Google Newsflash
2.1. Google Real Time search This just happened - rolls out in NZ over 'the next few days' Purports - don't you love that word - to give immediate access to new posts including Twitter - and FaceBook 2.2. Google's Year?Are they still the big bad guys determined to steal all our data - not so according a major spokesperson at the Battle of Ideas conference in London Session - Rethinking Privacy in an age of Disclosure and Sharinghttp://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2009/session_detail/2515/The whole session is on line.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
NDF - Copyleft & Copyright
I was at the National Digital Forum conference in Wellington earlier this week mingling with people involved in digitising and curating New Zealand’s cultural heritage material – people from museums, galleries, archives, libraries.
I was struck by a few commonalities between the cultural heritage sector (known as GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) and the digital news media.
Both deal with sizeable repositories of digital content, for a start, and are grappling with how best to manage those assets, ensure their longevity and make them readily discoverable.
Here are a few thoughts on a couple of themes that I picked up on from the conference, which was held at Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand). The conference was nicely organised, had some interesting guest speakers from here and overseas, and was very enjoyable (my thanks to the organisers).
Copyright/copyleft
Since passive audiences have become active users of content, we’re all trying to figure out how to manage content ownership online and get a balance between commercial imperatives, the costs of digitisation, and the need to enable innovation and maintain a lively public domain of enduring use to citizens.
This is a big issue, and complex, and I don’t propose doing it justice in this post. I just want to acknowledge that it’s an issue affecting all branches of the creative industries and wonder out loud if we can’t jobshare the task of finding local solutions.
Five years ago copryight didn’t get a mention in a journalism curriculum. Now I feel dutybound to raise it, introduce Creative Commons, have discussions about how to use images found on Flickr and Google, and introduce questions to ask yourself when publishing your own work – who do you want to be able to use it, how do you want them to be able to use it, do you want to be credited, how will you enforce your rights and so on.
Libraries and museums, meanwhile, have to track down who holds the copyright on historical images and material, decide what to do if the holder cannot be found, very often seek permission to use the material, and determine how to indicate to end users what they are entitled to do with the material (without making them read dense legislation, clauses and exceptions).
Then there’s the people, like NZ On Screen, who are dealing with archival film and television material who also have to hunt down copyright holders, very often consult dozens of people about a single video clip (producer, director, writers, etc) and manage how end users interact with the material.
Meanwhile there are anomalies in the way we reference material. We think nothing of grabbing a couple of paragraphs from a report or speech or blogpost to include in a news story or essay or artwork, but we tend to feel differently about grabbing a few paragraphs out of an audio or video clip to use in a news story or essay or artwork.
Content ownership, use and licensing isn’t simple. Laws and regulations vary in different jurisdictions, how they’re applied varies even within jurisdictions, and they are often densely written and impenetrable to your average end user. Creative Commons stands out not only for giving content creators simple licences to choose from but also for creating simple icons to describe them that are instantly recognisable.
To extend that kind of simplicity to digital content management in the New Zealand context would be fantastic.
There was also a clearly articulated need for greater education about copyright/fair use issues.
There was a suggestion at the conference that members of the forum should work together on a coherent and simple set of guides/licences/icons for New Zealand.
If that conversation continues, my instinct is that the news media should be involved. I suspect we have insights from our industry to share, and would benefit from learning more about the issues and insights of others.
After all, journalists need cultural and heritage collections for research and should be linking to them for the benefit of readers, and I suspect the news media could learn a lot about managing archives from the GLAM folk.
Visual and digital literacy
Newsrooms everywhere are trying to get journalists comfortable online and competent at storytelling in visual, aural and written forms (video, audio, images, text) so they can get their product out to their customers in whatever format they demand.
Journalism schools are finding ways to do the same while still teaching traditional skills such as writing clearly, checking facts, attributing information, providing context, avoiding ambiguity and being fair and balanced and accurate.
It’s deceptively difficult, in my experience.
You think to yourself, ‘I’ll introduce Flickr, that’s a useful resource’, then find yourself talking about how to shoot images, crop images, caption images and add metadata, search engines 101, how to use software such as Photoshop or Gimp, choose file sizes, understand compression and loss and file types, manage uploads and downloads, collaborate on content creation, use in-house content management systems, manage online accounts and profiles, understand privacy controls, host images for blogs, links, broken links, how to consider copyright and apply and acknowledge it in a variety of scenarios. Phew.
It’s not just newsrooms. The GLAM crowd face similar challenges of bringing their staff up to speed in these and other skills, because they too have to learn how to give their audiences what they want in a variety of engaging formats.
I get the feeling we’re all still finding our way and could use a bit of help.
Making our stuff findable
We can build beautiful, rich websites till the cows come home but they’re no good to anyone if people can’t easily find all that lovely content lurking beneath the homepage. That’s as true for news websites as it is for cultural archives and exhibitions, and it’s a topic that arose often in conversation at the NDF conference.
I’ve been cooling on destination websites for a while. You need to have a destination website, of course, but you need even more to have your content out where your audience is so they can trip over it often and usefully.
I often think it would be nice to create a website from the premise that you publish content all over the web and use the home site to curate it, rather than aggregating/curating first and then pushing out from your home site.
Either way, the big deal in making our content findable is…
Joining the dots
We reinvent the wheel a lot online, and we duplicate content and destinations. That’s partly because we’re all separate organisations doing our own thing. It’s partly because our stuff isn’t findable enough – I often go looking for information and come up empty, even though I know it must be out there somewhere.
But I think it’s also partly because we don’t try hard enough. We don’t allocate enough time for staff to go searching around topic areas, vet what they find, select the most relevant for users’ benefit, and think about how best to link to it.
News websites are perhaps the worst culprits. Some still don’t link out at all, to anything or anyone. Others have begun throwing in a few links to public documents and have finally brought themselves to link to, gosh, YouTube clips that they’re writing stories about. Others are doing a much better job.
But there’s often not enough evidence of news organisations behaving like they’re a member of society. There’s little thought about what a reader coming to a given news story might want to know about its background or what other questions it may raise for them. There’s little interaction with cultural, non-profit, government and other organisations with rich content that would be useful to readers.
There’s often little thought about how to provide useful links – links in stories and listed at the bottom of the page are a great start but how about ways to search other sites from the keywords generated by a news story, a way to book tickets to the show you’ve reviewed, a link to an online bookseller from a book review, a map showing the location of the story topic and a way to click through and explore the location.
Easier said than done, I know, but still.
Those are just a few things chasing round in my mind after the NDF conference. There are many more. We were shown some great sites and exhibitions as well, which I’ll try to collate into another blogpost in a while.
I was struck by a few commonalities between the cultural heritage sector (known as GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) and the digital news media.
Both deal with sizeable repositories of digital content, for a start, and are grappling with how best to manage those assets, ensure their longevity and make them readily discoverable.
Here are a few thoughts on a couple of themes that I picked up on from the conference, which was held at Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand). The conference was nicely organised, had some interesting guest speakers from here and overseas, and was very enjoyable (my thanks to the organisers).
Copyright/copyleft
Since passive audiences have become active users of content, we’re all trying to figure out how to manage content ownership online and get a balance between commercial imperatives, the costs of digitisation, and the need to enable innovation and maintain a lively public domain of enduring use to citizens.
This is a big issue, and complex, and I don’t propose doing it justice in this post. I just want to acknowledge that it’s an issue affecting all branches of the creative industries and wonder out loud if we can’t jobshare the task of finding local solutions.
Five years ago copryight didn’t get a mention in a journalism curriculum. Now I feel dutybound to raise it, introduce Creative Commons, have discussions about how to use images found on Flickr and Google, and introduce questions to ask yourself when publishing your own work – who do you want to be able to use it, how do you want them to be able to use it, do you want to be credited, how will you enforce your rights and so on.
Libraries and museums, meanwhile, have to track down who holds the copyright on historical images and material, decide what to do if the holder cannot be found, very often seek permission to use the material, and determine how to indicate to end users what they are entitled to do with the material (without making them read dense legislation, clauses and exceptions).
Then there’s the people, like NZ On Screen, who are dealing with archival film and television material who also have to hunt down copyright holders, very often consult dozens of people about a single video clip (producer, director, writers, etc) and manage how end users interact with the material.
Meanwhile there are anomalies in the way we reference material. We think nothing of grabbing a couple of paragraphs from a report or speech or blogpost to include in a news story or essay or artwork, but we tend to feel differently about grabbing a few paragraphs out of an audio or video clip to use in a news story or essay or artwork.
Content ownership, use and licensing isn’t simple. Laws and regulations vary in different jurisdictions, how they’re applied varies even within jurisdictions, and they are often densely written and impenetrable to your average end user. Creative Commons stands out not only for giving content creators simple licences to choose from but also for creating simple icons to describe them that are instantly recognisable.
To extend that kind of simplicity to digital content management in the New Zealand context would be fantastic.
There was also a clearly articulated need for greater education about copyright/fair use issues.
There was a suggestion at the conference that members of the forum should work together on a coherent and simple set of guides/licences/icons for New Zealand.
If that conversation continues, my instinct is that the news media should be involved. I suspect we have insights from our industry to share, and would benefit from learning more about the issues and insights of others.
After all, journalists need cultural and heritage collections for research and should be linking to them for the benefit of readers, and I suspect the news media could learn a lot about managing archives from the GLAM folk.
Visual and digital literacy
Newsrooms everywhere are trying to get journalists comfortable online and competent at storytelling in visual, aural and written forms (video, audio, images, text) so they can get their product out to their customers in whatever format they demand.
Journalism schools are finding ways to do the same while still teaching traditional skills such as writing clearly, checking facts, attributing information, providing context, avoiding ambiguity and being fair and balanced and accurate.
It’s deceptively difficult, in my experience.
You think to yourself, ‘I’ll introduce Flickr, that’s a useful resource’, then find yourself talking about how to shoot images, crop images, caption images and add metadata, search engines 101, how to use software such as Photoshop or Gimp, choose file sizes, understand compression and loss and file types, manage uploads and downloads, collaborate on content creation, use in-house content management systems, manage online accounts and profiles, understand privacy controls, host images for blogs, links, broken links, how to consider copyright and apply and acknowledge it in a variety of scenarios. Phew.
It’s not just newsrooms. The GLAM crowd face similar challenges of bringing their staff up to speed in these and other skills, because they too have to learn how to give their audiences what they want in a variety of engaging formats.
I get the feeling we’re all still finding our way and could use a bit of help.
Making our stuff findable
We can build beautiful, rich websites till the cows come home but they’re no good to anyone if people can’t easily find all that lovely content lurking beneath the homepage. That’s as true for news websites as it is for cultural archives and exhibitions, and it’s a topic that arose often in conversation at the NDF conference.
I’ve been cooling on destination websites for a while. You need to have a destination website, of course, but you need even more to have your content out where your audience is so they can trip over it often and usefully.
I often think it would be nice to create a website from the premise that you publish content all over the web and use the home site to curate it, rather than aggregating/curating first and then pushing out from your home site.
Either way, the big deal in making our content findable is…
Joining the dots
We reinvent the wheel a lot online, and we duplicate content and destinations. That’s partly because we’re all separate organisations doing our own thing. It’s partly because our stuff isn’t findable enough – I often go looking for information and come up empty, even though I know it must be out there somewhere.
But I think it’s also partly because we don’t try hard enough. We don’t allocate enough time for staff to go searching around topic areas, vet what they find, select the most relevant for users’ benefit, and think about how best to link to it.
News websites are perhaps the worst culprits. Some still don’t link out at all, to anything or anyone. Others have begun throwing in a few links to public documents and have finally brought themselves to link to, gosh, YouTube clips that they’re writing stories about. Others are doing a much better job.
But there’s often not enough evidence of news organisations behaving like they’re a member of society. There’s little thought about what a reader coming to a given news story might want to know about its background or what other questions it may raise for them. There’s little interaction with cultural, non-profit, government and other organisations with rich content that would be useful to readers.
There’s often little thought about how to provide useful links – links in stories and listed at the bottom of the page are a great start but how about ways to search other sites from the keywords generated by a news story, a way to book tickets to the show you’ve reviewed, a link to an online bookseller from a book review, a map showing the location of the story topic and a way to click through and explore the location.
Easier said than done, I know, but still.
Those are just a few things chasing round in my mind after the NDF conference. There are many more. We were shown some great sites and exhibitions as well, which I’ll try to collate into another blogpost in a while.
Make it Digital has two awards of up to $10,000
Hi there,
We launched an award a couple of weeks ago - NZ organisations can win one of two $10,000 awards to kick-start their digitisation project!*
Make it Digital has two awards of up to $10,000 on offer for organisations who have NZ content they want to digitise and make easier to find, share and use.
To enter, organisations need to register their Make it Digital project on http://makeit.digitalnz.org/voting and then encourage votes and comments from their community along with completing a supporting application to tell us why the project is important.
Find out more: http://makeit.digitalnz.org/about/award/
*Terms and conditions apply http://makeit.digitalnz.org/about/award/terms-and-conditions
Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Jo Eaton
Community Manager
DigitalNZ
http://www.digitalnz.org/
jo.eaton@natlib.govt.nz
Ph 04 474 3134 (ext 8785)
We launched an award a couple of weeks ago - NZ organisations can win one of two $10,000 awards to kick-start their digitisation project!*
Make it Digital has two awards of up to $10,000 on offer for organisations who have NZ content they want to digitise and make easier to find, share and use.
To enter, organisations need to register their Make it Digital project on http://makeit.digitalnz.org/voting and then encourage votes and comments from their community along with completing a supporting application to tell us why the project is important.
Find out more: http://makeit.digitalnz.org/about/award/
*Terms and conditions apply http://makeit.digitalnz.org/about/award/terms-and-conditions
Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Jo Eaton
Community Manager
DigitalNZ
http://www.digitalnz.org/
jo.eaton@natlib.govt.nz
Ph 04 474 3134 (ext 8785)
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Professional Registration & Revaildation
Using LIANZA Conferences and seminars to support your revalidation activities
The annual LIANZA Conference and other LIANZA activities such as seminars and weekend schools can provide an excellent opportunity to engage in a range of professional development activities which you can record in your journal and use towards revalidation of your professional registration.
