The Print History Project team.

Pictured left to right: Elizabeth Styron, Nicola Frean, Sydney Shep

Dr Sydney J Shep

Dr. Sydney J Shep is Senior Lecturer in Print & Book Culture at Victoria University of Wellington and The Printer at the University's Wai-te-ata Press : : Te Whare Ta O Wai-te-ata.

She specialises in topics in the history of print culture in New Zealand and, through a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand, has researched the history of NZ colonial paper, papermaking, and paper trade networks.

Sydney is Editor of SHARP News, Co-editor of the Bulletin of the Bibliographic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Co-editor of the proposed H-Paper_Research electronic network, and sits on the Advisory Board of the University of Toronto Press' Studies in Book and Print Culture.

She is currently working on a collaborative project to map the contemporary street graffiti in Wellington using Geographic Information Systems.

For Research Enquiries please contact Dr. Sydney Shep.

Nicola Frean

Nicola Frean is Special Materials Librarian at the Library of Victoria University of Wellington, Te Whare Wananga o te Upoko o te Ika a Maui.

Her major responsibility is the J. C. Beaglehole Room, the Library's supervised research reading room for access to rare books, fine printing, archives and manuscripts, historic photographs and oral histories.

For research contact Nicola Frean

Elizabeth Styron

Elizabeth Styron was the founding director of the the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre. The NZETC managed the Print History Project grant, overseeing all aspects of development, production, and on-going hosting of the project.

For information on digitisation projects and activities at the NZETC, contact Alison Stevenson

Other Staff

Pip Adam, Project Manager (NZETC)

Stuart King, Designer (NZETC) > website

Conal Tuohy, Senior Programmer (NZETC) > email

Justine Jungersen-Smith, Bibliographic Assistant (JC Beaglehole Room)

Teresa Shewry, Scanning Manager (NZETC)

Also with help from the NZETC's Ruth Glassey, Margaret Mackley, Tarn McDonald, and Kevin Molloy

Special thanks to the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center's Associate Director, Matthew Gibson, for his work to index the site.

Participating Organisations

J.C. Beaglehole Room

The J.C. Beaglehole Room houses the Special Materials Department, comprising the Library's rare book collections and other rare materials, including the archive and manuscript collections.

Wai-te-ata Press

Wai-te-ata Press is a centre for research, lectures, demonstrations, and practical applications in printing history, information technology and design, communication theory, and cultural studies.

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center

The Electronic Text Center at Virginia hosts a tremendous internet accessible archive of XML texts and images, and it has also built a vital community of users and creators of these materials. The UVA Etext Center works with several other institutions, including the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, which it helped to found in 2001. The Etext Center provides the searching capability for the Print History Project.

Contact Details

For information about this site, contact the NZETC.

Information about the material that appears in the site - The JC Beaglehole Room