About this Journal
The first issue of the Turnbull Library Record is dated January 1940. Its publication was financed by The Friends of the Turnbull Library, founded the previous year. Members of the inaugural Friends Committee included the Professor of English at Victoria University College, I. A. Gordon, and Broadcasting’s Supervisor of Talks, Alan Mulgan. Much of the impetus for the production of the Record came from the Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library, C. R. H. Taylor, who, together with Assistant Librarian A. G. Bagnall, appears to have been primarily responsible for the production of the first issue. To quote from its Introduction:
This publication has been brought into being through the interest and practical help of a number of friends of the library in New Zealand and overseas. It will aim to do for the library what neither a catalogue nor a guide book generally does. Thus it will be the vehicle for, on the one hand, more precise particulars of books, manuscripts and other records, and on the other, the publication of short texts of importance to the research worker in several fields.
This ‘mission statement’ remains substantially true of the Record today. The journal publishes research based on the collections of the Library, and also work in the fields in which the Library has research interests.
Illustrations in this issue: Unless otherwise stated, all illustrations in this issue are of items in the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. They have been supplied for reproduction here in digital format by Image Services, National Library of New Zealand. Copies of the illustrations can be ordered from the Library, quoting the ‘ATL Picture ref ’ number given in the caption.
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Bibliographic details
Turnbull Library Record, Volume 34, 1 January 2001, Page 2
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284About this Journal Turnbull Library Record, Volume 34, 1 January 2001, Page 2
Using This Item
The majority of this journal is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. The exceptions to this, as of June 2018, are the following three articles, which are believed to be out of copyright in New Zealand.
• David Blackwood Paul, “The Second Walpole Memorial Lecture”. Turnbull Library Record 12: (September 1954) pp.3-20
• Eric Ramsden, “The Journal of John B. Williams”. Turnbull Library Record 11: (November 1953), pp.3-7
• Arnold Wall, “Sir Hugh Walpole and his writings”. Turnbull Library Record 6: (1946), pp.1-12
Copyright in other articles will expire over time and therefore will also no longer be licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence.
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