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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Thursday <strong>June</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 13<br />
News<br />
Library prepares for big move<br />
• By Bridget Rutherford<br />
MORE THAN a million books,<br />
magazines, CDs, DVDs, archives<br />
and other resources will be<br />
transferred to the new $92<br />
million central library for its<br />
opening later this year.<br />
It will be one of the largest<br />
moving projects the city council<br />
has ever done.<br />
City council head of libraries<br />
and information Carolyn Robertson<br />
said about 61,000 library<br />
resources would be transferred<br />
to Tūranga from Central Peterborough<br />
Library. Another 37,000<br />
would go there from Central<br />
Manchester, she said.<br />
“In addition, collections currently<br />
in storage, including the<br />
archives collection, will also<br />
move to Tūranga,” she said.<br />
“This will be one of the biggest<br />
moves undertaken by the council,<br />
on a larger scale than most<br />
moves the council has overseen<br />
to date.”<br />
Tūranga, which is being built<br />
on the corner of Gloucester and<br />
Colombo Sts, will open in the<br />
third quarter of this year.<br />
Ms Robertson said the logistics<br />
around the move had been<br />
planned, with a moving company<br />
engaged.<br />
MOVING DAY: More than a million books, magazines, CDs,<br />
DVDs will be moved to Turanga before it opens.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> relocation work includes<br />
moving collections and retained<br />
assets from four locations and<br />
staff from Peterborough and<br />
Manchester Street Libraries and<br />
the timeframe is currently being<br />
scoped.”<br />
Ms Robertson said Tūranga’s<br />
IT and audio-visual fit out was<br />
projected to cost $4.17 million.<br />
It will have technologies such<br />
as 3D printers, a laser cutter,<br />
sewing machines, audio and<br />
video recording facilities, and<br />
virtual reality devices. That cost<br />
did not include installing a 7m<br />
interactive touch wall, which<br />
would be the largest in the<br />
country.<br />
Last month the city council<br />
got a slap on the wrist from the<br />
Ombudsman for not releasing<br />
the touch wall’s cost to the Taxpayers’<br />
Union. <strong>The</strong> Taxpayers’<br />
Union complained to the Ombudsman,<br />
which then requested<br />
it be released.<br />
<strong>The</strong> city council is deciding<br />
whether to do so in consultation<br />
with the Ombudsman and the<br />
provider, Gibson Group, which<br />
wanted the information to remain<br />
confidential.<br />
New library stock, which<br />
is shared around all the city’s<br />
libraries, currently being sent to<br />
Central Manchester and Central<br />
Peterborough would be diverted<br />
to Tūranga once it opens.<br />
Ms Robertson said that would<br />
equate to about nine per cent<br />
of all new stock added to the<br />
network, which annually, costs<br />
about $400,000.<br />
Both Peterborough and<br />
Manchester Libraries are currently<br />
leased by the city council,<br />
which would not be renewed<br />
when Tūranga opened. All the<br />
resources and staff from both<br />
will also be transferred.<br />
<strong>The</strong> five-storey Tūranga would<br />
have a hands-on technology and<br />
innovation zone, a cafeteria,<br />
200-seat community arena,<br />
activity rooms, an exhibition<br />
space, meeting rooms, two outdoor<br />
terraces and a playground.<br />
Work starts<br />
at Redcliffs<br />
School sites<br />
DEMOLITION WORK will<br />
start next month at Redcliffs<br />
Park and Redcliffs School in<br />
preparation for the creation of a<br />
new school site.<br />
<strong>The</strong> relocation of Redcliffs<br />
School has been fast-tracked<br />
through special changes to the<br />
Christchurch District Plan following<br />
a site decision by Greater<br />
Christchurch<br />
Regeneration<br />
Minister Megan<br />
Woods in May.<br />
<strong>The</strong> existing<br />
school site will<br />
be turned into a<br />
public park.<br />
Clearance work<br />
is due to start on<br />
the new school<br />
site in Redcliffs Park.<br />
Chris<br />
Doudney<br />
It comes as Friends of Redcliffs<br />
Park is circulating a petition that<br />
will go to Parliament to stop<br />
the move. <strong>The</strong>y are about 150<br />
signatures.<br />
<strong>The</strong> group’s spokesman Chris<br />
Doudney is also calling on Acting<br />
Prime Minister Winston<br />
Peters to rescind what he says is<br />
a broken New Zealand First election<br />
pledge over the park.<br />
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