We were notified by Statistics New Zealand on Friday that their website was going to change that night. They have totally reorganised their site, leaving a LOT of broken links in their wake. If you are on the nz-libs discussion list, you’ll have read all about it, and the indignation that this has caused amongst librarians.

I’m going through our website now, looking for broken links and attempting to fix them. The biggest problem is that the old links don’t work and the only way of finding the new link is to search for it on their website. If the search finds more than one possible link, I’m having to make an educated guess as to what the correct one is. Deirdre has been working on the links on the catalogue and apart from a few problem ones, she tells me they are mostly now correct.

If you know that you have created links on any web pages to Statistics New Zealand, could you please check the relevant page. If the link doesn’t work, it would be helpful if you searched on the Stats NZ site to see if you can find the new url. Either then let me know of the new link and the page where it should be, or if you can, just fix it yourself.

Many thanks for any help you can give me with this rather thankless task!

Also, a note for owners of LibGuides pages – you’ll need to check these for links to Stats NZ as well. Even basic resources like Table Builder and Census information have changed

Catherine Jane