Attendance at conference or a weekend school is not just one revalidation activity, it can be several. Conference activities cover all areas of the Body of Knowledge, as well as the different domains of professional practice, particularly Currency of knowledge (attending conference presentations) and Communication and networking, ( knowledge sharing). Conferences and seminars provide a great opportunity to think about the future of the profession and the challenges out there, while learning about new initiatives and best practice examples, and building new networks.
So keep your professional registration requirements in mind when making the case to attend the LIANZA Conference and other seminars, and again once you get there.
Here are some suggestions for how LIANZA Conferences and seminars can help you meet your revalidation requirements:
Identify the papers that are most meaningful to you, and record what it is about that paper that interested you. What did you learn from it, and how have you applied this?
Were there networking opportunities that were particularly useful and which you have followed up?
Are there opportunities to visit other libraries or information centres while at conference? Record any visits that were of particular value.
Are you presenting a paper – remember to record this.
Were you on the organising committee? – What did you learn from this that you can apply to your work? Maybe this counts under the domain of professional leadership.
Use the following form while at Conference to record possible revalidation activities, then complete it and add the detail to your Journal once you get home and have had a chance to reflect on the Body of Knowledge area and the learning outcomes.
Feel free to redesign this form to suit your own preferred way of working. Here is as an example you might use – http://www.lianza.org.nz/library/files/store_024/conference_seminar_attendance_template_revalidation.doc
Revalidation PowerPoint presentation
Recently the LIANZA office has received several questions regarding the revalidation process, mainly completing and maintaining your journals.
If you have any specific questions please email registration@lianza.org.nz otherwise please refer to the revalidation guidelines on the Registration website as there are some useful tips and interesting library life articles. http://www.lianza.org.nz/registration/revalidation.html
In case you haven’t seen the revalidation presentation by Alison Dobbie you can view this here: http://www.lianza.org.nz/registration/files/Professional_Registration_Revalidation_update_Dec_2009.pps
The annual LIANZA Conference and other LIANZA activities such as seminars and weekend schools can provide an excellent opportunity to engage in a range of professional development activities which you can record in your journal and use towards revalidation of your professional registration.
Attendance at conference or a weekend school is not just one revalidation activity, it can be several. Conference activities cover all areas of the Body of Knowledge, as well as the different domains of professional practice, particularly Currency of knowledge (attending conference presentations) and Communication and networking, ( knowledge sharing). Conferences and seminars provide a great opportunity to think about the future of the profession and the challenges out there, while learning about new initiatives and best practice examples, and building new networks.
So keep your professional registration requirements in mind when making the case to attend the LIANZA Conference and other seminars, and again once you get there.
Here are some suggestions for how LIANZA Conferences and seminars can help you meet your revalidation requirements:
Identify the papers that are most meaningful to you, and record what it is about that paper that interested you. What did you learn from it, and how have you applied this?
Were there networking opportunities that were particularly useful and which you have followed up?
Are there opportunities to visit other libraries or information centres while at conference? Record any visits that were of particular value.
Are you presenting a paper – remember to record this.
Were you on the organising committee? – What did you learn from this that you can apply to your work? Maybe this counts under the domain of professional leadership.
Use the following form while at Conference to record possible revalidation activities, then complete it and add the detail to your Journal once you get home and have had a chance to reflect on the Body of Knowledge area and the learning outcomes.
Feel free to redesign this form to suit your own preferred way of working. Here is as an example you might use – http://www.lianza.org.nz/library/files/store_024/conference_seminar_attendance_template_revalidation.doc
Revalidation PowerPoint presentation
Recently the LIANZA office has received several questions regarding the revalidation process, mainly completing and maintaining your journals.
If you have any specific questions please email registration@lianza.org.nz otherwise please refer to the revalidation guidelines on the Registration website as there are some useful tips and interesting library life articles. http://www.lianza.org.nz/registration/revalidation.html
In case you haven’t seen the revalidation presentation by Alison Dobbie you can view this here: http://www.lianza.org.nz/registration/files/Professional_Registration_Revalidation_update_Dec_2009.pps
Monday, December 7, 2009
Night Before Christmas
A Politically Correct Christmas Story
'Twas the night before Christmas and Santa's a wreck... How to live in a world that's politically correct? His workers no longer would answer to "Elves". "Vertically Challenged" they were calling themselves. And labour conditions at the North Pole were alleged by the union to stifle the soul. Four reindeer had vanished, without much propriety, Released to the wilds by the Humane Society. And equal employment had made it quite clear That Santa had better not use just reindeer. So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid Were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid! The runners had been removed from his sleigh; The ruts were termed dangerous by the E.P.A. And people had started to call for the cops When they heard sled noises on their rooftops. Second-hand smoke from his pipe had his workers quite frightened. His fur trimmed red suit was called "Unenlightened."And to show you the strangeness of life's ebbs and flows, Rudolf was suing over unauthorised use of his nose And had gone on Geraldo, in front of the nation, Demanding millions in over-due compensation. So, half of the reindeer were gone; and his wife, Who suddenly said she'd enough of this life, Joined a self-help group, packed, and left in a whiz, Demanding from now on her title was Ms. And as for the gifts, why, he'd never had a notion That making a choice could cause so much commotion. Nothing of leather, nothing of fur, Which meant nothing for him. And nothing for her. Nothing that might be construed to pollute. Nothing to aim, Nothing to shoot. Nothing that clamoured or made lots of noise. Nothing for just girls, or just for the boys. Nothing that claimed to be gender specific. Nothing that's warlike or non-pacifistic. No candy or sweets...they were bad for the tooth. Nothing that seemed to embellish a truth. And fairy tales, while not yet forbidden, Were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden. For they raised the hackles of those psychological Who claimed the only good gift was one ecological. No baseball, no football...someone could get hurt; Besides, playing sports exposed kids to dirt. Dolls were said to be sexist, and should be passe; And Nintendo would rot your entire brain away. So Santa just stood there, dishevelled, perplexed; He just could not figure out what to do next. He tried to be merry, tried to be gay, But you've got to be careful with that word today. His sack was quite empty, limp to the ground; Nothing fully acceptable was to be found. Something special was needed, a gift that he might Give to all without angering the left or the right. A gift that would satisfy, with no indecision, Each group of people, every religion;Every ethnicity, every hue, Everyone, everywhere...even you. So here is that gift, it's price beyond worth... May you and your loved ones, enjoy peace on Earth.
'Twas the night before Christmas and Santa's a wreck... How to live in a world that's politically correct? His workers no longer would answer to "Elves". "Vertically Challenged" they were calling themselves. And labour conditions at the North Pole were alleged by the union to stifle the soul. Four reindeer had vanished, without much propriety, Released to the wilds by the Humane Society. And equal employment had made it quite clear That Santa had better not use just reindeer. So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid Were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid! The runners had been removed from his sleigh; The ruts were termed dangerous by the E.P.A. And people had started to call for the cops When they heard sled noises on their rooftops. Second-hand smoke from his pipe had his workers quite frightened. His fur trimmed red suit was called "Unenlightened."And to show you the strangeness of life's ebbs and flows, Rudolf was suing over unauthorised use of his nose And had gone on Geraldo, in front of the nation, Demanding millions in over-due compensation. So, half of the reindeer were gone; and his wife, Who suddenly said she'd enough of this life, Joined a self-help group, packed, and left in a whiz, Demanding from now on her title was Ms. And as for the gifts, why, he'd never had a notion That making a choice could cause so much commotion. Nothing of leather, nothing of fur, Which meant nothing for him. And nothing for her. Nothing that might be construed to pollute. Nothing to aim, Nothing to shoot. Nothing that clamoured or made lots of noise. Nothing for just girls, or just for the boys. Nothing that claimed to be gender specific. Nothing that's warlike or non-pacifistic. No candy or sweets...they were bad for the tooth. Nothing that seemed to embellish a truth. And fairy tales, while not yet forbidden, Were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden. For they raised the hackles of those psychological Who claimed the only good gift was one ecological. No baseball, no football...someone could get hurt; Besides, playing sports exposed kids to dirt. Dolls were said to be sexist, and should be passe; And Nintendo would rot your entire brain away. So Santa just stood there, dishevelled, perplexed; He just could not figure out what to do next. He tried to be merry, tried to be gay, But you've got to be careful with that word today. His sack was quite empty, limp to the ground; Nothing fully acceptable was to be found. Something special was needed, a gift that he might Give to all without angering the left or the right. A gift that would satisfy, with no indecision, Each group of people, every religion;Every ethnicity, every hue, Everyone, everywhere...even you. So here is that gift, it's price beyond worth... May you and your loved ones, enjoy peace on Earth.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
NDF Conference Brief Summary
Lots of people mainly from the "GLAMs"
but other Librarians and IT gurus.
but other Librarians and IT gurus.
Penny 
Carnaby (National Library) and John Garraway (NDF Chair)
Carnaby (National Library) and John Garraway (NDF Chair)Daniel opened with a very witty account of the transformation he has overseen of the IMA’s online presence and production. In particular the great use of personalities, narratives and stories told using low cost video but with high production values). He comes from a background like myself of
video production and I totally related to his
insistence on voice, opinion, humour trumping over the technology.
Nina (a woman after my own heart) talked about audience, mostly from the point of view of the physical exhibition but the issues translate to the online world very easily. The spoke of the importance of framing the ‘right’ question as a way to draw people in to an idea. She also got the whole conference on its feet, sharing skills and seeking advise in the one-to-one, with the reward for a a successful skill swap of banging a huge gong hanging on the stage. See the visual evidence of my successful sharing here!
Nina (a woman after my own heart) talked about audience, mostly from the point of view of the physical exhibition but the issues translate to the online world very easily. The spoke of the importance of framing the ‘right’ question as a way to draw people in to an idea. She also got the whole conference on its feet, sharing skills and seeking advise in the one-to-one, with the reward for a a successful skill swap of banging a huge gong hanging on the stage. See the visual evidence of my successful sharing here!
jane Finnis told the story of Culture24 over the last ten years, what we set out to do, what we actually did, what worked, what didn’t and what next. I also looked back on the duplication, lack of strategy, leadership and sustainability in UK digital cultural online. Ending with what I see as possibly the start of some real change in 2009 thanks to the following:
MLA digital principles publishedArts Council state digital opportunity as a key priorityNational Museum directors speak out to say future for museums lies with InternetMA conference, first year they have had a strand on ‘digital change’
MLA digital principles publishedArts Council state digital opportunity as a key priorityNational Museum directors speak out to say future for museums lies with InternetMA conference, first year they have had a strand on ‘digital change’
You can see the slides of Jane's talk, which are in two parts here: Part One / Part Two.
It seems from the Twitter back channel and the face to face chat that the stories were appreciated, which coming from such a highly skilled and digital literate group of people was a real compliment.
Also enjoyed hearing about the excellent stuff they are doing at the DigitalNZ (part of the National Digital Library). Their work with API’s, data aggregation and date sharing is really innovative for the cultrual sector and I for one an watching their space with interest.
Same applies to the stuff that Liam Wyatt from Wikimedia Australia is talking about concerning how to engage the GLAM sector more effectivly with Wikimedia. His recent blog posts on the low hanging fruit in this area are really interesting.
It seems from the Twitter back channel and the face to face chat that the stories were appreciated, which coming from such a highly skilled and digital literate group of people was a real compliment.
Also enjoyed hearing about the excellent stuff they are doing at the DigitalNZ (part of the National Digital Library). Their work with API’s, data aggregation and date sharing is really innovative for the cultrual sector and I for one an watching their space with interest.
Same applies to the stuff that Liam Wyatt from Wikimedia Australia is talking about concerning how to engage the GLAM sector more effectivly with Wikimedia. His recent blog posts on the low hanging fruit in this area are really interesting.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Ikaroa Library Assistants Day 18th November 2009
The 2009 Ikaroa Library Assistants' Day held at National Library in Palmerston North was a day of fun and learning enjoyed by 23 participants from across the region. Participants reported going back to their libraries energised and motivated.
Librarians, library assistants and school librarians were welcomed by ou LIANZA President, Barbara Garriock by videoconference. This was the first videoconference for many of the participants. Barbara spoke warmly about the importance of Library Assistants in their organisations.
A "Speedbooking" session presented by School Library Adviser, Jan Watts got people chatting and sharing straight away. You can read more about Speedbooking on the Create Readers Blog
http://createreaders.natlib.govt.nz/2008/08/spice-up-your-book-club-with-speed.html . The speedbookers were amazed at how much they could find to talk about when the books had no words!
The energy and commitment of Kiri Thompson, Youth Librarian at the Palmerston North City Library inspired us all. Kiri's domain is The Basement, a youth zone housing novels, magazines, dvds and games, with comfortable casual seating, Sky TV and gaming consoles. Kiri and staff from the City Library have hosted youth events in The Basement (and wider Library) jointly with the City's Youth Council, and thinkgs like the Pulse Street Dance party have been hugely successful, with around 700 attendees at the last event.
During our Web 2.0 session we looked at the Memory Maker widget from Auckland Museum on the Digital New Zealand website and talked about the use of Twitter in libraries. Courtney Johnson's post on the LibraryTechNZ Blog gave us a good starting point for discussion http://librarytechnz.natlib.govt.nz/search/label/Courtney%20Johnston.
The introduction to Memory Maker in the morning meant that afer a quick bus ride to UCOL our participants were able to get straight in to making their own videos using the UCOL Library's lendable laptops kindly organised for us by Doreen Young and Dianne McConnell. This was an enjoyable and instructional activity with everyone being able to view each others' masterpieces once we returned to National Library http://remix.digitalnz.org/
Librarians, library assistants and school librarians were welcomed by ou LIANZA President, Barbara Garriock by videoconference. This was the first videoconference for many of the participants. Barbara spoke warmly about the importance of Library Assistants in their organisations.
A "Speedbooking" session presented by School Library Adviser, Jan Watts got people chatting and sharing straight away. You can read more about Speedbooking on the Create Readers Blog
http://createreaders.natlib.govt.nz/2008/08/spice-up-your-book-club-with-speed.html . The speedbookers were amazed at how much they could find to talk about when the books had no words!
