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Hedging digital bets, Donald Kerr

Posted on December 1, 2012 by NZ Books

Donald Kerr, head of Special Collections at the University of Otago library, assesses the survival of such collections in the digital age. Throughout the country, there are many institutions that contain a diverse range of collections, each containing a myriad…

Tagged with: Donald Kerr, Issue 100, Summer 2012
Posted in Comment, ebooks

Boudicca does it for a jar of mead, David Hill

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books

A Short History of Sheep in New Zealand Richard Wolfe Random House, $29.99, ISBN 1869418204 Instructions for New Zealanders Richard Wolfe Random House, $34.99, ISBN 1869418506 The Smell of Powder: A History of Duelling in New Zealand Donald Kerr Random…

Tagged with: Australian National Maritime Museum, David Hill, Donald Kerr, Exisle Publishing, Issue 79, John Dunmore, Nicola McCloy, Random House, Richard Wolfe, Spring 2007
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

A slippery no-man, Owen Marshall

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Enduring legacy – Charles Brasch, patron, poet and collector (ed) Donald Kerr University of Otago Press in association with University of Otago Library, $39.95, ISBN 1877276650 Several years ago at a reunion of those who had held Otago University’s Robert…

Tagged with: Charles Brasch, Donald Kerr, Issue 63, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Spring 2003, University of Otago Library
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review