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Documenting Rena by Smita Biswas

Documenting Rena by Smita Biswas. Collections & Information Manager Tauranga City Library. Bay of Plenty Times: October 5, 2011. Remember this famous image!!.

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Documenting Rena by Smita Biswas

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  1. Documenting Renaby Smita Biswas Collections & Information Manager Tauranga City Library

  2. Bay of Plenty Times: October 5, 2011. Remember this famous image!! “Rena, a 236m cargo vessel struck the Astrolabe Reef, north of Motiti Island, around 2.20am. Authorities are assessing whether oil has spilled from the ship”. With this began the generation of formal sources of information.

  3. “View of The #Rena from my place; calm seas, blue skies, good day for a rescue” @SueHawkinsNZ October 5, 2011 uploads this twitpic

  4. 2011 October 6: TCC calls in Civil Defence Media releases Fact sheets Email (90% digital) 2011 October 7: Tweets up by a few hundred 2011 October 8: 2011 October 10: Two separate Facebook pages went up Videos appear on You Tube

  5. Tweet samples: 7th –15th Oct 2011 • MsAngelaBeswick • “ MNZ says beaches will remain off limits until at least Monday” #Renapic.twitter.com/ejfxAZ4a 15 oct 1 hour ago

  6. FairgroundNZ Brian N “Driving from Akl in the AM, helping clean up oil on Manganui Beach, then coming back in the PM. Anyone keen to join me?” #rena#nzoilspill 18 hours ago 14th oct Tweet samples: 7th –15th Oct 2011 IntBirdRescue “Bird-Rescue.org Honored to help @Massey_Uni at #NZOilSpill with six members from oil spill wildlife team on #Rena disaster” SueHawkinsNZ Sue Hawkins Sea is calm, like a lake. Belies the tragedy unfolding on the horizon #rena8 Oct MaritimeNZ “Maritime New Zealand Reminder of community briefing today 2.30pm at Waihī Beach Community Centre,Waihī Beach Road, Waihī Beach” Community_Radio CommRadioHamilton “CALLOUT FOR #VOLUNTEERS available to assist with the urgent cleanup of oil leaking from the container vessel” #Renabit.ly/qludY57 Oct di_twhitter Di W “If anyone in Wellington feels their skills could be of help and need to get to Tauranga, I can create a car pool and get you there” #Rena8 Oct

  7. Libraries have always collected local ephemera

  8. Yes it was !! • As librarians we were finding it hard to ignore the kind of valuable born-digital information that emerged about the Rena disaster as it was unfolding. • Should we consider social media contributions irrelevant just because of their origins in Twitter or being created uploaded by the community of Tauranga on the Tauranga Memories Kete?

  9. How did Tauranga Libraries deal with this deluge of born digital, community and social media generated content?

  10. Content on Rena was divided into following categories Printed publications TCC business documents Born Digital Official responses Media responses Community responses

  11. New Zealand Room Staff begin to save all materials generated about Rena, irrespective of format October 7 2011: (two days after initial disaster)

  12. October 7 2011: (two days after initial disaster) Specialist Librarian begins background research • How did Astrolabe Reef get its name? • What other vessels have been wrecked (or nearly wrecked) there?

  13. October 10, 2011. Kete basket setup

  14. Tauranga Kete Items Digital New Zealand Formal content Newspapers and T.V.

  15. black tides stain the beachshovels at worksitting on the edgethe ocean roarsmetal bucklesRhiannon Bond

  16. Digital Story http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/rena_nz_s_biggest_ecological_disaster/topics/show/239-papamoa-beach-oil-spill-tauranga-new-zealand

  17. Documenting formal sources of Information

  18. Challenges faced: • How exactly to save the material? • How to link it to our catalogue ? • What to do about intellectual property? Not all of the issues are fully resolved.

  19. Conclusion Accessible and comprehensive Capturing both fact and feelings

  20. Thanks • References : Rena- NZ's biggest ecological disaster . Tauranga Memories . url retrieved from http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/rena_nz_s_biggest_ecological_disaster /

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