The energy and commitment of Kiri Thompson, Youth Librarian at the Palmerston North City Library inspired us all. Kiri's domain is The Basement, a youth zone housing novels, magazines, dvds and games, with comfortable casual seating, Sky TV and gaming consoles. Kiri and staff from the City Library have hosted youth events in The Basement (and wider Library) jointly with the City's Youth Council, and thinkgs like the Pulse Street Dance party have been hugely successful, with around 700 attendees at the last event.
During our Web 2.0 session we looked at the Memory Maker widget from Auckland Museum on the Digital New Zealand website and talked about the use of Twitter in libraries. Courtney Johnson's post on the LibraryTechNZ Blog gave us a good starting point for discussion http://librarytechnz.natlib.govt.nz/search/label/Courtney%20Johnston.
The introduction to Memory Maker in the morning meant that afer a quick bus ride to UCOL our participants were able to get straight in to making their own videos using the UCOL Library's lendable laptops kindly organised for us by Doreen Young and Dianne McConnell. This was an enjoyable and instructional activity with everyone being able to view each others' masterpieces once we returned to National Library http://remix.digitalnz.org/
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Karen Kalopulu
The sudden death of Karen Kalopulu is a great loss to Auckland City Libraries, The Library Community and the Family History Community. My condolences to her family.
Karen is well known and respected across many libraries and many community groups and organisations. Karen had attended various conferences over the years Genealogy, and Library related and has made many friends. She is renown for her "Family Lock ins" of which I myself have been part of two of these. Karen has helped thousands with family history help over the years. Her skills, dedication and knowledge were immeasurable.
This is a sad passing and she will be missed by all.
Karen is well known and respected across many libraries and many community groups and organisations. Karen had attended various conferences over the years Genealogy, and Library related and has made many friends. She is renown for her "Family Lock ins" of which I myself have been part of two of these. Karen has helped thousands with family history help over the years. Her skills, dedication and knowledge were immeasurable.
This is a sad passing and she will be missed by all.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Havelock North Library EXPO
Havelock North Library EXPO was a great sucess with approx 68 people plus Staff in attendance. It was great to see what new books were coming out in the new 2 months. Some great new titles.
We were very priviledged to have children's author Yvonne Morrison as our guest speaker.
Yvonne was born in Auckland in 1972, Yvonne went to primary school in Auckland before the family moved to Wellington. After attending Karori Normal School and Tawa College, Yvonne went on to Victoria University and finally to Wellington College of Education.
Yvonne trained to be a meteorologist, but found the late-night shift work too hard. Then she became a scientist doing research for the university’s physics department. Now Yvonne is a primary school teacher.
Although she started writing stories about the family cats during her primary school years, she did not publish her first book until she was 25 and then it was a science book about microscopes.
Yvonne loved reading children’s books and had lots of ideas for stories spinning in her head but it was while travelling (she has visited 28 countries so far) that she finally found the time to write the ideas down. The way the characters act out scenes in Yvonne’s head often surprises her and she especially enjoys making the readers laugh.
Yvonne’s advice to budding young authors is “Like any skill, writing takes practice. The more you write, the better you’ll become. Read a lot, and notice the way good writers write. Keep a diary of interesting things you notice about people, places or objects. Finally, your teachers are right – editing really is important.
We were very priviledged to have children's author Yvonne Morrison as our guest speaker.
Yvonne was born in Auckland in 1972, Yvonne went to primary school in Auckland before the family moved to Wellington. After attending Karori Normal School and Tawa College, Yvonne went on to Victoria University and finally to Wellington College of Education.
Yvonne trained to be a meteorologist, but found the late-night shift work too hard. Then she became a scientist doing research for the university’s physics department. Now Yvonne is a primary school teacher.
Although she started writing stories about the family cats during her primary school years, she did not publish her first book until she was 25 and then it was a science book about microscopes.
Yvonne loved reading children’s books and had lots of ideas for stories spinning in her head but it was while travelling (she has visited 28 countries so far) that she finally found the time to write the ideas down. The way the characters act out scenes in Yvonne’s head often surprises her and she especially enjoys making the readers laugh.
Yvonne’s advice to budding young authors is “Like any skill, writing takes practice. The more you write, the better you’ll become. Read a lot, and notice the way good writers write. Keep a diary of interesting things you notice about people, places or objects. Finally, your teachers are right – editing really is important.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
3M Award Finalists
Finalists
Early learning through Active Movement - Auckland City Libraries
Aotearoa People's Network - The National Library of New Zealand and Marlborough District Libraries (on behalf of partner Public Libraries)
Top of the South Stories Project: Te Tau Ihu o te Waka a Maui - Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough Public Libraries, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology Learning Centre and Nelson Provincial Museum
Great to see what an innovative bunch we are. The winner Winner was APNK
See my Conference Blog for more details http://lianzaconference2009.blogspot.com/2009/10/3m-awards.html
Early learning through Active Movement - Auckland City Libraries
Aotearoa People's Network - The National Library of New Zealand and Marlborough District Libraries (on behalf of partner Public Libraries)
Top of the South Stories Project: Te Tau Ihu o te Waka a Maui - Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough Public Libraries, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology Learning Centre and Nelson Provincial Museum
Great to see what an innovative bunch we are. The winner Winner was APNK
See my Conference Blog for more details http://lianzaconference2009.blogspot.com/2009/10/3m-awards.html
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
LIANZA Conference - Generation Ngai Tahu
Generation Ngai Tahu by Sir Tipene O’Regan and Hana O’Regan
The Audience warmly welcomed both Sir Tipene O’Regan and his daughter Hana O’Regan at this mornings first key note address as the 2009 LIANZA annual conference got underway.
They engaged in some light hearted intergenerational banter pulling each other up in areas such as pronunciation and family politics.
The thrust of their talk covered the intergenerational transmission of knowledge and their own generational ‘take’ on the issue.
During their talk they walked the attentive audience through the way a body of Ngai Tahu knowledge had been impacted over the years by the priorities applied to the transmission of information by each generation.
The Audience warmly welcomed both Sir Tipene O’Regan and his daughter Hana O’Regan at this mornings first key note address as the 2009 LIANZA annual conference got underway.
They engaged in some light hearted intergenerational banter pulling each other up in areas such as pronunciation and family politics.
The thrust of their talk covered the intergenerational transmission of knowledge and their own generational ‘take’ on the issue.
During their talk they walked the attentive audience through the way a body of Ngai Tahu knowledge had been impacted over the years by the priorities applied to the transmission of information by each generation.
Havelock North Library Publishers EXPO
Publishers Book Expo
Havelock North Library
Havelock North Library
Wednesday 28 October 6.45pm
- complimentary refreshments.
Starts 7pm.
Publishers: Scholastic, Hachette Livre, Harper Collins.
Tickets $2.00, available at Havelock North, Hastings & Flaxmere Libraries.
Special guest author Yvonne Morrison, author of A Kiwi Night Before Christmas, and over forty children's books. More on Yvonne Morrison >>
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Vince Collins Display Course
Last chance to register for the Displays Workshop with Vince Collins in Gisborne
Registrations for the Displays Workshop with Vince Collins in GISBORNE on Thursday 29th October, will close at mid-day on Friday 23rd October.
To book your place please click on the links below and complete the online registration form –
http://www.lianza.org.nz/cgi-bin/calendar/viewevent.pl?id=529
Workshop details –
Vince Collins returns with his popular workshop on how to get the most out of library displays.
In this economic recession library usage is up. People visit their library for recreational reading, but also for help job hunting and creating their CVs. Learn how your displays can help them do that, and keep them coming back for more.
Use your new knowledge about innovative displays to increase your usage stats and wow your institutions!
Vince uses low cost materials to create displays with impact on a shoe string budget.
Workshop length:
10.00am - 3.30pm. The workshop includes a welcome tea/coffee, and lunch at 12.30pm for 30 minutes
Cost:
$155 (incl GST) LIANZA member, $220 (incl GST) non-member
Places are limited
Registrants are asked to bring a camera.
BoK area:If you are professionally registered, you can enter this event in your revalidation journal under BoK area 3, 4, and 9
Registrations for the Displays Workshop with Vince Collins in GISBORNE on Thursday 29th October, will close at mid-day on Friday 23rd October.
To book your place please click on the links below and complete the online registration form –
http://www.lianza.org.nz/cgi-bin/calendar/viewevent.pl?id=529
Workshop details –
Vince Collins returns with his popular workshop on how to get the most out of library displays.
In this economic recession library usage is up. People visit their library for recreational reading, but also for help job hunting and creating their CVs. Learn how your displays can help them do that, and keep them coming back for more.
Use your new knowledge about innovative displays to increase your usage stats and wow your institutions!
Vince uses low cost materials to create displays with impact on a shoe string budget.
Workshop length:
10.00am - 3.30pm. The workshop includes a welcome tea/coffee, and lunch at 12.30pm for 30 minutes
Cost:
$155 (incl GST) LIANZA member, $220 (incl GST) non-member
Places are limited
Registrants are asked to bring a camera.
BoK area:If you are professionally registered, you can enter this event in your revalidation journal under BoK area 3, 4, and 9
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Heather Lamond Receives LIANZA Associateship
Congratulations to Heather Lamond who received her LIANZA Associateship at LIANZA 2009 Conference. Heather is customer driven, an effiective communicator, able to demonstrate strong leadership She is strongly committed to LIANZA being active on both the local committee and on National Council This is a well deserved award, and we are greatly honoured to have you as our Ikaroa Councillor.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Professional Registration - Revalidation
Are you keeping a journal, will you be ready for revalidation?
Why not share your knowledge here with others.
Click on reply to post and share your knowledge or ask a question...
Why not share your knowledge here with others.
Click on reply to post and share your knowledge or ask a question...
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Joy Tutty Retires
Joy Tutty, who signed out for the final time on September 25, Joywas credited with being the force behind Masterton becoming one of the first community libraries in the country to switch to fully-computerised cataloguing. Miss Tutty as I new her was "a passionate advocate for the Masterton Library". SHe was always aimingto improve services at the library, this was her corner-stone commitment and in 30 years she did not deter from working tirelessly to make the library one of the best in the country,"
Miss Tutty joined the library in 1980, with her first priority being the construction of a new library building in northern Queen Street. During planning she insisted that provision be made for computer cabling. This showed huge foresight, given the fact computers now manage library databases nationwide and back then none did. The new library opened in 1982 and has seen many improvements.Innovations included the introduction of the Eastern and Central Summer Reading programme for children, the long running Glistening Waters Storytelling Festival and the Yarns in Barns Festival.
Miss Tutty also promoted the establishment of the Wairarapa Archive, instigated an oral history programme and was the prime mover in the introduction of the te reo Maori component of the Summer Reading Programme.
Active on the national library scene, Miss Tutty was a member of the steering group for the formation of the Association of Public Library Managers, and was part of the consultation group for the Aotearoa People's Network that installed computers for free public use in libraries.
She was awarded a G T Alley Fellowship to study local history services in American libraries and was made an Associate of the Library and Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa in 1986, and a fellowship in 2001.
Miss Tutty joined the library in 1980, with her first priority being the construction of a new library building in northern Queen Street. During planning she insisted that provision be made for computer cabling. This showed huge foresight, given the fact computers now manage library databases nationwide and back then none did. The new library opened in 1982 and has seen many improvements.Innovations included the introduction of the Eastern and Central Summer Reading programme for children, the long running Glistening Waters Storytelling Festival and the Yarns in Barns Festival.
Miss Tutty also promoted the establishment of the Wairarapa Archive, instigated an oral history programme and was the prime mover in the introduction of the te reo Maori component of the Summer Reading Programme.
Active on the national library scene, Miss Tutty was a member of the steering group for the formation of the Association of Public Library Managers, and was part of the consultation group for the Aotearoa People's Network that installed computers for free public use in libraries.
She was awarded a G T Alley Fellowship to study local history services in American libraries and was made an Associate of the Library and Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa in 1986, and a fellowship in 2001.
I wish Joy all the best in her retirement, and it won't be the last time she goes to Masterton Library. Thanks Joy for all you have done for our profession.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
LIANZA'S Children's Book Awards
Random House Wins at the 2009 LIANZA Children’s Book AwardsRandom House NZ had a very successful night at the Library and Information NZ Association (LIANZA) awards. Fleur Beale had the honour of receiving the prestigious Esther Glen Award for fiction with her young adult novel Juno of Taris, and Rebecca Priestly and Veronika Meduna won the Elsie Locke Award for non-fiction with Atoms, Dinosaurs and DNA. Hosted by Café L’Affare in Wellington, the awards recognise children’s book authors and illustrators who make a contribution to New Zealand’s cultural heritage and national identity.For more information on all this year's winners, visit the LIANZA website.
LIANZA'S Children's Book Awards
Random House Wins at the 2009 LIANZA Children’s Book AwardsRandom House NZ had a very successful night at the Library and Information NZ Association (LIANZA) awards. Fleur Beale had the honour of receiving the prestigious Esther Glen Award for fiction with her young adult novel Juno of Taris, and Rebecca Priestly and Veronika Meduna won the Elsie Locke Award for non-fiction with Atoms, Dinosaurs and DNA. Hosted by Café L’Affare in Wellington, the awards recognise children’s book authors and illustrators who make a contribution to New Zealand’s cultural heritage and national identity.For more information on all this year's winners, visit the LIANZA website.
Pōwhiri – here’s what you need to know
So you’ve never been to a pōwhiri before? Or perhaps you’ve been to one before, but not for a while, or not outside of a marae, or not away from home.
So you’ve never been to a pōwhiri before? Or perhaps you’ve been to one before, but not for a while, or not outside of a marae, or not away from home.
Pou in Victoria Square
Haneta Pierce, who is the manager of Māori Services at Christchurch City Libraries and heads the Bicultural portfolio for LIANZA 2009 Conference, has helpfully put together an explanation of what a pōwhiri is, what you can expect and where to meet.
Why have a pōwhiri? The primary purpose of the pōwhiri is to bring together two groups of people – the hosts (mana whenua) and the visitors (manuhiri). This is a step-by-step process, observing Māori tikanga, that allows the two groups to become sufficiently comfortable with one another, so that they can then mingle with each another and together undertake the business of the meeting, which, in this case, is the annual LIANZA Conference.
Where is it being held? The pōwhiri for this year’s conference will take place in Victoria Square, which is a very short stroll to the conference venue.
