The Star: June 28, 2018

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Library prepares for big move
• By Bridget Rutherford
MORE THAN a million books,
magazines, CDs, DVDs, archives
and other resources will be
transferred to the new $92
million central library for its
opening later this year.
It will be one of the largest
moving projects the city council
has ever done.
City council head of libraries
and information Carolyn Robertson
said about 61,000 library
resources would be transferred
to Tūranga from Central Peterborough
Library. Another 37,000
would go there from Central
Manchester, she said.
“In addition, collections currently
in storage, including the
archives collection, will also
move to Tūranga,” she said.
“This will be one of the biggest
moves undertaken by the council,
on a larger scale than most
moves the council has overseen
to date.”
Tūranga, which is being built
on the corner of Gloucester and
Colombo Sts, will open in the
third quarter of this year.
Ms Robertson said the logistics
around the move had been
planned, with a moving company
engaged.
MOVING DAY: More than a million books, magazines, CDs,
DVDs will be moved to Turanga before it opens.
“The relocation work includes
moving collections and retained
assets from four locations and
staff from Peterborough and
Manchester Street Libraries and
the timeframe is currently being
scoped.”
Ms Robertson said Tūranga’s
IT and audio-visual fit out was
projected to cost $4.17 million.
It will have technologies such
as 3D printers, a laser cutter,
sewing machines, audio and
video recording facilities, and
virtual reality devices. That cost
did not include installing a 7m
interactive touch wall, which
would be the largest in the
country.
Last month the city council
got a slap on the wrist from the
Ombudsman for not releasing
the touch wall’s cost to the Taxpayers’
Union. The Taxpayers’
Union complained to the Ombudsman,
which then requested
it be released.
The city council is deciding
whether to do so in consultation
with the Ombudsman and the
provider, Gibson Group, which
wanted the information to remain
confidential.
New library stock, which
is shared around all the city’s
libraries, currently being sent to
Central Manchester and Central
Peterborough would be diverted
to Tūranga once it opens.
Ms Robertson said that would
equate to about nine per cent
of all new stock added to the
network, which annually, costs
about $400,000.
Both Peterborough and
Manchester Libraries are currently
leased by the city council,
which would not be renewed
when Tūranga opened. All the
resources and staff from both
will also be transferred.
The five-storey Tūranga would
have a hands-on technology and
innovation zone, a cafeteria,
200-seat community arena,
activity rooms, an exhibition
space, meeting rooms, two outdoor
terraces and a playground.
Work starts
at Redcliffs
School sites
DEMOLITION WORK will
start next month at Redcliffs
Park and Redcliffs School in
preparation for the creation of a
new school site.
The relocation of Redcliffs
School has been fast-tracked
through special changes to the
Christchurch District Plan following
a site decision by Greater
Christchurch
Regeneration
Minister Megan
Woods in May.
The existing
school site will
be turned into a
public park.
Clearance work
is due to start on
the new school
site in Redcliffs Park.
Chris
Doudney
It comes as Friends of Redcliffs
Park is circulating a petition that
will go to Parliament to stop
the move. They are about 150
signatures.
The group’s spokesman Chris
Doudney is also calling on Acting
Prime Minister Winston
Peters to rescind what he says is
a broken New Zealand First election
pledge over the park.
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