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Issue 318—Oct 2007
Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa
http://www.lianza.org.nz
ISSN 1176-8088
Your LIANZA
Every so often those of us on Council hear complaints
about things LIANZA is doing wrong or not doing.
We do appreciate feedback (good and bad) but
‘LIANZA’ is not just the Council, Sig Convenors and
regional committees. LIANZA is its members and
therefore the LIANZA community as a whole needs to
decide what LIANZA is and what it does! Over the next
two months LIANZA Council will be seeking feedback
from members and non-members about representation
and governance.
PRESIDENT’S
COLUMN
Kia ora LIANZA,
Conference has been and gone,
but hopefully some of the
transformative glow remains. Congratulations to Programme Chair
Rosanne Jatania, Social Host
Mericia Waqanimaravu and their committees who did so
much to make this year’s conference a great success.
Thanks also to all the speakers and presenters
(especially those who provided extra workshops to meet
demand), to Brenda Chawner and her team for their
pre-conference Web 2.0 workshop, and to Debbie Dawson and Sally Lewis for their post-conference workshop
on leadership. These extra events were well received
and helped add to the richness of conference.
Regions
Events tend to be concentrated in just a few towns and
cities. Regional Councils are aware that this makes
participation difficult for members who do not live or
work in main centres. Local LIANZA committees are
using various strategies to compensate, e.g. some
We are very pleased that Beverley Fletcher has agreed
to convene the 2008 conference Outside the Box. This
will be held in Auckland and the dates will be confirmed
as soon as possible (just trying to find dates outside the
school holidays when the Centre is available).
in this issue
President’s Column
Editorial
Library Week 2007
Web 2.0 Workshops
LIANZA Conference 2007 Update
LIANZA Conference Photos
LIANZA 2007 Awards
LIANZA Children’s Book Awards
Notes from the Office
Updates from Regions & SIGS
TOPNZ Column
Web 2.0 Workshops for Librarians Report
LIANZA Conference Report by an Australian delegate
Pasifika library & information recruitment project wins
Nielsen BookData Research Award
National Library Articles
Maori Language Week Awards
Kids flock to Libraries to grow Alien Gardens
Roald Dahl Day
Book Hospital
EcoCARE in the Pacific
NZ Book Month
2007 CLL Writers' Awards
The Life and Art of J C Sturm
Library Week launches on the 15th October and this
year’s theme Pass it on, Kia hiwa ra is about promoting
libraries as community spaces where information of
every kind can be passed on from one user to another.
See http://www.libraryweek.org.nz for more downloadable resources and details about activities planned.
Library Week doesn’t have to be just about the official
activities however. It can be a time when we all think
about the promotion of our libraries and library services.
For example, Deborah Fitchett and her colleagues at
Canterbury University are organising an inter-university
library video-chatting event for Library Week.
Congratulations on a great initiative Deborah!
LIANZA Council Meeting, Rotorua
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rotate meeting round towns in the region, others hold
weekend schools in the smaller or more remote areas of
their regions. The LIANZA Code of Practice allows for
the formation of sub-regional groups, which may provide
a way for groups to get together outside the main
centres, but some adjustment may be needed around
funding, representation and the relationships with
LIANZA regional and national councils.
So these are some of the issues that members have
been raising. How can we ensure a stronger voice for all
members? We would like to hear your thoughts on
communication and representation.
Regional Councils and SIGs (where possible) are
planning meetings during October and November to find
out what sort of organisation you think LIANZA should
be. If you can’t make a meeting you can drop us a line,
or call and bend the ear of your councillor or SIG
convenor.
Contact
details
are
at:
http://www.lianza.org.nz/contact/index.html
Special Interest Groups
Many LIANZA members identify more with a particular
Special Interest Group (SIG) than their region. Do we
have the right SIGs? Do we need new ones to cover
new library and information areas? Would too many
SIGs become cumbersome or are they a good way of
engaging professional interest, commitment and learning? A great deal of LIANZA energy resides in the SIGs,
so what is the best way of communicating and consulting with these groups? Who speaks for SIGs, how and
where?
Vye Perrone
[email protected]
EDITORIAL
Conference over, Library Week
about to begin, Christmas leave
being locked in (for the fortunate) – where has 2007
gone? Looking back over the
last 9 months of Library Life it’s
clear that we have been packing
in more and more changes and
events than ever before but
somehow we manage to keep
those Library (and Information) services running as
well!
I’ve recently moved Libraries and am deep in the process of assimilating the years of history and culture
which come with joining a new organisation – I think that
it’s vital to understand the elements which have formed
the shape of your current workplace but the trick is to
remember to keep an open mind and be willing to revisit
past ideas with the benefit of new eyes – that newcomer’s perspective doesn’t last long. Whenever you
employ a new person it’s a great chance to capture their
“But why?...” questions and think carefully about why it
isn’t obvious.
LIANZA Council, Regions & SIGS Meeting, Rotorua
Institutional (corporate) Membership
Our library (information/ knowledge centre) members
are important to LIANZA. They pay fees, provide advice
and expertise through their staff. Their voices are
essential in helping determine the future direction of
LIANZA, and in enabling Council to make informed
decisions relating to industry and sector needs,
initiatives and services. Currently, communication and
consultation with this group tends to be ad hoc and
informal. We need to find ways to get advice, plan joint
initiatives and communicate better with the various
sectors.
The great joy of my change is the opportunity to meet
and work with a new group of library professionals – it
never ceases to amaze me that such good people are
drawn to our line of work and give so much of themselves to their communities. Conversely of course I
also had to leave my previous library and that was enormously difficult – I hope at least that I left some tiny fraction of myself in them to make up for the great chunk of
them that I now carry with me.
Much the same is true of LIANZA – almost everyone
involved with LIANZA is a volunteer and give a great
amount of their time and experience to make events
happen for their fellow members (and quite often even
people who aren’t members – yet - ), everyone
contributing to LIANZA leaves a small mark of themselves in our professional history yet reap the benefit of
the collective effort of thousands before, and now
alongside, them. Thank you all for making LIANZA
such a beneficial organisation to be part of and
contribute to.
Glen Walker
[email protected]
Vye Perrone with ALA President Loriene Roy
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PS: Contributions to Library Life are always welcome –
whether you have a report to give, an opinion to share
or a rant to get off your chest we’re the place, your
place, your magazine, this is your Library Life.
WEB 2.0 TO LIBRARY 2.0 A BEGINNER’S GUIDE
Date: Saturday 13 October, 2007
Time: 8:45 am to 4 pm
Cost: $320 for LIANZA members & $410 for non members
Location: Christchurch City Libraries’ South Learning
Centre, 66 Colombo Street, cnr Hunter Tce and
Colombo St, Beckenham
Number of Participants: 16 minimum to 20 maximum
Event Leaders: Paul Reynolds & Paul Sutherland
This is a one day learning event for library staff which
focuses on the frameworks and tools of the participatory
web – the Web 2.0 environment. Participants will be
offered some thoughts and ideas and will be
encouraged to explore and use some the tools which
Web 2.0 offers and to look at the possibilities for their
own Library 2.0. The event is practically based and will
be constructed to ensure that participants are engaged
and have fun.
LIBRARY WEEK 2007
“Kia hiwa ra”! The Library Week website is
up and running “Pass it on”!
15-21 October 2007
The
Library
Week
2007
website
(www.libraryweek.org.nz) is up and running with information about Library Week for the general public as well
as the librarians’ log-in area with downloadable
resources and information to help you organise Library
Week events including NZ’s Biggest Storytime, Living
Heritage Day and the Living Library Project.
Who should attend?
The day is aimed at people who have reasonable IT
user skills i.e. they are familiar with the Internet, email
and use of applications such as word processing. It is
not designed for IT experts or those fluent in the use of
Web 2.0 tools
Your log-in details for the librarians' pages are:
Cost
The cost of attendance at the event covers morning and
afternoon teas and lunch. Participants will receive resource material to take away. Travel costs etc are the
responsibility of participants or their employers.
Username: libraryweek
Password: LW2007 (this password is case sensitive)
The website has plenty of suggestions for fun activities
you might like to incorporate in to your Library Week
schedule. If you have run successful events in the past
and you would like to share your ideas with others,
please email [email protected] to add to the list of
activities.