What to wear? Tidy dress, just as you would wear to work, or to a conference. There is no specific requirement for skirts for women. It may be cool, or it may be hot, so we suggest you dress in layers to adapt to the weather conditions.
When and where to gather. The pōwhiri is scheduled to begin at 8.30am, on Monday 12th October, so please start to gather near the bridge in Victoria Square from 8.15am. There will be folks around to guide you about where to stand before the pōwhiri begins, and where to move after the wero (formal challenge) and karanga (ceremonial call) have happened. The seating on the manuhiri side is intended for pōwhiri speakers and overseas guests.
Information for the day. As mentioned above, there will be folks on hand to guide you. You will also receive a pōwhiri booklet when you register to explain the process (so if you can register before 8.15am, that would be useful!). Mana whenua will speak first, then the manuhiri will reply. There will be various waiata (songs), including the LIANZA waiata, Ko nga kete wananga e rapuhia e Tane. To familarise yourself with this waiata, have a listen to the tune and learn the words here.
After the formal proceedings. Once the harirū (pressing of noses) between the mana whenua and seated guests is completed, we will enter the Town Hall and make our way to the air bridge upstairs to cross to the Convention Centre for morning tea.
What if it rains? In the event that the weather on the morning of Monday 12th October isn’t favourable, a decision will be made to engage our “change of venue” plans by 7.30am. The process remains the same, but the venue changes to the main hall of the Convention Centre. There’ll be folks on hand to make sure you know where to go.
Some of the challenges to holding the pōwhiri in Victoria Square. In holding the pōwhiri outside of a marae setting, there are some challenges posed as it acquires an additional purpose, that of making a symbolic statement about the identity of the local, regional or national community and the part Māori have within that, as well as an introduction between two groups. It also acquires a different audience, one whose members in most cases do not understand or speak te Reo Māori. This can present the presiding kaumātua (elders) with a dilemma, as speaking in only te Reo Māori may mean that many of those present do not understand the speeches, miss out on the information contained therein, and, instead of enjoying, endure the ceremony. However, through discussions with Te Rōpū Whakahau and tangata whenua representatives, in this case Ngāi Tahu, and structure and guidance from the LIANZA Conference Handbook, we’ve worked together to ensure that the pōwhiri achieves the goal of bringing the two groups together, observing tikanga and welcoming our overseas manuhiri appropriately.
So you’ve never been to a pōwhiri before? Or perhaps you’ve been to one before, but not for a while, or not outside of a marae, or not away from home.
Pou in Victoria Square
Haneta Pierce, who is the manager of Māori Services at Christchurch City Libraries and heads the Bicultural portfolio for LIANZA 2009 Conference, has helpfully put together an explanation of what a pōwhiri is, what you can expect and where to meet.
Why have a pōwhiri? The primary purpose of the pōwhiri is to bring together two groups of people – the hosts (mana whenua) and the visitors (manuhiri). This is a step-by-step process, observing Māori tikanga, that allows the two groups to become sufficiently comfortable with one another, so that they can then mingle with each another and together undertake the business of the meeting, which, in this case, is the annual LIANZA Conference.
Where is it being held? The pōwhiri for this year’s conference will take place in Victoria Square, which is a very short stroll to the conference venue.
What to wear? Tidy dress, just as you would wear to work, or to a conference. There is no specific requirement for skirts for women. It may be cool, or it may be hot, so we suggest you dress in layers to adapt to the weather conditions.
When and where to gather. The pōwhiri is scheduled to begin at 8.30am, on Monday 12th October, so please start to gather near the bridge in Victoria Square from 8.15am. There will be folks around to guide you about where to stand before the pōwhiri begins, and where to move after the wero (formal challenge) and karanga (ceremonial call) have happened. The seating on the manuhiri side is intended for pōwhiri speakers and overseas guests.
Information for the day. As mentioned above, there will be folks on hand to guide you. You will also receive a pōwhiri booklet when you register to explain the process (so if you can register before 8.15am, that would be useful!). Mana whenua will speak first, then the manuhiri will reply. There will be various waiata (songs), including the LIANZA waiata, Ko nga kete wananga e rapuhia e Tane. To familarise yourself with this waiata, have a listen to the tune and learn the words here.
After the formal proceedings. Once the harirū (pressing of noses) between the mana whenua and seated guests is completed, we will enter the Town Hall and make our way to the air bridge upstairs to cross to the Convention Centre for morning tea.
What if it rains? In the event that the weather on the morning of Monday 12th October isn’t favourable, a decision will be made to engage our “change of venue” plans by 7.30am. The process remains the same, but the venue changes to the main hall of the Convention Centre. There’ll be folks on hand to make sure you know where to go.
Some of the challenges to holding the pōwhiri in Victoria Square. In holding the pōwhiri outside of a marae setting, there are some challenges posed as it acquires an additional purpose, that of making a symbolic statement about the identity of the local, regional or national community and the part Māori have within that, as well as an introduction between two groups. It also acquires a different audience, one whose members in most cases do not understand or speak te Reo Māori. This can present the presiding kaumātua (elders) with a dilemma, as speaking in only te Reo Māori may mean that many of those present do not understand the speeches, miss out on the information contained therein, and, instead of enjoying, endure the ceremony. However, through discussions with Te Rōpū Whakahau and tangata whenua representatives, in this case Ngāi Tahu, and structure and guidance from the LIANZA Conference Handbook, we’ve worked together to ensure that the pōwhiri achieves the goal of bringing the two groups together, observing tikanga and welcoming our overseas manuhiri appropriately.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
EAST COAST LIBRARIES TRAINING OPPORTUNITY
EAST COAST/HAWKES BAY/TARARUA REGIONAL LIBRARIES
present
Reference interviewing, readers advising and a road trip!
Learn the basic principles of the reference interview; readers’ advisory tips and techniques and sample a variety of Hawkes Bay libraries!
Introductory training sessions:
· Reference interview
· Readers’ Advisory
PLUS
Tour:
· Taradale Library (re-opened July 2009)
· EIT Twist Library
· Flaxmere Library
· Lindisfarne College Library
· Hawkes Bay DHB Library
Venue: Taradale Library, White Street, Taradale (please park on the street)
Date: Friday 9 October 2009
Time: 8.30am-4pm
Cost: $30 per person, includes training sessions, full tour and catering (please advise of any special dietary requirements)
Registrations by Tuesday 6th October to:
· Paula Murdoch, Hastings District Libraries, paulam@hdc.govt.nz OR
· Sheryl Reed, Napier Libraries, sherylr@napier.govt.nz OR
· Diane Friis, EIT Twist Library, dfriis@eit.ac.nz
present
Reference interviewing, readers advising and a road trip!
Learn the basic principles of the reference interview; readers’ advisory tips and techniques and sample a variety of Hawkes Bay libraries!
Introductory training sessions:
· Reference interview
· Readers’ Advisory
PLUS
Tour:
· Taradale Library (re-opened July 2009)
· EIT Twist Library
· Flaxmere Library
· Lindisfarne College Library
· Hawkes Bay DHB Library
Venue: Taradale Library, White Street, Taradale (please park on the street)
Date: Friday 9 October 2009
Time: 8.30am-4pm
Cost: $30 per person, includes training sessions, full tour and catering (please advise of any special dietary requirements)
Registrations by Tuesday 6th October to:
· Paula Murdoch, Hastings District Libraries, paulam@hdc.govt.nz OR
· Sheryl Reed, Napier Libraries, sherylr@napier.govt.nz OR
· Diane Friis, EIT Twist Library, dfriis@eit.ac.nz
LIANZA Conference 2009 Key Speakers
LIANZA CONFERENCE 2009
Its getting closer...
MONDAY 12th OCTOBER
Key Speakers:
Sir Tipene O'Regan and Hana O'Regan - Generation Ngai Tahu
Richard Stallman - Copyright vs community in the age of computer networks
- programme includes Research in Libraries: what the library may hold in the future and accessibility of that material and probes the broader topic of how we find and value everyday life in libraries, and later an "outside the square" approach to library induction for university students, and a session on using online identities for professional (and personal) communication. Plus Powhiri and welcome drinks.
TUESDAY 13th OCTOBER
Key speakers:
Warwick Grey and Corin Haines - Making IT work for you
Claudia Lux - Libraries on the agenda
- programme includes library services for distance learners, libraries for the self serve generation, a faculty-library publishing partnership, user surveys, customer education and more. Plus Newcomers morning tea, and social evening at Sol Square.
WEDNESDAY 14th OCTOBER
Key speakers:
Penny Carnaby - A new equity emerges: citizen-created content powering the knowledge economy
Jessica Dorr - Libraries building communities: communities building libraries
Tim Spalding - Social cataloguing - What it is, and what it means for libraries?
programme includes defining the best customer experience, case study of library professional cadets, institutional repositories meeting and more. Plus Poroporoaki.
Check out the programme yourself and pick a day for your sphere(s) of interest. http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/programme.html
Its getting closer...
MONDAY 12th OCTOBER
Key Speakers:
Sir Tipene O'Regan and Hana O'Regan - Generation Ngai Tahu
Richard Stallman - Copyright vs community in the age of computer networks
- programme includes Research in Libraries: what the library may hold in the future and accessibility of that material and probes the broader topic of how we find and value everyday life in libraries, and later an "outside the square" approach to library induction for university students, and a session on using online identities for professional (and personal) communication. Plus Powhiri and welcome drinks.
TUESDAY 13th OCTOBER
Key speakers:
Warwick Grey and Corin Haines - Making IT work for you
Claudia Lux - Libraries on the agenda
- programme includes library services for distance learners, libraries for the self serve generation, a faculty-library publishing partnership, user surveys, customer education and more. Plus Newcomers morning tea, and social evening at Sol Square.
WEDNESDAY 14th OCTOBER
Key speakers:
Penny Carnaby - A new equity emerges: citizen-created content powering the knowledge economy
Jessica Dorr - Libraries building communities: communities building libraries
Tim Spalding - Social cataloguing - What it is, and what it means for libraries?
programme includes defining the best customer experience, case study of library professional cadets, institutional repositories meeting and more. Plus Poroporoaki.
Check out the programme yourself and pick a day for your sphere(s) of interest. http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/programme.html
Thursday, September 3, 2009
LIANZA Conference - BOKs for those Professionally registered
If you are are coming to LIANZA 2009 Conference and you are professionally registered, you’ll be pleased to know that we’ve added a section in the Delegates Handbook to help you record information for your Body of Knowledge (BOK) and to remind you to record things that would be useful in relation to your Professional Registration.
Personally, I’d also recommend heading along to the workshop on Tuesday 13th October at 11am with Anahera Morehu and Eddie Neha about Mātauranga Māori and Professional Registration.
For those of you not yet registered, here’s the lowdown from the LIANZA website to get you motivated!
We also strongly encourage you to come along to the LIANZA Awards on Monday afternoon, at 4.15pm to celebrate those folks who have been awarded Associateships and Fellowships. You might be surprised at who you may see there
Personally, I’d also recommend heading along to the workshop on Tuesday 13th October at 11am with Anahera Morehu and Eddie Neha about Mātauranga Māori and Professional Registration.
For those of you not yet registered, here’s the lowdown from the LIANZA website to get you motivated!
We also strongly encourage you to come along to the LIANZA Awards on Monday afternoon, at 4.15pm to celebrate those folks who have been awarded Associateships and Fellowships. You might be surprised at who you may see there
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Regional Councillor's Report to Region - Heather Lamond
A report from Heather Lamond from recent LIANZA Councillor's meeting.
Regional Councillor's Report to the Region
LIANZA Council met for a full day in Wellington on 11 August. This was the first face-to-face meeting of the 2009-2010 Council.Key outcomes of this meeting:Governance Structure• after analysis of survey results and Council discussion is was decided that there was not a clear mandate to implement all the changes in the discussion paper, significantly the changes to regional councillor roles and Te Ropu Whakahau representation.• The following will be drafted as motions to be put at the AGMo Formal adoption of the draft purpose statemento Vice-President to be disestablished and a President-Elect role established.Institutional Membership/Fee StructureWhile the FTE model was agreed as a fair way to establish fees, this needs more work on scenarios and modelling. A small group will be set up to carry on with this work.Strategic DirectionCouncil continues to work on our key strategic goals of Advocacy and Membership Services. Regional Councillors will have two specific actions around membership & engagement to focus on for the coming two months.Mine are to establish a regular communication plan to the Region (this blog post is part of it :-)), and to investigate how I can help those who want to set up regular forums for registered librarians to get together (virtually or physically).Professional Development PlanWork on the 2010 plan is progressing. Please continue to feed ideas on possible CPD through to me or direct to Maree Kibblewhite.Penny Carnaby - National LibrarianPenny joined us and discussed issues at the National Library. Over the next 18 months Penny will be "on the road" a lot. Would this be a chance to have her join us for a Regional meeting?Other items of interestWork on the redevelopment of LIANZA's online presence continues with the establishment of a small working group to drive this forward.It is satisfying to see this start to move foward and I look forward to development in the near future.Don't forget to register for the Presentation Skills Seminar by 18th September.That's all for now, as always any questions/comments/feedback please contact me!Heather Lamond - Ikaroa Regional Councillor
Regional Councillor's Report to the Region
LIANZA Council met for a full day in Wellington on 11 August. This was the first face-to-face meeting of the 2009-2010 Council.Key outcomes of this meeting:Governance Structure• after analysis of survey results and Council discussion is was decided that there was not a clear mandate to implement all the changes in the discussion paper, significantly the changes to regional councillor roles and Te Ropu Whakahau representation.• The following will be drafted as motions to be put at the AGMo Formal adoption of the draft purpose statemento Vice-President to be disestablished and a President-Elect role established.Institutional Membership/Fee StructureWhile the FTE model was agreed as a fair way to establish fees, this needs more work on scenarios and modelling. A small group will be set up to carry on with this work.Strategic DirectionCouncil continues to work on our key strategic goals of Advocacy and Membership Services. Regional Councillors will have two specific actions around membership & engagement to focus on for the coming two months.Mine are to establish a regular communication plan to the Region (this blog post is part of it :-)), and to investigate how I can help those who want to set up regular forums for registered librarians to get together (virtually or physically).Professional Development PlanWork on the 2010 plan is progressing. Please continue to feed ideas on possible CPD through to me or direct to Maree Kibblewhite.Penny Carnaby - National LibrarianPenny joined us and discussed issues at the National Library. Over the next 18 months Penny will be "on the road" a lot. Would this be a chance to have her join us for a Regional meeting?Other items of interestWork on the redevelopment of LIANZA's online presence continues with the establishment of a small working group to drive this forward.It is satisfying to see this start to move foward and I look forward to development in the near future.Don't forget to register for the Presentation Skills Seminar by 18th September.That's all for now, as always any questions/comments/feedback please contact me!Heather Lamond - Ikaroa Regional Councillor
EAST-IN SIG AGM
We met at Taradale Library, we were welcomed with nibbles and and drinks and we had the opportunity to look around the newly finished Taradale Library. It is very impressive, with separate study rooms and a teenage room complete with TV and Playstation3. Lots of space between aisles and on the shelves themselves.
