How LIAC works
LIAC provides advice to the Minister by:
- maintaining a strategic overview of the library and information sectors;
- encouraging ownership of the process amongst wider stakeholders;
- providing stakeholder perspectives on issues and proposals;
- commenting on specific papers and policy that lies within LIAC’s ambit of responsibility, and as requested by the Minister; and
- engaging with public consultation on matters related to LIAC’s work programme, as appropriate.
Before giving advice to the Minister, the Commission must, where practicable, have regard to:
- recent national and international developments in relation to library and information services; and
- the appropriate means for promoting collaboration among persons and institutions (for example, museums, libraries and archives) in relation to protecting, preserving, and promoting access to information, including documentary heritage and Mātauranga Māori.