Public Lecture Programme 2015
Thursday, 14 May at 5.30 pm
Mark Crookston
Digital Collection Strategy Leader at the ATL
The Future of the Past?
Collecting internet and other born digital
heritage at the Alexander Turnbull Library
There is little doubt that digital technologies have
significantly changed how information is created and disseminated
in
contemporary society.
The people, families, communities and organisations that are the
source of the collections for institutions like the Turnbull
are creating more of the documentary heritage of tomorrow in
increasingly complex digital form.
In this presentation Mark will provide an overview of the born
digital and Internet collections of the Turnbull Library, seven
years after the launch of the National Digital Heritage Archive.
He will also highlight some of the challenges and
opportunities,
and pose some questions for discussion, on the role the
research library of the future will play in enabling society to
understand the past.
Mark Crookston is Digital Collection Strategy Leader at the
Alexander Turnbull Library. Mark is an archivist who has worked in
various roles
throughout New Zealand, the U.K. and the Pacific. He is a Master
of Library and Information Studies from Victoria University of
Wellington and
has researched and published several papers on the
collection,
preservation and use of digital information in New Zealand.
Tiakiwai Conference Centre, Lower Ground, National Library,
Aitken Street entrance
All public lectures are free, although donations are
welcome.
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