President's Blog

On Friday 24th June, the 2010/11 Council met face to face for the last time with me at the helm. While I still technically had 6 days as President of LIANZA, this was an excellent opportunity to formally hand over the pounamu to Jane Hill as incoming President. This beautifully carved piece of greenstone is a symbol of leadership. The mana and wisdom of previous Presidents who have worn the pounamu is transferred to the new President. Following the handover, Council enthusiastically sung the LIANZA Waiata.

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From the Editor

I hope you are enjoying Librarylife in it’s current format. After just over seven months producing Librarylife fortnightly, I’ve come to realise that producing, sourcing and collating content and “copy” is demanding work.  

It's something that I cannot personally sustain as a volunteer every fortnight.

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LIANZA Activity and News

Professional Registration Revalidation: Make it work for you!

LIANZA Conference 2011 - 2nd Keynote Announcement

LIANZA Conference 2012 - We want your suggestions for speakers

Update On LIANZA's Recent Activity On Copyright Issues

LIANZA Council Strategic Planning Day

Canterbury's Shake Rattle 'n' Roll Party Postponed

Win A Trip To VALA2012 Courtesy Of 3M

REMINDER - LIANZA Partnered Awards

Feature Articles

Sally Pewhairangi
Maori world view: an introduction

Michelle Anderson
A brave new world

Sean Murgatroyd
Secret language of the internet

Tony Millett
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: a Librarian’s perspective

Shelley Gurney
Do Re Mi: Let's start at the very beginning

Claire Stent
Making do with less: Service delivery on a reduced budget

Of interest (Internets - local)

- Top 5 books you were forced to read in High School (according to TIME magazine) [thanks Tosca and Auckland Libraries!]

-a nice article on Auckland Council Libraries : featuring comments from Allison Dobbie, Auckland Libraries Manager and Claire Gummer “A lattitude of libraries” blogger [from The Aucklander]

Of interest (Internets - wider)

- The torment of terrible cover letters : An instructive blog post from Jenica Rogers, keynote at LIANZA Conference 2011

- 100 articles every Librarian should read : a Zotero group from Kathryn Greenhill

- Postcards from the edge (of the reference desk)

- In lean times, schools squeeze out librarians [from the NY Times]

- What happens online in 60 seconds [an infographic]

Announcement

LIANZA is sad to announce the passing of Rangiiria Hedley.  Rangiiria was a member of Te Roopu Whakahau and was one of the Te Reo experts for the Māori Subject Headings Working Party

Our thoughts are with our Te Roopu Whakahau colleagues at this sad time.
 

Do you love reading?

The Altrusa Club of Wellington presents a Literacy Quiz fund raiser to benefit Storylines, who promote the importance of reading and literature for children, and Literacy Aotearoa, who are adult literacy providers. Celebrate International Literacy Day in style at the Amora Hotel on Thursday the 8th of September from 7pm.

Support your local community and test your knowledge alongside our special guests; Tessa Duder, Jenny Pattrick, Martin Bosley and more. Invite a friend or gather a team, but be sure to get your ticket to be in to win over $2500 in prizes.

Buy tickets and find out more at
http://www.altrusa.org.nz/literacyquiz.html
 

Sam Hunt book giveaway - Winners!

We received a number of entries to the Sam Hunt book giveaway question “ Dum de de dummm the winners are.................................. 

• Cheryl Clarke
• Liz MacGibbon
• Gail Griffin
• Bill Howard
• Robyn McKeown
 

CONGRATULATIONS! 

LibraryLaughs

Well there was certainly an uproar as a result of suggesting in the last issue that I’d be taking Librarylaughs away due to “humour being too subjective”. Stats also showed that the Librarylaughs link was the 2nd most clicked on link in the newsletter. Gotta keep the punters happy now :-)

On that note, may I present one librarylaugh to you the reader:
- The Future

Librarylife #361

29 June 2011

ISSN# 1176-8088
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Hana
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