Current developments

Bill Macnaught, National Librarian of New Zealand

November 2011

at the National Library of New Zealand

Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa

HAKA! exhibition at the National Library’s Auckland Centre

‘Everything is Miscellaneous’

- David Weinberger

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Extracting Value from Chaos2011 IDC Digital Universe study

(Photo: Adam Wilson)

(Issues desk, Wellington Central Library. Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-015498-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New

Zealand.)

“the ultimate public good” – Michael Spence

KNOWLEDGE:

(Photo: Robert Scoble, flickr.com)

“Old knowledge has to be disseminated in every generation”- Michael Spence

“… knowledge transfer causes the productive potential of a developing economy to increase extremely

rapidly…”- Michael Spence

“There are significant differences across

countries in their learning speeds”- Michael Spence

“… embedded not just in people, but in institutions and processes, and how they interact.”- Michael

Spence

(Source: www.beyondtheecho.net)

Public libraryDunedin City Library

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School LibraryMt Roskill Primary School

(Photo: Amos Chapple)

Tertiary Library

(Photo: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Arcadia Abroad)

Victoria University of Wellington

Special LibraryRadio New Zealand Library - InfoFind

Public libraryKawerau Library and Museum

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“… to enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations…”

We turn knowledge into value for New

Zealand

Valuing our

HERITAGE

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The new Christchurch Centre

Ultra Fast Broadband into Schools

Rural Broadband Initiative

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, flickr.com)

Re-imagining Libraries

1. Unstructured data

Users always connected to information online

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4. LibrariesNew Zealand

Together we turn knowledge into

value