Before the Event
No preparation is necessary
While we encourage you to download these materials
from the site just remember your library will be getting a
'starter pack' in the next week with a range of promotional items - from posters to bookmarks to shelf
'wobblers' - the number of each in your packs will vary
according to the size of your library and materials will be
sent to central libraries for distribution to the branches.
After the Event
Participants are expected to use some of the tools they
have been exposed to and to contribute to an ongoing
forum. These tasks will not be onerous.
We still have a few more items to add to the website
and I will let you know when these are available so keep
an eye on the list-serves as we will be sending more
information and suggestions to help you plan your
Library Week campaign.
• understand the nature of web 2.0 tools and services as a framework of web based activity
• understand the potential of web 2.0 tools for library
activity
• understand the potential of web 2.0 tools as devices
to enhance personalisation, participation and collaboration
• be able to demonstrate knowledge of a number of
web 2.0 tools
• be able to use a blog, find, access and use an RSS
feed or live bookmark, and able to identify, evaluate
and use other APIs
• have set up a personal/professional blog
• have an ongoing commitment to continue to use a
number of the tools in collaborative ways with other
Learning Outcomes
Participants will
Please forward this notice on to your colleagues to
make sure everyone is up to date about Library Week
and everyone has access to the website log-in area.
If you have any questions about Library Week please
don’t hesitate to contact me.
Megan Mathieson
Communications and Publications Coordinator
LIANZA
[email protected]
www.libraryweek.org.nz
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participants
• have identified potential uses of web 2.0 tools for
their employing institutions
http://www.lianza.org.nz/conferenceblog/?p=4
This 1 day seminar is brought to you in association
with LIANZA, in it’s commitment to foster
professional development. If you are a registered
professional attending this seminar don’t forget to
record it in your Revalidation Journal under Body of
Knowledge # 7.
Just a reminder that if you are registered under the
LIANZA Professional Registration Scheme and you
attended Conference and or the Brenda Chawner Web
2.0 or Debbie Dawson & Associates Strengthening
Leadership courses, remember to log these in your
Revalidation Journal.
Professional Registration
LIANZA Conference Committee
[email protected]
RECIPIENTS OF 2007 LIANZA
AWARDS
The winners of the 2007 LIANZA Awards were
announced during Conference in Rotorua last month.
LIANZA Fellowships were presented at the opening of
conference each morning and the Awards Ceremony on
Monday afternoon saw the presentation of all other
LIANZA Awards.
CONFERENCE 2007
ROTORUA SEPTEMBER 2007
Thanks to you all for a fantastic LIANZA Conference in
Rotorua!
Citations and photographs for 2007 Fellows and
Associates can be viewed on the LIANZA website:
http://www.lianza.org.nz/development/awards/
professional/index.html
Proceedings
Papers from LIANZA Conference 2007 are now
available for you to search and/or browse. There may
be a few papers not available yet but we hope to have
these on the website shortly. To search, please visit the
Online Library and enter your search terms e.g. author,
title or LIANZA Conference 2007 to browse the full list:
http://opac.lianza.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl
Fellowship (FLIANZA)
This is an honorary award by peer nomination and is the
highest professional award within the New Zealand
library and information profession.
2007 Fellows are: Judith Bright, Rowena Cullen,
Barbara Garriock, Ross Harvey, Brian Marshall,
John Stears.
Photos
The photographs from LIANZA Conference 2007 are
now available on the LIANZA website under Events &
Conferences
in
the
photo
gallery:
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/gallery2/main.php
Associateship (ALIANZA)
This is the highest professional attainment a member of
the profession can attain by application and LIANZA
was very please to award 25 Associateships in 200:
You might like to watch the images as a slideshow... to
do this click on slideshow view and set to 1 second
intervals.
Lyndsay Ainsworth, Angela Broring, Warren Curran,
Vicki Darling, Roger Dawson, Adriana De Groot,
Joan Gibbons, Cherry Gordon, Jill Irwin, Gael
Lamont, Pat Liao, Anne McCormick, Kitty Murray,
Bill Nagelkerke, Bruce Ralston, Fiona Rigby, Chris
Roberts, Elizabeth Russell, Carol Spanhake, Joanna
Thomas, Sally Thompson, Kat Turner, Philip Van
Zijl, Glen Walker and Lynne Walker.
If you find a great shot of yourself or a colleague you
can purchase photographs from Carter Photography:
[email protected] 07 858 4049 or 021 808 727. The
full set of Conference photographs can be purchased
for $80.
Conference Blog
Letters of Recognition
We were really pleased with the usage of the Conference Blog (http://www.lianza.org.nz/conferenceblog/)
during Conference especially it being used to organise
meetings of people with similar interests.
Two recipients of the award are:
Margaret Calder for her outstanding contribution to
libraries and librarianship in New Zealand and her
contribution of significant special service to LIANZA.
The Blog is still up and running so you can still take the
opportunity to log on to discuss ideas and issues raised
during LIANZA Conference 2007 or to share your
thoughts about your conference experience.
Detective Sergeant Ross Tarawhiti for his work over
two and a half years for ‘Operation Pupapuka’ which
brought to a halt ten years of organized plundering of
valuable books from New Zealand libraries, bringing all
those guilty to justice and returning many of the books
to their respective libraries
If you haven't already registered as a blog user the
"Getting Started" instructions are available here:
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projects for Auckland City Libraries in the areas of: book
procurement and purchasing strategies, supply
contracts, consolidation of invoices and book
processing. Annette has also taken a leadership role in
the implementation of the Acquisitions Module for
eLGAR libraries.
LIANZA Award of Merit – Marketing
Awarded to Kay Forrester for generating public
awareness and support for her organisation, during the
Auckland Central Library redevelopment project and for
her work on the ‘Inspire me” national television, radio
and poster campaign. The campaign has succeeded in
raising the profile of libraries in the minds of New
Zealanders and lifting the bar for public libraries in their
own marketing endeavours.
Nielsen BookData Research Award
Donald Kerr - Amassing Treasures for all times
A top award of $3000 was made to Spencer Lilley,
Judy McFall and Maryanne Marsters for their proposal "Pasifika librarians and information managers:
catching the new wave". Pacific people are significantly under-represented in the library and information
professions and this project aims to identify methods to
recruit, retain and train Pacific staff.
This work is classified as a “bio-bibliography”, covering
four important aspects of Sir George Grey’s collecting
and donating of two private libraries to Cape Town’s
and Auckland’s public library in the 19th century
This research project will examine a known problem, the
researchers are planning to use robust methodology
and the proposal shows clearly how the results will be
disseminated to the profession.
Jock McEldowney - Geoffrey Alley librarian his life and
work
A second award of $1000 was made to Gillian Ralph
and Julie Sibthorpe for their proposal "Emerging
trends in New Zealand Special Libraries" which sets
out to obtain an overview of emerging trends in New
Zealand libraries and to compare the New Zealand
experience with other similar countries.
The John Harris Award
There were 4 recipients of the John Harris Award for
2007:
This book is a full biography of New Zealand’s first
National Librarian and his family, plus it covers the
history of many other significant figures in New Zealand
librarianship.
Phil Parkinson and Penny Griffith - Books in Maori
1815-1900
3M Award for Innovation in Libraries
1st Place - Horowhenua
Kete Horowhenua
This book is a professional bibliography, described as
giving New Zealand “bibliodensity” – it has been reviewed as “a masterpiece of professional bibliography”
Trust
–
Kete Horowhenua is a community built digital library of
arts, cultural and heritage resources for and about
Horowhenua, New Zealand. Horowhenua Library. Kete
Horowhenua is a knowledge basket of images, audio,
video and documents which are collected and catalogued by the community
Millett, Tony (A.P.U.). - Bibliography of New Zealand
bibliographies et al
These bibliographies represent a major sustained effort
over 40 years of bibliographical work in New Zealand
librarianship by a New Zealand librarian.
2nd Place - University of Auckland Library –
Te Punga, the Voyager Tutorial
Paul Szentirmay Scholarship
The tutorial is the result of a project to create a highly
effective learning tool around the Library Catalogue. It is
innovative amongst library tutorials for: the specificity of
its target audience (young first-year students); a strong
emphasis on learning design; high visual and contextual
values.
