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Student life: the library

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Student life: the library

The library has always been a familiar place to students – though more familiar to some, perhaps, than others. These students are studying together at the Auckland University College (later The University of Auckland) library in 1953.

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Kerryn Pollock, Tertiary education – Universities before 1990, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/34414/student-life-the-library (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 29 May 2012.