Chief Executive and Chief Archivist
Dianne Macaskill began in the position of Chief Executive and Chief Archivist on 11 June 2001. She is the first permanent Chief Executive of Archives New Zealand as a stand-alone Government Department. Prior to taking up the role, Dianne was a Deputy Government Statistician at Statistics New Zealand.
Dianne has worked in the public sector since 1971 concentrating her efforts in the effective management of public information and appropriate access to that information.
Key Projects
Some of Archives New Zealand’s key projects include:
- the implementation of the Public Records Act 2005, which replaced the 1957 Archives Act
- the Continuum programme which provides government agencies and local government with effective tools and services to enable them to meet best practice recordkeeping standards; and
- the launch of Archway, our online finding aid which users to search our records either on-site or remotely.
Dianne says that Archives New Zealand is constantly reviewing the services that it provides. It aims to provide a high quality, efficient service to researchers who need to access archives as well as to oversee the effective management of the public records systems, both current records and those of long-term value.
Dianne holds a BSc from Victoria University.