This Scholarship enables the successful applicant to
make a valuable contribution to special library and information research in NZ or support those in NZ seeking
leadership roles in this area.
Julie Sibthorpe & Gillian Ralph have won the Paul
Szentirmay
Award
for
their
research
proposal "Emerging trends in New Zealand Special
Libraries". The purpose of this research is to obtain an
overview of Emerging trends in New Zealand special
libraries and to compare New Zealand experience with
special library experience in other similar countries.
3rd Place – National Library of New Zealand Making a Digitised Historic Newspaper Searchable.
This project was designed to digitise and OCR some of
the existing Papers Past content from the National
Library website and to evaluate the benefits of
delivering full-text search using OCR.
LIANZA AWARDS
YBP/Lindsay and Croft Award for Collection Services
The Awards culture is a very important aspect of the
LIANZA community and we do this in a number of ways.
Annette Hugill is the recipient of this award which
recognises outstanding contribution in the areas of
collection development, collection management,
acquisitions and cataloguing.
LIANZA recognises achievement and commitment to
the profession through our Associateships and
Fellowships, Merit Awards and Letters of Recognition to
name a few. We value and celebrate the knowledge
and contribution recipients of these awards make to our
Annette is currently actively involved in Acquisitions /
Collection Services work and has undertaken major
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young people. The judges described Davidson’s
depiction of the Vietnam War as “gripping, illuminating
and moving.”
profession. Members receiving these awards are an
inspiration to all of us to go that extra mile, create
something new, give something back and make a
difference.
Well known artist Robyn Kahukiwa
is the winner of the Te Kura
Pounamu for her book Matatuhi
(Puffin/Penguin Books), translated
by Kiwa Hammond. The Te Kura
Pounamu was established in 1995.
It celebrates a work in te reo Māori
that promotes excellence in library
resources in Māori and makes a
distinguished contribution to
literature for children and young
people. The judges described
Matatuhi as “a remarkable piece of storytelling with
exceptional illustrations which should become a New
Zealand classic.”
In addition we have a number of awards which carry a
cash component and these are either funded through
bequests or sponsorships.
This year LIANZA, through those bequests and
sponsorships paid out its members some $24,500 to
fund various projects for innovation or research and
professional development.
LIANZA is proud to be the vehicle through which these
funds can be made available to its members and we
acknowledge and thank our sponsors who so
generously provide these opportunities and for their
commitment to the library and information sector.
LIANZA CHILDREN’S BOOK
AWARDS
These awards celebrate the unique contribution made
to cultural heritage and national identity by New Zealand
authors and illustrators. Each award consists of a medal
or taonga and $1,000 prize money.
Wellington writer and teacher
Bernard Beckett received New
Zealand’s oldest book prize, The
Esther Glen Award, at the LIANZA
Children’s Book Awards ceremony in
Rotorua last month. The Esther Glen
Award was established in 1944 and
is given to the author who is
considered to have made the most
distinguished contribution to
literature for children. The prize was
presented to Beckett for his young
adult science fiction book, Genesis: a novel (Longacre
Press). The judges described Beckett’s book as “one of
the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging novels ever written for older New Zealand children.”
Kathryn Carmody, publicist
[email protected]
NOTES FROM THE OFFICE
IFLA Newsletter features NZ Libraries
Take a look at the IFLA Public Libraries Section
Newsletter Number 34, April 2007. The cover shows
photos of Public Libraries around the World and
includes images of Tai Tapu Library, Christchurch
Central Library and the Mobile Library Parade in Taupo.
The Newsletter also includes an article about the New
Zealand Mobile Librarians Conference held in Taupo
earlier this year.
Gisborne based author and illustrator Ben Galbraith received
The Russell Clark Award for
his sophisticated picture book
The Three Fishing Brothers
Gruff (Hodder/Hachette Livre).
The Russell Clark Award was
established in 1975 and
celebrates a distinguished
contribution to illustrated
children’s books. This is 27 year
old Galbraith’s first book. The
judges described The Three
Fishing Brothers Gruff as “an innovative and
magnificent contribution to New Zealand literature.”
It is great to see New Zealand featured so prominently
in this newsletter.
IKAROA UPDATE
AGM 2007
The 2007 Ikaroa AGM was held at National Library
Palmerston North on 7 August, with a good turnout of
37 librarians, including some from as far away as South
Taranaki and Napier.
Unfortunately our main draw card – guest speaker Chris
Szekely – was ill and unable to travel up to Palmerston
North, but John Redmayne (Massey University
Librarian) kindly agreed to fill in at the last minute, and
show slides of libraries (and a few other sites) he had
visited on a recent trip to Europe for the IATUL
Conference in Sweden.
Leon Davidson is the winner of The
Elsie Locke Award for his second
book Red Haze: Australians & New
Zealanders in Vietnam (Black Dog
Books). In addition to writing, Davidson is also training in
Wellington to become a teacher. The
Elsie Locke Award was established
in 1986 and celebrates a distinguished contribution to non-fiction for
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Long-serving Ikaroa Chair Heather Manning stood down
from that post, but has remained on the Committee
(where she has served in a wide range of roles). Her
successor is Michael Parry from Massey University
Library. Another long-serving committee member –
Doreen Bailey of UCOL Library, Palmerston North was
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also farewelled, along with Karyn Thomson, Robyn
Wilson and Gwen Basley. Judi Kercher (International
Pacific College, Palmerston North) has joined the
committee, and Danae Etches and Lynne Walker
continue to be corresponding members from the
Taranaki region.
Other committee members are
continuing on for another year: Gendie Mildon
(Secretary), Heather Lamond (Treasurer), Jane Brooker
(Councillor), Wendy Macaskill and April Stevenson.
Following drinks and substantial nibbles, the business of
the evening was held, and then the slide show began.
John had visited mainly university libraries on his trip,
looking at building design and services, but also showed
photos of the Paul Dibble Hyde Park sculptures (of
particular interest to Palmerston North residents, given
that the sculptor is a local) and of Berlin and Uppsala
(where the IATUL delegates visited).
TELSIG STUDY GRANT
TelSIG is offering a one-off study grant of five hundred
dollars ($500.00) to a librarian or library studies student
to assist them in achieving either a professional library
qualification or further qualifications relevant to their
career.
Conference Feedback evening
This is the next event in the Ikaroa region and will be
hosted by Massey University Library (Palmerston North)
in the Library Staffroom, on Wednesday 10 October
beginning at 5.30pm with light refreshments. Speakers
will cover a variety of conferences attended during the
year, including the recent LIANZA conference in
Rotorua. Ikaroa Chair, Michael Parry, will also report
back on the meeting held for Regional & SIG chairs with
LIANZA Council, immediately prior to Conference.
upcoming events
October 2007
ALIA National Library & Information Technicians Conference 2007
9-12 October 2007
Melbourne Australia
http://www.alia07.com/
Jane Brooker
Ikaroa Regional Councillor
[email protected]
Library Week
15-21 October 2007The Library Week website will
soon be updated so don’t forget to start checking
www.libraryweek.org.nz
NEWS FROM THE OTAGO
SOUTHLAND REGION
Annual Bicultural Seminar
25 October 2007
Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland
http://www.lianza.org.nz/cgi-bin/calendar/
viewevent.pl?id=354
October Event
We intend to discuss the Vision of LIANZA – what we
are doing well and what we need to address in the
future. This applies to the Regional, National, and
Special Interest Groups that make up LIANZA. At a pre
Conference meeting held in Rotorua on Sunday 9th
September, the LIANZA Council asked all regional
groups to meet and provide feedback by November
2007.
November 2007
Leadership Through Career Management
13 November 2007
Auckland
[email protected]
Our meeting will be held on October 25th in the
Dunningham Room, Dunedin City Library.
Leadership Through Career Management
14 November 2007
Hamilton
[email protected]
Drinks and nibbles: 5.20pm.
Regional presentation of John Harris Award to Jock
McEldowney, former University of Otago Librarian:
5.45pm.
Leadership Through Career Management
16 November 2007
Palmerston North
[email protected]
Visioning meeting 6.00pm – 7.00pm.
Please come and give us your feedback, thoughts and
ideas.
