Donald Kerr

Donald Kerr is the author of Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector (Otago University Press, 2006).

For fourteen years, Donald Kerr worked as the rare books librarian in the Grey Collection at Auckland City Library. He is a passionate bookman, and is interested in book collectors, the collecting phenomenon, and the formation of private libraries.

He has edited a book on Charles Brasch (Enduring Legacy: Charles Brasch, Patron, Poet, Collector, Otago University Press 2003), written a book on the history of duelling in New Zealand (2006), and is currently working on Dr Hocken as a book collector.

He now lives in Dunedin and is Special Collections Librarian at the University of Otago.