Cook Islands archivists stay cool in crisis
What do you do when you’re working on a special archiving project in another country and a pandemic hits? If
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Tracking Chris Knox: A Research Journey
By Joanna Szczepanski, Ngā Taonga Radio/Music Team Leader and Dr Aleisha Ward, Research Librarian, Music at the Alexander Turnbull Library
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Glimpsing the future – a report from the 2019 IASA & JTS Conferences
Conferences allow those that work in a sector to connect with colleagues, swap notes and learn about novel approaches. They
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Fresh new scans
Sometimes you really need to take a second look. Modern film scanning technology can produce some incredible results with great
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Anzac Day 2020 special screening
With the COVID-19 pandemic and related disruptions, Anzac Day 2020 turned out quite different to previous years. In person commemorations
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A brief history of Māori cinema
With the Māoriland Film Festival having to drastically reduce its programme due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ngā Taonga wanted to
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Home schooling through the 1948 polio epidemic
Empty classrooms, parents struggling to home-school and teachers trying to work out ways to deliver feedback to students remotely… it
Read moreNgā Taonga staff #WorkingFromHome
Due to the Level 4 lockdown, all Ngā Taonga staff are working from home. We caught up with a few
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Repatriating memory and the Korean War
How much can a country know about itself without a record of its history? For a variety of reasons, films,
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Enjoying the Tararua Ranges
This post originally ran in Ōtaki Today in December 2019 The Ōtaki region has long been a gateway to the
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