhibition on the Caxton
Press at the National Library Gallery in August 1998.
Lydia Wevers is a senior associate of the English
Department at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a contributor to The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English
and has written extensively on New Zealand and Australian literature.
Sheila Williams worked at the Alexander Turnbull Library,
assisted with the retrospective New Zealand National Bibliography, and was in
charge of the National Library's Bibliographic Unit. She lectures on
bibliographic organisation and subject access in the MLIS programme at Victoria
University of Wellington.
Diane Woods is a reference librarian with the National
Library of New Zealand's Reference and Research Service, specialising in Pacific
resources and services.
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