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Going into raptures over stereographs
By Natalie Marshall
21 June 2022
Celebrating International Stereoscopy Day with a look at stereoscopic photographs in the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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The mayfly | Protest ephemera
By Audrey Stratford
16 June 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand's protest history documented in the Ephemera Collection.
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Music all year round
By Joan McCracken
1 June 2022
All about our large and rich music collections.
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The Disasteradio Project
By Michael Brown
25 May 2022
Making more music available for download and reuse from the Luke Rowell Collection.
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Turnbull Mixtape 10: I'm (never) getting too old for this Sh*aring
By Sholto Duncan
18 May 2022
Celebrating the tenth annual Turnbull Mixtape filled to the brim with Creative Commons music from the last decade.
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Tales from the Acousmonium – Part 2
By Michael Brown
13 May 2022
Digital preservation of NZ composer and sonic artist John Cousins' collection.
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‘At the still point, there the dance is’
By Mark Hector
11 May 2022
Wondering what music-related ephemera is contained in the collections?
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Tales from the Acousmonium – Part 1
By Michael Brown
4 May 2022
Iconic sound artist and composer John Cousins’ career, creative work and audio recordings from the Library collections.
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Loading the precious freight on board
By Jessica Moran
26 April 2022
Utaina! the project that is all about digitising audiovisual collections.
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Peter Downes: A tribute
By Roger Flury
7 April 2022
Celebrating the life and legacy of broadcaster and historian Peter Downes.
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The mayfly | Here today gone tomorrow
By Audrey Stratford
18 March 2022
The first in a series of upcoming blogs about archiving ephemera at the Alexander Turnbull Library
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Living history while documenting it
By Abi Beatson
8 March 2022
Archiving the 2022 Wellington protests.
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From a hikoi to a sprint, passing the baton
By Chris Szekely
25 February 2022
Celebrating the release of ‘Te Kupenga, 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull’
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Cartoons call the shots: An interview with Toby Morris
By Abi Beatson
27 January 2022
We talk to cartoonist Toby Morris about the COVID-19 cartoons created with Siouxsie Wiles.
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Highlights of 2021 from the Turnbull Library’s Arrangement & Description team
By Sascha Nolden
17 December 2021
The annual retrospective with observations and reflections from the Turnbull Library team who make our collections easier to find and use.
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Ngā Tānga Reo Māori on Papers Past
By Melanie Lovell-Smith
8 December 2021
Read about the Ngā Tanga Reo Māori project on Papers Past.
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Re-visioning Joseph Divis and Waiuta
By Caroline McQuarrie
24 November 2021
Recovering details from the photographs of a small West Coast mining town.
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Curios and convict bricks
By Jared Davidson
17 November 2021
Was Turnbull House made from prison bricks? Jared Davidson gets to the bottom of some convict curios in the collection.
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Mystery solved
By Sam Orchard
27 October 2021
Delving into the Cartoon and Comics Archive to help a researcher find answers.
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Highlight on the National Library Print Disabilities Service
By Felicity Benjes
21 October 2021
The history and services provided by the Print Disabilities Service.
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