During MTG’s collection management hazard identification project, the Collection Coordinator, Sara Perrett, and Collection Management, Nicole Wall, discovered a series of negatives in their photographic collection that appeared to be cellulose nitrate film.
Our digitisation team in Wellington have recently completed a project digitising a large collection of Glass Plate Negatives for Whanganui Collegiate School Museum and Archives.
Emanuella, Siobhan, Ella and Josh spent a sunny winters day at the Ashburton Museum and Art Gallery for the 2019 Canterbury Regional Digital Forum ‘Un-Conference.’ The morning was spent listening to short presentations on a range of topics.
Our Wellington team have been digitising another collection of Field books for LINZ with a selection from The Antarctic. This collection is dated from 1956 – 1975 and include some wonderful surprises our team have discovered whilst digitising.
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).
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.
Does your photographic film or microfilm storage area have a faint smell of vinegar? Is it acrid enough to make your eyes water, or affect your breathing? Are you and your staff afraid to enter the room because they instinctively know something is not right?
The frequency with which an object is handled, significantly impacts its longevity and condition. To continue to allow access, particularly to archival material, creating a digital copy of an object or record is advisable.