(29 Jan 2023) The national archive will not have enough space to store vital records even after its new $290 million building is ready in Wellington. The construction project is also making current storage pressures worse. There was also not enough room for digital records either. “At present, we do not have the capacity nor resource to…
(1 Feb 2022) Archives New Zealand will get a new building in Wellington by 2026. After a review found more than 60 per cent of Archives New Zealand and National Library buildings in the North Island were not fit for purpose, and with the National Library being close to capacity and Archives’ Wellington headquarters already…
(22 Nov 2019) Today Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga welcomed a new partnership with Axiell, the world’s leading supplier of software to the cultural sector, to manage their unique archives. Archives New Zealand will replace their collection management and search tool, Archway, with Axiell Collections so that Archives staff can work…
(26 February 2019) The National Archival and Library Institutions Ministerial Group (NALI) is beginning to reveal some of its thinking about the future of Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand. In an email released just before Christmas the two Ministers in charge of the NALI Review process said amongst other things:…