New Zealand Library Partnerships Programme data

About the New Zealand Partnerships Programme data

The New Zealand Partnerships Programme data is the information about the about the libraries supported by the New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme (NZLPP). It describes initiatives and activities undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the initiatives were an extension of a libraries normal services. This data could be useful if you are:

• investigating the changing nature of libraries

• considering how communities responded to issues the COVID-19 pandemic

• researching how libraries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic

• researching repeatable initiatives including the “lessons-to-be-learned”

Structure of the data

The structure of the New Zealand Partnerships Programme data is as follows:

• action statements – libraries described what they were going to do.

• focus areas – action statements were to fit within or target one or more focus areas. There were six focus areas: workforce capability, digital inclusion, community engagement, te reo Māori and Mātauranga Māori, content creation and curation, and reading for pleasure.

• objectives and measures – each action statement could have one or more objectives and each objective required a statement of how success or progress towards the objective could be measured or observed.

• progress and commentary – the quarterly reports asked libraries to give an arbitrary indication of progress towards each objective using predetermined percentages and the measure statements as a guide. For each objective libraries were given space to provide some commentary on progress or achievements they had made.

• numbers – Libraries were also asked if they could provide any tangible numbers involved with their initiatives.

Download the dataset

The dataset is a spreadsheet made up of seven worksheets and a Using the Quarterly data guide with information about how the data is structured and how to use the spreadsheet.

Download the New Zealand Libraries Partnerships Programme dataset and information sheet (zip, 2.25MB)

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