From the Editor...

I don’t really have an editorial for you this issue. Something far more important came up in the Canterbury region, which puts things into perspective.

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Hana Whaanga
Library Life Editor

Canterbury Earthquake

LIANZA will try to keep you updated as things transpire but this is what we have heard about our friends and colleagues so far.

The President of IFLA, Jennefer Nicholson, sent us the following message:

We received the terrible news of the earthquake that hit Christchurch, early yesterday afternoon.
The sad news of the people who have lost their lives and the images of the enormous damage done to houses, buildings and the city have struck us.
On behalf of the IFLA Governing Board and the international IFLA Community we express our sympathy.
We are thinking of you and if need be, the IFLA community stands willing to offer help.
Our thoughts are with you and your families and colleagues.
We wish you much strength in sustaining this situation.

Jennefer Nicholson, IFLA Secretary General,
and all of us here at IFLA Headquarters

LIANZA Activity

New Year’s message from the LIANZA president, Carolyn Robertson. Read it here.

A new LIANZA group - Pacific Information Management Network.
PIMN became a SIG of LIANZA in August 2010 and membership is invited and most welcome from LIANZA members. See here for more details.

Submissions are now open for the 2011 LIANZA Children’s book awards! Details here

Call for applications for the Paul Reynolds Scholardship, ‘the no numpties award’. Details here.

Call for expressions of interest:

Inaugural Paul Reynolds Scholarship judging panel. Details here.
Teaching representative needed for the Professional Registration board. Details here.

Feature Articles

Sally Pewhairangi
Forget Strategy, Worry About Execution

Sean the Storyteller
The third time’s the charm

News from SLANZA
from Donna Watt, the Communications Leader of SLANZA

Amanda Curnow
Project Management : a workshop review

Naomi Doessel
From Across the Ditch : ALIA Information Online part 2

Of interest from the internets

The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards Finalists were announced today! And before you know it, publicity material for your local public library will be winging it’s way to you in the courier bins for you to put out on display. Have a gander at the 2011 finalists here, and share with your colleagues your picks for the winners.

The National Library’s Services to Schools has an awesome blog, applicable to all with useful advice on getting to grips with RSS feeds, Twitter and the strange term, “transliteracy”. Check it out here.

A wrap up of “The Waitangi day blog challenge”. Check out Seonaid’s write-up on Auckland City Libraries’ Kintalk / Whānau Kōrero blog here.

LISNing the Library students network, a quiet little network for interested Library and Information Science students around the country and the world. Started as a blog by a friend, Kirsten Francis, taking a VUW paper a few years ago, it has morphed into something that’s catching I think. And supported and encouraged by the School of Information Management, Victoria University, and the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand,

LIANZA centennial book

Don't forget, the LIANZA centennial book is still available. Don't forget to get yours!

Email: admin@lianza.org.nz

Thank you to the contributors

Naomi Doessel
Sean Murgatroyd
Donna Watt
Sally Pewhairangi and
Amanda Curnow

And from the recent issues
Kathryn Oxborrow
Penny Dugmore