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Workers grinding off the peaks left by the gel injected into the cracks in the James Hight Library walls.

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Staff and students sitting outside the new Shilling Club bar and restaurant in the James Hight Library's refurbished undercroft.

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Staff and students sitting outside the new Shilling Club bar and restaurant in the James Hight Library's refurbished undercroft.

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Staff and students sitting outside the new Shilling Club bar and restaurant in the James Hight Library's refurbished undercroft.

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Staff and students sitting in the new Shilling Club bar and restaurant in the James Hight Library's refurbished undercroft.

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Carole Rickman handing out sweets to staff working in temporary office space in the Central Library after the earthquake.

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Carole Rickman handing out sweets to staff working in temporary office space in the Central Library after the earthquake.

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Computers and desks wrapped up and stacked on level 2 of the James Hight Library, while repairs are made.

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Staff and students sitting outside the new Shilling Club bar and restaurant in the James Hight Library's refurbished undercroft.

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Carole Rickman handing out sweets to staff working in temporary office space in the Central Library after the earthquake.

Rebuild of Christchurch: supporting resilient staff while responding with …

Research Papers, Lincoln University

4th September 2010 a 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes near Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city of approximately 370,000 people. This is followed by a 6.3 magnitude quake on 22nd February 2011 and a 6.4 on 13th June. In February 181 people died and a state of national emergency was declared from 23 February to 30th April. Urban Search and Rescue teams with 150 personnel from New Zealand and 429 from overseas worked tirelessly in addition to Army, Police and Fire services. Within the central business district 1,000 buildings (of 4,000) are expected to be demolished. An estimated 10,000 houses require demolition and over 100,000 were damaged. Meanwhile the over 7,000 aftershocks have become part of the “new normal” for us all. During this time how have libraries supported their staff? What changes have been made to services? What are the resourcing opportunities? This presentation will provide a personal view from Lincoln University, Te Whare Wanaka o Aoraki, Library Teaching and Learning. Lincoln is New Zealand's third oldest university having been founded in 1878. Publicly owned and operated it is New Zealand's specialist land-based university. Lincoln is based on the Canterbury Plains, 22 kilometres south of Christchurch. On campus there was mostly minor damage to buildings while in the Library 200,000 volumes were thrown from the shelves. I will focus on the experiences of the Disaster Team and on our experiences with hosting temporarily displaced staff and students from the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Library, Learning & Information Services. Experiences from two other institutions will be highlighted: Christchurch City Libraries, Ngā Kete Wānanga-o-Ōtautahi. Focusing on the Māori Services Team and the Ngā Pounamu Māori and Ngāi Tahu collections. The Central library located within the red zone cordon has been closed since February, the Central library held the Ngā Pounamu Māori and Ngai Tahu collections, the largest Māori collections in the Christchurch public library network. The lack of access to these collections changed the way the Māori Services Team, part of the larger Programmes, Events and Learning Team at Christchurch City Libraries were able to provide services to their community resulting in new innovative outreach programmes and a focus on promotion of online resources. On 19th December the “temporary” new and smaller Central library Peterborough opened. The retrieved Ngā Pounamu Māori and Ngai Tahu collections "Ngā rakau teitei e iwa”, have since been re-housed and are once again available for use by the public. Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. This organisation, established by the Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Act 1996, services the statutory rights for the people of Ngāi Tahu descent and ensures that the benefits of their Treaty Claim Settlement are enjoyed by Ngāi Tahu now and in the future. Ngāi Tahu are the indigenous Māori people of the southern islands of New Zealand - Te Waipounamu. The iwi (people) hold the rangatiratanga or tribal authority to over 80 per cent of the South Island. With their headquarters based in the central business they have also had to be relocated to temporary facilities. This included their library/archive collection of print resources, art works and taonga (cultural treasures).

Photograph number UC 11-0105-45

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A worker grinding off the peaks left by the gel injected into the cracks in the James Hight Library walls.

Photograph number UC 11-0105-42

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A worker grinding off the peaks left by the gel injected into the cracks in the James Hight Library walls.

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A worker grinding off the peaks left by the gel injected into the cracks in the James Hight Library walls.

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A worker grinding off the peaks left by the gel injected into the cracks in the James Hight Library walls.

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A worker grinding off the peaks left by the gel injected into the cracks in the James Hight Library walls.

Photograph number UC 11-0105-43

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A worker grinding off the peaks left by the gel injected into the cracks in the James Hight Library walls.

Rosalee Jenkin Photograph 11

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A photograph of a plaque in the foyer of the new Kaiapoi Library and Civic Centre. The plaque reads, "Ruataniwha Kaiapoi Civic Centre. Opened by Mayor David Ayers on the 17th of January 2015. Architects: Warren and Mahoney".

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A sign in the front doors of the Lyttelton Library on London Street, reading 'Lyttelton Service Centre now open'".

FRONTLINE: The nexus of political documentary and alternative journalism:

Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

This article is a critical commentary of how political documentary embodies the traits and functions of alternative journalism. I explore this notion through Obrero (‘worker’) my independent documentary project about the labour migration of Filipino workers to Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, after the earthquake in 2011. This article maps out the points at where the theories and practices of alternative media and documentary intersect. Analysing political documentary as a format of alternative journalism has links to the long tradition of film and video production as a tool for social critique. As a form of practice-based research, Obrero falls under the rubric of alternative journalism—able to represent the politically marginal sectors of the polity and report on issues underreported in the mainstream press. This article concludes that a distribution plan that is responsive to fragmenting audiences works best when alternative journalism no longer targets a niche but transborder audiences.