'We are grateful to our heritage partners, donors and the funding organisations that make it possible for Auckland Library Heritage Trust to strengthen the magnificent collections at Auckland Libraries. Aucklanders can be very proud of the taonga in the library's care.'
-Dr David Simcock, ALHT chair
Supporting heritage for 35 years
For over three decades, Auckland Library Heritage Trust has partnered with Auckland Libraries and Auckland Council to preserve, care for, add to and promote the library's heritage collections. Manuscripts, photographs, maps, books, letters and other documents ... the library collections are vast.
Our partnership benefits Tāmaki Makaurau, and Aotearoa New Zealand as a whole.
Events
Auckland Library Heritage Trust partners with Auckland Libraries to celebrate heritage events at the library. Recent events include Sue Bradford's talk about her archival work on materials from the Auckland Unemployed Workers' Rights Centre and the Don Smith Symposium.
Going West Writers Festival
ALHT is proud to have provided financial support for the project to preserve, organise and make available through Kura Heritage Collections Online a large collection of uniquely valuable documents and recordings. Detailed metadata added to the records is an important part of this work.
David Simcock says, 'Our trustees congratulate the Going West Trust and Auckland Libraries on the delivery of this contribution to preserving our heritage. For a quarter of a century, Going West Writers Festival was a stellar event in the cultural life of Auckland, the country and beyond.'
Bird's eye view of Auckland from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the hospital by George Treacy Stevens (1880s). Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Map 4641
Going West guide 2010 for events including the Going West poetry slam. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections NZMS-2475-2010-S03
Dave Cameron's
boxing and wrestling collection
Funding from the Auckland Library Heritage Trust paid for wrestling historian Steve Ogilvie to arrange, describe and index an astonishing gift made by Dave and Shirley Cameron.
Funding metadata
In 2022, AHLT made funding available for Tūrama Resources Ltd to apply Māori subject headings to photographs with Māori subject matter that are included in Kura Heritage Collections Online. The mahi includes training library staff in this work. Quality metadata improves access to Māori heritage content, particularly for researchers working in te ao Māori. Click the image below to see an example of a record (Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1572-0854).
Auckland Library Heritage Trust
PO Box 4138, Shortland St
Auckland 1140
