Dec 1, 2014 | Andy Fenton, News, The National Digital Forum
With so many inspiring speakers and messages this year, it was impossible to pick a favourite. Here are a few highlights the Recollect team came away with: Many challenges were issued and visions put forward. It will be interesting to see how many will be taken up in...
Nov 14, 2014 | Andy Fenton, Digitise, News
It was a pleasure to attend this launch at Tawa Library. Mayor Celia Wade-Brown “launched” the book, and had clearly done her research. She admitted only time for a skim-read but cited many relevant passages (and noted with good humour – “it pays to start from rear...
Oct 15, 2014 | News, Recollect
There is much joy to be found in the interactivity offered by Recollect – you can tag people, add interesting keywords, and personal stories and memories – but one of the most addictive offerings is the ability to Geotag a photograph. My geotagging addiction started...
Oct 14, 2014 | Lianza, News
In keeping with the conference theme we are certainly “Connecting” with many librarians, “thriving” on their company and collegiality. Had lots of requests from people missing the fab liquorice allsorts hats, but even more praise for the new ‘striking’ shirts as well....
Oct 9, 2014 | Microfilm, News
How can our community ‘memory’ be preserved (for future generations and today’s researchers)? Local or community have tremendous local history and community interest; they’re full of names, local stories and advertisements that provide a unique social...
Oct 7, 2014 | Lianza, News
With this conference nearly upon us we are looking forward to catching up with those of you we know and meeting those of you we don’t. This year we are taking a different approach to the conference and in the spirit of the theme, Connect and Thrive, we are being...
