Posts tagged with preservation

A selection of three LPs laid on a table in a fan shape.

Waiata — Digital taonga from Utaina!

By Mark Hector
23 May 2024
Celebrating NZ Music Month with taonga digitised by the Utaina Project team.
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Leather-bound books on a table.

Ep.8 Voices series: “It’s just hell here now”

By David Colquhoun
19 April 2024
Hear directly from the soldiers at the front in World War One through their letters and diaries.
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A woman in a lab stands behind a table on which some architectural drawings are displayed.

Conservation of the John Scott collection

By Louise Newdick
29 February 2024
In the conservation lab with Paper Conservator Louise Newdick.
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Embroidery of a video game, there is a brown perimeter with one gap, inside the perimeter are the words "It's dangerous to go alone! as well as two fires, a bearded man and a sword. A small green creature is walking through the gap.

‘It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Take This.’ — Storytelling in video games and their preservation challenges

By Finley Mudgway
8 December 2023
The joy of video games and why it is hard to collect them.
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Photo of a record on a record player on a digitisation machine.

From shelf to digitisation — Preserving our audiovisual heritage

By Madeleine Ross
19 October 2023
Watch and read about the Utaina digitisation process.
Behind the scenes
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.
Behind the scenes
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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Group photo of Māori men and women at the National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.

Iwi Archivist Symposium, Te Pūranga

By Vicki-Anne Heikell
4 August 2023
Awhi mai awhi atu, sharing how we care for culture and heritage.
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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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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.
Behind the scenes
Sunrise on carvings at Omahu marae.

Kahungunu ringa hora — Cyclone Gabrielle relief

By Clare Butler
21 June 2023
Supporting Omahu marae after Cyclone Gabrielle.
Outside the Library
A technician adjusts the DAT using their hands before photographing the object.

DATs what we like to hear: Processing the digital audio tapes of Flying Nun Records

By Mark Hector
18 May 2023
Preservation of DATs by copying the music as data.
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Wordcloud that includes the words New Zealalnd #WebArchiveWednesday, tweet, archive and websites.

#WebArchiveWednesday — byte-sized tweets

By Susanna Joe
10 May 2023
What do NZ Dr Who fan club, a sheep shearing competition and a Taiki Waititi fansite have in common?
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A woman standing behind a table on which sit an array of ephemera items.

Surveying the Ephemera F sequence

By Bekah Jackson
20 April 2023
Working with a collection that has unique physical qualities.
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A woman stands simling behind a table on which sit a number of archival documents, folders and boxes.

The Associated Theatre Services collection

By Olive Russell
18 April 2023
Ray Channon's influence on Aotearoa’s live music industry ca. 1970 to 2000.
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A four-person team standing behind a large workbench on which sit architectural drawings and plans.

Caring for the John Scott collection

By Merryn McAulay
24 March 2023
Preparing the John Scott architectural collection for researchers to access and use.
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Portrait of an older woman, she is wearing a chunky necklace and heart brooch.

Anna Jacoba (Ans) Westra (1936-2023)

By Paul Diamond
3 March 2023
Commemorating the life and legacy of one of New Zealand’s best-known photographers and documentarians.
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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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Album cover showing concentric black and white patterns with portrait of two musicians in the middle.

Tall Dwarfs ‘Unearthed and Unravelled’

By Alec Bathgate
27 September 2022
Tall Dwarfs' Alec Bathgate writes about putting together their retrospective box set, 'Unravelled'.
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Detail of the Poetry Machine showing words Poetry Machine in a decorative panel.

Poems and Papers Past

By Melanie Lovell-Smith
19 August 2022
Poems in 19th- and early 20th-century newspapers.
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