(9 Oct 2024) Two of Alexander Turnbull Library’s important historic collections have gained inscriptions on the UNESCO Memory of the World register for Aotearoa. The register, established in 2010, allows for significant pieces of Aotearoa’s documentary heritage to be preserved and protected. They are the Frank Sargeson Collection showcases the life of notable Aotearoa author…
(27 Sep 2024) The New Zealand Listener magazine began its life back in 1939 as the Journal of the National Broadcasting Service, with the purpose of providing radio listeners with a printed weekly programme. With the introduction of television in June 1960, the Listener started publishing weekly TV listings, along with topical articles, editorials, letters to the editor and reviews.…
Martin Gengenbach, Digital Preservation Policy and Outreach Specialist, shares the work and aspirations of the library mahi to preserve digital cultural heritage. (17 Jul 2024) Preserving the digital cultural heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand means taking the long view: thinking about how old, current, and new generations of technology are used to create, and…
(2 Jun 2024) Coherent Digital today announced the launch of a major new resource to collect, preserve, and disseminate critical research from Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Policy Commons: Oceania includes over one million research reports, statistical manuals, surveys, and other grey literature from national, state, and local governments, think tanks, associations, and…
(30 May 2024) Auckland Libraries will no longer print identifiable names on paper slips due to privacy concerns. The largest library network in the country changed its hold pick-up process to an anonymized collections system this week. Holds are now placed on numbered shelves in the pick-up area of every Auckland library. Customers will…
(2 Apr 2024) The fifth report in a series of national surveys of school libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand that started in 2018 is recently released. The surveys are a collaboration between: National Library of New Zealand Services to Schools School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (SLANZA) Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA).…
(27 Feb 2024) Outdated and offensive language haunts archival and library catalogues, potentially causing harm to those searching for and accessing the material these institutions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…
(10 Nov 2023) Times are tight, for local councils as much as anyone, so it’s not surprising they’re running a ruler over all their services. That includes libraries. From Auckland’s Wayne Brown suggesting they could be staffed by volunteers; to Christchurch’s Phil Mauger saying last month that community libraries were just “buildings with some books in them”…
(19 Oct 2023) To celebrate the upcoming World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2023 read about the audiovisual digitization project Utaina and watch the video of the Utaina digitization process. Read more here.
(5 Sep 2023) Two years ago Auckland Libraries removed its fines for late returns. Since then, more than a million items have been returned after their due date, meaning millions of dollars of potential fines going unclaimed. But despite the loss of revenue, librarians say it has been an overwhelmingly positive change. Read…