Modernistic with state of the art computer equipment and modern Opac tables throughout the Library. Clustered internet facilities complete with a printer. A closed off meeting room, colourful spacious children's section complete with bright coloured furniture. Most amazing views onto the park. A staffroom which can double as a meeting room that can be cordoned off using concertina doors. Great working workroom. See for you self, I have attached some photos from my visit.
The AGM started at 6.30pm sharp. We were a little down on number as there were a few away sick. But we still had a good number present.
MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE EAST-IN SIG OF THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND AOTEAROA
Thursday 20th AUGUST 2009
Taradale Public Library
6.30pm
Present: Phillipa Doyle, Napier Library; Jenny Cutting, Hastings District Libraries; Sheryl Reed, Napier Library; Heather Pilbeam, EIT Hawke’s Ba;, Sue Dawson, Taradale Library/Napier Cntral School; Jane Simmons, Taradale Library; Linda Mellor, EIT Hawke’s Bay, Maureen Roach, Napier Library; Kim Salamonson; Havelock North Library; Sally Muir, Napier Library; Jeannie Wright, Hastings Central Library; Chrissy Arnold, Napier library; Rachel Black-Jones, Shepherd’s Bible College; Paula Murdoch, Hastings District Libraries.
Apologies: Karen Tobin, Madelon van Zijll de Jong, Katrina Barrett, Diane Friis, Elizabeth Mayes, Christine Dekker, Mary-Anne Pay, Sue Pike. The apologies were received and approved.
A minutes silence was observes in memory of Ann Parker
Minutes of the previous meeting: Jeannie Wright moved that the minutes be received/Heather Pilbeam. Carried
Corrections: The time of the meeting was not recorded and this will be inserted. Some capital letters missing.
It was moved that the minutes be taken as a true and accurate record (with corrections) Jeannie Wright/Sheryl Reed. Carried
Matters Arising: Are 20% of the SIG members also LIANZA members? The Secretary and Treasurer will check this. The Bank account signatories need changing.
Convenors report: Read by Sally Muir. Moved adopted by Sally Muir/Kim Salamonson. Carried
Matters arising from the report: The Web 2 session was well received. Sheryl Reed recommended we aim for quality rather than quantity. The proposal for the restructure of LIANZA did not get passed at the LIANZA AGM
Financial report: It was moved that the Financial report be adopted. Jeannie Wright/Kim Salamonson
Election of officers: Convenor – Sally Muir. Rachel Black-Jones/Sheryl Reed. Carried
Secretary – Jeannie Wright. Linda Mellor/Kim Salamonson. Carried
Treasurer- Diane Friis. Paula Murdoch/Sheryl Reed
Committee – Karin Tobin, Paula Murdoch, Sheryl reed, Maureen Roach, Kim Salamonson, Jenny Cutting, Sue Fargher. Moved that nominations be closed. Sally Muir/Kim Salamonson
General Business: A professional registration workshop was mooted. Sally will ask Heather Lamont. This would be on a week night. It was recommended that a sub-group of the committee take responsibility for an event and organize and run it. For example, a cataloguing workshop when the new rules are published. The training room at EIT would be available.
We should have a social event at the end of the year.
Paula suggested we should publish our events in NZLIBS as well as the Blog.
A get-well card will be sent to Mary Rishworth on the suggestion of Sheryl Reed.
The meeting closed at 7.15pm
Modernistic with state of the art computer equipment and modern Opac tables throughout the Library. Clustered internet facilities complete with a printer. A closed off meeting room, colourful spacious children's section complete with bright coloured furniture. Most amazing views onto the park. A staffroom which can double as a meeting room that can be cordoned off using concertina doors. Great working workroom. See for you self, I have attached some photos from my visit.
The AGM started at 6.30pm sharp. We were a little down on number as there were a few away sick. But we still had a good number present.
MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE EAST-IN SIG OF THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND AOTEAROA
Thursday 20th AUGUST 2009
Taradale Public Library
6.30pm
Present: Phillipa Doyle, Napier Library; Jenny Cutting, Hastings District Libraries; Sheryl Reed, Napier Library; Heather Pilbeam, EIT Hawke’s Ba;, Sue Dawson, Taradale Library/Napier Cntral School; Jane Simmons, Taradale Library; Linda Mellor, EIT Hawke’s Bay, Maureen Roach, Napier Library; Kim Salamonson; Havelock North Library; Sally Muir, Napier Library; Jeannie Wright, Hastings Central Library; Chrissy Arnold, Napier library; Rachel Black-Jones, Shepherd’s Bible College; Paula Murdoch, Hastings District Libraries.
Apologies: Karen Tobin, Madelon van Zijll de Jong, Katrina Barrett, Diane Friis, Elizabeth Mayes, Christine Dekker, Mary-Anne Pay, Sue Pike. The apologies were received and approved.
A minutes silence was observes in memory of Ann Parker
Minutes of the previous meeting: Jeannie Wright moved that the minutes be received/Heather Pilbeam. Carried
Corrections: The time of the meeting was not recorded and this will be inserted. Some capital letters missing.
It was moved that the minutes be taken as a true and accurate record (with corrections) Jeannie Wright/Sheryl Reed. Carried
Matters Arising: Are 20% of the SIG members also LIANZA members? The Secretary and Treasurer will check this. The Bank account signatories need changing.
Convenors report: Read by Sally Muir. Moved adopted by Sally Muir/Kim Salamonson. Carried
Matters arising from the report: The Web 2 session was well received. Sheryl Reed recommended we aim for quality rather than quantity. The proposal for the restructure of LIANZA did not get passed at the LIANZA AGM
Financial report: It was moved that the Financial report be adopted. Jeannie Wright/Kim Salamonson
Election of officers: Convenor – Sally Muir. Rachel Black-Jones/Sheryl Reed. Carried
Secretary – Jeannie Wright. Linda Mellor/Kim Salamonson. Carried
Treasurer- Diane Friis. Paula Murdoch/Sheryl Reed
Committee – Karin Tobin, Paula Murdoch, Sheryl reed, Maureen Roach, Kim Salamonson, Jenny Cutting, Sue Fargher. Moved that nominations be closed. Sally Muir/Kim Salamonson
General Business: A professional registration workshop was mooted. Sally will ask Heather Lamont. This would be on a week night. It was recommended that a sub-group of the committee take responsibility for an event and organize and run it. For example, a cataloguing workshop when the new rules are published. The training room at EIT would be available.
We should have a social event at the end of the year.
Paula suggested we should publish our events in NZLIBS as well as the Blog.
A get-well card will be sent to Mary Rishworth on the suggestion of Sheryl Reed.
The meeting closed at 7.15pm
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
EAST-IN SIG AGM Reminder
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND AOTEAROA
EAST-IN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD AT TARADALE LIBRARY, White Street, Taradale. 6.30pm
THURSDAY 20TH AUGUST, 2009
AGENDA 1. Apologies
2. Minutes of the 2008 AGM
3. Matters Arising
4. Convenors report
5. Financial report
6. Election of officers
7. General Business Jeannie Wright Secretary Drinks and nibbles from 6pm.
The meeting will conclude with coffee, tea and sweets.
R.S.V.P to sallya@napier.govt.nz by 17th August 2009
EAST-IN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD AT TARADALE LIBRARY, White Street, Taradale. 6.30pm
THURSDAY 20TH AUGUST, 2009
AGENDA 1. Apologies
2. Minutes of the 2008 AGM
3. Matters Arising
4. Convenors report
5. Financial report
6. Election of officers
7. General Business Jeannie Wright Secretary Drinks and nibbles from 6pm.
The meeting will conclude with coffee, tea and sweets.
R.S.V.P to sallya@napier.govt.nz by 17th August 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Rosalie Blake - Farewell
The recent retirement of long-serving Horowhenua District Librarian Rosalie Blake was acknowledged at a function in Levin on July 24th 2009, hosted by the District Council at its impressive premises.
Rosalie has served at the helm of Horowhenua District for nearly three decades, and the respect and regard with which she is held was clearly in evidence at her farewell. People from around the region were in attendance, headed by Mayor Brendon Duffy and numerous District Councillors. Rosalie's library colleagues came not just from her own library, but from across the lower North Island, including National Librarian Penny Carnaby, who was one of the guest speakers. Many local people were also there, paying tribute to Rosalie's long and illustrious career and her many achievements. It was lovely to see Rosalie's sons and their families present too.
Horowhenua Library Trust chair Sharon Crosbie was MC for the evening and read a number of tributes from those unable to be present at the function, which got underway with a generous array of refreshments. Mayor Duffy (resplendent in his official chain of office) paid tribute to Rosalie's leadership and vision as District Librarian, making the Library a much-loved and valued place for the whole community. He noted that his library was the only one to have won LIANZA's 3M Award for Innovation in Libraries on two occasions (both for open-source initiatives which have since been taken up by libraries around the world), and which have gone on to receive further acclaim. He also took pleasure in announcing that the Foxton Library was to be refurbished, and that the Levin Library was shortly to expand onto nearby vacant land. Rosalie was presented with flowers and a gold watch, and made a short speech in reply.
National Librarian Penny Carnaby spoke about Rosalie's contribution to the profession and was followed by Deputy Chair of the Trust George Sue, who read a message from local MP Darren Hughes (in New York), who was given his first job by Rosalie some years earlier - as an after-school shelver at the Levin Library.
Rosalie has served at the helm of Horowhenua District for nearly three decades, and the respect and regard with which she is held was clearly in evidence at her farewell. People from around the region were in attendance, headed by Mayor Brendon Duffy and numerous District Councillors. Rosalie's library colleagues came not just from her own library, but from across the lower North Island, including National Librarian Penny Carnaby, who was one of the guest speakers. Many local people were also there, paying tribute to Rosalie's long and illustrious career and her many achievements. It was lovely to see Rosalie's sons and their families present too.
Horowhenua Library Trust chair Sharon Crosbie was MC for the evening and read a number of tributes from those unable to be present at the function, which got underway with a generous array of refreshments. Mayor Duffy (resplendent in his official chain of office) paid tribute to Rosalie's leadership and vision as District Librarian, making the Library a much-loved and valued place for the whole community. He noted that his library was the only one to have won LIANZA's 3M Award for Innovation in Libraries on two occasions (both for open-source initiatives which have since been taken up by libraries around the world), and which have gone on to receive further acclaim. He also took pleasure in announcing that the Foxton Library was to be refurbished, and that the Levin Library was shortly to expand onto nearby vacant land. Rosalie was presented with flowers and a gold watch, and made a short speech in reply.
National Librarian Penny Carnaby spoke about Rosalie's contribution to the profession and was followed by Deputy Chair of the Trust George Sue, who read a message from local MP Darren Hughes (in New York), who was given his first job by Rosalie some years earlier - as an after-school shelver at the Levin Library.
Rosalie has worked at Horowhenua Libraries since 1981, in a variety of positions which she keeps reinventing. Currently Head of Libraries for the Horowhenua Library Trust She loves computers, email, web pages - so it's not surprising she took a punt with Koha, the world's first open source library system. She has served several terms as Regional and National Councillor for LIANZA, hatching the Great New Zealand TV Turn-Off (a Library Week promotion), a revamp of the Public Library Statistics, and the 1995 edition of the Public Library Standards for New Zealand Libraries.
Following the formal proceedings guests were treated to supper.
Rosalie has left a wonderful legacy at Horowhenua District Libraries, and a great team of people to carry on the good work.
Following the formal proceedings guests were treated to supper.
Rosalie has left a wonderful legacy at Horowhenua District Libraries, and a great team of people to carry on the good work.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Customer Service and Self Development : Speaking Skills
Customer Service and Self Development
Confident Speaking Skills
Nervous about speaking to groups of people? Increase your confidence in the safest possible way. Read, listen and then, when you're feeling brave enough, attend a workshop!
Duration: 1 1/2 hours
Dates:
Thursday 20 August (Hastings Centre)
Time:
1.00pm - 2.30pm
or 9.30am - 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Venue:
EIT Taradale CampusEIT Hastings Learning Centre
Contact: Rachel Eriksen Ph:(06) 974 8000 ext 5033. Email: reriksen@eit.ac.nz
Confident Speaking Skills
Nervous about speaking to groups of people? Increase your confidence in the safest possible way. Read, listen and then, when you're feeling brave enough, attend a workshop!
Duration: 1 1/2 hours
Dates:
Thursday 20 August (Hastings Centre)
Time:
1.00pm - 2.30pm
or 9.30am - 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Venue:
EIT Taradale CampusEIT Hastings Learning Centre
Contact: Rachel Eriksen Ph:(06) 974 8000 ext 5033. Email: reriksen@eit.ac.nz
LIANZA Conference 2009 : Conference Dinner With a Difference
LIANZA Conference 2009 the new Confrence Style Dinner Venues with a Difference
Why not check it out...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lianza2009/
Why not check it out...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lianza2009/
Thursday, August 6, 2009
LIANZA Conference Blog 2009
Conference BlogThe 2009 Conference blog is chock full of interesting posts. This is your place to go for up to the minute information, interesting posts, and the Monday funnies. Post a reply and get involved!http://lianza2009.wordpress.com/Conference on Facebook – who is Libby Church?Conference 2009 is also on Facebook – search for LIANZA Conference 2009 after signing up on http://www.facebook.com/Make contact with other people attending or thinking about attending Conference. Make friends with the mysterious Libby Church. was sent to me by Sue Thompson (Conference Committee)
Sunday, August 2, 2009
IKAROA AGM
Come and hear Rosalie Blake speak at the PN City Library Staffroom on Wednesday 12 August (5.30 pm start for drinks & nibbles), as she has kindly agreed to be the guest speaker at the 2009 Ikaroa AGM.
