Oct 6, 2015 | Digitise, Resources, Webinar
NZMS were given a wonderful opportunity to host a Webinar for the LIANZA lunchtime 2015 series. The topic requested was close to our heart, “Digitisation 101” things to think about when digitising your heritage collections. We wanted to share our enthusiasm here at...
Apr 28, 2015 | Digitise, News, Print
One woman had a dream and NZMS were privileged to be part of it. As part of the Splash 2015 exhibition (Theme WW1 in watercolour), Exhibition Manager Claire Clark sourced and coordinated the retrieval of works from seven ‘guest artists’ – servicemen who painted/drew...
Jan 18, 2015 | Digitise, Resources
There is a wide range of equipment used in digitisation. The last five years have seen the rise of the digital camera with its inexpensive, high speed Bayer-type array become a recognised alternative to the traditional line-array scanner. For preservation digitisation...
Jan 1, 2015 | Digitise, Resources
Nov 14, 2014 | Andy Fenton, Digitise, News
It was a pleasure to attend this launch at Tawa Library. Mayor Celia Wade-Brown “launched” the book, and had clearly done her research. She admitted only time for a skim-read but cited many relevant passages (and noted with good humour – “it pays to start from rear...
May 5, 2014 | Digitise, Microfilm, Resources
We’ve been trialling LED lights in our Southern Regional office and they’ve been working well with our Canon DSLR rig. We had a failure in one of our light banks and the replacement lamp was a subtly different colour to the other. We wondered – how can a light...
