EAST-IN SIG (East Coast Special Interest Group)

PURPOSE
To form a focus group for information specialists in the East Coast/Hawkes Bay Region.
To conduct continuing education for information professionals.

Membership

Membership is open to all Librarians in the East Coast Region of the North Island.
Membership is $10 per annum.
LIANZ Membership is not a requirement, but desirable.

Membership application can be obtained from treasurer Diane Friis dfriis at eit.ac.nz
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Committee 2009-10

The current comittee is:

Convenor: Jenny Cutting
Secretary: Jeannie Wright
Treasurer: Diane Friis
Blog: Kim Salamonson

Committee: Sheryl Reed, Sue Fargher, Kim Salamonson, Paula Murdoch, Jennifer Cutting, Diana Cram, Pat Money, Karen Tobin, Rae Jones, Maureen Roache,

Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Kindle

It's a big year for e-readers. First the Kobo, now the iPad and soon the Kindle. Although this will be a hamstrung version without 3G capability. Still, as free wifi gets more ubiquitous, that functionality may still be a killer app in the NZ market at that price point.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/3970073/Amazon-unveils-revamped-Kindle

See also NBR New Zeakland Business Review
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/kindle-2-photos-leak-ahead-tomorrow-s-launch-44328

Shanachie Tour

Shanachie Tour
A dutch Library building partnerships with the business community working together for the good of the community, they were voted the Library of the year in the Netherlands.
Examples of include local computer shop supplying an Xbox consoles etc for the Library in return for sign saying on loan from "...computer shop ..." Present your Library card for 15% discount off an Xbox if sales went up they got to keep the xbox. and much more...

http://prezi.com/ly714hi-g4u7/shanachie-tour/

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

EAST-SIG AGM

EAST-IN SIG AGM
NOTICE OF AGM TO BE HELD AT VIDALS WINERY
16th August 2010 at 5.30pm

AGENDA
1. Apologies
2. Minutes of 2009 AGM
3. Matters Arising
4. Convenors Report
5. Financial Report
6. Election of Officer
7. Any Other Business
The AGM will be followed by the Hachette Roadshow

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Why Public Libraries must be free - A talk by Bob McKee

For those that missed it - here is the video of Bob McKee's "Why Public Libraries MUST be Free" talk. Enjoy! http://bit.ly/aWkHRu
Its well worth a look.

BOK 11 for Professional Registration

LIANZA Professional Registration – Revalidation – BOK 11
There have been requests for direction with BOK 11 and Spencer Lilley has kindly compiled the following list of relevant readings to assist registrants.
Unfortunately not all are available on the internet but most libraries and librarians should be able to provide access to them Read more ›

LIANZA AWARDS

It is LIANZA Council's great pleasure to announce this year's LIANZA Professional Awards which will be presented at Conference in Dunedin. You may wish to view their citations http://www.lianza.org.nz/sites/lianza.org.nz/files/Awards.pdf



Congratulations to each and every one of you for recognition richly deserved.

Associateships:
Dr Bernadette Elizabeth Cassidy
Vicki Sheryl Clarke
Michael Lawrence Collett
Debra Anne Duncan
Nirmala Gounder
Jennifer Lindsay Kelly
Paula Jan Legel
Elizabeth (Beth) Sharon Morgan-Reeve
Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic
Linda Kathryn Palmer
Judith Lee Ann Rowe
Cynthia Ann Smith
Laurinda Elizabeth Thomas

Fellowships:
Daniel George Dorner
Brian Charles Flaherty
Marilyn Ailsa Fordyce
Spencer Charles Lilley
Sandra Mann
Kathleen Ann Reweti
Anne Maree Scott
Elaine Helen Woodhouse

LIANZA Letter of Recognition:
Dave Keet and Linda Winterburn, The Knowledge Basket

LIANZA Award of Merit - Digital Services:
Eric John Truesdale

LIANZA Honorary Life Membership:
Allison Dobbie
Penny Carnaby
Sue Sutherland

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

PUBSIG AGM Online Vote now....

