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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS U L U A FA E S E
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Ulu Afaese is of Samoan descent and hails from the villages of Falealili Mata‘utu and Sagone. He is currently the Pacific Virtual Museum Content Analyst, involved in a joint project between the National Library of New Zealand and the National Library of Australia.
Dr Abi Beatson is the Covid-19 Digital Archivist. Her work focuses on building the Turnbull’s Covid-19 collection to ensure that the historical record of this unprecedented time in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history is collected and preserved to support future understanding and research.
LISA ALLCOTT Lisa Allcott has been a Facilitator National Capability, Services to Schools, since 2001. She currently works with schools in South Auckland, Manurewa and Franklin, running face-to-face and online professional development for school library teams in the areas of reading engagement, digital resources and school library development.
DR NATA S H A B A R R E T T Dr Natasha Barrett is currently Research Librarian Digital Materials in the Arrangement and Description team and serves on the National Digital Forum Board. She has a PhD in Museum Studies (University of Leicester) on the meanings and uses of colonial-era photographs of Māori and their taonga in British museum collections.
TRISH BEAMSLEY Trish Beamsley (Te Ati Haunui-a-Papārangi, Te Āti Awa) is Research Librarian Māori and has worked for the Turnbull and its clients for two decades. One of her favourite aspects of her job is introducing and reuniting Māori with their ancestors’ taonga held in the library.
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CAT H E R I N E BI S L E Y Catherine Bisley (Ngāpuhi) is a part-time Arrangement and Description Librarian with a special interest in photographic collections. Outside of her work at the Turnbull she works in film as a writer and director. Kia whakarite, kia whakamārama, kia tauhere ki te ao.
DR M IC H A E L BROW N Dr Michael Brown is the Curator Music. He has published on various aspects of New Zealand music and music archiving practice and co-edited Searches for Tradition: Essays on New Zealand music, past and present (Victoria University Press, 2017).
R ENE BURTON Rene Burton is the National Manager Online, Services to Schools. Burton provides strategic leadership and direction relating to online services, content, and resources that support educators and learners to access taonga in an ever-increasingly digital world.
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