From the President

Tena koutou katoa. What a ten days!

Firstly for me it was a conference with 18 INELI delegates who came from across the globe.

16 different countries represented and they are supported by a team of sponsors and some very distinguished mentors, again from difference countries (Chile to Australia).

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From the Te Rōpū Whakahau Tumuaki

To all those lucky participants at LIANZA Conference 2011: Te Ihi, Te Wehi, Te Wana, congratulations on making this one of the most enjoyable conferences that I have attended.  I thank the organising committee, as many will, for their fantastic line up of keynote speakers from abroad and of course a little bias of Aroha Mead and her brief introduction to Flora and Fauna (Wai 262 Inquiry) and relevancy for the information sector.

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From the Editor

It's been just over a week since the LIANZA Conference of 2011 finished, and I'm grasping at whatever online notes and blogposts from keynotes and sessions I can find.

Thanks must go to delegates, followers, speakers, and conference convenors and organisers who make content available as soon as possible.  I'm still amazed that people can pump out blog posts after every session and keynote they attend.

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News and Activity

Library And Information Profession Registration Board Vacancy

LIANZA Writes To Major Political Parties

LIANZA Advocacy Tools Portal

Update On Hamilton City Libraries Budget Cuts

Bishopdale Community Centre And Library Closes

News From VUW School Of Information Management

Public Lecture By Chris Batt: Evolution, Revolution, Extinction

Mary Ellen Wilson, LIANZA Member Passes Away

LIANZA Conference 2011

LIANZA Conference 2011 Photos, Blogs & Tweets

3M VALA Award Winners

Up and coming conferences

ALIA Biennial Sydney 2012 - call for abstracts!
It would be fantastic to get more New Zealand delegates and speakers at ALIA conferences representing the country.  Please consider writing an abstract for ALIA Biennial 2012 - I promise, it is worth the effort.

VALA2012 eM-powering eFutures
VALA is highly regarded as one of the best conferences Australasia has to offer (apart from LIANZA).  Get in quick as, early bird registrations close 30 November

Te Roopu Whakahau Hui-a-tau 2012
this is happening at Waipapa Marae at the University of Auckland from Wednesday 18th - Saturday the 21st of January 2012.  Get in and register!

Feature articles

Michelle Anderson
My controversial conference presentation

Sally Pewhairangi
The talkfest is over: 3 things you can do right now

Debbie Price-Ewen
Challenging DRM in pursuit of Control...

Claire Stent
Are we there yet? Storytelling to improve engagement

Of interest (internets - local)

- Bill MacNaught's speech at the LIANZA 2011 conference

- Deborah Fitchett's notes from the LIANZA 2011 conference <-- excellent blogger, cheers Deborah!

- Jenica Rogers' keynote "Reality-based Librarianship for passionate Librarians" at her blog

- New Zealanders love public libraries - A video created by Sally Pewhairangi.

Of interest (internets - wider)

- Amazon takes on Libraries with Kindle Owners' Lending Library [from Martin Taylor of Digital Publishing Forum]

- Guerrilla Librarians in our midst [from Scott McLemee for 'Inside Higher Ed'] an article about providing information and sustaining a movement

- Rumors of their death have been greatly exagerated 
an article by Lani Smith, written for the Informed Librarian Online

Library Laughs

- http://tinyurl.com/3qnfjtc
[cheers Philip van Zijl for bringing this to our attention on nz-libs]

- Librarian humour at Questionable Content

Librarylife issue #370

10 November  2011

ISSN# 1176-8088
As always, I really appreciate any feedback about how LibraryLife is meeting your needs - good or bad, positive or negative, what you like and what you don't like.  Also, pleeease, if you have any links for Library Laughs - send them my way!

Let me know your thoughts by e-mailing me, hana.whaanga@gmail.com.

Thanks!
Hana