The AGM for PubSIG is this year being held online. The reason for this is that committee members are now based throughout the country rather than in a region.
On this page you can:
See who the Committee Members are
Participate in the Online AGM…

BNZ Literary Awards 2010 - Formerly teh Katherine Mansfield Award

BNZ Literary Awards 2010 After 51 years, the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards are getting a facelift and are being renamed as the 'BNZ Literary Awards', with the Premier Award becoming the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award.For over half a century BNZ has been proud to support New Zealand's preeminent Short Story writing competition, which was founded to acknowledge the work of Katherine Mansfield and celebrate New Zealand literature.For many of New Zealand's famous writers, such as Frank Sargeson, Keri Hulme, Maurice Shadbolt, Charlotte Grimshaw and CK Stead, winning the main Award was where it all started. So make sure you send us your short story between 1 June and 23 July 2010. For more information visit the BNZ website here.

Storylines Tessa Duder Award - New Award

Storylines Tessa Duder AwardStorylines Trust and HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand are proud to announce an exciting new annual award on the children’s literary scene — the Storylines Tessa Duder Award for unpublished writers of fiction for young adults, named in honour of one of New Zealand’s best writers for this genre.Unpublished writers looking for an opportunity to emulate the outstanding writing careers of Kiwi authors such as William Taylor, Kate De Goldi, Bernard Beckett or Tessa Duder herself will be excited by this new initiative.The Tessa Duder Award will be administered by Storylines and sponsored by HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand. It will complete the line up of prestigious awards made annually by the Trust to writers for children in New Zealand. Entries for the inaugural award close on 31 October, with winners to be announced at the Storylines annual Margaret Mahy Day and International Children’s Book Day on Saturday 2 April 2011. The winner will receive $1500, and the possibility of a publishing contract with HarperCollins Publishers. Full details and criteria for entry are listed on the Storylines website here.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

WorldCat OCLC New Features

OCLC has introduced a new feature for WorldCat, which is so cool it’s freezing. I wish our catalog could do this:
From The OCLC Cooperative Blog
#Ask4Stuff is a new, Twitter-based service that returns a WorldCat search when you send a tweet with the tag #Ask4Stuff. So if you send the following tweet:
#Ask4Stuff lake erie shipwreck
You’ll get a tweet back that says something like:
@YOURNAME A few things about lake erie shipwreck in #Ask4Stuff, check out http://is.gd/cY7gi
Where the link then takes you to the WorldCat.org search result for “lake erie shipwreck.”You can even localize the result to a WorldCat Local instance by including the Local library name as another hash tag.
Example:
#Ask4Stuff #OSU lake erie shipwreck

IKAROA Communications

Communicating
Visit the new Ikaroa Blog - ikaroalianza.blogspot.com
Jane Brooker is listmaster of the Ikaroa listserv. The email address is: J.E.Brooker@massey.ac.nzTo post a message to the Ikaroa list - email: ikaroa@lists.massey.ac.nz

EAST-IN SIG AGM


LIBRARY AND INFORMATION ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND
EAST-IN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD AT VIDAL’S WINERY 5.30 pm 16TH August 2010

AGENDA
1. Apologies
2. Minutes of the 2009 AGM
3. Matters Arising
4. Convenors report
5. Financial report
6. Election of officers
7. General Business


Jeannie Wright
Secretary




The AGM will be followed by the Hachette Road Show

Present with Confidence

A great course sponsored by Ikaroa SIG well worth attending. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I attended an earlier session. I Learnt a lot and have a lot more confidence to present. Read Michael Parry's notes on the days event.

http://diligentroom.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/how-to-give-a-good-presentation/

IKAROA AGM Wed 18th Aug 2010

AGM coming up
IKAROA REGION LIANZA
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
5.30 PM WEDNESDAY 18TH AUGUST 2009
Palmerston North City Library
Guest speaker Ronald Milne
Nominations are being sought for Chair, Secretary and committee members.
Come and join us!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Risk factors" in National Library and National Library Archive feature article by Julienne Molineaux From the New Zealand Herald

