This article is reprinted by request from the digitalpreservation.gov website.
While the saying “New Zealand is far from everywhere” may be true, distance is not an issue regarding its digital cultural collections and how efficiently the National Library of New Zealand makes them available over the Internet. For a small country (population approximately 4,393,500 as of December 2010), it has made wise choices that have resulted in a model cyberinfrastructure and national digital library.
Over recent years , the NLNZ has moved towards aggregating its online collections