in this issue

Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa
http://www.lianza.org.nz
PRESIDENTS
COLUMN
Rewind
Tena kouto katoa.
2005-2006 was a
very busy year of
activity for LIANZA
and it is with great satisfaction that I look back at what
has been achieved by members of the Association.
Let’s review some of the national highlights:
August 2005:
The discussion document Professional Future for the
New Zealand Library and Information Profession was
prepared by the LIANZA Taskforce on Professional
Registration. This document generated much debate on
list-servs and at well-attended meetings in Whangarei,
Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Gisbourne, Hastings,
Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch,
and Dunedin. 57 formal submissions were received on
the document, providing valuable feedback to the
Taskforce which will finalise its report on a registration
scheme and transitional arrangements to the LIANZA
Council in July 2006.
September 2005:
Te Wero-The Challenge conference in Christchurch was
enormously successful for the delegates and the
association. The conference profit generated by Lynley
Aldridge and her organising team from the Aoraki
Region has enabled LIANZA to reinvest in some key
strategic areas for the profession. Thank you VERY
much.
The launch of the 2006 Conference theme Next
Generation Libraries – He Huarahi Whakamua.
Congratulations to Michaela O’Donovan and her
Wellington based team who have assembled a stunning
programme for our coming conference including five
exceptional keynote speakers: Stephen Abram, Bonnie
Cheuk, Tara Brabazon, Martin Nakata, and Evelyn
Tobin. Check out their profiles and the rest of the
programme
and
registration
details
at
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2006/
registration.html.
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Issue 303 – June 2006
December 2005:
Publication of the Remuneration Survey of the New
Zealand Library and Information Profession, prepared
by MM Research. The context of this survey was to
establish a robust and representative database of
remuneration information about those working in the
profession and to establish benchmark comparisons for
remuneration within the profession.1596 valid
responses were received to the questionnaire. The
results are available to LIANZA members on the
website. To view: log in using your Member ID, click on
the publications page and then the Online Library tab.
Search for Remuneration Survey in the provided box.
May 2006:
The launch of Public Libraries of New Zealand: a
Strategic Framework 2006-2016 in Parliament’s Grand
Hall was the result of intensive work by the steering
group and consultation facilitated by LIANZA and
in this issue
Presidents Column
Editorial
Notes from the Office — LIANZA Awards
LIANZA Conference 2006
Lyn McLeod– New LIANZA Councillor
Robert McIntyre Seminars
Regional Updates
Digital Futures
Library and Information Network Taranaki
Agricultural Journals
eLGAR
National Library Plans Major Extensions
Whangarei Central Library
Auckland City Library Redevelopment
National Library Digital Heritage
Celebrating Margaret Mahy
VALA Report
Thomson Gale Advertorial
John Blackwood
Christchurch College of Education—Advertorial
Sunday Opening a Winner– Ashburton
Winner of NZ Post Book Awards
Nielson Bookdata Award
Montana Book Awards Update
Booksellers Choice Shortlist
Pub-SIG through the regions. This document’s impact
will be significant particularly over the next 12 months
as stakeholders are engaged to address the agenda for
action. Watch this space.
June 2006
Still to come is the launch of the Maori Subject
Headings as part of Matariki celebrations. This has
been a significant project for LIANZA underpinning its
commitment to biculturalism, and represents much hard
work by the working group from LIANZA, Te Roopu
Whakahau, and National Library of New Zealand to
bring it to fruition.
But Wait There’s More…
The reinvestment in the profession through financial
support for the above framework, the establishment of
funding for Library Week over 3 years, and to take
training out of the main centres to build professional
capability and confidence in using electronic resources
are tangible results of LIANZA’s continued growth. New
approaches to managing the annual conference and
library week have been announced with these new
national committees now getting underway.
In addition LIANZA has in partnership with Knowwhere
delivered an ongoing professional development
programme at discounted rates for LIANZA members.
Library Life has been revitalised as an e-newsletter, its
first edition soliciting a great response from the
membership. I would like to acknowledge the work of
Rob, Anna and Megan in the national office who are
constantly reviewing and refining the way in which
LIANZA supports its members.
