What's Happening in the Archive Spaces - Feilding & Districts Community Archives

Authors

  • Marilyn Wightman

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/arch.10292

Keywords:

Community Archives, New Zealand archives, Fielding

Abstract

The community archive in Feilding (FDCA) began in 2009 at the Coach House Museum. In 2007 Manawatu District Council (MDC) was approached by three community groups, the historical society, the genealogy branch of NZSG and the museum. MDC was grateful to see this enthusiastic approach and assisted establishing a purpose-built archive that would retain all 'non-council' archival material. This was at a time when central government was legislating local government bodies to focus on their core, and retention, of 'council-only' records. In previous years there was an MDC accumulation of material, some informally collated, stored in places such as the public library. There had been a period of council management where community records were handled in a formal procedure of collation, cataloguing and storage but this had lapsed in intervening years.

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Author Biography

Marilyn Wightman

Like the volunteers at FDCA. Marilyn is retired. All the workers bring to the archive a wealth of life experience. Marilyn's paid work began as a teacher, including an OE year in a Lincolnshire school in England. Owning a plant nursery complex in Feilding for 30 years, teaching was relegated to community education at two local high schools for 24 years. Journalistic work includes 13 years as the herb writer for
a national gardening magazine and two published history books. In 2015, Marilyn was the recipient of a community service award from Manawatu District Council.

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Published

2021-01-01

Issue

2021

Section

Highlights