Favourite Collection Items – Wellington Rock
We’ve asked staff to describe an item from the collection that they really like. Here’s Client Experience & Discovery Manager
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Favourite Collection Items – Dame Whina and Te Roopu Matakite
I pātai atu mātou ki ā mātou kaimahi, he aha tētahi taonga kei roto i ngā kohikohinga i whakamīharo i
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Favourite Collection Items – Dictaphone
We’ve asked staff to describe an item from the collection that they really like. Here’s Radio/Music Collection Team Leader Joanna
Read moreFavourite Collection Items – First Radio Hauraki Breakfast broadcast
We’ve asked staff to describe an item from the collection that they really like. Here’s Marketing and Communications Advisor David
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Archive Fives – Sound
What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives
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Paper cuts: paper-based audio tapes
Did you know some early audio recordings are stored on paper-based tape? Our sound archivist Grant McBride does and reports
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‘The Queen of Crime’ – Ngaio Marsh
Lacquer discs form the heart of the Ngā Taonga audio collection – we have thousands of them. They were the
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A hard life in the Gorge
Life doesn’t get much harder than it was in the Ōtaki Gorge at the start of last century. The land
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Archiving precious World War Two recordings
Imagine it’s the early 1940s and an Army truck crosses the sands of Northern Africa, comes to a halt and
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The earliest ‘Blue Smoke’ recording
Research in the Sound Archives at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision during New Zealand Music Month has confirmed a recording
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