Happy New Year to you. I know I’ve been quiet as of late but plan to be less ‘off the grid’ this year. The last six months have been taken up with settling  in to a new role at work and finding my feet in the new world order. I’ve enjoyed being active in the GLAM sector as of late by being involved in the marketing and promotion of the recent re-launch of Toitu Otago [...]

Before I started in the GLAM sector I had spent many years working in the broadcasting industry. It wasn’t until the role that I held at The Radio Network Dunedin was made redundant in 2006 that I realised the amount of marketing and promotions experience I had clocked up during the two decades I was working in commercial radio. Armed with that realisation it was a delight in 2007 to secure a role within a [...]

2012 is shaping up to be an interesting and exciting year – and I don’t mean all that Mayan hype! I’m starting the month by moving from the Dunedin Public Libraries marketing team and joining the Dunedin City Council’s web team. The web team has in turn been incorporated in to a council wide communications and marketing team as part of some internal restructuring undertaken at the end of 2011. While I’ll still look after [...]

A short plug for my employers new exhibition launched today at the Dunedin Public Libraries Reed Gallery. The exhibition entitled Signs & Symbols: Decoding Mediaeval & Renaissance Iconography explores the meanings behind the symbols and visual cues found in mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts. More than twenty manuscripts from the thirteenth to sixteenth century are on display, drawn from the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection; the second largest collection of such manuscripts held by a New [...]