LIANZA Message Of Support For Our Canterbury Colleagues

LIANZA Council and office sends its best wishes to all our colleagues in Christchurch. Both Carolyn Roberston and Nicki Moen are of course directly affected.

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LIANZA Professional Registration Board - Revalidation Journals

The process of revalidation journal submissions is now in progress for registrants. The Profession Registration Board would like to clarify for registrants that the Board is looking to assess your best quality entries and in depth reflection on your learning outcomes and application.

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LIANZA Remuneration Survey

The LIANZA Remuneration Survey is used by library managers, HR staff and individual librarians to benchmark librarians’ pay.

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Marjorie Warwick has been awarded Honorary Life Membership

Council is delighted to advise that Marjorie Warwick has been awarded Honorary Life Membership this year.

Marjorie has been a member of the Library Association for over 50 years. She was the first librarian at the Auckland Regional Authority (now Council) when it was established in 1968 through to her retirement in 1990

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Library Week with a twist in Rotorua!

Looking at the “Ask Me” posters featuring different librarians generated the notion that we at Rotorua District Library could personalise these to our own library, creating a bit of fun for staff and our customers!

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KohaCon10!

KohaCon10 starts on October 25th in Wellington, New Zealand. We have an exciting line up of speakers on a range of topics related to Koha and Open Source and Open Standards in libraries.

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Palmerston North Youth Space Information Evening

n 2008 Palmerston North Youth Council undertook a survey of young people to inform the Council’s Recreation Strategy, ensuring young people’s views could be considered in Council decision-making.

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Twitter Donates Entire Tweet Archive to Library of Congress

Twitter is donating its digital archive of public tweets to the Library of Congress.
Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets per day from people around the world. The Library will receive all public tweets-which number in the billions-from the 2006 inception of the service to the present.

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Events, Vacancies and suggestions

Don't forget to check the events calendar and for vacancies in your area. Any suggestions, or if you'd like something featured in Library Life, just contact mike@lianza.org.nz