We are very pleased to share that CANTA, the official magazine of the University of Canterbury Students’ Association (UCSA), is now fully digitised and available online: CANTA (1930 - 2009) · UC in Print · UC Library Omeka.
Established in 1930 when the association was known as the Students' Association of Canterbury University College, CANTA is pitched at entertaining and informing UC students. It has been published online and in print since 2016, with digitised copies available from the CANTA website dating back to 2014 and further digital issues available from the National Library of New Zealand dating back to 2010.
A complete run of the CANTA publication is held within the Macmillan Brown Library and over the last two years, UC Library has digitised issues from 1930-2009 enabling researchers to access the complete run of CANTA online. The Macmillan Brown Library team prepped the publication for digitisation by New Zealand Micrographic Services, before uploading files to UC Library’s Digital Voyages so that each issue can be accessed both as a searchable PDF file and page-by-page in the Mirador viewer.
This publication offers a valuable and enthralling window into student life at UC over the years - happy browsing!