Electronic Document & Record Management NZ 2007
28 - 29 November 2007
Wellington
[email protected]
Invitation to move on for Dinner at a local restaurant
7.15pm.
To view more events or to add a listing to the LIANZA
calendar go to: http://www.lianza.org.nz/cgi-bin/calendar/dar.pl
Louise Booth
Chair – Otago Southland LIANZA region
[email protected]
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Applicants must:
NEWS FROM INFORMATION AND
LIBRARY STUDIES AT THE OPEN
POLYTECHNIC
•
•
•
•
be financial members of both LIANZA and TelSIG
be currently employed in a tertiary library
provide details of the study to be undertaken
declare any other financial assistance they will
receive in relation to their course of study e.g.
scholarships or employer assistance
• provide a letter from their manager if no employer
assistance is received and
• describe in their application how they will benefit
from receiving this grant
In this column we keep you up to date with current
news, and update details on some of our
programmes.
Enrolments open for semester 3
We are well underway for Semester Two courses.
Enrolments for Semester Three close on the 23
October 2007, and the semester begins on 29 October.
Current students please note that there is a three
week overlap between semesters 2 and 3. If you are
enrolling for the first time with the Polytechnic, you
should try and enrol as early as possible, as first time
enrolments take a little longer. Most Information and
Library Studies (ILS) courses are available in semesters
1 and 2, with one course, Information Access, offered in
semester 3. However, elective courses relevant to
the ILS diplomas and degrees, are offered in semester
3; these courses are taught by faculty staff in other
sections of the School of Information and Social
Sciences.
The Selection Committee will be three members of the
current TelSIG Committee
Application letters should be sent to the Selection
Committee at the following address:
TelSIG Study Grant Selection Committee
c/o Ann Hall, TelSIG Secretary
Massey University Library
Private Bag 11 054
Palmerston North
By Wednesday 14th November 2007
Enrolments for 2008 open on 1 November. The Degree
Programmes 2008 brochure will be available towards
the end of October and includes information on all our
programmes, including the certificates and diplomas.
Telephone the freephone number 0508 650 200 and
ask for a copy of the brochure to be sent to you, or
have
a
look
at
the
website
http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/
programmesandcourses/subjectareas/pcinformation.
The grant will be paid to the successful applicant on
proof of enrolment in a recognised course of study. The
recipient will be required to report their results to the
TelSIG Committee.
TELSIG PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT DAY
TELSIG is very pleased to announce that Peter Mellow
Senior Lecturer, Flexible Learning Advisor, Auckland
University of Technology is available to present at a
professional development day to be held at Massey
University Palmerston North. Peter is widely recognised
as a leader in the fields of Flexible Learning, e-Learning
and the rapidly expanding m-Learning and this year was
a recipient of a Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award.
His presentation will focus on how libraries can work
co-operatively with academic staff and students to
identify opportunities to offer new services or to change
the way we currently deliver our services to take
advantage of new technologies.
Information Days
Mary Innes, Programme Leader for Information and
Library Studies, represented The Open Polytechnic at
the recent free Study Expo organised by Auckland
City Libraries for anyone in the Auckland area who
was thinking about or had already started study, or
wanted to talk to LIANZA about their professional
registration scheme. Amanda Cossham, along with a
representative from Victoria University’s MLIS
programme, will be attending the mini Professional
Development evening, hosted by Christchurch City
Libraries, on Tuesday 9th October 4:30-6:30. This will
be held in Meeting Room 3, Third Floor of Christchurch
Public Library.
The second half of the day will provide participants with
hands-on experience using Web 2.0 technologies such
as blogs and pod-casts. As a result of attending the
professional development day attendees will also be
offered the opportunity to participate in 23 things an
online self-discovery programme that encourages the
exploration of web 2.0 tools and new technologies.
Staff news - conferences
Staff from the Information and Library Studies section
have enjoyed meeting up with students and adjunct faculty staff at recent conferences. Mary Innes attended
the LIANZA Conference in Rotorua, and presented
Alison Fields’ paper on mentoring, as Alison was unable to attend the conference. Amanda Cossham and
Sandie Smith attended the RMAA International
Convention in Wellington. Amanda presented a paper
on professional education and development for records
managers. One of the RMAA 2007 Excellent awards the Objective IQ Article of the year award - went to
Amanda and co-author Kerri Siatiras for their article on
Morning tea and lunch included.
When: Tuesday 20 November 2007, 10.00am - 4.00pm
Where: Training Room, Library, Massey University
Palmerston North, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North.
TELSIG, LIANZA Member Price: $60.00
Non-member price: $80.00
To Register: Contact: Karyn Thomson
[email protected] or 06 965 3801 ext 60793
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developing a general disposal authority for the District
Health Boards.
themselves. For more information, please contact
Brenda Chawner ([email protected] ).
Jan Irvine
Lecturer
Information and Library Studies
School of Information and Social Sciences
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
[email protected]
LIANZA ROTORUA 2007
The LIANZA Conference [TRANZFORM Te Tiinihanga
2007] was held in beautiful Rotorua, New Zealand, 9-12
September, 2007. The conference theme “Tranzform”
was highlighted at the start of the conference. Penny
Carnaby, National Librarian of New Zealand and the
Hon. Judith Tizard, Minister of Arts, Culture and
Heritage spoke highly of libraries in New Zealand,
particularly in relation to the digital enhancements.
Delegates came to the conference from all around the
world: Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, England
and America.
WEB 2.0 FOR LIBRARIANS
WORKSHOP
On 8 September, 22 librarians gathered at Waiariki
Institute of Technology to learn about Web 2.0 and its
uses in libraries. The group included people from public,
special, tertiary, and school libraries, all keen to find
new ways of reaching their users via participatory
software. The workshop leaders were Brenda Chawner
from the School of Information Management at Victoria
University of Wellington, Kelly McKean from Manakau
Libraries, and Sean Murgatroyd, Children's and
Teenage Services Librarian at Albany Village Library.
Both Kelly and Sean use Web 2.0 applications regularly,
and they were keen to share their knowledge and
experience with workshop participants. Brenda has
been promoting participatory software since she set up
the ITSIG wiki in 2003.
I am a Liaison Librarian at the University of Western
Sydney, Penrith Campus, Sydney, New South Wales
where I have worked for 4 years. I attended the conference as a newcomer to the LIANZA conferences and
also to an overseas conference.
The main objectives I planned to take away from the
conference included:
• Learn and bring back new ideas to the libraries of the
University of Western Sydney [UWS];
• Network with the library staff from the diverse
number of New Zealand libraries [academic to public
libraries and others];
The session started with a definition of Web 2.0 and
some commonly used Web 2.0 applications, before
looking at wikis, blogs, photo sharing on Flickr, social
networking software, instant messaging, and using RSS
feed aggregators. Workshop attendees were able to
experiment with using these tools themselves, and by
the end of the day everyone had created a wiki page for
their notes, we had a number of enthusiastic new
bloggers, and Flickr gained another 'pimp my bookcart'
image, among others. Some of the more adventurous
participants experimented with posting photos from
Flickr to their new blogs. The discussion about using
RSS aggregators such as NetVibes included tips for
finding the latest Rugby World Cup results. Participants
were given examples of libraries making effective use of
these technologies, including local examples such as
Christchurch
City Libraries
blog
(http://
cclblog.wordpress.com/) and Auckland City
Libraries Hokianga Exhibition blog (http://
aclhokiangarocks.blogspot.com/). They were also
shown how Flickr can be used to host a slide show, for
people who don't have access to presentation software.
The group discussed other Web 2.0 and library topics,
including managing an online identity, and responding
to police objections to the use of social networking
services (Bebo, for example) on library computers. A
theme running through the day was the need to tailor
Web 2.0 services to user needs, and Sean and Kelly
provided good 'Librarian 2.0' role models. Wairiki
Insitute of Technology provided access to a computer
lab for the workshop, and we are grateful for their support.
• Speak with the vendors present at the conference
and discuss with them their new products and
services.
