Regional Shared Repository (RSR)
Detailed designs have been completed for a proposed new Regional Shared Repository (RSR) in Taitoko (Levin) to provide specialist preservation storage across the National Library, Ngā Taonga and Archives NZ with the potential for wider sector use.
Budget 2017 funded the land purchase and 2020 funded the design of this new storage facility . Find out more about the five design phases (PDF, 587KB).
This project is being considered along with other options to provide the additional storage capacity the institutions require to:
exit current substandard facilities
meet their statutory requirements for collecting to 2050
enable transfers of public records to resume to Archives New Zealand.
About the proposed facility
This facility would store low use and digitised documentary and audio-visual heritage and taonga, and allow Archives NZ to recommence transfers of government records. The proposed facility would provide the level of protection and care our documentary heritage requires – temperature and humidity control, appropriate light levels, security and protection from risks such as water damage, fire, earthquake and pests.
The RSR will hold government records, books, videos, microfilm, artworks, films, videos and DVDs, slides, audiobooks, microfilm and cassettes – the list goes on.
These different formats will require appropriate storage conditions and collection protection. This includes freezers, cool stores, shelving systems and containers. This is still to be determined with Ngā Taonga, Archives NZ and the National Library.
Iwi engagement approach
The Tāhuhu programme considers engagement with iwi Māori as a fundamental part of the process of building this new repository. The aim is to work in partnership with iwi to conceptualise, design, build, deliver and have ongoing input into the RSR Heke and Tāhuhu Programme.
Watch this Tāhuhu Thursday on the partnership and co-design process for the proposed facility in Taitoko (Levin).
Tāhuhu Thursdays partnership and co-design in Taitoko Levin – Archives New Zealand
The iwi Māori engagement approach with Muaūpoko iwi is in line with the Tāhuhu Programme approach. The Tāhuhu Programme is guided by the principles of Tiriti o Waitangi – partnership, participation and protection. These underpin the relationship between Māori and the Crown.
The Tāhuhu team partnered and collaborated with Muaūpoko Tribal Authority on many aspects of the design and development of the RSR including co-design work and decision-making. Muaūpoko Tribal Authority had representation on the RSR Steering Committee, and provided representation, advice and engagement on all key areas of the project through the specially established Muaūpoko Mātauranga Rōpu and Kāhui Mahi Toi.
A partnership between the Department (the Crown) and Muaūpoko Tribal Authority is developing so that decision-making can be driven by this high-level Iwi/Crown commitment.
External consultants
Wraight + Associates - Landscape architecture and urban design
The Property Group Limited - Land Acquisition
TSA Management - External Project Managers
Architectus - Architects
eCubed Ltd - Building Services Engineers
Beca - Structural and Planning Engineers
Holmes Fire - Fire Engineers
Rawlinsons - Quantity Surveyors
Sian Montgomery-Neutze – Pūkenga Toi