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Tag: unpublished collections
Posts tagged with unpublished collections
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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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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Behind the scenes
Updating the language we use to describe our collections
By Emma Roache
27 February 2024
Reparative description at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Te hokinga mai
By Jessica Moran
31 January 2024
The return to New Zealand of photos from the Fairfax Archive of newspaper prints.
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Highlights of 2023 from the Turnbull Library’s Arrangement & Description team
By William Daymond
14 December 2023
A review of 2023 from the team who make our collections easier to find and use.
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Caring for the C K Stead collection
By Nathan Burgess
12 December 2023
Preparing the C K Stead collection for researchers to access and use.
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‘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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Lettuce celebrate Vegetarian Awareness Month
By Fiona Oliver
12 October 2023
Collection inspiration documenting the many vegetable-related materials held by the Library.
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Off the record | Best on show
By Ronan Speden
21 September 2023
Reflecting on a century of Turnbull Library exhibitions.
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Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa
By Suliana Vea
8 September 2023
Celebrating Samoa Language Week at the Library.
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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.
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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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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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Off the record | A child of the sun: Katherine Mansfield’s last year
By Fiona Oliver
5 July 2023
Celebrating Katherine Mansfield’s life.
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Off the record | Rehousing Colenso’s plants
By Laura Van Echten
30 June 2023
Caring for dried botanical specimens.
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Literary papers | Witi Ihimaera’s ‘The Whale Rider’
By Lindsay Bilodeau
27 June 2023
An annotated copy of the award-winning novel reveals the author's personal connections to the story.
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Off the record | We hear you listening, right where you are
By Sarah Walker
23 June 2023
Accessing the nation's oral history archive just got a lot easier.
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The mayfly | Takes me back — Ephemera from New Zealand’s closed music venues
By Rata Holtslag
26 May 2023
Remembering the bars and clubs that are gone but not forgotten.
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What’s in a word — describing LGBTQ+ collections
By Emma Roache
11 May 2023
Using the international linked data vocabulary called Homosaurus.
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Adventures in the underworld: A year of reviewing manuscript restrictions
By Jared Davidson
3 May 2023
Reviewing access restrictions and highlights of material reviewed.
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