Primary Sources
Resources
Primary Sources - what are they?
What are primary sources? How are they special? Why use them in the classroom?
More places to search for primary source material to use with primary sources in the classroom and library.
A selection of web based tools and applications you can use in the library or classroom when working with digital primary sources.
Educators' guides, work sheets and other tools for the classroom or library.
A selection of resources for you to use in the classroom or library to support an inquiry unit using the Haka! primary sources.
More videos
David Colquhoun, curator of manuscripts at the Turnbull tells us about primary sources.
Diane Woods is the Field librarian for the Alexander Turnbull Library of the National Library of New Zealand. She talks about some of the ways the library acquires new items for the collections from people here and overseas.
Ronald Milne, Associate Chief Librarian - research collections at the Alexander Turnbull library reveals some of the library's fascinating primary sources.
Amy Watling, from the Alexander Turnbull Library talks about primary source materials and how researchers and others use these to create new works.
In my video ‘A Grand Mother’ I wanted to convey the feelings of pride and delight that my family felt when we discovered that our grandmother / great grandmother had signed the Suffrage Petition over 100 years ago.