Posts tagged with archives

A member of the team wearing white gloves, leans onto a table to inspect a small collection of black and white photos.

Ngā tino mahi o te tau — Turnbull Library Arrangement & Description team highlights of 2020

By Sascha Nolden
22 December 2020
Personal highlights from the last year by the team who arrange and describe the unpublished collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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A man rides on the back of a whale, sitting just behind the whale's head while its tale curves upwards behind him.

What’s in a Tupuna name?

By Ariana Tikao
14 December 2020
Find out about the work to improve and update 100's of Māori name records in the Turnbull Library's database of unpublished collections.
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Building on a floating platform for mining gold.

Making Turnbull collections more discoverable

By Nicola Frean
28 October 2020
Inside the Library’s work to improve name index terms and expand access to collections.
Behind the scenes
Peter Chan speaking at the symposium.

Archiving Email 2020 Symposium

By Valerie Love
19 February 2020
Meeting the challenges of email archiving.
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Catherine Bisley with one of the donors, Anna Riddiford, and Mark Crookston (Associate Chief Librarian).

Ngā tino mahi o te tau — A&D team highlights of 2019

By Ariana Tikao
17 December 2019
New acquisitions to the unpublished collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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The word email on a large arrow roadsign.

Call for proposals: Archiving email symposium

By Jessica Moran
13 November 2019
Interested in challenges and solutions for collecting and preserving email? Send us your proposal for the one-day symposium to discuss archiving email.
Events
John Dalton Theatre — the main auditorium of the Turner Centre.

New Zealand Theatre month

By Peter Rowlands
26 September 2018
Commemorating New Zealand Theatre Month with reflections on theatre in the Far North by guest blogger Peter Rowlands.
Events
Hands of Melissa Bryant holding photographs of the whare whakairo Hinemihi ki Te Wairoa.

Arranged, described, and ready for you!

By Valerie Love
10 January 2018
Newly available collections at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Collections
Merryn McAulay with a print showing Marine Parade, Napier.

Glass plates, yachts, maps and more

By Valerie Love
20 January 2017
The Arrangement & Description team looks back at 2016.
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Icons to search different types of Authority records at Turnbull Library.

Tiaki – one year on

By Valerie Love
8 December 2016
Our new update to Tiaki makes it even better for researchers.
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Swan adorned with flowers.

Swanning Around: Crown Lynn Archives

By Shannon Wellington
8 April 2016
A compendium of Crown Lynn archives in collecting institutions around New Zealand.
Collections Outside the Library
Ariana Tikao.

Highlights from the Arrangement & Description Team

By Catherine Bisley
23 December 2015
Behind the scenes in 2015.
Long reads Behind the scenes
Charlie Tumahai as Karaoke Man singing in a bar.

The big picture

By Catherine Bisley
30 April 2015
A treasure trove of images from the production of the film Once Were Warriors.
Long reads
Win Lynch working on a large panorama negatives, which is sitting on a lightbox.

Fresh favourites from ’fourteen

By Valerie Love
6 January 2015
The Arrangement and Description team revisits their favourite new acquisitions of 2014.
Collections
After work football on a runway.

Tuvalu Tau Gana Ko Tou Lagaifakalaga

By Mark Crookston
29 September 2014
Our relationship with Tuvalu, in archives and in the Pacific.
Outside the Library
The 'Topp Twins'; Jools and Lynda Topp.

Describing Jools and Lynda

By Valerie Love
9 September 2014
Describing the indescribable Topp Twins – and making them a little more findable.
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German samoa wax seal.

Gagana Deutsch

By Uili Fecteau
30 May 2014
Mapping the German Samoan relationship following the outbreak of WWI
Outside the Library
Grey leaf.

The ever-expanding Turnbull collections

By Valerie Love
13 January 2014
Turnbull Library added over 300 unpublished collections last year. Come have a look…
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