(27 Feb 2024) Outdated and offensive language haunts archival and library catalogues, potentially causing harm to those searching for and accessing the material these institutions hold. In other cases, there are silences — people can’t find material because the search terms they employ have not been used by the Library in the item’s descriptive record. These…
(14 Oct 2021) Within the Alexander Turnbull Library’s substantial photographic archive there are a large number of panoramas, both negatives and photographic prints. Panorama photographs capture a horizontally elongated view, often using a lens that rotates from one side to another during the exposure using a Cirkut camera. You can watch a short video of photographer Benjamin Porter…
(2 Oct 2021) The fragment is the second to be acquired by New Zealand. A single leaf is also held by the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection in Dunedin Public Libraries. Both leaves are from the same original copy of the Gutenberg. By statute, the Alexander Turnbull Library has a mandate to collect rare books.…
(19 October 2015) In April 2013 the Alexander Turnbull Library, part of the National Library of New Zealand, purchased a portrait of a male subject, described as Hamiora Maioha, signed by G. Lindauer. Earlier this year the painting was closely examined using forensic techniques. The examination concluded that the painting was unlikely to be an…