May 12, 2020 | Alison Barnett, News, Stephen Hardman
It is safe to say, after weeks of lockdown, we are eager to dive back into our work and continue what we do best: caring for and preserving archives, collections, and cultural heritage material. As New Zealand moves into Alert Level 2, we are both relieved and excited...
May 1, 2020 | Alison Barnett, Andy Fenton, Collection Management, Community Engagement, Digital Preservation, Gavin Mitchell, News, Planning, Recollect, Stephen Hardman, Tyler Hersey
Born from NZMS, Recollect was cultivated from years of working hard to digitise and preserve our customer’s cultural heritage and special collections. It is an online platform that can provide organisations with digital access, discovery, engagement, management, and...
Jun 13, 2019 | Alison Barnett, Events, Museums Aotearoa, News
The title of this year’s MA2019 Conference MA19 – Ko Aotearoa Tēnei – This is New Zealand was a bold statement of intent directly referencing the eponymous 2011 WAI262 Waitangi Tribunal report, Ko Aotearoa Tēnei (This is New Zealand). It therefore followed that our...
May 29, 2019 | Alison Barnett, Events, Lianza, News
I think I realised how much I get out of attending these weekend schools, when I found myself at Hennessy’s Irish Bar shining my phone torch through the cellophane ‘stained glass window’ of the cardboard library room mock-up our team had created. We’d been divided...
Nov 12, 2018 | Alison Barnett, Audio, Case Studies, Digitise
First-hand accounts of our WW2 veterans are a very precious part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national history, especially as time passes. Martyn Thompson spent hours interviewing approximately 80 veterans (including 5 women), creating over 79 audio cassettes as part of...
Nov 5, 2018 | Alison Barnett, Events, News, NZCCM
This year’s NZCCM (New Zealand Conservators of Cultural Material) Conference was held at the Auckland Art Gallery on 24 – 26 October and took the theme ‘Living Heritage: Materials, Methods and Context’. At NZMS we often work with conservators and have first-hand...
