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Topic: New Zealand Chinese journals database
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The N Z Chinese journals database was launched at Auckland City Libraries on 10 February 2009.
The N Z Chinese journals database was launched at Auckland City Libraries on 10 February 2009. This project was an important collaboration between the libraries (Auckland City Libraries and the Alexander Turnbull Library) and the community (NZ Chinese Association Auckland Branch, the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust and the Dominion Federation of NZ Chinese Commercial Growers Inc). The database includes a digital version of three journals:
- Man Sing Times (the voice of the people), 1921-1922, was New Zealand's first Chinese language newspaper.
- New Zealand Chinese weekly news 1937-1946 - published by the New Zealand Chinese Association in Wellington
- New Zealand Chinese Growers' monthly journal, 1949 -1972, published by the Dominion Federation of New Zealand Chinese Commercial Growers
The vision for this Chinese Journal Database is to provide greater access to important historical material and make the history of NZ Chinese more visible. It is a unique mixture of English and Chinese in a single interface, reflecting both the community who created the journals and the people reading them. The database has been specifically indexed by name to identify Chinese New Zealanders in both Chinese and English.
The role of the database is to:
- provide greater access to important historical material
- increase the visibility of the history of NZ Chinese
- search both in Chinese and English
- ensure titles and summary information can be searched as well as read from cover to cover, making information far more accessible and visual for the user and often easier to find.
The database was launched on the 10th February 2009 by the Mayor of Auckland John Banks in the Waitemata room at the central library at Auckland City Libraries. See http://www.nzchinesejournals.org.nz
