From the Editor

Tēna koutou!
I was stuck on a topic for this week's Librarylife editorial so I'm going with highlighting the work of the feature writers and musing about possible abstract topics.

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From the President

Kia ora koutou
On 6 and 7 May I spent a most enjoyable weekend at Waitomo attending the ninth Waikato/Bay of Plenty Weekend School. Forty attendees participated in an eclectic and enjoyable programme at the smart, new Waitomo Caves Conference and Events Centre.

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LIANZA Activity and News

There’s quite a lot of activity happening in and around the LIANZA office of late (must be that Megan is back on board!), so I’ve highlighted the latest here.

Don’t forget that you can comment on any news posts (and a number of community forum posts) by logging in with your website account or anonymously - go on give it a go!

The latest from LIANZA in the last two weeks:

* LIANZA Conference 2011 - call for abstracts
* LIANZA is moving office
* Win a trip to VALA2012 courtesy of 3M! <-- my pick of the bunch
* LIANZA submission on copyright (infringing file sharing) regulations 2011
* LIANZA welcomes Wendy MacGaskill as the new Ikaroa Councillor
* Koha leads the way with new release
* Free public libraries under threat
* Call for expressions of interest to join the Website Advisory Group (WAG)
(EOI’s for this need to be in by this Friday)

News from APLM

Helen Hennessey, Executive Director of the Association of Public Library Managers (APLM) has an update for us from the Annual APLM Members meeting.
Read about it here...

Feature Articles

Sally Pewhairangi
Aim for excellence always

Donna Watt
An update from SLANZA for May 2011

Michelle Anderson
5 easy things you can do to improve your Children’s and Teens area

Regional News & Events

Don’t forget you can view our calendar of events for the country on our website at http://lianza.org.nz/events, and any news from the regions at http://lianza.org.nz/community.
Thankfully, I’ve pulled the latest news and upcoming events from the regions for you here:

Ikaroa
Kim Salamonson of the Ikaroa region wants us to keep informed on what LIANZA is trying to do to keep Public libraries free in election year - read his thoughts here.

Heather Lamond gives us her council report for Ikaroa for May 2011.
Read it here

Amanda Curnow says, "Takuta Lilley E Tu - Will Dr Lilley Please Stand". 
Find out what for, here

Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui
Get help with your Revalidation Journal! - Tonight (Wednesday) 5.30 for 6pm start at TPK.
Details here

SLIS (Wellington)
* RDA in a special library environment - Tues 24 May 5.30pm at Department of Corrections.
Details here

* WANTED: a SLIS writer for Librarylife!
See here for more details

Otago/Southland
Drawling, Stretching And Fainting In Coils": Talk By David Elliot - Tues 24 May 5pm at Dunedin City Library.
Details here

Of interest (internets - local)

* From Diligent Room - A Challenge: Blog every day of June

* Tony Millett on behalf of LIANZA speaks to the NZ Herald - Library internet faces axe

Of interest (internets - wider)

* "A library is many things" - a post from the website "Letters of Note".   "Early-1971, in an effort to attract as many youngsters to the premises as possible, Marguerite Hart — children's librarian at the newly-opened public library in Troy, Michigan — wrote to a number of notable people with a request: to reply with a congratulatory letter, addressed to the children of Troy, in which the benefits of visiting such a library were explained in some form. It's heartening to know that an impressive 97 people did exactly that..."

I personally would like to highlight a letter to the children of Troy from Dr Seuss himself.

* "Tomorrow's Academic Libraries : Maybe even some books" [thank you Philip Van Zijl]

* From Seth Godin: "The Future of the Library"

** Response from Buffy Hamilton: "Are Librarians, Not Seth Godin, The Ones Missing the Point on Libraries?"

** Reponse from The 'M' word: "Godin, Gutenburg and Going Forward"
 

Book Giveaway

We have one copy of “The Spiritual Significance Of Music” by Justin St. Vincent to give away to one lucky reader.

If you want to win email megan@lianza.org.nz with your contact details. The winner will be drawn on Wednesday 25 May.

A final giggle

Again, no entries for this week - where are your funny bones, team?!
"Show and tell" me your opinion of funny!

Librarylife #358

18 May 2011

ISSN# 1176-8088

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Hana
Librarylife Editor :)