NZMS is excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar, hosted in partnership with LIANZA!
Learn how to improve online access to your collections and gather valuable insights to generate community engagement. You’ll receive first-hand advice from individuals involved with the Montana History Portal and Te Whare Tīrara Archives Online.
Keep reading to find out more about the topics that will be covered and meet our speakers!
Strategies to Enhance Online Collection Access
Date: Thursday, 4th April, 2024
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Sharing library and archive collections online is the first step towards creating an inviting and accessible space for research and engagement. The next challenge lies in ensuring your stakeholders can easily locate the information they need.
Over 125 diverse organisations around the world have now chosen Recollect as their online community engagement platform. In this webinar, NZMS explores how some of these groups have configured their sites using Recollect’s creative technology to invite discovery and facilitate better access to digital collections.
The webinar is designed for librarians and information professionals seeking to optimise the online user experience for their patrons. Key topics will include implementing bilingual interfaces, identifying your users, the use of way-finding signposts, and addressing cultural sensitivities.
It will provide a unique opportunity to obtain first-hand insights from organisations using Recollect in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas. They will each share valuable advice for creating more accessible and user-focused collections.
The Speakers
Jennifer Birnel, Director of Montana History Portal
The Montana History Portal is facilitated by the Montana State Library and was established to provide a free online platform for contributing organisations to share their history, providing an interesting model when considering community engagement.
Contributing institutions include libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies. The site features both historical and contemporary items, supporting a range of activities including education, research, and personal interest.
Jennifer Birnel has a Master of Education degree, a BS in Middle Grades Education, and BA in Organizational Communications. She taught middle school language arts and social studies for 12 years. She was hired by the State Library in 2011 as a technology trainer. In 2013 she became the Montana History Portal Director for the Montana State Library.
Hinemoa Rewiti, Te Whare Tīrara Archives Online
Ngāi Te Rangi is a Māori iwi (tribe) based in Tauranga, Aotearoa New Zealand. The iwi has approximately 6,000 registered members who trace their connection to each other through hāpu (kinship) groups and their associated marae (meeting grounds).
Ngāi Te Rangi recently embarked on a major records transformation project, launching Te Whare Tīrara Archives Online in 2023. A key design requirement was ensuring access permission levels supported restricting knowledge to individual hāpu as appropriate.
Hinemoa Rewiti will present on Te Whare Tīrara and offers the following pepeha (biographical information).
Ko Mauao te maunga
Ko Tauranga te Moana
Ko Taakitimu me Mataatua ōku waka
Ko Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi ōku iwi
Ko Ngāi Tamarawaho, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāi Te Ahi, Te Ngare me Ngāti Tapu ōku hapū
Ko Huria, Wairoa, Hairini, Opounui me Waikari ōku Marae
Ko Hinemoa Reweti ahau.
My mahi (work) within Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Te Rangi is Te Whare Tīrara. Te Whare Tīrara is our online archives platform. I take care of this beautiful taonga (treasure), as well as collating kōrero (stories) and archives to be placed in our site for all Uri (kin) of Ngāi Te Rangi.
Alison Barnett, Northern Regional Manager at NZMS
NZMS is the New Zealand reseller of Recollect, a special collection management and community engagement platform. Recollect was originally created and developed through NZMS before being spun out on its own a few years later. The platform was designed to help organisations share their local history and build meaningful connections with their stakeholders. There are now over 125 Recollect clients worldwide including large municipal archives, universities, schools, libraries, historical societies, and more.
Alison has worked for NZMS as the Northern Regional Manager since 2013. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Museums and Cultural Heritage, with previous experience working in museums, galleries, and project managing artist exhibitions.
Watch the Recording
It was fantastic to see such a great turnout for our webinar, Strategies to Enhance Online Collection Access!
The session explored how two very different organisations use Recollect to work directly with their stakeholders by creating separate online collection spaces and facilitating appropriate access permissions.
Key topics included:
- Approaches for managing access to knowledge and collections for public versus private stakeholder groups
- The use of Single Sign On (SSO) functionality to assign permissions, which enables stakeholders to manage access to their own content
- Tackling metadata consistency when working with community groups in a public library context
You can watch the recording via LIANZA’s YouTube channel below.