Paper highlights
In the workshops, keynote sessions and concurrent
sessions I attended and the material presented has
been summarised using three themes:
1 Information Literacy developments:
The first presentation I would like to discuss was
presented by Chris Powis [Learning Support
Co-ordinator at University College Northampton] and Jo
Webb [Business, Law and Humanities Team Manager
at De Montfort University in Leicester], Shrugging off the
cardigan: learning and teaching identities. This
workshop looked at the teacher and learner in the
university environment, changes taking place with
learning in the educational environment and examined
the functions of learning [motivation, orientation,
explanations and appraisals]. This was a hands-on
workshop in which everyone actively participated and
many stimulating ideas were discussed. The second
information literacy concurrent session I attended was
on biblioblogging entitled: Biblioblogging: blogs
for library communication. This was applicable to
information literacy developments within the academic
libraries I work in, with a focus on other methods for
disseminating information to students through blogs, in
addition to face-to-face teaching.
The wiki-based course materials are available at http://
lianzaweb2workshop.pbwiki.com/, for people who’d like
to see what was covered and try things out for
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The keynote address delivered on the third day by Ian
Brooks, Chairman of the New Zealand Association for
Customer Excellence, was an excellent presentation; a
9.30 a.m. start after partying at the Conference dinner to
the early hours of the morning! His theme was on
customer service and identified four salient aspects:
getting to know the customer, giving the customer
control, going the extra mile for them and maintaining a
customer focus at all times. The presentation included
having the audience actively involved in the
conversation the whole time, interspersed with fits of
laughter but allowing time for reflection on the points
and examples.
PASIFIKA LIBRARY & INFORMATION
RECRUITMENT PROJECT WINS
NIELSEN BOOKDATA RESEARCH
AWARD
The Pasifika library & information recruitment project
spearheaded by Spencer Lilley,
was presented the 2007 Nielsen BookData Research
Award at the Library and Information Association of
New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Annual Conference on
Monday 11th September.
The Award is made to support a proposed research project related to information management, which encompasses the fields of publishing, library and information
management, electronic libraries, and bibliographic and
full-text databases
3 The Reference Enquiry Service
The workshop on the image of the reference librarian
entitled Beauty and the Beast: what lurks behind the
university library reference desk? was delivered by
Charlotte Clements and Gael Lamont and provoked a
very interesting and lively discussion in the hour and a
half allocated. The workshop involved group work,
presentations and discussions. For example, the first
activity involved each person within their group describing a person whom they had been admired by in their
Reference Librarian role capacity. This was followed by
the time to discuss a person we remembered as the
“Scary Librarian” and a person known to intimidate and
frighten clients away.
Spencer Lilley (Research Project Leader) received the
Award on behalf of the research team and the Pasifika
Information Management Network (PIMN) for their forthcoming research project on how to recruit and retain
more Pacific Peoples into the Library and Information
professions.
In receiving the award, Spencer, highlighted the fact
there was currently a “very small number of Pacific
people employed in the library and information
professions and that this needed to change as the
Pacific population is growing at an accelerated rate. It is
expected that this growth will result in an increased
demand for specialist services targeted at Pacific
peoples, and libraries and information agencies need to
be ready for this.
There were many other sessions I attended with just as
much interest and whereby I was able to gather new
ideas to take away and bring back to my current workplace at UWS.
Other extra-curricular highlights
The project also focuses on how libraries and other
information agencies encourage Pacific peoples to use
their services and resources and will use case studies
of successful partnerships between Pacific communities
and the library and information professions to highlight
best practices.
The Conference dinner on the Tuesday evening was an
amazing success. I was a little anxious attending for two
reasons: not knowing anyone and feeling under-dressed
for the tropical dinner theme. But this all changed with
the beautiful Hawaiian flowers on each seat at the dinner. Everyone at the dinner was so hospitable, came
over to talk, mingled and, of course, danced all night.
And the same success applied to the organization of the
Newcomers’ morning tea!
Some of my other
experiences while in Rotorua were a visit to the Mitai
Maori village on the Saturday evening [a taste of the
Maori culture], a guided walking tour of some of the
volcanic areas around Rotorua, attending a Maori
Anglican church service and, in winding down, a visit to
the Blue Baths Polynesian Spas. And to feel at home, I
went on my daily morning walk through the thermal
springs and made a first attempt at horse-riding around
the green tranquil farms of Rotorua.
In presenting the Award, Ms Martine Poiree of
National Manager of Nielsen BookData Ltd, praised
the project as being very timely due to the growing
importance of the contribution made by Pacific
people to New Zealand’s social, economic and cultural
future
A report on the findings and recommendations from the
research will be presented in 2008.
Spencer Lilley
[email protected]
Judy McFall
[email protected]
I hope to be back soon to this beautiful town and also to
visit the many other wonderful parts that New Zealand
has to offer. Congratulations to the committee of
LIANZA on such a success!
Martine Poiree
[email protected]
Maryanne Marsters
[email protected]
Katherine Raper, Liaison Librarian,
School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Ward Library
University of Western Sydney, Penrith Campus
[email protected]
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5 ways to stay connected to the National
Library
Subscribe to our e-newsletter by sending an email to
[email protected]
Registrations open for National Digital
Forum 2007
Visit one of our blogs.
Create Readers
(http://createreaders.natlib.govt.nz) is all about
children's and young adult literature (especially from
New Zealand), literacy research, and ways to get - and
keep
kids
reading.
LibraryTechNZ
(http://librarytechnz.natlib.govt.nz) is where the Library's
technology and web development staff share what they
are thinking about and working on.
Registrations are now open for the National Digital
Forum 2007, Wellington Convention Centre: Thursday
29 November and Friday 30 November 2007!
Check out the news section on our website, including
the special ‘channel’ for library-related news:
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/news/news-libraries
A National Services Te Paerangi (NSTP)
‘Un-Conference Day’ will follow the Forum on Saturday
1 December.
Subscribe to one of our RSS feeds, covering news,
events and media releases: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/
what-is-rss
You’ll find a provisional copy of the Conference
Programme on the website at http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/
about/projects.htm#_ndf2007.
And remember that our Quicklinks for LIANZA page is
still live at http://www.natlib.govt.nz/lianza. Visit the
page to see at a glance all the things we talked about
on our stand at the LIANZA Conference 2007
UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL
LIBRARY OF NEW ZEALAND
"Digital realities: communities, convergence and
sustainability" is the theme for NDF 2007. It's time to get
real about what we have been doing, who we are doing
it for, and how to ensure that what we do today will be
accessible and relevant tomorrow.
Communities will be a focus, from educators and
learners to our Pacific neighbours... what end-user
communities are out there, how are they using digital
cultural heritage content, and is it meeting their needs?
Speakers will also provide insight into the range of new
digital products, services and opportunities that arise
when the worlds of entertainment, computing and
communications combine; and will consider the sustainability of our digital content.
Join us at The Wellington Convention Centre as we
consider the digital realities for museums, archives, art
galleries, libraries and other institutions working
to enhance access to New Zealand's culture and
heritage.
Visit the National Digital Forum website for online
registration, information and other details:
http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/projects.htm#_ndf2007
Trio of top thinkers to lead National Digital
Library
The National Library of New Zealand has bolstered its
strategy to unleash the potential of the digital
environment through the appointment of two key staff to
positions within the National Digital Library.
Virginia Gow
Digital Innovation Services
National Library of New Zealand
[email protected]
John Truesdale was last week named Director, National
Digital Library, leading a talented team whose focus is
on access to and preservation of New Zealand digital
content.
Paul Reynolds has been appointed to the role of
Adjunct Director. He is an Auckland-based commentator
on the topics of information access and cultural/
technological change and the co-founder and Joint
Managing Director of McGovern Online, a company that
provides advice in the field of new media and the
Internet.
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received by a range of users from family historians
to graphic designers and students of New Zealand
history.
"Mr Reynolds is widely renowned in digital areas within
New Zealand and internationally," said Penny Carnaby,
National Librarian and Chief Executive of the National
Library of New Zealand. "The role of Adjunct Director is
a part-time one in which he will be contracted to deliver
specific thinking to the National Digital Library."
Steve Knight, Manager of the Innovation Centre, says
the renovation of Papers Past has been a project with a
very high level of complexity and a successful outcome
that compares well with similar newspaper digitisation
projects worldwide.
Steve Knight, a long time and much-valued member of
the National Library has been named Associate
Director. He will provide leadership in formal content
and preservation space.
