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,

Sunday, August 31, 2008

NZ Book Month


SIX WRITERS FOR $6! WHO WILL THEY BE? Join us in a star-studded Month beginning on Sunday 31st August at Te Papa, Wellington for the launch of NZ Book Month and the announcement of The Six Pack Three winners!
Winners are:
Kate Duignan – Swallow Kate lives in Wellington where she is currently teaching the fiction class of the Masters in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University. She was the 2004 recipient of the Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University. She has published one novel, Breakwater (Victoria University Press, 2001), as well as short fiction and poetry in various journals.David Geary – Gary Manawatu (1964–2008: Death of a Fence-Post-ModernistDavid is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, actor, poet, teacher, batsman-wicketkeeper, his fiction has been published in Sport and the New Zealand Listener. He has also published a collection of short stores, A Man of the People (Victoria University Press, 2003) and is the 2008 Writer in Residence at Victoria University.Aroha Harris – Write PoetryAroha Harris belongs to Te Rarawa and Ngapuhi and is a history lecturer at the University of Auckland. She has a masters degree in philosophy and a doctorate in history. Her research interests include New Zealand history, Maori culture and society in the post-war era, oral history and race relations. She is the author of Hikoi: Forty Years of Maori Protest (Huia Publishers, 2004).Ian Mackenzie – Mirror, MirrorIan is a primary school teacher originally from England but who has lived in New Zealand for many years. He lives in Auckland with his wife Jane, and their two sons Jack and Tom. He has written plays for school productions and weekly mystery stories for students in an English language programme, but this is his first short story. Marisa Maepu – ’88Marisa Maepu is a Samoan New Zealander, born and raised in Auckland. Now living in Wellington with her husband, Marisa has a masters in English from the University of Auckland. Her stories have been published in Niu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1 (Huia, 2006) and was a winner in the Spasifik/Huia short story competition in 2007.Sue Wootton – VirtuosoSue Wootton is the 2008 Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Magnetic South (Steele Roberts 2008) and Hourglass (Steele Roberts 2005). A children’s story book, Cloudcatcher, is to be published soon.
Published Sunday, 31 August 2008 10:00 a.m.
by
DeeMurch


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NZ Book Month


NZ Book Month is a non-profit initiative that has the whole book industry behind it, from writers and publishers to bookshops and libraries. Quite simply, the idea is to get more of us reading New Zealand books.
1st September to the 30th september, and an action packed month it is!
We are proud to be a nation of readers. On a global scale, Kiwis are highly literate and recent surveys show that many of us wouldn’t think about relaxing without a good book. But we want more of those books to be ones that have been written by New Zealand writers. We want to celebrate and showcase the brilliant writing talent we have, to support new and upcoming writers in our country, to tap into the pride we feel in our literary landscape and show you that whatever your taste, there’s a fantastic New Zealand book for you. NZ Book Month is an annual event, which will grow over time to be a nation-wide festival involving everyone from local communities to the Prime Minister

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Hachette Livre Road Show

Hachette Livre Road Show was a great sucess attended by over 60 people with a great
presentation of books coming out in Oct - Dec. Watch out for some great reads. All
attendees received a Hachette Livre cloth bag with 4 or 5 books and a complete list of the up and coming christmas releases.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
A considerable amount of information has now been added to theRegistration section of the LIANZA website so please go online and checkit out at www.lianza.org.nz/registration/
Recently posted to the site are the Mentor Guidelines and the Professional Training Plan Guidelines. The Proposed Registration Schemeand Transition Arrangements, originally drafted in August 2006, havebeen revised and are now called Outline of Registration Scheme and Transition Arrangements respectively. Available now are the Revalidation Guidelines along with the templatefor the Revalidation Journal which you can print off or download to your desk top ready to start filling in. Take a look at the example of a Revalidation Journal which is intended to show how day-to-day activitiesas well as formal professional development activities can contribute tokeeping the various areas of the body of knowledge up to date. Don't forget that you can now apply for library and information professional registration, application forms can be downloaded from thewebsite: http://www.lianza.org.nz/registration/applicationforms.html Please go to the website and read about the scheme, if you requirefurther information please contact the LIANZA office: 04 473 5834 oradmin at lianza.org.nz

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

LIBRARY WEEK 18-24 August 2008

WELCOME TO LIBRARY WEEK 2008
Library Week, 18-24 August is a week long celebration of libraries and librarianship in New Zealand taking place in libraries all across the country.
Library Week has been going for over 35 years and is a chance to learn more about the many services libraries offer and to celebrate the important role they play in your community.
This year the Library Week theme is 'What's Your Story?' and you can tell us your stories via the activities and competitions for all ages on this website.
Get involved in Library Week by telling us what you do at the library, by writing a paragraph for the interactive book, by working on a Living Heritage website or by becoming a "book" or "reader" in the Living Library project.

Its all about us...