Selection and Access
Selection and Access'sTe Uru Kahikatea: connections
- Natural dowel and painted dowel (blue, green), buckram, tattle-tape backing, cassette tape, reinforcing tape, labels, plastic book covers.
- 122 x 60 cm
Library Content is made up of three teams (Selection and Access, Serials and Preservation, Bindery). We have a common thread running across our three Tukutuku panels.
The top of our Tukutuku panels represents the Port Hills as this is a common view to all three teams from our windows and shows how far we reach out in our service delivery (which includes the Port Hills!).
The middle of our Tukutuku panels represents the Canterbury Plains with its tussocks.
The bottom of our Tukutuku panels represents the sea. We reach out from the sea to the mountains. There is an occasional wave to represent the stormy challenges/changes that we have faced along the way.
Our team has included:
- the knowledge kete (made out of buckram and book covers) – our knowledge and the knowledge of our network colleagues;
- the heart shaped koru (made out of a book cover and genre stickers) – links to our collections and to our past as we no longer use the stickers;
- the cabbage tree – Tī kōuka (made out of buckram, tattle-tape, stickers, cassette tape) – links to our library web page and links to our digital collections – is a connection to Canterbury and was used as signposts around Canterbury by Māori.
Our team only used materials that we deal with in the day to day work of Content, (including the use of recycled material) signifying the importance of these in our working environments.
Panel creation
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