RLUK Digital Shift Forum - Alexander Turnbull Library

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RLUK Digital Shift Forum - Alexander Turnbull Library

RLUK’s Digital Shift Forum brings together colleagues to discuss the future of the digital shift in collections, services, and audiences.

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Date and time

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:00 - 13:00 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

RLUK Digital Shift Forum #RLUKDSF

Kua mua, ka muri: Using our digital experiences to look back and move forward at the Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand

Jessica Moran, Associate Chief Librarian, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Mark Crookston, Programme Director, Documentary Heritage, National Library of New Zealand

Ka mua, ka muri is a Māori whakatouki (proverb) meaning ‘walking backward into the future’. In 2020 the Alexander Turnbull Library (the research library within the National Library of New Zealand) celebrated its centenary. 100 years of building, protecting and providing research services to national collections covering a comprehensive range of publications, artistic expression, and archival documentation – analogue, digitised and (increasingly) born digital. This presentation outlines how we used the centenary to reflect on our experiences with digital shifts thus far and look forward to what we aspire to be as a research library. It will focus on the key challenges and opportunities provided by digital – building representative research collections, addressing challenges of sustainability, and the scale and ephemeral nature of born digital. Our efforts to meet researcher expectations, our work to build research communities, and the development of the staff skills and culture to meet the present and future digital shifts and requirements of being a digital research library will also be discussed.

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This event will be held via Zoom. Attendees will be sent joining details the day before the event, and should check their junk folders if no email is received.

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