Media Release
Thursday 26 February 2004

Christchurch City Libraries in top 5 places to work

Christchurch City Libraries was named in the top 5 places to work according to a nationwide survey.

Placed fourth in the medium size workplace (100 – 399 staff) category, and ranked 13th overall, Christchurch City Libraries was selected from 128 other businesses in Unlimited magazines ’20 Best Places to Work’ 2003 annual survey.

“I am thrilled that our Libraries made the top five. The Christchurch City Council puts a lot of emphasis on providing a healthy, happy workplace. We provide on-going support for individual learning initiatives and we have designed an award-winning Leadership Development programme to give staff encouragement and confidence,” says Christchurch City Council Chief Executive, Dr Lesley McTurk.

The survey measured responses from employees in seven areas: the organisation; communication and co-operation; the team; the job; learning and development; recognition and reward; and overall perception.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>