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Mahi Whanake: A project to connect people to collections
Part of Connecting to collections 2023 series
Tuesday 19 September 2023, 12pm to 1pm
Online
Free
In this online talk, Senior Archivist Merryn McAulay will explain how the cross library project team, Mahi Whanake, is preparing three significant acquisitions for access by researchers — the architectural records of John Scott, the final tranche of literary papers from C. K. Stead, and the papers of artist Shona Rapira Davies.
Mahi Whanake | Developing new ways of working
The Mahi Whanake team, named for the verb whanake | to grow, was formed in August 2022 to not only process three large and complex collections, but also test new ways of working by bringing together arrangement and description, conservation, and digitisation functions into one team with shared goals.
Hear how the team is going one year into the project and about the work they are doing to connect people with collections.
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About the speaker
Merryn McAulay is a Senior Archivist for Special Projects at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Connecting to collections talks
Want to know more about the collections and services of the Alexander Turnbull Library and National Library of New Zealand? Keen to learn how you can connect to the collections and use them in your research or publication? Then these talks are for you. Connecting to Collections talks are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month (February to November).
Have a look at some of the previous talks in the Connecting to collections series.
Connecting to collections 2021
Connecting to collections 2022
Connecting to collections 2023
Merryn McAulay (left) and conservator Louise Newdick look at plans from the John Scott collection. Photo by Mark Beatty.