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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Sound
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 moreFavourite Collection Items – Immigration Song
We’ve asked staff to describe an item from the collection that they really like. Here’s Senior Outreach Curator Diane McAllen.
Read moreFavourite 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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