I want to recognise too the contribution of the National
Council in continuing to blaze a new trail forward for the
Association. It is excellent that many of them will be
staying on Council this year to continue this work with
Moira Fraser as the incoming President, including Vye
Perrone who will step up from Councillor of Waikato /
Bay of Plenty to become Vice-President. More announcements will be coming soon about other initiatives.
Sadly Steven Lulich will be stepping down from Council.
Steven has made an incredible contribution to LIANZA,
starting as a councillor in 2000, going on to serve on the
Executive for 3 years including 2004-2005 as President
of the Association. In addition he has chaired the
Taskforce on Professional Registration and the Remuneration Survey Committee. His role in LIANZA’s recent
history cannot be underestimated – Thank you Steven.
Personally these last 12 months have been very rewarding enabling me to grow professionally. I have visited all
the regions for meetings, events, and workshops; attended hui; participated in working groups for public libraries and the National Digital Forum; represented
LIANZA at formal functions; while also managing the
day-job and being a first-time parent. Thank you to the
CPIT team for their support and to my family Briar and
Adam for their understanding. I know you are all looking
forward to me being home in Christchurch more often.
Kia ora LIANZA,
John Garraway
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EDITORIAL
The articles in Library Life this month
once again show just how busy and
inventive a profession we are –
library services up and down the
country are busy giving and promoting their services to patrons of all
shapes, tastes and ages – it’s a
marvellous feeling to be part of so diverse a profession
and we should all be proud of what we achieve.
I don’t know about you, but I am a big fan of Google –
goodness knows that it has its flaws and gives us various professional issues but can you think of any other
company less than 10 years old which is as diverse and
interesting?
I use the Google News alerts function a
lot and one of my alerts if “Zealand and libraries” and
every other day we feature in one way or another like
the extension into Sunday opening which the Ashburton
Guardian announced (reprinted in this issue, with
permission) and that alert email absolutely surprised
and delighted me – the global community is more of a
reality now than ever before. Just in the last few days
there have been discussions in New Zealand about
Google indexing entire library catalogues which may be
a great way of getting awareness of library resources
into search results or is it a recipe for disaster? As with
any issue there are plenty of opinions and discussion
lists and blogs out there covering this so why not pop
out and look for some? Ah, but what search tool will
you choose to use to find them?
If you’re enraged or impassioned about a library or
information issue, drop us a line – we’d love to hear
about what is on your mind and Library Life is here for
you so if you want to write something for us, go for it!
Glen Walker
[email protected]
IMPORTANT NOTICE RE LIANZA MEMBER LOGINS AND PASSWORDS
You will notice that your LIANZA Membership Number
is now included at the top right hand corner of the new
html newsletter. This Membership Number is also your
User ID number to login to the Members Only section of
the website. This will make it easier for you when l
ogging in to read Library Life.
An error occurred last issue and incorrect numbers appeared but this problem has been rectified and the number at the top of your newsletter is now correct.
If you have NEVER BEEN ISSUED with a User ID and
password please go to the LIANZA homepage:
http://www.lianza.org.nz/ and in the login area click on
Already a member? Need a password?. Your login
details will be sent out to you shortly.
If you have FORGOTTEN your password, got to
the LIANZA homepage: http://www.lianza.org.nz/ and in
the login area click on Forgotten your password?.
You will need to enter your User ID number and another
password will be emailed to you shortly.
To make it easier to remember your LIANZA
Members login you may want to change your
password to something you can easily remember.
Once you have logged in as a Member you will see the
option to Change Your Password, you can then set this
to whatever you choose.
NOTES FROM THE OFFICE
Renewals
Renewal invoices will be posted out to many of our
members towards the beginning of July. Now is the time
to check we have your correct mailing address – so if
you have shifted in the past 6 months send an email
with your membership number and new address details
to [email protected].
Children’s Book Awards
The CBAs are moving at a swift pace. All the nominations are in from publishers and there are a wide variety
of entries waiting to be sent out to the judging panels,
who will be announced in the next issue of Library Life –
watch this space! The panels will have a lot of reading
ahead of them and some tough decisions to make in the
next few months.
