A Chronology of Archives Keeping in New Zealand in 2016

Authors

  • David Retter

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/arch.11066

Abstract

This chronology is intended to delineate the principal events in the history of archives keeping in New Zealand, during the first 175 years of organised European settlement. In particular, it traces the emergence of a national archives system, illustrates the development of other fields of archives, records and manuscripts keeping, through to the more recent emergence of electronic forms of record-keeping. We hope it will also serve to mark the growth of awareness of the importance of archives, and of perceptions and responses to issues relating to archives-keeping. Lastly, it indicates some of the milestones along the route to an archivist profession in New Zealand.

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Author Biography

David Retter

David Retter has many years’ professional experience as an archivist working at Archives New Zealand and as a research librarian and team leader at the Alexander Turnbull Library. He has served on ARANZ
Council, also as Chairperson of the Wellington Branch, and was the last President of the New Zealand Society of Archivists; he currently serves on the Advisory Group of the Soldiers of Empire Project, based at Victoria University. He has published in Archifacts, New Zealand Archivist and Off the Record, and is currently researching the New Zealanders who served in the Anglo-South African (‘Boer’) War, 1899-1902.

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Published

2016-06-01

Issue

2016: June

Section

Articles