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Changes to our reading room service
Tēnā koe [I have deleted my name]
You may be aware that here at Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, we’ve been working to turn our Archives 2057 strategy <https://hekohingamaharaarchivesnz.cmail19.com/t/j-l-cjjute-tiyhhluuhu-y/> into a reality. We are now into year three of our transformation and over the past couple of years, we’ve achieved a great deal and are beginning to experience some of the rewards of that hard work.
From Monday 2 March 2020, the opening hours for our reading rooms across the country will change. Our new hours will be 9am – 1pm for our Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin reading rooms. This change does not impact on our remote research services.
I want to signal this change now, so those who travel from across New Zealand, and from overseas to carry out their research in our reading rooms, can plan their research trips accordingly.
To help make research time more efficient, we will be halving the retrieval time to a 30-minute turnaround in Wellington, to align with our regional offices.
We’re making these changes to support the demand for our services. Over the last 10 years we have seen a steady decrease in the number of people visiting our reading rooms. This correlates with an increase in the number of customers we are serving online.
Our vision to be a vibrant, trusted, national archive is seated in our ability to provide a modern service that meets our customer’s needs.
Reducing reading room hours allows us to put our energy into digitising records and making them available online. This provides better access for a greater number of users. We are well underway with providing these with the June 2019 launch of our new website and the work of our Digitisation Programme, now in its third year of operation. Since 2017, we’ve made available over 385,000 digitised items, comprised of over 6 million images.
I understand that this announcement will be disappointing to some of our supporters. This has been a hard decision to make but one that will support long-term benefits for all our valued users.
Further information about this change can be found on our website. <https://hekohingamaharaarchivesnz.cmail19.com/t/j-l-cjjute-tiyhhluuhu-j/> To learn more about our direction for the future of Archives take a look at our 2057 strategy. <https://hekohingamaharaarchivesnz.cmail19.com/t/j-l-cjjute-tiyhhluuhu-t/>
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