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Walsh Memorial Library

The Walsh Memorial Library is a reference library, located at the Museum of Transport and Technology, MOTAT on Great North Road, Auckland. The library is open to the public Monday - Friday, 10am - 4.00pm. Research requests can also be emailed to the library.

Named after New Zealand aviation pioneers Leo and Vivian Walsh, the Library was established in 1964 with support from the Walsh Memorial Trust and the Royal Aeronautical Society.

For almost two years, 2013-2015, the Library was housed offsite. But, it is now back at MOTAT in the lower level of the newly refurbished Pioneers of Aviation building.

The library has an extensive collection of material reflecting the MOTAT objects collection. The strength of the collection is in aviation and other forms of transport, trams, rail, road transport along with steam, engineering, communications, printing, military, mechanical and technical topics. Social history is also reflected in the collections as it played an important role in the development of transport and technology.

Material in the library includes; published works, manuscripts, manuals, photographs, periodicals and oral history recordings. All of the Library collections are available to view and for use by researchers.

The published catalogue is available online via Te Puna search, New Zealand's national bibliographic database. This can be searched here: http://natlib.govt.nz/librarians/te-puna/te-puna-search. The pictorial collections which have been digitised are availble to view via eHive.