In helping to increase the Library's online presence,
Steve was involved in setting up the National Digital
Forum and the award-winning Matapihi collaboration, a
web-based single point of access to multiple digital
collections.
"Steve’s new role acknowledges the outstanding
contribution he has made to the National Library,
particularly in the field of digital preservation, and allows
his expertise to influence strategic developments within
the National Digital Library" says Ms Carnaby.
Sarah Wilson
Communications Assistant
National Library of New Zealand
[email protected]
John Truesdale said: "Together, this team will ensure a
balance of thinking and strategic development within the
National Digital Library. It will help us to position it as a
key knowledge-building and learning-for-life resource for
New Zealand."
MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK AWARDS
South Taranaki District Council received further national
praise during September when its libraries won the
Tohu Wharepukapuka Tumatanui (Public Library
Award) at the fourth annual Maori Language Week
awards dinner held in Wellington.
Ms Carnaby said she is delighted with the appointments.
"The National Library can now boast a trio of the best
thinkers in New Zealand."
District Librarian, Lynne Walker, was thrilled that South
Taranaki Libraries had received the award which she
said reflected the huge effort her staff had put in.
Serene Ambler
Communications Advisor
National Library of New Zealand
[email protected]
“I challenged my staff to do something special for Māori
Language Week this year and they accepted that
challenge with enthusiasm and gusto” she said.
Gateway to the past now allows a closer
look
All LibraryPlus staff were asked to meet and greet their
customers in Te Reo. Events and activities were
organised for both children and adults throughout the
week, ranging from songs, weaving and story telling in
Te Reo to Kapa Haka performances by the Hawera
Intermediate School and Patea’ Rangitawhi O Te
Taihaurauru, kapa haka groups.
A National Library website that steps back into our
pioneering past has taken a step forward into the
future.
Papers Past http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz is an online
resource of 19th-century New Zealand newspapers and
periodicals.- and18 of the 44 publications are now fully
text searchable!
This means users can search through over one million
digitised pages by date, region, or title.
In time, the entire collection of digitised newspapers will
have the search facility, as well as the existing access
through browsing by newspaper title and date.
“The new text search tool will enhance research
potential and create a better user experience,” says
Penny Carnaby, Chief Executive and National
Librarian. “Papers Past is one of our most popular
websites. Creating better access really opens its c
ontents for the benefit of national and international
researchers with an interest in New Zealand.”
Papers Past, which offers visitors the option of
browsing the site in Māori, has been enthusiastically
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with all kinds of chemical reactions.
They were taking part in Chemistry workshops designed
by New Zealand Chidren’s author, Des Hunt, especially
for the South Taranaki District Libraries Businesses
Behind Books programmes ‘hands on workshops’. All
the workshops are sponsored by local businesses keen
to encourage children into the sciences in a fun way.
This year the F and E Rodie Charitable Trust
(administered by Halliwells) sponsored $4000 toward
holding workshops in each of the 7 libraries during
school holidays.
The workshops are open to both boys and girls but at
Hawera it was the boys that couldn’t keep away with no
girls registering, according to District Children’s Librarian, Pam Jones. “Every time Des said now be careful
this is poisonous or dangerous, their eyes widened and
they were in,” she said. “However at some of the other
libraries it was girls that dominated the bookings.
The celebration of Maori language week concluded at
Hawera LibraryPlus with a discussion group led by Te
Aroha Hohaia about how the use of Te Reo had
changed over the past 20 years.
“It’s easy to put up a few signs and displays up but it’s
not so easy to take yourself out of your comfort zone
and do something quite different,” said Ms Walker.
“What was really encouraging was the hugely positive
response staff received from members of the public and
the fact that they feel
just that little more
comfortable in using
Te Reo on a regular
basis.”
During the 90 minute programme the children
participated in a Clock Reaction experiment which used
everyday materials found at a pharmacy.
“I like doing this experiment because it always
fascinates people – for a period of time nothing happens
and then ‘pop’ it suddenly does. The kids love it”.
The Dry Ice experiment really caught everyone’s attention. “It’s great working with cold temperatures. I like to
get across to them that ice melting has zero degrees but
with salt present it goes much lower.” And lower it went
with a competition mounting to see who had the coldest
temperature. The children gathered eagerly around the
electronic thermometer reaching temperatures lower
than -18.4 Celsius.
Ms
Walker
also
thanked local consultancy firm, Aatea
Solutions, for the
support and assistance they provided
in developing and
conducting
the
week’s events.
Turning chemicals into lead paint gave Des the
opportunity to teach the children about something quite
topical on the news recently. He supplied gloves to
ensure everyone was protected. “It’s good for them to
know the how’s and whys to the dangers” he said.” The
effects of lead paint are not sudden, they work away at
your brain cells over years before it’s detected, that’s
why it is so dangerous in children’s toys”. At the end of
the experiment the paint was collected in a special
container for disposal so as to protect the environment.
The Maori Language
Week Awards also
celebrated 20 years
of
the
Maori
Language Act and the Maori Language Commission
and 35 years of National Maori Language Day.
Gerard Langford
Communications Manager
South Taranaki District Council
[email protected]
Crystal or alien gardens, as they were fondly dubbed,
were set aside to grow throughout the programme but
were eagerly returned to near the end.
KIDS FLOCK TO LIBRARIES TO
GROW ALIEN GARDENS
“We couldn’t keep them out!
Children aged between 8 and 12
years old that we have never
seen at any other library event,
turned up out of the woodwork.”
During the September school holidays kids from throughout South
Taranaki booked in to grow crystal gardens, make lead paint,
work with dry ice and experiment
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Challenge. Schools were invited to enter a team of five
to compete for one hour answering sets of questions
from Roald Dahl books. For two weeks prior schools
reported that the idea was so popular they had to run
play offs each lunch time to select team members.
Team names included The BFG’s (Beautiful, friendly
girls) and The Giant Peaches.
It was great to see the children having so much fun in a
safe controlled environment. “We were a little
concerned how to keep the whole situation controlled
but really there was nothing to worry about. Des was
very organised.”
At Christmas Des retired from teaching science at high
school and now spends his time touring New Zealand
giving presentations demonstrating aspects of the
science in his books and showing how the books are
put together. At these presentations children work with
glow sticks, Geiger counters and uranium.
Fortunately we had purchased replacements for our old
and well loved copies of Roald Dahl books as these
were absent from the shelves continuously.
The Penguin Publishers Group was very enthusiastic to
support our venture offering spot prizes and goodies on
the day and a selection of Roald Dahl books for the winning school. The Hawera LibraryPlus purchased a large
trophy for teams to challenge for each year. Tables
were laden with marshmallow cushions, sour snakes,
yellow bananas and popcorn.
If you are looking for something with a difference, that
will inspire kids to mess around with chemistry and take
out those science experiment books I would strongly
recommend you book Des to visit your library, said
Pam.
“He still had a number of experiments that we ran out of
time to cover so there’s no doubt we’ll be getting him
back next year for another session”.
South Taranaki District Mayor, Mary Bourke was quizmaster for the day accompanied by her standard poodle
adorned in a large yellow satin bow.
Pam Jones
Children's and Young Adult Librarian
South Taranaki Libraries Plus
[email protected]
On the day the children’s room was bursting at the
seams with teams, teachers and supporters all peering
from around and behind shelves. Feedback from the
schools was very positive and all plan to return to challenge for the trophy next year. Schools who couldn’t
participate have booked it into their calendar
ROALD DAHL DAY
Primary Schools
challenge for Literary Trophy
It is always our aim to inspire children, to give them a
passion for reading and books - so we needed to find a
way to spark that passion.
We found it on the International Roald Dahl Day
website. A well prepared quiz
with all the organising details
listed and promotional
material available for
downloading, meant the hard
work was done for us.
With nine primary schools in
our area we decided to
launch the Hawera LibraryPlus Roald Dahl Day
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The winners - Auroa School, South Taranaki.
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for 2008. None of the adults (teachers included) could
believe how many of the questions the children
knew with one team achieving a perfect score in one
section.
Minister of Health and a number of other dignitaries. We
will continue to work towards forming similar
relationships with the people of other Pacific nations.