Details of the shortlist will be published in Library Life
and on the LIANZA website when they become
available in August.
YBP/Lindsay & Croft Award for Collection Services
Nominations are sought for the YBP/Lindsay & Croft
Award for Collection Services. This prestigious award,
which was first awarded in 2001, recognises the
contribution made in libraries by the staff in the areas of
collection development, collection management,
acquisitions and cataloguing.
The annual award consists of a $2,000 grant donated
by YBP and Lindsay & Croft , and a citation. These will
be presented at the annual conference of LIANZA.
The closing date for nominations this year is Friday 28th
July 2006 . Nominations must be received by the
LIANZA Office, PO Box 12-212, Wellington.
Nominations need to include:
• Name of nominee
• The date the nominee entered their first professional
position in the Collection Services area
• A formal statement of nomination, including the reason for the nomination, and a resume of the career
and contributions of the nominee, with sufficient detail for the nomination panel to make their decision
• Letters of endorsement may also be provided, but
the determining factor in the selection process will be
the accomplishments of the nominee
• A nominee must be a current member of LIANZA
• A nominee must currently be working in the collection development or technical services area
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The nomination needs to include evidence of the nominee’s accomplishments, as they are related to collection
development or technical services could include such
activities as:
• Leadership in professional associations and /or
activities at the local, regional, or national level
• Contributions to the development, application, or
utilization of new or improved methods, techniques
and routines
• Contribution to the professional literature
• Conduct of studies or research in collection development and/or technical services
There is no restriction on the type of library the nominee
may be working in.
E n tr y
forms
c an
be
d o wn l o a d e d
from
http://www.lianza.org.nz/about/awards/files/
YBP_Entry_Form_2006.pdf
upcoming events
june 2006
QPLA 2006 Conference, “Libraries… A Lifestyle
Experience!”
4-7 June 2006
Cairns, Australia
www.cairnslibrary.com.au
Storylines Festival of New Zealand Children’s
Writers and Illustrators 2006
11-18 June 2006
Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, New Plymouth
www.storylines.org.nz
TVNZ Visit
27 June 2006
Auckland
[email protected]
Reference Interview Skills
23 June 2006 - Christchurch
26 June 2006 - Dunedin
www.knowwhere.co.nz
july 2006
Leadership through Career Management
6 July 2006
Christchurch
[email protected]
Information Seeking in Context
19-20 July 2006
Sydney, Australia
www.hss.uts.edu.au/isic2006/
october 2006
LIANZA Conference 2006
8-11 October 2006
Wellington Convention Centre
http://lianza.org.nz/events/conference2006
To view more events or to add a listing to the LIANZA calendar
go to: http://www.lianza.org.nz/cgi-bin/calendar/calendar.pl
For further information about the award refer to the
LIANZA website: http://www.lianza.org.nz/about/awards/
industry.html#ybp
Or contact the LIANZA Office – Ph 04 473 5834
Applications called for the Edith Jessie
Carnell Travelling Scholarship
LIANZA is seeking applications for the Edith Jessie
Carnell Travelling Scholarship, which closes 5pm 28
July 2006.
Established from the generous bequest of Mr Archibald
George William Dunningham, a former Dunedin City
Librarian and Honorary Life Member of the NZLA, the
scholarship is available biennually.
The value of the scholarship is up to $7,000 and is
available for the purpose of assisting a librarian to travel
anywhere in the world for research, a study visit and/or
conference attendance.
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2006/
programme.html
The "Programme at a Glance" table schedules the
activities on offer for each day of Next Generation
Libraries, with links to the abstracts for individual
sessions. Whet your appetite, and start deciding who'll
you want to hear and share with at the LIANZA
Conference 2006!
If you want to make a case to convince your director,
team leader or HR manager that LIANZA Conference
2006 is the professional development event you can't
afford to miss, check out the new Why Attend? page on
the Conference website, where we've put together a list
of all the compelling reasons why you have to be a part
of Next Generation Libraries this October:
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2006/
whyattend.html
Applicants must be a current LIANZA personal member
of at least five years standing.
