Citation
(1998), "Post-NDIS Developments at the National Library of New Zealand", Asian Libraries, Vol. 7 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/al.1998.17307dab.015
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1998, MCB UP Limited
Post-NDIS Developments at the National Library of New Zealand
Post-NDIS Developments at the National Library of New Zealand
Following the collapse of the National Document and Information System (NDIS) last year, the National Libraries of New Zealand and Australia are engaged in talks with the project's lead contractor, Computer Science Corporation (CSC), under the auspices of an arbitrator in Sydney. The project was abandoned in December 1996, shortly after the departure of the New Zealand National Librarian, Peter Scott, leaving the NZ National Library NZ$8.5 million worse off with nothing to show for it. Informal discussions between the two national libraries and CSC have failed to reach resolution. The Library hopes that arbitration may help it recover some of then computer hardware bought for the project.
Since the collapse of NDIS the Library has announced a new, but less ambitious, project that will ensure its cataloguing system will survive the 'millennium problem', which is believed to be one of the main problems with the existing New Zealand Bibliographic Network software.