Donal is a Senior Archivist at Archives New Zealand. His first career as a horticulturalist took him through much of New Zealand and Australia. His keen interest in history and heritage landscapes lead to studies at The Northern Territory University, now Charles Darwin University, focusing on the histories of South East Asia and northern Australia. This was followed by a Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies from Melbourne’s Deakin University.

In 2002 he joined the Darwin office of the National Archives of Australia. Particularly rewarding was making records available to Aboriginal ‘Stolen Generations’ researchers seeking contact with their families and communities. Donal joined Archives New Zealand in 2008 as research archivist and outreach/tours coordinator, bringing him into close contact with 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition and The Treaty of Waitangi – both inscribed on the Memory of the World Register. Here too the reward is in making records known and available – records of universal value or purely personal significance.

Jane Wild is a documentary heritage specialist, currently the Heritage Collections Manager at Auckland Libraries, with responsibility for the Sir George Grey Special Collections and three distributed special collections. Jane was the Alexander Turnbull Library’s inaugural editor of the ‘National Register of Archives & Manuscripts’, now the Community Archive.

Jane has managed academic, special and research libraries – from 1999–2011 she managed the three Creative Arts & Industries libraries at the University of Auckland. This included the Architecture Archive and the Elam Archive in addition to the University Library’s Special Collections.

David is the Director Collections and Research, Auckland Museum. He joined the Museum in January 2011 after a time at the Alexander Turnbull Library as Associate Chief Librarian, Research Access. David’s career also includes roles at the Auckland Art Gallery and at Te Papa managing logistics, storage and documentation of collections. David brings a range of perspectives on the activities of Libraries, Museums, Galleries and Archives, with a particular interest in how they are responding to and utilising the digital environment.

David is also experienced in Museum building design and has been involved in a number of building re-developments and collection relocation projects. He holds a Bachelor of Building Science from Victoria University of Wellington and Diplomas in Professional Photography and Museum Studies.

Sarah is the General Manager, Information Services: Poutakinga Rōpū Ratonga Kawe Kōrero, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.

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Ko Horowhenua te whenua nui
Ko Tainui te waka ekenga
Ko Waikawa raua ko Manakau nga awa tere
Ko Kukukohatu te whenua
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Ko Ngāti Wehi Wehi te iwi

Polly Martin was nominated to the committee by Te Rōpū Whakahau, the leading national body that represents Māori engaged in Libraries, Culture, Knowledge, Information, Communication and Systems Technology in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is currently on the Archives New Zealand Leadership Team and holds the role of Pouarahi or Director Holdings and Discovery at Archives New Zealand. She has responsibility for the preservation of and access to the public archives of government.

Joanna is the Macmillan Brown Library & Heritage Collections Manager at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.

Since 2011 John has been the Leader of the Curatorial Services Team at the Alexander Turnbull Library. He grew up in Wellington, and has lived in the Aro Valley for the past 33 years. He attended Auckland University and for 36 years managed the photographic collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, first as Photograph Librarian, and then as Curator, Photographic Archive.

Charlotte is a Professor of History at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. With a Marsden Grant awarded in 2014 Charlotte has worked with colleagues to produce the Soldiers of Empire database which provides searchable public access to the names, regiments and dates of service of soldiers who fought in the New Zealand Land Wars of the 1860s.