Sound Archives

Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero provide the following services:

Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero (SA/NTK) Selection and Acquisition Services includes:

Selecting a sample of radio broadcasts with originating transmission from New Zealand which are likely to be of historical interest to New Zealanders from a variety of broadcasters and genres.
A minimum of 50% of such archive material selected by SA/NTK (excluding historical category material) is to be from radio broadcasters other than Radio New Zealand Limited including (but not limited to) commercial, student, access, Pacific Island and Māori.
Ensuring that material sampled off air includes examples of all-day transmission from a range of radio broadcasters (as well as samples of shorter duration).
Acquiring broadcast radio programmes by recording directly off-air or by seeking deposits directly from the broadcaster.
Ensuring that SA/NTK's Collection master material is stored to internationally agreed master standards and if necessary a listening copy is made for access purposes.

Preserving archival recordings that are assessed as requiring media migration in order to ensure their accessibility to future generations of New Zealanders.
Ensuring that preservation copies are made using appropriate media in line with internationally accepted professional practice. Where only original recordings exist, SA/NTK ensures that the equipment required for accessing these recordings is maintained until such time as migration to new media is possible.
Protecting SA/NTK's Collection master material against loss and degradation.
Storing SA/NK's Collection in secure storage with appropriate environmental controls in accordance with generally accepted international professional archiving practices.

Implementing and maintaining finding aids, indexes, inventories, catalogues and other guides to SA/NTK's Collection in accordance with generally accepted international professional archiving practices.
Ensuring SA/NTK's Collection is available for public access, on a cost-recovery basis.
Being responsible for handling all public access enquiries for SA/NTK's Collection.
Managing public access to SA/NTK's Collection so as to ensure that it does not jeopardise the preservation status of any master material.
Ensuring that, where necessary, documentation which supports archival material is collected by SA/NTK.
Ensuring a broad selection of material which is likely to be of historical interest in New Zealand is obtained, preserved and made accessible.