Everyone agreed it was great to have a district competition for Primary Schools with a trophy that could be won
on literary merit not ‘sport’. Roll on 2008 we’ll be ready!
Some of the Issues
Herbicides and pesticides (DDT, Paraquat) are
non-biodegradable, bio-magnifiers that are used in
agriculture. They seep through to the ground water that
is used as drinking water. Drinking contaminated ground
water and eating fish that are caught using these
poisons cause sickness or death of the inhabitants.
Bleach, explosives, DDT, Paraquat and Rotenone are
used to kill fish that are then eaten, poisoning the
consumer and devastating the marine environment.
Pam Jones
Children's and Young Adult Librarian
South Taranaki Libraries Plus
[email protected]
ECOCARE IN THE PACIFIC
Discarding of plastics (on the side of the road, from
boats, in the forests) has resulted in serious plastics
pollution and health hazards. Mosquito borne diseases
like Dengue Fever, Malaria and many forms of
Encephalitis are transmitted by mosquitoes that breed in
old car tyres and plastic containers.
During a trip to the kingdom of Tonga in 2004 a number
of issues were identified that negatively impact the
health and well being of the Tongan people and their
environment. Many of these issues are common
throughout the Pacific and developing nations generally.
To help address some of these issues I, along with a
group of concerned individuals, formed a trust (Ecocare
Pacific Trust) to facilitate cooperative relationships
between those people, organisations and funds that
might be able to help address some of the issues.
EcoCARE has since been endorsed to facilitate and
initiate relationships that might assist the people of
Tonga by the government of Tonga (Ministers of Health,
Education and the Cabinet of Tonga), the University of
Canterbury, NZ High Commissioner to Tonga, NZ
Used disposable nappies are also discarded. Discarded
dysentery filled disposable nappies may be visited by
dogs or flying insects that then visit the closest human
to further transmit the disease.
Introduced species destroy native populations of both
plant and animal and transmit disease. Decimation of
native populations of plants and animals by humans,
invasive species and dangerous toxic chemicals
BOOK HOSPITAL
The Otago/Southland region hosted a Book Hospital
at Dunedin Public Libraries in July. Many staff from
smaller library networks around the region attended
and found the hands-on experience invaluable.
The local regional committee applauds Kathleen
McCarthy, Bindery and Preservation team leader and
her staff for facilitating such a practical and enjoyable
training opportunity.
Lyn Macleod
[email protected]
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to undertake some form of tertiary education.
decreases the limited biodiversity and can cause
serious de-nutrification of soils that then require
fertilizing and clearing.
University of Canterbury bridging courses would be
offered to Pacific nations high school students. Courses
will be designed and scholarships offered to successful
applicants.
Deforestation of mangroves significantly impacts on
island ecosystems and land masses. Deforested areas
are more susceptible to erosive forces, local and
regional fisheries are quickly depleted and microbes
associated with mangroves help to process heavy
metals and waste products. Erosion of land masses impacts on the freshwater lens, whereas land reclamation
increases the size of the freshwater lens.
In 2006 EcoCARE Pacific Trust collected, processed,
transported and distributed 104 University of Canterbury
computers to high schools throughout the island chain,
designed, funded and performed a project that studied
invasive mosquitoes and mosquito borne diseases
throughout Tonga, performed outreach programs and
installed safe and clean water filtration units in Tonga.
The coconut crab is a keystone species. They are the
main detritivore (breaking down vegetation that falls to
the ground eg., coconut palm fronds and nuts) breaking
these items into smaller parts that can then be
consumed by smaller detritivores. Coconut crab faeces
then add to the re-nutrification cycle. Coconut crabs are
also an integral part of island culture as they have
historically been the main terrestrial food source. As
Tonga has been colonised for 2500 years there should
be a strong cultural link between the people of Tonga
and the coconut crab.
We are collecting second hand books from libraries and
facilitating the donation, transportation and distribution
of essential school facilities (pens, rulers, exercise
books etc).
We have access to container shipping and would love
the opportunity take advantage of your generosity and
donations for the benefit of our Pacific neighbours.
We are in the process of negotiating fisheries management systems between the Ministry of Fisheries in both
Tonga and New Zealand.
Intervention Strategies
Establish and outreach programme that introduces the
people to some of the issues and some alternative
options.
We have recently been involved in the collection,
transportation and distribution of 25 hospital beds to
hospitals in Tonga.
Identify critical issues (biosecurity, biodiversity,
conservation, commercialisation, health related issues,
diabetes, Dengue Fever etc.) and establish appropriate
research programmes.
We are developing projects that will involve the
supervision of Tongan Masters and Ph.D. student by
University of Canterbury researchers on mangrove
restoration, fisheries and human health related topics.
Offer alternative strategies.
Russell Taylor
School of Biological Sciences
University of Canterbury
[email protected]
Establish educational programmes that offer access to
tertiary facilities.
I have approached the College of Science, School of
Biological Sciences, Continuing Education and Out
Reach Programs with the view to the University of
Canterbury playing a role in the furtherment of the
environmental education for the Tongan people.
NEW ZEALAND BOOK MONTH
ENDS WITH A REPRINT
The second annual New Zealand Book Month ends this
Sunday 30th September with a reprint, due to popular
demand, of the Six Pack Two anthology; currently
number one on the Booksellers New Zealand
Bestsellers List for New Zealand Fiction.
A relationship has been established between, the
government of Tonga, the University of Canterbury and
Ecocare Pacific Trust. Ecocare Pacific Trust has been
authorised by both the government of Tonga and the
University of Canterbury to facilitate the development of
programmes (educational and research) in Tonga. We
have letters of endorsement from the Minister of
Education and Minister of Health in Tonga and formal
endorsement by the Tongan Cabinet, the Minister of
Health in New Zealand and the High Commissioner to
Tonga, and a letter of endorsement from the University
of Canterbury.
30,000 copies of The Six Pack Two were published to
celebrate NZ Book Month 2007. To ensure that it was
accessible to all New Zealanders 14,000 copies were
sold through bookshops for only $6, and 16,000 copies
are being distributed free to all secondary schools, all
public libraries and several other non-profit
organisations such as Literacy Aotearoa.
Its sister publication, the 2006 Six Pack, has also
returned to the Bestsellers List at number five. Last year
it spent a total of fourteen weeks on the Bestsellers List.
One potential scenario might be that a project be
initiated where a postgraduate student from University
of Canterbury would travel to Tonga for 2 or more field
seasons to collect data. The student would be expected
to interact with Tongan High School students who would
continue to collect data or make observations after the
U of C graduate returned to NZ. A collaborative
approach of this kind might be best suited for stimulating interest in a topic and encouraging Tongan students
Library Life, Issue 318 — October 2007
Project Director of NZ Book Month, Phil Twyford says,
“NZ Book Month is a celebration of New Zealand
authors and writing. With the first print run of the Six
Pack Two rocketing straight to number one on the
Bestsellers List so quickly it's clear that the New
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Zealand public is joining the party. We have to reprint
because they just can't get enough.
‘It is difficult to sustain a career in writing and this CLL
award is a tremendous encouragement.’
We’re thrilled with the huge amount of interest and
support the New Zealand public has shown for Book
Month and New Zealand writing this year.”
Also presented with a $35,000
prize was poet and academic,
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman who
will write Best of Both Worlds –
an examination of the relationship between 19th Century ethnographer, Elsdon Best and
the Tuhoe chief Tutakangahau..
Phil Twyford said that as well as the success of The Six
Pack Two, NZ Book Month reached hundreds of
thousands of New Zealanders through strong media
coverage and a $340,000 advertising campaign.
Posters and leaflets featured in over 300 bookshops
and 700 libraries. Thousands of people attended more
than 200 book-related events throughout the country
over the course of the Month.
Holman, a former shearer, saw
miller and social worker,
returned to study in 1997 at the
University of Canterbury where
he is currently a research assistant.
Both booksellers and libraries around the country
reported exceptional public interest in the book and the
six winners: scriptwriter and current Writer in Residence
at Victoria University Dave Armstrong; one of New
Zealand’s most successful and promising writers
Charlotte Grimshaw; poet, novelist and former Te Mata
Estate Poet Laureate Elizabeth Smither; emerging
novelist and poet Tracey Slaughter; and new authors
Faith Oxenbridge and Jennifer Lane.