Rosalie has inspired librarians around the country (and beyond) with her passion, vision and leadership, showing what can be achieved with relatively few resources and a small team of people. Koha and Kete are award-winning initiatives - embraced by libraries round the world.
Where: PN City Library Staffroom, George St, Palmerston North
When: Wed 12 August 2009, starting at 5.30 p.m.
What: Drinks and finger food
AGM
Guest Speaker – Rosalie Blake
There is no charge to attend this event – and everyone is welcome. We won’t press gang you into joining the committee – but would welcome new volunteers (it’s not arduous!).
RSVP by Mon 10 August (for catering) – to Jane Brooker (J.E.Brooker@massey.ac.nz) or phone 06 3505670 ext 7919
Rosalie has inspired librarians around the country (and beyond) with her passion, vision and leadership, showing what can be achieved with relatively few resources and a small team of people. Koha and Kete are award-winning initiatives - embraced by libraries round the world.
Where: PN City Library Staffroom, George St, Palmerston North
When: Wed 12 August 2009, starting at 5.30 p.m.
What: Drinks and finger food
AGM
Guest Speaker – Rosalie Blake
There is no charge to attend this event – and everyone is welcome. We won’t press gang you into joining the committee – but would welcome new volunteers (it’s not arduous!).
RSVP by Mon 10 August (for catering) – to Jane Brooker (J.E.Brooker@massey.ac.nz) or phone 06 3505670 ext 7919
East-In Sig On LIANZA Blog
EAST-In SIG Blog link features on the LIANZA Conference Blog 2009
Check it out.
Montana Book Award Winners
Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry winner
Fiction category winner: About My WifeEmily Perkins Bloomsbury
Fiction runners-up
The 10PM QuestionKate De Goldi Longacre Press
Acid SongBernard Beckett Longacre Press
Poetry category winner The Rocky Shore Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press
Montana Medal for Non-Fiction winner and Biography
category winner Rita Angus: An Artist's Life ill Trevelyan Te Papa Press.
Environment category winner A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century Ian J Graham [ed] Geological Society of New Zealand
History category winner Buying the Land, Selling the Land Richard Boast Victoria University Press
Reference and Anthology category winnerCollected Poems 1951-2006 CK Stead Auckland University Press
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture category winner Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking Alexa Johnston Penguin Group New Zealand
Illustrative category winner Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance Len Castle Lopdell House Gallery
Maori Language Award - Te Reo Maori Literary prize. He Pataka Kupu te kai a te rangatiraTe Taura Whiri i te Reo (the Maori Language Commission)Penguin Group New Zealand.
Fiction category winner: About My WifeEmily Perkins Bloomsbury
Fiction runners-up
The 10PM QuestionKate De Goldi Longacre Press
Acid SongBernard Beckett Longacre Press
Poetry category winner The Rocky Shore Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press
Montana Medal for Non-Fiction winner and Biography
category winner Rita Angus: An Artist's Life ill Trevelyan Te Papa Press.
Environment category winner A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century Ian J Graham [ed] Geological Society of New Zealand
History category winner Buying the Land, Selling the Land Richard Boast Victoria University Press
Reference and Anthology category winnerCollected Poems 1951-2006 CK Stead Auckland University Press
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture category winner Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking Alexa Johnston Penguin Group New Zealand
Illustrative category winner Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance Len Castle Lopdell House Gallery
Maori Language Award - Te Reo Maori Literary prize. He Pataka Kupu te kai a te rangatiraTe Taura Whiri i te Reo (the Maori Language Commission)Penguin Group New Zealand.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
EAST-IN SIG AGM
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND AOTEAROA
EAST-IN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD AT
TARADALE LIBRARY, White Street, Taradale.
6.30pm THURSDAY 20TH AUGUST, 2009
AGENDA
1. Apologies
2. Minutes of the 2008 AGM
3. Matters Arising
4. Convenors report
5. Financial report
6. Election of officers
7. General Business
Jeannie Wright
Secretary
Drinks and nibbles from 6pm.
The meeting will conclude with coffee, tea and sweets.
R.S.V.P to sallya@napier.govt.nz by 17th August 2009
EAST-IN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD AT
TARADALE LIBRARY, White Street, Taradale.
6.30pm THURSDAY 20TH AUGUST, 2009
AGENDA
1. Apologies
2. Minutes of the 2008 AGM
3. Matters Arising
4. Convenors report
5. Financial report
6. Election of officers
7. General Business
Jeannie Wright
Secretary
Drinks and nibbles from 6pm.
The meeting will conclude with coffee, tea and sweets.
R.S.V.P to sallya@napier.govt.nz by 17th August 2009
Crown Records Conference Scholarship
CROWN RECORDS MANAGEMENT SCHOLARSHIP FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Chance to attend THE 2009 LIANZA CONFERENCE free
– He Tangata He Tangata He Tangata 12-14 Oct 2009 – Christchurch Convention Centre
This Scholarship is offered by Crown Records Management as a professional development opportunity for two LIANZA members to attend the LIANZA conference. The sponsorship includes:
1 full conference registration
1 Conference Dinner Ticket
Up to $200 towards travel and accommodation on submission of receipts
Criteria:
Must be a member of LIANZA (if you are not a member and would like to apply for this award, please send in your membership application and cheque)
Must have gained a Library Qualification in the last three years or be currently studying towards a Library Qualification
Have never attended a LIANZA conference
Selectors:
Tumuaki TRW
LIANZA Regional Councillor
LIANZA Executive Director
Selection Process:
The closing date for applications for the Scholarship is 5th August 2009
The two successful applicants will be notified of their success
Employers of the successful applicants will be notified
Application:
Applicant’s name and contact details
LIANZA membership number
The reasons you think you would benefit from attending the Conference
Any LIANZA work you have been involved in
The name and address of your organisation/employer, manager and/or Chief Executive
Applicants will not be asked for a letter of support from their employer, but it is expected that they have the support of their employer to attend conference should they be successful.
Applications to:
Email to office@lianza.org.nz; or post to:
Crown Records Management Scholarship
LIANZA
PO Box 12-212
Wellington 6144
The winners of the scholarship would be expected to write a short article to be included in the edition of Library Life following Conference.
– He Tangata He Tangata He Tangata 12-14 Oct 2009 – Christchurch Convention Centre
This Scholarship is offered by Crown Records Management as a professional development opportunity for two LIANZA members to attend the LIANZA conference. The sponsorship includes:
1 full conference registration
1 Conference Dinner Ticket
Up to $200 towards travel and accommodation on submission of receipts
Criteria:
Must be a member of LIANZA (if you are not a member and would like to apply for this award, please send in your membership application and cheque)
Must have gained a Library Qualification in the last three years or be currently studying towards a Library Qualification
Have never attended a LIANZA conference
Selectors:
Tumuaki TRW
LIANZA Regional Councillor
LIANZA Executive Director
Selection Process:
The closing date for applications for the Scholarship is 5th August 2009
The two successful applicants will be notified of their success
Employers of the successful applicants will be notified
Application:
Applicant’s name and contact details
LIANZA membership number
The reasons you think you would benefit from attending the Conference
Any LIANZA work you have been involved in
The name and address of your organisation/employer, manager and/or Chief Executive
Applicants will not be asked for a letter of support from their employer, but it is expected that they have the support of their employer to attend conference should they be successful.
Applications to:
Email to office@lianza.org.nz; or post to:
Crown Records Management Scholarship
LIANZA
PO Box 12-212
Wellington 6144
The winners of the scholarship would be expected to write a short article to be included in the edition of Library Life following Conference.
Monday, July 13, 2009
E-Pub Books - Auckland Conference Followup
Auckland Conference Followup
I'm aware that some of you were at the recent Auckland conference on the
future of the book, where epubs were discussed at some length. We've
started to generate epub format ebooks, and would like some feedback
from people who use epubs on mobile devices or in other contexts.
The epubs we're generating are essentially fragments of our website,
including aspects such as pagination, formatting, metadata and
thumbnails (but not full images, to save on the download size).
If you aren't yet equipped to read epubs but would like to be, check out
http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/epub-software-readers/ and find one that
suits you predilections.
I'm aware that some of you were at the recent Auckland conference on the
future of the book, where epubs were discussed at some length. We've
started to generate epub format ebooks, and would like some feedback
from people who use epubs on mobile devices or in other contexts.
The epubs we're generating are essentially fragments of our website,
including aspects such as pagination, formatting, metadata and
thumbnails (but not full images, to save on the download size).
If you aren't yet equipped to read epubs but would like to be, check out
http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/epub-software-readers/ and find one that
suits you predilections.
Google Image Search Creative Commons Licence for Free Use
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7/09/2009 09:47:00 AM Let's say you're a blogger. You've just returned from a trip to New York City, and you're writing a post on New York landmarks. You want to illustrate your travel guide with an image — as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. It's easy to find images of New York online. But you want to make sure that you don't use images without the permission of their owners, and you can't afford licensing fees for professional photographers.Today, we're launching a feature on Image Search to help you find images that you can use for free, while respecting the wishes of artists and creators. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/find-creative-commons-images-with-image.html
Google Blogs
Web
Blog
News
This Blog
Google Blogs
Web
Blog
News
Find Creative Commons images with Image Search
7/09/2009 09:47:00 AM Let's say you're a blogger. You've just returned from a trip to New York City, and you're writing a post on New York landmarks. You want to illustrate your travel guide with an image — as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. It's easy to find images of New York online. But you want to make sure that you don't use images without the permission of their owners, and you can't afford licensing fees for professional photographers.Today, we're launching a feature on Image Search to help you find images that you can use for free, while respecting the wishes of artists and creators. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/find-creative-commons-images-with-image.html
Post Card Campaign by Library Lovers13 July 2009
Post Card Campaign by Library Lovers13 July 2009
Thousands of post cards are making their way to Parliament this month in an appeal by lovers of libraries to make sure the institution of library is not forgotten in any change to the Local Government Act.
"We understand the Government wants local government to focus on core, front line services," says Barbara Garriock, chair of LIANZA, the Library and Information Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa. "What could be more front line and core in a democracy than a public library?"
The postcard campaign features a white card with a map of New Zealand created in books, a big red heart, and the caption "New Zealanders Love Libraries." On the other side, the message reads: "Dear_______, Please make sure that Public Libraries are a core service of Local Government across New Zealand. Thank you! Yours sincerely,_______" The campaign has been launched by LIANZA and has also gained the support of the Public Service Association (PSA).
"By embedding libraries as a core service of local government, there is tremendous benefit in equity, in literacy outcomes and in lifelong learning," Barbara Garriock noted. She said public librarians are reminded on a daily basis by their customers of the importance of libraries in their lives. "After all, libraries are the most used council facility by choice and certainly exceed usage of facilities such as swimming pools, sports grounds and stadiums." Ms. Garriock stated.
Currently, most libraries across New Zealand are experiencing increased numbers through the door as the recession hits. People looking to learn more about other job opportunities as well as people economising by borrowing a book or DVD, rather than purchasing one, and others taking advantage of Internet access, are making libraries very busy places.
"There is no law protecting public libraries in New Zealand. At LIANZA we think public libraries deserve surety equal to dog control and/or parks and reserves," Ms. Garriock said.
A report to cabinet on the Local Government Act by the Minister of Local Government is due 30 August.
So why not email an MP today
Craig Foss (Tukutuki MP)craig.foss@national.org.nz
Chris Tremain (Napier MP) chris.tremain@parliament.govt.nz
Nathan Guy (Minister for National Library) nathan.guy@national.org.nz
John Key (Prime Minister)john.key@national.org.nz
Rodney Hide (Local Govenment Minister) rodney.hide@act.org.nz
For further information, contact :
Bill ClagueExecutive DirectorAssociation of Public Library Managers04-471-2544Or email bill@aplm.org.nz
Thousands of post cards are making their way to Parliament this month in an appeal by lovers of libraries to make sure the institution of library is not forgotten in any change to the Local Government Act.
"We understand the Government wants local government to focus on core, front line services," says Barbara Garriock, chair of LIANZA, the Library and Information Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa. "What could be more front line and core in a democracy than a public library?"
The postcard campaign features a white card with a map of New Zealand created in books, a big red heart, and the caption "New Zealanders Love Libraries." On the other side, the message reads: "Dear_______, Please make sure that Public Libraries are a core service of Local Government across New Zealand. Thank you! Yours sincerely,_______" The campaign has been launched by LIANZA and has also gained the support of the Public Service Association (PSA).
"By embedding libraries as a core service of local government, there is tremendous benefit in equity, in literacy outcomes and in lifelong learning," Barbara Garriock noted. She said public librarians are reminded on a daily basis by their customers of the importance of libraries in their lives. "After all, libraries are the most used council facility by choice and certainly exceed usage of facilities such as swimming pools, sports grounds and stadiums." Ms. Garriock stated.
Currently, most libraries across New Zealand are experiencing increased numbers through the door as the recession hits. People looking to learn more about other job opportunities as well as people economising by borrowing a book or DVD, rather than purchasing one, and others taking advantage of Internet access, are making libraries very busy places.
"There is no law protecting public libraries in New Zealand. At LIANZA we think public libraries deserve surety equal to dog control and/or parks and reserves," Ms. Garriock said.
A report to cabinet on the Local Government Act by the Minister of Local Government is due 30 August.
So why not email an MP today
Craig Foss (Tukutuki MP)craig.foss@national.org.nz
Chris Tremain (Napier MP) chris.tremain@parliament.govt.nz
Nathan Guy (Minister for National Library) nathan.guy@national.org.nz
John Key (Prime Minister)john.key@national.org.nz
Rodney Hide (Local Govenment Minister) rodney.hide@act.org.nz
For further information, contact :
Bill ClagueExecutive DirectorAssociation of Public Library Managers04-471-2544Or email bill@aplm.org.nz
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Librarians worry about local government review by The NZPA
Librarians worried that a review of local government will hurt public libraries are urging supporters to write to the Government. I appears as thought libraries are not listed as a core Local Governemnt Service.
