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Donating

Have you thought about giving to the Hocken?

For over 100 years the Hocken’s collections have been built on the generosity of donors.

Every year well over a hundred people donate books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, photographs, maps, music, archives and personal papers to the Hocken Collections. They represent things that individuals, families and organisations value and want to make available for present and future generations of researchers.

Many people who appreciate what the Hocken does arrange to leave the Library something in their will; either material for the collections, a sum of money or both.  You can specify how you would like us to spend your donation. Money that is given can be placed in an acquisition fund, or used to care for our collections and enhance our programmes of exhibitions, events and publications.

Charles Brasch gave many paintings to the Hocken during his life time and as part of his bequest after his untimely death in 1973. He gifted twenty-five linear metres of papers that document his personal life and his work as a poet and as editor of Landfall.  He also left money to University of Otago to support the  arts fellowships and to the Hocken Endowment Trust which enables us to purchase new works for the collection. 

The gifts of other individuals have created the Molly Morpeth Canady Trust and the Special Purposes Trust that continue to assist the Hocken in promoting scholarship and the collections through wonderful exhibitions, catalogues and the Hocken Lecture.

To find out what kind of legacy you could leave to the next generation of New Zealanders please talk to the Hocken Librarian, Sharon Dell.

Giving your archives & manuscripts to Hocken Collections (1.6MB in PDF Format)

Last revised: 11 January, 2012