Tips and reports on opening up collections, increasing accessibility, and telling West Coast stories online using digital tools.

Explorers Monument, Seaview • MRD • CC BY

ŌKĀRITO • STEWART NIMMO • CC BY

Dr Mike Dickison was Digital Discovery Librarian at Westland District Library, Hokitika, New Zealand from 2020 to 2022. He has been a publishing and design teacher, museum curator, and New Zealand Wikipedian at Large.

See the West Coast Task Force for Wikipedia, photography, and book-transcription projects volunteers can get involved with, or for an overview watch my ten-minute lightning talk from the LIANZA 2021 conference. My current website is www.rove.wiki.