Interesting piece on the "Risk factors" in National Library and National Library Archive feature article by Julienne Molineaux From the New Zealand Herald. In it she points to some real risks involved with the merging of The National Library, Archives New Zealand and Department of Internal Affairs.
Julienne Molineaux: ‘Dangerous enthusiasm’ dooms project to fail
Government agencies are often restructured in the belief that the change will lead to better performance.
But whether it is organisational design or information technology projects, bigger scale doesn’t always mean better results. In fact, larger scale brings with it many problems.
Yet the Government and the State Services Commission are proposing a merger between Archives New Zealand, the National Library and the Department of Internal Affairs, with economies of scale in IT as the driver of the change.
The New Zealand state sector has a history of IT project failures, the $100 million-plus police INCIS endeavour being the most infamous.
The bigger the IT project, the bigger the concentration of risk.
The more complex the project, the more likely it is to flounder, go over-budget, go over-time, fail to deliver on its promises and be difficult for users to operate.
In proposing the merger between the archives, the library and Internal Affairs, State Services Minister Tony Ryall has admitted there are no burning problems that need solving. Rather, the rationale is the desire to develop an overarching platform from which New Zealanders can access civic information.
The merger is being promoted as providing a single decision-making centre in public technology services “to determine a whole of government approach to managing information”.
While the current fragmentation does indeed make accessing information more difficult for the public, a serious question has to be raised. Just how feasible is the Government’s dream of a unified civic information “super” platform?
Continue reading here.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Ask A Librarian



They key message here is if you need a clear definitive answer then look no further than a Librarian. Go to your local Library.

Thanks to Marie Radford http://librarygarden.net/

Thanks to John LeMasney, and the image is part of my project called 365 Sketches at http://365sketches.org as the images was an original of his.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Libraries Have a Novel Idea: Lenders Join Forces to Let Patrons Check Out Digital Scans of Shelved Book Collections

An interesting concept, furthering the e-reader, but again I question copyright... Didn't Google Books recently get hauled over the coals for a similiar project?

Libraries Have a Novel Idea: Lenders Join Forces to Let Patrons Check Out Digital Scans of Shelved Book Collections [Wall Street Journal Online] By Geoffrey A. Fowler
Libraries are expanding e-book offerings with out-of-print editions, part of a broader effort to expand borrowing privileges in the Internet Age that could challenge traditional ideas about copyright.
Starting Tuesday, a group of libraries led by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library, are joining forces to create a one-stop website for checking out e-books, including access to more than a million scanned public domain books and a catalog of thousands of contemporary e-book titles available at many public libraries.
And in a first, participants including the Boston Public Library and the Marine Biological Laboratory will also contribute scans of a few hundred older books that are still in copyright, but no longer sold commercially. That part of the project could raise eyebrows, because copyright law is unclear in the digital books arena. Google Inc., which is working on its own book scanning efforts, has been mired in a legal brouhaha with authors and publishers over its digital books project.
To read the books, borrowers around the world can download and read them for free on computers or e-reading gadgets. Software renders the books inaccessible once the loan period ends. Two-thirds of American libraries offered e-book loans in 2009, according to a survey by the American Library Association. But those were mostly contemporary imprints from the last couple of years—say, the latest Stephen King novel.
The Internet Archive project, dubbed Openlibrary.org, goes a step further by opening up some access to the sorts of books that may have otherwise gathered dust on library shelves—mainly those published in the past 90 years, but of less popular interest.
Many libraries have built out their digital libraries by buying copies of new e-books from companies like Overdrive Inc. Openlibrary.org plans to catalog 70,000 of the books offered by Overdrive, and provide links to check them out from local libraries.
“We know that our users are starting their search for information online,” said Thomas Blake, the digital projects manager at the Boston Public Library, which is contributing some in-copyright genealogical titles to the new effort. “Instead of sitting back and waiting for the people to come back into the library, we want to meet our users where they’re living.”
Continue reading here.

All Pub-SIG Members: PUB-SIG AGM online

PubSIG Online AGM 2010
Online voting and the AGM discussions are open from Monday 28 June 2010 to Monday 26 July 2010.
The AGM for PubSIG is this year being held online. The reason for this is that committee members are now based throughout the country rather than in a region.
We invite all members to participate in voting and discussions on the best way for PubSIG to promote and support the development of public library services and the librarians who work in them. http://www.lianza.org.nz/news/2010/jun/26/pubsig-online-agm-2010

So get reading anddon't forget to vote.

EAST-SIG LIANZA BLOG / Forum on LIANZA Site

Hi All We now have a website / forum page on the LIANZA site we can use. My feeling is we should probably use both. Y
you have to:
1. Sign up to LIANZA site (Must be a paid up SIG of LIANZA member)
2. Join the SIG etc that you belong too (LIANZA will allow if you are a paid up SIG member)
3. Start using the forum & Website.
4. Any queries?
http://www.lianza.org.nz/community/forums/general-interest/welcome-east-sig