Posts tagged with off the record

Two women lean over a display case admiring the objects within.

Off the record | Best on show

By Ronan Speden
21 September 2023
Reflecting on a century of Turnbull Library exhibitions.
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A group of people leaning over a table watching a woman making a box.

Off the record | Keeping it local

By Chris Szekely
6 September 2023
An interview with Vicki-Anne Heikell about working in the world of conservation.
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A black and white two-storied stone-walled house on large grounds.

Off the record | The house that Florence built

By Elizabeth Cox
23 August 2023
Piecing together the story of architect Florence Field of Nelson.
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A typed manuscript on a table surrounded by copies of books all titled ‘the bone people’.

Off the record | A welcome home

By Paul Diamond and Seán McMahon
11 August 2023
About the typed manuscript of ‘the bone people’.
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A woman observes a painting that is being held in a wooden archival storage device.

Off the record | With help from our Friends

By Jennifer Cauchi
26 July 2023
Conservation treatment of Isabella Turnbull's portrait.
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A man stands amongst the archival storage shelves filled with materials bound and in boxes.

Off the Record | Let the music play

By Glen Downie
19 July 2023
Glen Downie shares the subtle pleasures of his work making music scores available to hire.
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Detail of a black shawl showing beautiful colourful embroidery of flowers, a bird and butterflies.

Off the record | A child of the sun: Katherine Mansfield’s last year

By Fiona Oliver
5 July 2023
Celebrating Katherine Mansfield’s life.
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Dried plants on a piece of paper with copperplate writing underneath.

Off the record | Rehousing Colenso’s plants

By Laura Van Echten
30 June 2023
Caring for dried botanical specimens.
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Cassette tapes are stored in grey archival drawers with labels.

Off the record | We hear you listening, right where you are

By Sarah Walker
23 June 2023
Accessing the nation's oral history archive just got a lot easier.
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A man standing arms crossed between two walls of archive boxes.

Off the record | A radical life

By Jessica Moran
7 December 2022
Award-winning writer Jared Davidson talks about archiving and writing radical history.
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Man sat behind a table. On top of the table is a collection of comic strips.

Off the record | Welcoming Footrot Flats

By Sam Orchard
23 November 2022
The Alexander Turnbull Library welcomes over 5,000 Footrot Flats comics.
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An engraving of a man with fur hat and long beard.

Off the record | Europe’s first printer

By Anthony Tedeschi
2 November 2022
The man who pioneered the process of printing from movable type.
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Two Library staff sitting in the reading room with a book they have digitised.

Off the record | Preserving te reo print

By Paul Diamond
5 October 2022
Read about our work to digitise precious printed materials in te reo Māori.
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An open magazine with a picture and text visible, showing a woman standing among old, framed paintings.

Off the record | Exploring what we do not have

By Ashwinee Pendharkar
7 September 2022
The silences, gaps, and missing voices in the Library's collections.
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Black and white photo of a man grey-haired and bearded man. He has kind eyes.

Off the record | William Harding, ‘photographist’

By Fiona Oliver
28 July 2022
The immediate and relatable portraits of William Harding.
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