Tuesday, November 20 • 4:18pm - 4:25pm

Jessica Moran, Digital Collections Services Leader, National Library of New Zealand

Between 2018 and 2020 the Alexander Turnbull Library will celebrate its centenary, from the death of Alexander Turnbull and his gift to the nation in 1918, to the official opening of the Turnbull Library in 1920. The centenary affords us an excellent opportunity to reflect on our history, but equally importantly, it’s a chance to think about what the next 100 years might look like.

One of our centenary initiatives is engaging with all New Zealanders to manage and preserve their digital lives. How can we ensure that our collections now and in the future inclusively reflect who we are and how we communicate, organise, and express themselves creatively in a digital world?

The Turnbull Library can’t do this work on its own, nor do we think we should. Documenting our digital lives requires collaboration and participation from libraries, archives, and museums across New Zealand. This presentation will introduce some of the projects we have percolating, including digital capability building across the GLAM sector, personal digital archiving outreach to the public, and some recent born-digital collecting ventures. This is an invitation for partnerships, comments, and suggestions. We want to know: how can we work best across the GLAM sector, who should we be working with, talking to, and what have we missed?