Library and Information Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa chairwoman Barbara Garriock is asking people to send postcards to MPs to make sure the place of public libraries is not forgotten in any change to the Local Government Act.
"We understand the Government wants local government to focus on core, front line services. What could be more front line and core in a democracy than a public library?" Ms Garriock said.
The Government is currently looking at what councils do and whether they should be restricted in the services they offer in an attempt to rein in rates.
Ms Garriock said libraries should be locked in as a core service of local government as they were the most used council facility by choice.
"There is no law protecting public libraries in New Zealand. At Lianza we think public libraries deserve surety equal to dog control and/or parks and reserves," Ms Garriock said.
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide is due to report to Cabinet on the Local Government Act review by the end of August.
In a cabinet paper Mr Hide put the case for the review of local government to examine its role and seek greater transparency. He also suggested holding referenda before major spending was undertaken.
Mr Hide said while councils may include spending plans in annual reports, they did not tend to campaign on spending issues during election campaigns and it was hard for ratepayers to have influence.
A recent Internal Affairs report found income from rates would increase 47 percent over next decade, and debt would double to more than $10 billion. However, drivers were price and population increases and compliance costs plus community expectations about services provided.
Asked earlier in the year if core services would include art galleries, swimming pools and council flats, Mr Hide said they would "up to a point".
He said councils were investing a lot of money in quite risky ventures and gave examples of Lotto shops, banks, hotels and property development.
Prime Minister John Key has said what local councils spent their money on and how much they spend was up to them, and he did not support capping their expenditure.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/5722085/librarians-worry-about-local-government-review/
Library and Information Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa chairwoman Barbara Garriock is asking people to send postcards to MPs to make sure the place of public libraries is not forgotten in any change to the Local Government Act.
"We understand the Government wants local government to focus on core, front line services. What could be more front line and core in a democracy than a public library?" Ms Garriock said.
The Government is currently looking at what councils do and whether they should be restricted in the services they offer in an attempt to rein in rates.
Ms Garriock said libraries should be locked in as a core service of local government as they were the most used council facility by choice.
"There is no law protecting public libraries in New Zealand. At Lianza we think public libraries deserve surety equal to dog control and/or parks and reserves," Ms Garriock said.
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide is due to report to Cabinet on the Local Government Act review by the end of August.
In a cabinet paper Mr Hide put the case for the review of local government to examine its role and seek greater transparency. He also suggested holding referenda before major spending was undertaken.
Mr Hide said while councils may include spending plans in annual reports, they did not tend to campaign on spending issues during election campaigns and it was hard for ratepayers to have influence.
A recent Internal Affairs report found income from rates would increase 47 percent over next decade, and debt would double to more than $10 billion. However, drivers were price and population increases and compliance costs plus community expectations about services provided.
Asked earlier in the year if core services would include art galleries, swimming pools and council flats, Mr Hide said they would "up to a point".
He said councils were investing a lot of money in quite risky ventures and gave examples of Lotto shops, banks, hotels and property development.
Prime Minister John Key has said what local councils spent their money on and how much they spend was up to them, and he did not support capping their expenditure.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/5722085/librarians-worry-about-local-government-review/
Since closing in October last year the library has been given a new roof and a larger floor area. Up-to-date technology, including self-issue machines, internet-capable computers and a large-screen TV, have been installed to help meet 21st-century needs.
A highlight of the new facility is teens' space stocked with bright comfy beanbags, Playstation, X-Box and television.
Students will have the chance to study in soundproof spaces equipped with comfortable seating while those with disabilities will enjoy easier access.
There are also improved amenities, display space, lighting and computer catalogue facilities.
Even littlies have their own area with caterpillar-shaped bookshelves and a picture book trolley, low enough for small children to get books out of.
A highlight of the new facility is teens' space stocked with bright comfy beanbags, Playstation, X-Box and television.
Students will have the chance to study in soundproof spaces equipped with comfortable seating while those with disabilities will enjoy easier access.
There are also improved amenities, display space, lighting and computer catalogue facilities.
Even littlies have their own area with caterpillar-shaped bookshelves and a picture book trolley, low enough for small children to get books out of.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Taradale Library Re-Opening
Taradale Library Re-opening on Monday 13 July 2009!Have a preview at the 'open afternoon' on Sunday 12 July 1-4pm (no issuing or returning of items)
The Lee Road returns bin will be locked after 2:30pm on Thursday 9 July and relocated to the Taradale Library on Friday 10 July.
BIGGER, BRIGHTER than before with a purpose built study and meeting room, moveable children's shelving for adaptable use of floor space, additional internet computers to meet increasing demands, self issue machines for those who like self service, an electronic notice board for community information, a purpose built enclosed teen space housing a playstation and xbox console with head-phones, and beanbags to lounge in, extra toilets, and lounge area viewing the park.
As well as the book stock the DVD collection has been significantly increased.
A library where you can not only get a great read, fact books on your interests, the latest magazines, DVD's, something for everyone! - but also a community space that is welcoming and a place to call your own!
Napier Phase of RedevelopmentThe foyer and desk areas will be recreated to improve staff workflow and customer service. This includes a toilet for the disabled; linking the children's desk area with the main issue desk; and creating a more efficient returns room work area; as well as utilising the old returns for offices for the library team.
The Lee Road returns bin will be locked after 2:30pm on Thursday 9 July and relocated to the Taradale Library on Friday 10 July.
BIGGER, BRIGHTER than before with a purpose built study and meeting room, moveable children's shelving for adaptable use of floor space, additional internet computers to meet increasing demands, self issue machines for those who like self service, an electronic notice board for community information, a purpose built enclosed teen space housing a playstation and xbox console with head-phones, and beanbags to lounge in, extra toilets, and lounge area viewing the park.
As well as the book stock the DVD collection has been significantly increased.
A library where you can not only get a great read, fact books on your interests, the latest magazines, DVD's, something for everyone! - but also a community space that is welcoming and a place to call your own!
Napier Phase of RedevelopmentThe foyer and desk areas will be recreated to improve staff workflow and customer service. This includes a toilet for the disabled; linking the children's desk area with the main issue desk; and creating a more efficient returns room work area; as well as utilising the old returns for offices for the library team.
Random House RoadShow
The Random House Road Show is on again.
Wednesday 15th July 2009
Vidals Winery
6.00pm
Don't Miss is!!!
Wednesday 15th July 2009
Vidals Winery
6.00pm
Don't Miss is!!!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Library week - NZ's Biggest Storytime
NZ’s Biggest Storytime:Wednesday 12 August 2009, 10.30am
Library Week 2009
Escape Explore Discover - Ki te whai ao, ki te ao mārama
LIANZA is very pleased to announce the story chosen for
Library Weeks ‘NZ’s Biggest Storytime’ event where libraries
across the country will be taking part in a simultaneous
reading.
Libraries will be reading Itiiti’s Gift by Melanie Drewery,
illustrated by Fifi Colston, (Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd)
Itiiti’s Gift is the story of a girl who feels clumsy and shy next
to the rest of her family who are loud and tall and good at
things. Itiiti doesn't think she is good at anything, but her
mother tells her that she will find a gift of her own. Itiiti sets
out to find it and to her surprise, her gift finds her!
This is a story of self discovery as little Itiiti explores her potential talents and discovers her
place in the whanau/community. It fits beautifully with our Library Week theme.
Libraries will be inviting special guests to read the story and past participants have included
television and radio personalities, authors and mayors from across New Zealand.
For further information about Library Week 2009 and NZ’s Biggest Story time please contact:
Megan Button
Communications & Publications Coordinator
LIANZA
Ph: 04 473 -5834
megan@lianza.org.nz
http://www.lianza.org.nz/
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
LIANZA Membership
Are you are Member? Here are some benefits of membership:
Benefits to members:As a personal member LIANZA will provide you with:
A professional development framework and continuing education programmes at member rates
Conference and seminar attendance at member rates
Professional newsletters, magazines, occasional papers and publications at discounted members rates
Access to job vacancies and job exchange programmes
Participation, with colleagues, in regional meetings, seminars and workshops
Participation in special interest groups for access to specialist knowledge
Networking, mentoring and career development opportunities
Representation on key issues and national bodies, (e.g. New Zealand Qualifications Authority, Joint Standing Committee on Interloan, LIANZA Professional Registration Taskforce, NZBN Network Advisory Committee and Copyright Taskforce) to provide advocacy of members' interests and concerns to government and other decision makers
Opportunities to contribute to strategic professional initiatives: salary survey, interloan futures, LIANZA governance, cost benefit study, Internet access, Te Ara Tika, public library standards
Representation on regional bodies like LIANZA regional councils
Access to grants and funding for special projects
Opportunity to become an Associate in recognition of professional development and contribution
The chance to actively influence the development of your profession and New Zealand's library and information services at all levels
Opportunity to contribute to the profession as well as receive benefits
Special rates at selected hotels, click the links on the left to find out locations and rates
Join now and go in the draw to get your LIANZA Conference fees paid for you by LIANZA.
Benefits to members:As a personal member LIANZA will provide you with:
A professional development framework and continuing education programmes at member rates
Conference and seminar attendance at member rates
Professional newsletters, magazines, occasional papers and publications at discounted members rates
Access to job vacancies and job exchange programmes
Participation, with colleagues, in regional meetings, seminars and workshops
Participation in special interest groups for access to specialist knowledge
Networking, mentoring and career development opportunities
Representation on key issues and national bodies, (e.g. New Zealand Qualifications Authority, Joint Standing Committee on Interloan, LIANZA Professional Registration Taskforce, NZBN Network Advisory Committee and Copyright Taskforce) to provide advocacy of members' interests and concerns to government and other decision makers
Opportunities to contribute to strategic professional initiatives: salary survey, interloan futures, LIANZA governance, cost benefit study, Internet access, Te Ara Tika, public library standards
Representation on regional bodies like LIANZA regional councils
Access to grants and funding for special projects
Opportunity to become an Associate in recognition of professional development and contribution
The chance to actively influence the development of your profession and New Zealand's library and information services at all levels
Opportunity to contribute to the profession as well as receive benefits
Special rates at selected hotels, click the links on the left to find out locations and rates
Join now and go in the draw to get your LIANZA Conference fees paid for you by LIANZA.
Information Literacy
If you are interested in Information Literacy then this maybe a useful link...
http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2009/02/lianza-papers.html
Some interesting papers from the November 2008 LIANZA (New Zealand Library Association ) Conference have been archived in LIANZA's online library. They include: Helen Mandl and Margie Jantti Far from common - innovative approaches to designing information rich learning and research spaces (about the uses of and activities in the new University of Wollongong Library complex) I also noticed Kathryn Greenhill's Building Scripted Objects to go in Second Life libraries. Go to http://opac.lianza.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl
http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2009/02/lianza-papers.html
Some interesting papers from the November 2008 LIANZA (New Zealand Library Association ) Conference have been archived in LIANZA's online library. They include: Helen Mandl and Margie Jantti Far from common - innovative approaches to designing information rich learning and research spaces (about the uses of and activities in the new University of Wollongong Library complex) I also noticed Kathryn Greenhill's Building Scripted Objects to go in Second Life libraries. Go to http://opac.lianza.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl
LIANZA'S Children's Book Award 2009 Finalists
The LIANZA Children’s Book Award 2009 Finalists are:
LIANZA ESTHER GLEN AWARD (Fiction)
Juno of Taris by Fleur Beale (Random House New Zealand)
Old Drumble by Jack Lasenby (HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Ltd)
The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner (Walker Books Australia)
The 10pm Question by Kate de Goldi (Longacre Press)
Violence 101 by Denis Wright (Penguin New Zealand)
LIANZA RUSSELL CLARK AWARD (Illustration)
Every Second Friday by Kiri Lightfoot, Illustrated by Ben Galbraith (Hachette New Zealand)
Herbert by Robyn Belton (Craig Potton Publishing)
My Favourite Places by Martin Bailey (Mallinson Rendel)
Oliver Goes Exploring by Margaret Beames, Illustrated by Sue Hitchcock (Scholastic)
Roadworks by Sally Sutton, Illustrated by Brian Lovelock (Walker Books Australia)
LIANZA ELSIE LOCKE (Non Fiction)
Atoms, dinosaurs & DNA by Veronika Meduna & Rebecca Priestley (Random House New Zealand)
Back & Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young & Curious by Gregory O’Brien (Auckland University Press)
Juicy Writing by Brigid Lowry (Allen & Unwin)
Piano Rock by Gavin Bishop (Random House New Zealand)
High-tech Legs on Everest by Mark Inglis with Sarah Ell (Random House New Zealand)
TE KURA POUNAMU (te reo Maori)
Mihiroa by Peti Nohotima (He Kupenga Hao i te Reo Ltd)
Nau te Rourou, Naku te Rourou by Rosalind and Waaka Vercoe (Huia Education)
Ko Maraea Me Nga Toroa by Patricia Grace, Illustrator Brian Gunson, Translator Waiariki Grace (Penguin NZ)
Toheroa by James Te Tuhi and Ross Gregory (Huia Education)
Hinemoa te Toa by Tim Tipene, Illustrator John Bennett, Translator Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira (Scholastic)
For further information click here
LIANZA ESTHER GLEN AWARD (Fiction)
Juno of Taris by Fleur Beale (Random House New Zealand)
Old Drumble by Jack Lasenby (HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Ltd)
The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner (Walker Books Australia)
The 10pm Question by Kate de Goldi (Longacre Press)
Violence 101 by Denis Wright (Penguin New Zealand)
LIANZA RUSSELL CLARK AWARD (Illustration)
Every Second Friday by Kiri Lightfoot, Illustrated by Ben Galbraith (Hachette New Zealand)
Herbert by Robyn Belton (Craig Potton Publishing)
My Favourite Places by Martin Bailey (Mallinson Rendel)
Oliver Goes Exploring by Margaret Beames, Illustrated by Sue Hitchcock (Scholastic)
Roadworks by Sally Sutton, Illustrated by Brian Lovelock (Walker Books Australia)
LIANZA ELSIE LOCKE (Non Fiction)
Atoms, dinosaurs & DNA by Veronika Meduna & Rebecca Priestley (Random House New Zealand)
Back & Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young & Curious by Gregory O’Brien (Auckland University Press)
Juicy Writing by Brigid Lowry (Allen & Unwin)
Piano Rock by Gavin Bishop (Random House New Zealand)
High-tech Legs on Everest by Mark Inglis with Sarah Ell (Random House New Zealand)
TE KURA POUNAMU (te reo Maori)
Mihiroa by Peti Nohotima (He Kupenga Hao i te Reo Ltd)
Nau te Rourou, Naku te Rourou by Rosalind and Waaka Vercoe (Huia Education)
Ko Maraea Me Nga Toroa by Patricia Grace, Illustrator Brian Gunson, Translator Waiariki Grace (Penguin NZ)
Toheroa by James Te Tuhi and Ross Gregory (Huia Education)
Hinemoa te Toa by Tim Tipene, Illustrator John Bennett, Translator Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira (Scholastic)
For further information click here
Sunday, June 21, 2009
LIANZA Governance Meeting with Heather Lamond
As I was on Holiday I am writing about what I have heard about the event and mostly from Paula's email. Last night’s session with Heather Lamond was well attended with about 15, including Heather and it stimulated some great discussion. Heather took away some great feeback and is very keen to receive feedback either directly at H.M.Lamond@massey.ac.nz or via the blog at http://ikaroalianza.blogspot.com/
please note that feedback is now being sought by LIANZA on the proposed governance structure until 6 July.
