Library
All items from the club library are available for members to borrow. Send your request to the librarian -> mailto:wcg-librarian [snail] caving [period] org [period] nz and collect them from the next club night.
The club library resides in the Librarian's house in Lower Hutt. Here is the result of an investigation and cataloguing of this taonga - August 2014.
Some of the publications are exciting and informative, some are dated and informative and some are just informative while others are of interest only to nerdy bibliophiles and have already led to many undone chores around my place.
All are available on loan to paid up WCG members, I present the following catalogue which is in no particular order.
Caving books
| Title (alphabetical order) | Author | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bungonia caves | Sydney Speo society | ? | |
| Caves and cave diving | Guyde Lavaur | ? | |
| Cave Entrance Plants | Waitomo Caves Museum | ||
| Cave Minerals | Waitomo Caves Museum | ||
| The Caves of Texas | NSS Bulletin No. 10 | ||
| Caving | Peter Suvart | ? | |
| Caving International | Nos.1 2 3 4 5 | ||
| Caving minerals | Ioana Fullerton (Waitomo) | 1963 | |
| The Darkness Beckons | Martyn Farr | 1980 The history and development of cave diving. Welsh author, highly recommended | |
| Delving deeper | Moriya Lipyeat | 2005 The history of NZ caving, highly recommended | |
| The Great Caving Adventure | Martyn Farr | An autobiography of Martyn's early years in caving and cave diving. Welsh author, highly recommended | |
| Guide lines for Cave and Karst Protection | the World Union 1997 | ||
| Guidelines for cave and Karst protection | IUCN | ? | |
| Inside Earth No. 4 | The Speleo Press, Texas | ||
| Karst | J.N. Jennings | ||
| Karst in Stone | Jill Kerry | ? | |
| Leuchtend Finsternis (german) | Alfred Boegli Herbert W. Franke | 1965 | |
| Manual of Caving Techniques | Cecil Cullingford, Ed | The Cave Research Group, 1969 | |
| The Moas Of New Zealand and Australia | |||
| More Years Under The Earth | Nobby Casteret | ||
| Mt. Etna and the Caves | a Mt. Etna in Australia | ||
| Mount Etna Caves | " | ||
| Nigani Caves | ? | ? | |
| Papua New Guinea | Julia Jones (Editor) | ? | |
| Rope and rescue rigging | G. Prattley | 2014 | |
| Science of speleology | Ford/Collingford | ? | |
| School Journal - Bulmer dye trace (2x) | Marcus Thomas | May 2015 | |
| Speleology | Moore and Nicholas | 1964 | |
| Surveying caves | Bryan Ellis | 1976 | |
| Underground adventure | A. Gemmel/J.O. Meyers | 1952 | |
| The Tabon Caves | Archaeological dig in the Philippines | ||
| The complete book of cave exploration | Roy Pinney | 1962 | |
| The world of caves | A C Waltham | 1976 | |
| 21st Anniversary Chronicle NZSS | 1970 | ||
| The Underground Atlas | A Gazetteer of the Worlds Caves | ||
| Vertical - a technical manual for cavers | Alan Warild | 1988 The Speleological Research Council Ltd. Sydney Australia | |
| Waitomo Caves | Undated, 16 pages, souvenir booklet | ||
| Waitomo Caves leaflet | Undated,1 big page, souvenir booklet | ||
| NZSS handbook 3rd edition (2x) | 1995 | ||
| DVDs (alphabetical order) | |||
| Atea sinki expedition | DVD | ? | |
| Atea | DVD | ? | |
| BBC Planet Earth - Caves | DVD | ? | |
| Cave diving | DVD | ? | |
| Cave diving UK, Underground Eiger, Wookey Cave | DVD | ? | |
| Cave-Diving in Blue Creek Resurgence (2014) | mp4 | ||
| Cavernoso | pps | ||
| Deep: The Story of Stormy Pot | avi | ||
| The Descent | DVD | 2005 | |
| Exploring Nettlebed | DVD | ? | |
| Naica Crystal Cave | pps | ||
| National venture scout school | DVD | ? | |
| The Nelson Speleogical Group | DVD | ? | |
| NZ Cave (discovery) | VHS | ? | |
| SRT- Getting started | DVD | ? | |
| Survey Pearce resurgence | DVD | ? | |
| 2 days to soft rock cave | DVD | ? | |
| Time Life and Man, Robert Stirton | VHS | 1963 | |
| Wellington caving group Tape 1+2 | VHS | 2005 | |
| Wookie Cave | DVD | 2005 | |
| Other books (alphabetical order) | |||
| The Arrow Book of Climbing | 1966 | ||
| Classic Walks of New Zealand | Craig Potton | ? | |
| Draft Maniapoto Karst Plan | DOC | ||
| Land Search and Rescue | F.E. Gallas | 1977 | |
| North of Khaurangi West of Golden Bay | Carol Dawber & Cheryl Win | ? | |
| Paparoa National park | NFAC | ||
| Submissions on report for Punakaiki National Park | ? | ? | |
| SAR NZ - Vertical rope course | SAR | ? | |
| Ten years under earth | Norbert Casterert | 1952 | |
| Tramping in New Zealand | Shaun Barnett | 2006 | |
| Maps, surveys, publications, (alphabetical order) | |||
| Aspiring and Rees/Dart Recreation Areas | Map - Terramap | Edition 2,2003 |
| Awakino | Map - Terramap | Edition 2,2003 |
| Introduction to Cave Surveying | BCRA cave studies No. 2 | |
| Marlborough | DOC Parkmap 336-07 | Edition 4,2006 |
| Milford and Kepler Recreation Areas | Map - Terramap | Edition 2,2003 |
| Milford Track | DOC Parkmap 355-01 | Edition 4,2003 |
| Nettlebed map | J. Ravens | 1989 |
| North Island Cave Atlas (2x) | NZSS | 1990 |
| NZSS Bulletins till 2006 (All) | 2x CD | ? |
| N.Z. Cave Atlas, South Island | Peter Crossley | |
| Rakiura | DOC Parkmap 336-10 | Edition 4,2005 |
| South Island Cave Atlas | NZSS | 1990 |
| South Island Cave Atlas | NZSS | 1990 |
| Surveying Caves | Bryan Ellis | The British Cave Research Association, 1976 , Good intro in dos and donts |
| Folder with infos - Megamania | Bob Wellington | ? |
| Folder with infos - Puketiti area | Bob Wellington | ? |
Missing
| Introduction to Cave Photography | BCRA cave studies No. 4 | |
| Potholing & Caving | Don Robinson | Know the game series. Published in collaboration with the Regional Councils of Caving Clubs in Great Britain (3 copies), 1974 |
| The Cave Divers | Robert F Burgess | 1976 |
| Caves | Tony Waltham | 1974 |
| Ghar Paru | David Judson | 1973, Expedition to Iran |
| American Caves and Caving | Willaim R Halliday | 1982, Techniques, Pleasurees, and Safeguards of Modern Cave Exploration |
| Padirac Historique et description sommaire | E A Martel | Undated, In french, Padirac Chasm, 30 pages |
| Jenolan Caves | B T Dunlop | 1977, 88 pages |
| Discovering caves | Tony & Anne Oldham | 1972, 49 pages, A guide to the show caves of Britain |
| An Introduction to Geological Structures and maps | G M Bennison | 1969, 64 pages, for university and college students taking geology as an honours course |
| NZ Karst | TBE | A look at New Zealand Karst 2009 |
| The little red Cavers book | NZSS | 1985 |
Also, complete copies of all (almost all)
- NZSS Bulletins
- SumpThinks, and
- Tomo Times