Dec 1, 2015 | Case Studies, Community Engagement, Recollect
Upper Hutt City Library is the city’s primary community centre for living, learning, and leisure. It seeks to engage, inspire, and inform people, and plays a key role in the development of a strong local community. The Library’s Community Archive makes a significant...
May 27, 2015 | Case Studies, Community Engagement, Recollect
Heather Newby started a Facebook group to share her photos and memories of growing up on NZ’s West Coast. The idea of a group that allowed Coasters who were “scattered, and had lost touch with each other” to reconnect and share interesting photos, articles, anecdotes...
May 25, 2015 | Case Studies, Crowdsource
In this post we discover the power of a crowd in these mini case studies. We have selected three quite different examples for you: the first a transcription project, the second an image based DAM solution, and the final case is a commercial solution. Each case came...
Dec 18, 2012 | Case Studies, Microfilm
The Otago Daily Times (ODT) is New Zealand’s oldest surviving daily newspaper. It was first published in 1861 and NZMS has microfilmed the vast majority of these historical issues as part of the National Library’s newspaper preservation programme and a private...
Oct 21, 2012 | Case Studies, Digitise
Despite their age, these records which document the control and management of land back to the 1840s are still vital evidence of land ownership in New Zealand. With the closure of Land Information New Zealand processing centres around NZ between 2009-2011,...