This is your chance to have your chance on how LIANZA might be governed etc. The LIANZA survey is at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=PNrl%2fTZb4MbfM43dQwYiZw%3d%3d
please note that feedback is now being sought by LIANZA on the proposed governance structure until 6 July.
This is your chance to have your chance on how LIANZA might be governed etc. The LIANZA survey is at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=PNrl%2fTZb4MbfM43dQwYiZw%3d%3d
Open Polytechnic Library and Information Courses
Open Polytechnic courses are open for enrolment until 10 July 2009. You can enrol in undergraduate degrees, diplomas, or certificates. You can also take 'one-off' courses for continuing professional development. All study is by distance, using print and electronic resources, supported by online forums. The semester begins on 20 July and runs for 17 weeks.
The following information and library studies courses are offered in semester 2:
72142 Information Access - information literacy 72170 The Information Industry - an introduction to libraries and other information providers
72171 Library Systems and Processes
72175 Principles of Records Management
72176 Managing Archives
72271 User Education and Reference Skills
72272 Cataloguing and Classification
72277 Library Services for Children and Young People
72371 Policy and Planning for Information Services
72373 Knowledge Management
Courses are also offered in communication, humanities, information systems and technology, and business. Some courses have pre-requisites.
We offer two undergraduate diplomas in information and library studies, as well as a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Bachelor of Arts. For advice about any of these, please contact Mary Innes (freephone) 0508 650 200 ext 5665.
Other qualifications include:
Certificate in Literature and Library Services for Children and Young People (Level 6). Contact Jan Irvine (freephone) 0508 650 200 ext 5594.
Certificate in Cataloguing (Level 5). Contact Amanda Cossham (freephone)
0508 650 200 ext 5518.
Diploma in Records and Information Management (Level 6). Contact Mary Innes or Sandie Smith (freephone) 0508 650 200 ext 5479.
For more information about information and library studies courses and for enrolment forms, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/yr9gc4 or http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/programmesandcourses/subjectareas/pcinf
ormation
Mary InnesProgramme Leader, Information and Library Studies School of Information and Social Sciences Open Polytechnic Kuratini Tuwhera phone 0508 650 200 ext 5665 or (04) 913 5665 direct email:mary.innes@openpolytechnic.ac.nz
The following information and library studies courses are offered in semester 2:
72142 Information Access - information literacy 72170 The Information Industry - an introduction to libraries and other information providers
72171 Library Systems and Processes
72175 Principles of Records Management
72176 Managing Archives
72271 User Education and Reference Skills
72272 Cataloguing and Classification
72277 Library Services for Children and Young People
72371 Policy and Planning for Information Services
72373 Knowledge Management
Courses are also offered in communication, humanities, information systems and technology, and business. Some courses have pre-requisites.
We offer two undergraduate diplomas in information and library studies, as well as a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Bachelor of Arts. For advice about any of these, please contact Mary Innes (freephone) 0508 650 200 ext 5665.
Other qualifications include:
Certificate in Literature and Library Services for Children and Young People (Level 6). Contact Jan Irvine (freephone) 0508 650 200 ext 5594.
Certificate in Cataloguing (Level 5). Contact Amanda Cossham (freephone)
0508 650 200 ext 5518.
Diploma in Records and Information Management (Level 6). Contact Mary Innes or Sandie Smith (freephone) 0508 650 200 ext 5479.
For more information about information and library studies courses and for enrolment forms, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/yr9gc4 or http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/programmesandcourses/subjectareas/pcinf
ormation
Mary InnesProgramme Leader, Information and Library Studies School of Information and Social Sciences Open Polytechnic Kuratini Tuwhera phone 0508 650 200 ext 5665 or (04) 913 5665 direct email:mary.innes@openpolytechnic.ac.nz
Hydestor Professional Development AWARD
HYDESTOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD
· Looking to further develop the team dynamics in your library?
· Are you new to the libraries network and are wondering what LIANZA is all about?
· Would a grant of $750 incl GST, per LIANZA region, help further your Professional development?
Hydestor Shelving Systems are proud to sponsor a professional development award to LIANZA members. Its primary purpose is to assist LIANZA members to undertake various forms of professional development in the field of library management and operation. This annual award set at $4,500 inclusive of GST is divided equally over the six NZ regions.
Previously, Hydestor Manufacturing Ltd has sponsored hard copy newsletters for various regions of LIANZA and with these newsletters becoming electronic; it was proposed that the sponsorship be continued in a new format such as this Professional Development Award. This award is not limited to any specific activity and members should be encouraged to apply for assistance for any activity that will develop and enhance their professional skills. The applications and recipients of the award are to be administered by each regional chairperson and committee.
Hydestor Shelving Systems specialise in the design & manufacture of adjustable steel library shelving & resource storage systems for libraries through out NZ & Australia. We are proud to be a NZ manufacturer and look forward to our continuing service to the libraries network.
Check out our Photo gallery and current libraries newsletter
· Looking to further develop the team dynamics in your library?
· Are you new to the libraries network and are wondering what LIANZA is all about?
· Would a grant of $750 incl GST, per LIANZA region, help further your Professional development?
Hydestor Shelving Systems are proud to sponsor a professional development award to LIANZA members. Its primary purpose is to assist LIANZA members to undertake various forms of professional development in the field of library management and operation. This annual award set at $4,500 inclusive of GST is divided equally over the six NZ regions.
Previously, Hydestor Manufacturing Ltd has sponsored hard copy newsletters for various regions of LIANZA and with these newsletters becoming electronic; it was proposed that the sponsorship be continued in a new format such as this Professional Development Award. This award is not limited to any specific activity and members should be encouraged to apply for assistance for any activity that will develop and enhance their professional skills. The applications and recipients of the award are to be administered by each regional chairperson and committee.
Hydestor Shelving Systems specialise in the design & manufacture of adjustable steel library shelving & resource storage systems for libraries through out NZ & Australia. We are proud to be a NZ manufacturer and look forward to our continuing service to the libraries network.
Check out our Photo gallery and current libraries newsletter
LIANZA CPD Wheel
The CPD wheel has been a year in development and is intended to be used primarily as a tool to help you easily identify and register for professional development courses to satisfy the requirements of revalidation for professional registration.
Even if you are not professionally registered, the wheel is intended to be a one-stop-shop for CPD events offered by LIANZA and ALIA (on-line courses).
Click on the link below and have a play - http://www.lianza.org.nz/development/CPD/index.html
How the wheel works -
The wheel is comprised of a four concentric circles.
At the centre of the wheel is the Body of Knowledge. This is the knowledge that every qualified librarian leaves library school with. If you click on the centre of the wheel you will be taken to the page on our website that details the Body of Knowledge.
The second circle, relating to professional development and in the shape of petals, is divided into the eleven areas of the Body of Knowledge with a short descriptor of each area.
Click on any one of the petals and you will be taken to a page that gives you an indication of the types of CPD relating to that BoK area.
If LIANZA or ALIA (on-line courses) are offering an event that fits into this area then it will display here and you will be able to register to attend.
If there is no event currently on offer within that area, you can always email me to request that LIANZA investigates doing so.
The third circle relates to personal development and operates in the same way as above. Although LIANZA's first priority is professional development to support librarians and information managers, we will aim to run one or two personal development courses each year.
Sometimes a CPD course will fit into both professional and personal development, for example a course on leadership.
The last circle relates to the intangible benefits that pervade any professional or personal development endeavour undertaken, for example networking opportunities.
We hope that the wheel will make your life easier and that you will come to rely on it as a useful tool to plan and organise your professional development.
I would be very interested in your feedback and thoughts.
With kind regards
Maree
Maree Kibblewhite
Professional Development Manager
Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Level 7, 69 Boulcott Street PO Box 12-212, Wellington 6144
Tel: 04 473 5834
Fax: 04 499 1480
Email: maree@lianza.org.nz
Even if you are not professionally registered, the wheel is intended to be a one-stop-shop for CPD events offered by LIANZA and ALIA (on-line courses).
Click on the link below and have a play - http://www.lianza.org.nz/development/CPD/index.html
How the wheel works -
The wheel is comprised of a four concentric circles.
At the centre of the wheel is the Body of Knowledge. This is the knowledge that every qualified librarian leaves library school with. If you click on the centre of the wheel you will be taken to the page on our website that details the Body of Knowledge.
The second circle, relating to professional development and in the shape of petals, is divided into the eleven areas of the Body of Knowledge with a short descriptor of each area.
Click on any one of the petals and you will be taken to a page that gives you an indication of the types of CPD relating to that BoK area.
If LIANZA or ALIA (on-line courses) are offering an event that fits into this area then it will display here and you will be able to register to attend.
If there is no event currently on offer within that area, you can always email me to request that LIANZA investigates doing so.
The third circle relates to personal development and operates in the same way as above. Although LIANZA's first priority is professional development to support librarians and information managers, we will aim to run one or two personal development courses each year.
Sometimes a CPD course will fit into both professional and personal development, for example a course on leadership.
The last circle relates to the intangible benefits that pervade any professional or personal development endeavour undertaken, for example networking opportunities.
We hope that the wheel will make your life easier and that you will come to rely on it as a useful tool to plan and organise your professional development.
I would be very interested in your feedback and thoughts.
With kind regards
Maree
Maree Kibblewhite
Professional Development Manager
Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Level 7, 69 Boulcott Street PO Box 12-212, Wellington 6144
Tel: 04 473 5834
Fax: 04 499 1480
Email: maree@lianza.org.nz
LIANZA Offering Free Conference Registration to a lucky new LIANZA member who joins this month...
The LIANZA 2009 Conference Committee is delighted to offer one FREE registration to the 2009 Conference to a new LIANZA member.
Simply join LIANZA and register for conference during the early bird registration period (1st June – 31st July) to be in a prize draw to win the conference registration. The winner will be contacted in first week of August 2009.
If you are already a LIANZA member this offer is not for you. However, it is a great opportunity for a non-LIANZA colleague or friend to join up, come to conference AND have their registration paid for, so please spread the word.
See the LIANZA website for more details:
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/Registration.html
Simply join LIANZA and register for conference during the early bird registration period (1st June – 31st July) to be in a prize draw to win the conference registration. The winner will be contacted in first week of August 2009.
If you are already a LIANZA member this offer is not for you. However, it is a great opportunity for a non-LIANZA colleague or friend to join up, come to conference AND have their registration paid for, so please spread the word.
See the LIANZA website for more details:
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/Registration.html
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
LIANZA Discussion Document with Heather Lamond Ikaroa Regional Councillor
LIANZA Councillor for the Ikaroa Region, Heather Lamond, will be speaking about the recently-released discussion document on the reorganisation of the LIANZA Council at the:
Hastings Library
Wednesday 10 June at 6pm
Hastings Library.
Drinks and nibbles will be served from 5.30pm.
RSVP to: paulam@hdc.govt.nz
To read the discussion papers:
http://lianza.org.nz/news/newsroom/news1242008863.html
Hastings Library
Wednesday 10 June at 6pm
Hastings Library.
Drinks and nibbles will be served from 5.30pm.
RSVP to: paulam@hdc.govt.nz
To read the discussion papers:
http://lianza.org.nz/news/newsroom/news1242008863.html
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Welcome Back Diane Friis as our new Treasurer
Its with great pleasure we welcome Diane Friis back as our new Treasurer and Committee Member.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Revalidation of Professional Registration
How are we going with our revalidation Journals? If you would like any help you can ask via the IKAROA Blog or email Heather Lamond
Email: Heather Lamond - h.m.lamond@massey.ac.nz
Alternatively we could form RIG that is a Revalidation Interest Group. We could get together informally or formally.
Ideas feedback to: Kims@hdc.govt.nz
Email: Heather Lamond - h.m.lamond@massey.ac.nz
Alternatively we could form RIG that is a Revalidation Interest Group. We could get together informally or formally.
Ideas feedback to: Kims@hdc.govt.nz
POSTING TO THE IKAROA BLOG
From Heather for those of you interesting in adding a post to the Ikaroa Blog
How to post to the blog
The easiest way to post to the blog is to send your post text to one of the following committee members:
Judi Kercher - j.y.kercher@massey.ac.nz
Jane Brooker - j.e.brooker@massey.ac.nz
Heather Lamond - h.m.lamond@massey.ac.nz
We will then place your post on the blog. Comments are open to all, you should not need to be logged in. Although anonymous comments will be fine, it is really nice to know who we're corresponding with :-)
http://ikaroalianza.blogspot.com/
How to post to the blog
The easiest way to post to the blog is to send your post text to one of the following committee members:
Judi Kercher - j.y.kercher@massey.ac.nz
Jane Brooker - j.e.brooker@massey.ac.nz
Heather Lamond - h.m.lamond@massey.ac.nz
We will then place your post on the blog. Comments are open to all, you should not need to be logged in. Although anonymous comments will be fine, it is really nice to know who we're corresponding with :-)
http://ikaroalianza.blogspot.com/
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