It’s been quite some time since I’ve blogged here so apologies if you have been checking this site to see if anything has changed recently. Since yesterday I’ve been updating the WordPress CMS that powers the site and realised I needed to post here after my recent hiatus. Since early July I have been full on in a new role at the Dunedin City Council working across a number of departments as a Marketing Coordinator. [...]

It’s a little belated (and I apologise for the delay) but I wanted to get a few thoughts down after my recent Powerhouse interview. As you may know Megan Ingle (@megingle) interviewed me about my trip to the Powerhouse Museum as part of the Reality Librarianship: Up Close and Personal series held recently online. I found this a fun event to be part of and tried to push the creative boundaries a little further by [...]

I decided it was just easier to make a quick video for this upcoming talk I’m involved with. Hope you can make it along on the night. [dated video clip removed now] My thanks to the National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ), Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA), InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc), and friends, for their support of the Paul Reynolds ‘No Numpties’ Scholarship that allowed me to travel to The [...]

I’ve been interested in augmented reality and it’s potential for use by the GLAM sector for some time. Museums are doing good things in this space and my recent trip to the Powerhouse Museum was in part motivated by exploring this further. I’ll save the full length feature version of my thinking for my report at the upcoming #lianza12 conference in September but suffice to say it had not yet taken the world by storm [...]