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Q4 June 2022

On Monday 24 June 2022, kaimahi from across the institutions came together for our Te Ara Tahi Q4 all kaimahi get together.

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n Monday 24 June 2022, kaimahi from across the institutions came together for our Te Ara Tahi Q4 all kaimahi get together.

Recording from the session

Coming together was a great opportunity to reflect on Matariki, celebrating what we have achieved in the past year and what’s ahead of us on our shared pathway. It was wonderful to welcome back Chief Archivist - Kaipupuri Matua Stephen Clarke following his time away to rest and recover.

Te Ara Tahi – our shared pathway

We also had an update on some of the developments in the redesign of Te Haumi - Enterprise Partnerships, work to reset the governance for Te Ara Tahi and the establishment of Te Ara Tahi as our integrated transformation journey.

Read more about Te Haumi – Enterprise Partnerships

Kate Roberts, Digital Preservation Manager at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision shared progress on our joined-up Utaina project.

Te Hīnaki – Ruki Tobin, Anahera Morehu and Paul Meredith gave an update on the Ōkoro Kaimahi Māori Wānanga and the Mātauranga Māori workstream. Watch this space for more to come.

Our Lead Service Designer, Katrina Smit also shared the journey towards our shared vision: Mana Taonga, Mana Tangata, Manaaki – relationships between taonga and tangata are respected and upheld. A big thank you to everyone who has been part of this process, whether you were part of the reimagining our future wānanga, kaimahi Māori wānanga or the shared vision development working group.

Thank you for your questions during the Q&A session. Apologies we couldn’t answer them all – below are answers to two that we promised to come back to you on.

Your questions

Why Enterprise Partnerships? How does that relate to National Library and Archives NZ?

The intent of the new name of the branch, Te Haumi - Enterprise Partnerships is to:

  • Better reflect the diversity of functions within the branch, including Ministerial Services and the Gambling Commission.

  • Elevate the institutions, including their unique statutory functions and provide them with the autonomy to deliver their important mahi for New Zealanders.

So, it is instead shifting away from traditional line management from Te Tari Taiwhenua, to a model where the Hautū – Deputy Chief Executive works in partnership with the National Librarian and the Chief Archivist to support them to achieve their goals and deliver on their responsibilities.

We have projects such as Utaina with specific aims to digitise at risk AV collections in our institutions which is wonderful. What planning/thinking is going into larger scale projects to deal with unpublished collections, having consideration for National Library Strategic Directions to 2030?

All three institutions have ambitions to increase digitisation both for preservation and access. The Digital Foundations business case developed the case for scaled up digitisation of our collections and holdings. Though this bid was unsuccessful, the Digital Pillar will be leading the work to develop investment cases that secure ongoing funding for our current digitisation workstreams and future cases for digital initiatives that strengthen social cohesion, trust, identity and connection for New Zealanders. This will include planning for digitisation at scale and will involve specialist staff across our business.

Submit your pātai

If you have any pātai, please feel free to email TeAraTahi@dia.govt.nz at any time.