My goal is to complete this project in 2018.

Juliet and Wendy have nearly completed all of the scanning for this project. We have scanned content from more than 300 volumes in the last three years (not all full volumes, some we just needed to scan a portion) and weeded approx 200 more where the content has been duplicated. This is unique content that is now more widely available to the legal community rather than sitting on Level 7.

With the exception of some problem files (approx 100) Sue has completed uploading decisions from the Employment Tribunal.

We can see the impact of this work as there are now 8091 decisions in the Employment Tribunal (ET) database. Beth and Sue have uploaded every decision in the ET database rather than us using our collection to fill gaps in established NZLII databases. NZLII users accessed the ET databases 29,586 times in 2017 and 9693 times in the first four months of 2018. Some of this will have been Beth and I checking the uploading – but approx 31,000 unique visits to ET decisions were not from UC. We can only measure to the database level so we can’t measure when we have added content to established databases (such as the ERA, Broadcasting Tribunal, Motor Vehicle Dispute Tribunal and Labour Court) but anecdotally we know the usage of these databases has also increased.

To complete this project – we have approx 500 decisions from the Legal Aid Appeal Authority, Employment Court and ACC Appeal Authority to upload over the next couple of months. Then a small amount of tidying up and then there will be cake!!!!! (and a Chronicle photograph).