...Spencer Lilley Purpose This paper aims to provide an introduction to Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, briefly describing their origin, population structure, language and knowledge structures. There is also a description of the process by which Māori knowledge systems were transformed...

...Glenn Davidson; Dan Dorner Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discover the criteria upon which selection decisions are made in six mobile libraries in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach In this qualitative study data were gathered from interviews with six mobile librarians...

... management New Zealand There is a wealth of historical Maori material in New Zealand libraries in the form of books, newspapers, manuscripts, archives, pictures, maps, photographs and sound recordings. Much of the written material is in the Maori language and originates from Maori authors dating...