Updated lists of Māori theses held by the Library are now available via the Services for Māori page on the Library’s website. Unlike previous years, there are now two lists, with one consisting of Doctoral theses and the other containing details of Honours and Masters theses. The entry for each thesis contains information about library holdings, including where appropriate a link to the online version in the Library’s repository Massey Research Online. The lists will be updated at regular intervals throughout the year.

The Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards, held in July during Māori Language Week, are being presented to winners on Māori Language Day, 14th September.

The presentation celebrates the success of the winners and acknowledges the contributions of all the finalists to Māori publishing. It will be hosted by Library Māori Services Staff who organised the awards, and Te Pūtahi-a-Toi, School of Māori Studies.

The winners in each category, with links to the Library Catalogue to find or request the books, are:

All of the finalists are available for borrowing here. The complete list of finalists in each category is on our earlier post Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards 2009.
We'll try to bring you some photos of the awards presentation in the next few days.

Books about Māori written by Māori were the resounding choice of hundreds of voters in Massey’s Inaugural Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards held to coincide with Māori Language Week.

Organiser Spencer Lilley, the University's Kaihautū Māori (Māori library services manager), says the idea for organising book awards recognising Māori literature was as a result of other major book awards consistently failing to do so.

The winners in each category are:

All of the finalists can be found on our earlier post Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards 2009

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The Library has chosen to celebrate this year’s Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week) by creating the Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards. These awards are designed to recognise the contribution that Māori focused books make to New Zealand’s literary heritage. Māori Services Staff have identified what they think are the best books published in 2008/09 across five categories. These categories are: Art, Architecture & Design, Biography, History, Sports & Recreation and Te Reo Māori. A sixth category recognises the Māori Book of the Decade (2000 – 2009). Voting is open to everyone, and all Massey University students and staff who vote will go in the draw for a $50 book voucher.

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Ngā mihi mo te tau hou. Today, 24 June, signals the start of Matariki, the Māori new year. We're celebrating with displays in some of the campus Libraries, and we also hold many books on Matariki.

Library staff at Palmerston North will be enjoying a Māori potato tasting and a lecture on the kumara presented by Spencer Lilley, Kaihautū Māori/Māori Services Manager.