Posts tagged with born digital

A detail from the Drake Hotline Bling meme showing his preference for the Covid-19 tracer app.

They’re the same picture: Collecting memes at the Alexander Turnbull Library

By Valerie Love
17 June 2021
Senior Digital Archivist Valerie Love on developing the library's growing meme collection including many that are unique to New Zealand.
Collections
In image of a tree under a hazy sky taken from a page on Instagram.

Saving your Social Media

By Valerie Love
24 June 2020
Tips for preserving your social media content, now and into the future.
Collections
Heart in a circle with yellow and white striped background. Be kind, unite against COVID-19. New Zealand government.

Documenting life online in Aotearoa during COVID-19

By Valerie Love
7 April 2020
How we’re collecting and preserving online content.
Collections
Personal digital archives teaser.

The history of you and me

By Valerie Love
21 November 2018
Strategies for managing our personal digital archives.
Outside the Library
A selection of cartoon images of items relating to movies.

At the movies — children and teen book adaptations

By Lara Petry
25 October 2017
NZ movie and book enthusiasts alike are in for a treat over the next months. There are several exciting book-to-film adaptations imminent, with some already showing on the big screen.
Create readers
A shoebox full of floppy disks containing literary drafts.

Processing Dame Judith Binney’s collection

By Valerie Love
25 September 2017
What do you do with 25 linear metres, 6.51 GB, and 18,301 emails?
Behind the scenes
Floppy disks.

A (born digital) health check

By Jessica Moran
20 March 2017
We found out how New Zealand’s GLAMs are handling the born digital boom.
Library tech