Elliott Young, project leader for the National Library’s new Manuscripts and Pictorial site http://mp.natlib.govt.nz, has written a series of posts for the LibraryTechNZ blog giving hints and tips on how to get the most out of the site.
Introduction to the site & faceted search using filters
Exploring names by names and subjects
Options for viewing search results
Using the ‘people’ and ‘places’ search functions
You can read all the entries individually, or see them all on one page.
Categories: Search & research · Web tips
Tagged: manuscripts
Over 100,000 pages of diaries, correspondence, letterbooks, telegrams and other papers from Sir Donald McLean are now accessible online through the Alexander Turnbull Library’s new Manuscripts & Pictorial website http://mp.natlib.govt.nz
Sir Donald McLean was the Chief Land Purchase officer during the years leading up to the 1860s land wars, first Native Secretary and, later, Native Minister up until just before his death in 1877.
McLean’s papers are one of the key primary sources for 19th-century historical research. They comprise letters, including the largest surviving series of 19th-century Māori-language letters, extensive diaries and notebooks, telegrams, letterbooks, reports and other documents from his long career.
Categories: Search & research
Tagged: digitisation, manuscripts
