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The Anne Bray Library
The library has a variety of resources available relating to the area of disability, particularly intellectual disability. These include books, videos, audio tapes and journals. All of our resources are catalogued on a computerised database.
Although the library is predominantly used by students it is open to the public and the only requirement is that you fill out an enrolment form when borrowing resources. The library enrolment form is available at the library or can be completed online.
Our library services are available to people outside of the Dunedin area, but only within New Zealand.
Library Services
A literature search on a particular topic can be performed free of charge. Please contact our librarian, Krissy Wright.
Books, videos and audiotapes can be borrowed for a period of 2 weeks. A maximum of 4 resources can be borrowed at any one time. The journals cannot be borrowed but articles can be photocopied for a small charge.
The only library services which incur a charge at present are photocopying, the use of the internet facilities, and postage.
The Librarian is available Monday to Friday until 14:30, so any requests for personal assistance please need to be made during the hours 09:00 to 14:30. However, the Library remains open until 17:00 on week days.
Frozen Funds Charitable Trust
"Frozen Funds" was the name given to the interest on patients' welfare benefits paid into psychiatric and psychopaedic hospital trust accounts in the 1970s and 80s. The interest money was kept by the institutions to fund such things as recreational projects. When the process of deinstitutionalisation began these funds were returned to the owners and the unclaimed balance was set aside and is now used to benefit people with mental illness or an intellectual disability.
The Trust has been funding projects since 2008 with many of these projects delivering written material, books and DVDs covering institutionalisation and living with a disability.
The Donald Beasley Institute is now holding a selection of resources in the Anne Bray Library, which have been funded by Frozen Funds.
Extraordinary Journeys came out of a project about people with intellectual disabilities talking about their experiences of institutional and community living.
A Place of Our Own. Living with the legacy of institutionalization. This resource comes in two formats, a book and a DVD. This project was initiated by People First New Zealand and it involved Graeme Parish, the National Chairperson of People First NZ, travelling throughout New Zealand and meeting with and interviewing people who have an intellectual disability and their experiences of life in the community.
It is a great opportunity to have resources that are New Zealand based as so much of the literature in this area is international research and not local. We encourage people to contact Krissy Wright to borrow these excellent resources.
