HI,
Earlier this year a Hawkins staff handed in an old scrapbook that was found on campus. It contains old newspaper and magazine  clippings, lots to do with royalty and current events. Circa 1910-1921.   It is stamped “Central Club not to be removed from the Library”.  Does anyone know what this means, i.e. what was the Central Club?

It’s not something that really fits our collection, but I need to find out more about it before I can make a decision. If you know about Central Club, please let me know.

Caroline A and Sue Lloyd, this is the one you sent me 🙂

Cheers, Erin

Kia ora,

Laura (or Lydia if she is back) and I are doing a Library 101 tomorrow on using art and archives.  There are very few registrations for this one (only 5 so far), so if you want to come along and learn more about the collections please  do. It is in the Pasifika Lali (Room 208) here by the MB Library, 2-3 pm.
This is a good chance to see some collection items and learn a bit more about how they are used.

Cheers

Erin

Kia ora,

Just a heads up about an assignment, in case you get asked… 1st year Fine Arts  (FINT)  students visited MB for a tour and tutorial with Lydia and me a couple of weeks ago.   The visited a number of collections around town, and they have a follow up assignment to write 200 words about one of these places.

The questions they need to answer are:  what our role/purpose is, what collections we hold and what our vision/strategy is.

They should come to MB, but if they turn up elsewhere, please direct them to Lydia,  me or Jo.  The assignment is due on Friday.

We had really positive feedback about their tour and class here. They loved going behind the scenes, so we are going to incorporate more of that in to  our classes here.

Cheers Erin

Thanks to the help of E-services,  thousands of images from the UC Library archives are now online.  These are  from collections we have digitised in the past (e.g. some of our glassplates)  but have not had the tools to put online. Thanks to Minisis  that is now changing.

Take a look. You can either search by a keyword in KK  (try “outdoors”) then filter your results by Collection Type  “photographs”. Or if you want to browse through some entire collections,  use Advanced Search and enter one of these  collection numbers:  1114, 1065, 1091, 1071.

If you find records without a thumbnail, it means we haven’t had it digitised yet.  With at least  120,000 photos  in the collection, we still have a fair way to go 🙂

You will note that some of the  descriptions are a bit brief because we literally have no information about the images  (there are lots of images titled plate 0001, plate 0002, girl with dog, river scene etc).    Of course, this is ideal for crowdsourcing, so if you recognise a place, person or something else, do let me know. Collections like ours rely on the knowledge of the experts out there!

I’m keen to hear your thoughts, and if you would like to have a session on searching KK or learning more about the archives, please do get in touch.

Cheers!
Erin

Today in  Matariki at 1   Akira and Brent from the New Zealand Aids Foundation will be hosting a joint talk, exploring the history of the NZAF, its involvement in the Homosexual Law Reform and exploring some of the work the organisation does today.

Do come.  Bring your lunch.
Cheers
Erin

The programme of talks for Inviting In continues today  in Matariki Gallery:

Thursday 20^th October, 1pm: Ursula Cheer is presenting on the issue of defamation, exploring how defamation law intersects with statements that a person is gay, and how this has changed over time following the Homosexual Law Reform.

Thursday 20^th October 1.30 pm: Kathleen Quinlivan will discuss the InsideOut program, which is dedicated to reculturing schools to better affirm gender and sexual diversity.

It would be wonderful if some library staff could attend, as the turnout hasn’t been huge. (tme of year and all that).

Cheers
Erin

Kia ora

Just to alert you to the talks we are having as part of the Inviting In exhibition in Matariki. They are all listed on the UC events page – http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/events/list-events/

Today at 12, we have Nicola Surtees  discussing  the new ‘norm’ of lesbians and gay men becoming parents in the context of their same-sex relationships since the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act, and the changes in other legislation that facilitate this.

And at 1pm, Karen Saunders will be discussing equity at the University of Canterbury, and areas where it might be developed further in future.

It’s fantastic that these academics are supporting this library initiative, so please come  do come along.

Erin

Kia ora, just to let you know I am on leave Friday 21 October to Monday 21 November.  Please pass any archive enquiries on to macbrown@libr.canterbury.ac.nz.

Cheers
Erin 🙂

Kia ora,

If you’ve been reading Kaweroko, you know I am supervising two College of Arts  interns in MB this semester.  Hannah and Luke are curating an exhibition for Beca Heritage Week called  Inviting In: exploring 30 years of Homosexual Law Reform. 

The exhibition uses archival material  from MB to  mark thirty years since the Homosexual Law Reform Bill was passed in New Zealand.  We have a wealth of material in the archives and the published collection from this period.  The students are being supervised by Katie Pickles (History) and Karen Saunders (English).  They have done a huge amount of work, choosing the  items to display, researching and writing interpretation labels and designing the layout

They have also given us some excellent feedback:

Luke:  “I’m forever grateful for how this internship has opened my eyes in so many different ways.”

Hannah: “Going in to my internship is always my favourite part of the day.  It thrills me that I get to create something that is so interesting”

The exhibition will open on Monday 17 October at 5pm.  All Welcome

There is also going to be a series of lunchtime  talks related to the exhibition by UC academics and members of the community. These will be be in  the week  17- 21 October and I’ll post the details next week.

Cheers
Erin

Kia ora,

There are a couple of new archive collections that have gone live on  KK this week. This happens after the RDLs have completed the arrangement and description of the collections.  They are:

FD11337 Malcolm Douglass papers: Malcolm is a retired town planner and transportation engineer who worked for various city councils and as a consultant planner for over 50 years. The papers include reports, talks and other documents relating to regional planning and transport. We have already been using this collection in teaching at UC.

FD1994 Florence Akins papers: Florence was an artist and teacher at the UC School of Fine Arts. This small collection includes study notes, photographs and correspondence.  it’s a great addition to the artworks we already have.

To browse the contents of either collection, go to KK,  select Advanced Search, type in either FD11337 or FD1994, then hit “load arrangement structure” to see the entire contents.  (Note this has been a bit glitchy this week, so may not display correctly,  E-services are working on it).

As always, huge thanks to the RDLs for their work on the archives

Erin