Jul 1, 2019 | Events, Josh O'Rourke, News, The National Digital Forum
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. These had a big focus on...
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...
Mar 20, 2019 | Andy Fenton, Archives, Community Engagement, Events, Gavin Mitchell, Katarina Konings, News, Recollect, Tyler Hersey
Prior to the ALIA Information Online Conference in Sydney last month, a group of our Australian Recollect Administrators met to discuss all things Recollect and hear from some of our customers on how they are using Recollect to allow their communities to access,...
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...
Oct 19, 2018 | Andy Fenton, Events, Gavin Mitchell, Leigh Rout, Libraries, News
This building is FANTASTIC – inside, outside and throughout! What an honour and a privilege for Leigh, Gavin and I to attend the opening of this prestigious library on Friday 12 October. It was a terrific day for the library sector in New Zealand, and a significant...
