Early New Zealand Books
Encyclopedia
Early New Zealand Books is a project from the library of the University of Auckland
, New Zealand
, launched in 2005, that aims at providing keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century. Each page is linked to an image of that page in the original book. This provides researchers with assurance of accuracy. There are special searches for captions to illustrations and chapter summaries as well as a general full-text search. This project is one of a number at the University of Auckland Library which uses the b-engine rendering engine.
The project has been funded and managed by the University of Auckland Library and is freely available on the internet.
In July 2008 a hundred books were digitized.
University of Auckland
The University of Auckland is a university located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest university in the country and the highest ranked in the 2011 QS World University Rankings, having been ranked worldwide...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, launched in 2005, that aims at providing keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century. Each page is linked to an image of that page in the original book. This provides researchers with assurance of accuracy. There are special searches for captions to illustrations and chapter summaries as well as a general full-text search. This project is one of a number at the University of Auckland Library which uses the b-engine rendering engine.
The project has been funded and managed by the University of Auckland Library and is freely available on the internet.
In July 2008 a hundred books were digitized.