Posts tagged with collecting

Road sign ‘Prepare to stop’ which has been changed to read: 'Prepare to be kind'.

Documenting COVID-19: One year on

By Abi Beatson
25 March 2021
A sample of the documentary mahi that has been happening across Aotearoa to collect and preserve the ways that New Zealanders have experienced the global pandemic.
Collections
A gnome wearing a red hat and holding a surfboard has been painted on a concrete wall.

Collecting COVID-19: your history, your voices

By John Sullivan
2 July 2020
Help us build the Library’s COVID-19 collection.
Collections
Flying Nun Records album covers.

Vinyl survival: A collector’s legacy

By Michael Brown
21 May 2020
Introducing the Anthony Norton Collection of recorded music and memorabilia.
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Colourful gnome painted on concrete wall.

Lockdown 2020: your history, your voices

By Shannon Wellington
6 May 2020
Documenting New Zealanders daily lives during COVID-19.
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Staff photo of the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Closed but partly open

By Chris Szekely
24 April 2020
Alexander Turnbull Library activities during COVID-19.
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Facebook open on a computer.

Is your Facebook account an archive of the future?

By Jessica Moran
30 August 2019
Contribute to the ATL100 Facebook Archive Project.
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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
Head and shoulders portrait of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull as a young man. Photograph taken in 1891.

The benefits of boredom

By Fiona Oliver
29 October 2012
When Society fails to stimulate, perhaps collecting books offers some opportunity?
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Mr Kebbell and Alexander Turnbull, on board Turnbull's yacht Rona.

Mixed fortunes

By Peter Ireland
19 September 2012
Alexander Turnbull, bibliophile, Library benefactor and keen cyclist.
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Photograph of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, William Henry Scott Kinsey, ca. 1900.

Letters and luggage

By Fiona Oliver
3 August 2012
As we prepare to open the Turnbull Gallery, we celebrate our benefactor’s bibliomania.
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