Lately my husband and I have been ticking off a visit list around our ‘local’ area for climbing crags. Finding up to date information on climbing crags in the Central North Island was getting frustrating. With this in mind, we decided to visit the crags personally and find out how …
The Curse of Oak Island
Archives and treasure? It has to be many people’s dream to go on an adventurous trip to a far away land in search of secret treasure? No? Just me? Surely not. The Curse of Oak Island follows the life long dream of Rick and Marty Lagina as they search to …
The art of community transcription
Must first “rodeo” – a Transcribe-a-thon While on holiday in Sydney I had an opportunity to be a part of a community transcribing event at the State Library NSW. Aptly named a “Transcribe-a-thon”. Over 8000 pages of letters, diaries, sketches and journals in the Sir Joseph Banks collection have been …