The New Zealand Digital Library project is a research programme at The University of Waikato whose aim is to develop the underlying technology for digital libraries and make it available publicly so that others can use it to create their own collections.

Their web site provides several document collections, including historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines.All are available over the Web, and can be accessed through searching and browsing interfaces provided by the Greenstone digital library software.

The Medical and Health Library 1.0 was built in December 1999. It is jointly initiated by the Humanity Libraries Project,and the Payson Center for International Development of Tulane University. It contains 210 publications (30,000 pages of ideas and solutions) in the fields of Clinical Treatment, Emergencies, Essential Drugs, Family Planning, Food and Nutrition, Health Education, HIV/AIDS, Medical Equipment, Prevention, Public Health, Research, Sanitaiton.

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