For Holman too, the prize is vital income.
‘This award will cover my living costs while I’m writing
and some travel required to complete the book.’
CLL Writers’ Awards judges’ convenor, Jenny Robin
Jones says that Martin Edmond and Jeffrey Holman
belong to the relentless tradition of authors who take
low or underpaid work in order to retain a portion of their
lives for writing.
Next year's Book Month is already in the planning
stages and November will see the call for entries into
the 2008 Six Pack Competition.
‘The judging panel feels certain that these projects well
deserve the awards, standing out in what were a particularly high standard of entries. They will result in
works of timely and enduring significance.’
NZ Book Month, a month long celebration of NZ books
and NZ writers every September, aims to encourage
more New Zealanders to read New Zealand books and
to inspire book lovers all over the country.
Former CLL Writer’s Award winner, Lloyd Spencer
Davis’ book, Looking for Darwin will be published later
this year. This is the first CLL-assisted work to
be published and there are a further four books from
former prize winners under contract for publication next
year.
Charlotte Armstrong
NZ Book Month
[email protected]
http://www.nzbookmonth.co.nz
2007 CLL WRITERS' AWARDS
WINNERS, MARTIN EDMOND AND
JEFFREY HOLMAN
The CLL Writers’ Awards were established in 2002 and
are financed from copyright licensing revenue collected
by Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) on behalf of
authors and publishers.
Marvellous Book Wins Award
The winners were announced at an awards ceremony
held at the National Maritime Museum in Auckland.
One of the country’s sharpest intellectuals no longer has
to drive taxis for a living; he has just collected a $35,000
writing prize.
The CLL Writers’ Awards were held in association with
NZ Book Month – a nationwide celebration of NZ books
and writers from 2-30 September 2007.
Martin Edmond was honoured
with a 2007 CLL Writers’ Award,
enabling him to write The Zone
of the Marvellous - a book
which examines the place of the
Antipodes in Western imagination.
Penny Hartill
Hartill Communications
[email protected]
BROKEN JOURNEY
Edmond, who won a Montana
New Zealand Book Award in
2005 for Chronicle of the
Unsung, and was a finalist for
the same award in 2007 (for
Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia) and 2000
(for The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont) says he
resorted to driving taxis because he was unable to
make a living solely from book sales.
Library Life, Issue 318 — October 2007
The Life and Art of J C Sturm
Directed by Tim Rose
Produced by Huia Lambie
When writer J C Sturm (Jacquie Baxter) stopped writing
in 1968 to look after her new-born granddaughter,
Stephanie, she had completed a manuscript of short
stories, which, had it been published then, it would have
been the first book of fiction published by a Maori writer.
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literary tradition.” Jacquie herself shuns definitions and
prefers to be known simply as a writer.
This is brought to light by Witi Ihimaera in a candid
documentary called Broken Journey, the Life and Art of
J C Sturm, which is to screen on Maori Television on
Wednesday, October 17, 8.30pm.
The documentary, directed by Wellington-based coffee
entrepreneur and filmmaker Tim Rose, traces Jacquie’s
life from when she was born in Opunaki in 1927 to Mary
and Jack Papuni (Taranaki iwi and Whakatohea respectively) to the present day in Paekakariki. Her mother
died 15 days after she was
born, and after a short time
with her father, then three
years with her mother’s
mother, local couple Ethel and
Bert Sturm fostered her.
Ihimaera says as far he is concerned, it didn’t matter
that the The House of The Talking Cat was published
after his first collection of short stories Pounamu
Pounamu, or after Patricia
Grace’s first book, Waiariki
– “it was only an accident
of timing. All credit should
be given to Jacquie as being the very first Maori
writer to write a book [of
fiction] in English.”
Broken Journey includes archival
footage
and
interviews with Jacquie, her
children John and Hilary Baxter, grandchildren Stephanie
and Jessica, her biographer
Jenny Sturm, Witi Ihimaera,
Spiral Collective publishers
Mariama Evans and Marian
Evans, her publisher Roger Steele and Eric Schwimmer
who published her story “For All The Saints” in the
Maori magazine Te Ao Hou in the early 1950s. It is narrated in Te Reo Maori (with English subtitles) by Jamie
Tuuta.
The House of The Talking
Cat, which was first
published in 1983 by the
Spiral Collective, was short
listed at the New Zealand
Book Awards. Jacquie
started writing again in
1989. Her first volume of poetry, Dedications (1996),
won a Poetry Honour Award at the 1997 Montana New
Zealand Book Awards; her second volume, Postscripts,
was published 2000 and in 2003 she received an honorary Doctor of Literature at Victoria University. The Glass
House (short stories and poems) appeared in 2006.
“Although her adoptive father Bert Sturm was Maori of
Ngati Porou and Kahungungu,” it is pointed out in the
documentary, “Jacquie was brought up as a pseudo
pakeha, in a totally European environment. Her later
work would articulate the cultural ambiguity felt by the
It is thought by many to be unfair that Jacquie is still
more commonly known as the widow of New Zealand’s
most famous poet James K Baxter, although Witi
Ihimaera says she is “a pivotal presence in the Maori
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intended to write Stephanie a 21st birthday card, but
“ended up writing a birthday poem.” It was the starting
point for Dedications. There are also poems dedicated,
among others, to both her husbands, James K Baxter
and Peter Alcock, to children Hilary and John Baxter, to
writer friends Jean Watson and Janet Frame, her
mother Mary Papuni and her adoptive parents Ethel and
Burt Sturm.
children of Maori-pakeha marriages.”
Jacquie left Taranaki with Sturms when she was six; the
family lived in Auckland, Hastings, Palmerston North,
Pukerua Bay and Napier. When she was 17 she was
sent to Otago University by the Health Department to
study medicine. It was during the war and bright young
Maori were targeted to be role models. Jacqui wasn’t
suited to the subject and switched to arts, eventually
graduating with an MA in philosophy. (She was the first
Maori woman gain an MA.)
Publisher Roger Steele says in Broken Journey that
when he first read the collection of poems he was
“absolutely entranced by them”. He found the manuscript “a marvelous piece of storytelling and condensed
autobiography.” He considered strongest poems were
the ones she wrote about her relationship with Baxter.
“Those are absolutely trenchant poems,” he says,
“which capture the anger, the grief and eventual coming
to terms. And you go can’t go past that as a great love
story in New Zealand literature . . .”
She met James K Baxter at Otago University and they
married in their early 20s. When they moved to
Wellington in the late 1940s, Jacquie became involved
with the Maori Women’s Welfare League and joined
Ngati Poneke. The family (Jacquie, James K, Hilary and
John) spent five months in India in the late 1950s.
Jacquie says that the road to Jerusalem (where Baxter
established a commune on the Whanganui River)
started in India.
“When I finished Dedications,” Jacquie said in a Listener
article in 2000, “I still hadn’t finished what I had to say.
That’s why I’ve called the second book Postscripts. It
has the added meaning that sometimes when you write
a letter the thing you really want to say you add as a
postscript.” Three poems in Postscripts tell the horror of
the Parihaka story.
When Baxter went to Jerusalem, the family broke up.
Jacquie worked for a short time at McKenzies
department store before getting a job at the Wellington
Public Library in 1969. When she left in 1992 she had
become the librarian in charge of the New Zealand
room.
Jacquie says in Broken Journey that she had difficulty
finishing The Glass House, and that Stephanie, who
indirectly stopped her writing back in 1968, pushed her
to finishing it. “We’d come full circle,” Jacquie says. “
She is the one who is responsible for my last book.”
Broken Journey’s director Tim Rose grew up next door
to the Baxters in Ngaio. He says: “As a child I was
aware of Jim being a poet and a special person - I knew
I was in the presence of a great man. I didn't know
exactly why. Even now I am still bowled over by his
work. Jacquie was a very quite and softly spoken
woman, and I was unaware that she was also a writer.
We have always got on well, but I guess like many
people it wasn't until the publication of Dedications that I
realised Jacquie wrote.”
Tim Rose
[email protected]
Huia Lambie
[email protected]
Jacquie started writing again “purely by accident”. She
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