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Escaping the digital black hole: e-ephemera at two Auckland art libraries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Catherine Hammond
Catherine Hammond*
Affiliation:
Research Library Manager, E H McCormick Research Library, AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TĀMAKI, PO Box 5449 Wellesley Street, Auckland 1141, New Zealand Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The collections of e-ephemera of two Auckland art libraries are discussed here: the E H McCormick Research Library at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, a specialist art library within one of New Zealand's major public art galleries, and the Fine Arts Library Te Herenga Toi at the University of Auckland which supports the research and teaching needs of the Elam School of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History. While there are differences in approach both institutions see the value in preserving print and e-ephemera and are looking to make this material more accessible to users, despite numerous challenges.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 41 , Issue 2: Art Ephemera , April 2016 , pp. 107 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © ARLIS/UK&Ireland 2016 

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References

1. Annaliese Ream. “Extra Art: Artists’ Ephemera in the Library,” Inside/Out: A MoMA/MoMA PS1 Blog, July 1, 2015, http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/07/01/extra-art-artistsephemera-in-the-library (accessed December 1, 2015).

2. Barbara Brownlie, “Treasure from Trash: Collecting Printed and Digital Ephemera in New Zealand,” LIANZA Conference Papers, 2007, http://www.lianza.org.nz/treasure-trash-collectingprinted-and-digital-ephemeranew-zealand (accessed December 1, 2015).

3. Catherine Hammond, Indexing the Visual Arts in New Zealand: A Survey: Submitted to the School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies, 2004.

4. See http://www.findnzartists.org.nz. For further information there is a recording of Christchurch Art Gallery Librarian Tim Jones’s paper on the project at the 2014 ARLIS/ANZ Conference. Also available online at, http://www.arlis.org.au/conference.

5. See “Web Harvesting” on the National Library of New Zealand at http://www.natlib.govt.nz/publishersand-authors/web-harvesting and the aims and objectives of Digital NZ at http://www.digitalnz.org/about.

6. Fiona Baker, Holly Callaghan and Melanie Grant, Electronic Ephemera in Tate Library: Collection, Storage and Access. Research Secondment Final Report 2/4/12 (Unpublished report, 2012).

7. Montero, Gustavo Grandal. Resources Online: Art Ephemera / e-ephemera, ARLIS News-sheet, no. 220, November–December (2012): 4Google Scholar.

8. See the New Zealand Copyright Act 1994 and Amendments particularly Section 43 regarding fair dealing for the purpose of private research and study and Section 55 relating to copying for preservation or replacement. Available online at http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1994/0143/latest/DLM345634.html.

9. A trial of e-invites file size in PDF/A showed that the files are around two-and-a-half times larger than PDFs. The Artist e-file collection currently takes up a modest 3GB of storage capacity, so a move to this format would be manageable in terms of storage capacity.

10. See http://www.knowledgebasket.co.nz/databases/.

11. See https://www.artcollection.auckland.ac.nz/.