Finally, as announced in the May issue of Library Life,
we've recently created a free wallpaper file for
downloading to your desktop. Featuring the popular
Conference 2006 image as a backdrop, the wallpaper
has been devised to provide moments of Conference
inspiration when and where you want it! Tara Brabazon
is currently our featured keynote - check it out under
Tara's biography on the Keynote Speakers page:
For further information: http://www.lianza.org.nz/about/
awards/study.html#edithjessie
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2006/
keynote.html
Or contact Rob Arlidge at the LIANZA National Office
Ph: 04 473 5834 or [email protected]
More updates to follow in next month's issue of Library
Life, by which time we'll have some exciting announcements about the Conference E-Blog!
Winners of the scholarship are required to disseminate
the results of their research and study to members of
the profession.
NEXT GENERATION
LIBRARIES
In the interim, stay glued to the list-servs, and bookmark
the Conference 2006 website to keep tabs on
developments as they happen:
He Huarahi Whakamua
Wellington 08-11
October 2006
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2006/
index.html
Registrations, Why Attend, and Wallpaper!
This month the LIANZA Conference 2006 Organising
Committee is excited to announce that the Registration
Brochure for Next Generation Libraries - He Huarahi
Whakamua is now available!
The Registration Brochure includes an Invitation,
Conference Highlights, Programme Details, and
Keynote Speaker and Commentator Profiles. It also
provides information about Satellite Events (including
workshops and tours), the Social Programme, Venue
and Accommodation, as well as full details relating to
the registration process, and the registration form.
Visit the Registration page on the Conference website
for a PDF version of the Registration Brochure, as well
as access to online registration:
We welcome any questions you might have about
LIANZA Conference 2006.
Please direct enquiries to:
The Conference Company (TCC)
E-mail: [email protected]
Kat Turner
Portfolio Manager – Communications
[email protected]
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2006/
index.html
INTRODUCING LYN MACLEOD
- NEW LIANZA REGIONAL
COUNCILLOR FOR OTAGO
SOUTHLAND REGION
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2006/
registration.html
I am very honoured to have been
elected to the role of LIANZA councillor
for the Otago/Southland region.
Visit the Programme & Abstracts page on the
Conference website for further information about the
programme, which promises to deliver something for
everyone:
I am going to have very big shoes to fill following on
from Ian Stewart, who recently departed our region to
begin his new life in Germany. Ian has been a mentor to
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me on LIANZA matters over the last few years so I am
sure if anything he has told me has 'stuck', I will give
this role the very best I can.
I am currently Head of Network Support Services at
Dunedin Public Libraries.
I served on the Otago/Southland LIANZA committee for
four years, from 2000, Regional chair 02/04.
After having a year off committee duties, I realised how
out of touch you can become on professional issues,
thus, my reason for making myself available once again
for the committee 05/06.
I have worked at Dunedin Public Libraries for just over
20 years, with a short break from 1996/1998 when I
moved to the Dunedin City Council Customer Services
agency and Planning departments.
Through my long career at DP my most rewarding years
would have to have been my six years on the Bookbus.
This job gives the chance to build a very close relationship with your customers, and certainly makes you feel
very valued.
I am always looking for a challenge and look forward to
my association with LIANZA at councillor level.
Lyn Macleod
[email protected]
• strategic thinking and planning in context - the
strategic planning cycle
• situational analysis – identifying and interpreting key
environmental trends, and understanding the
organisation and its operating environment
• clarifying organisation strategic direction including an
organisation’s purpose, vision and values
• defining strategic focus themes
• developing and implementing strategic objectives
(will include the SMART concept: specific,
measurable, achievable, realistic and timely), strategies and actions
• developing the “scorecard for success”
• monitoring and reviewing strategic performance
• reporting on outcomes.
Who should attend?
Library Managers, Information Services Managers and
Information Professionals with responsibility for and/or
interest in creating the future, in strategic thinking and
strategic planning.
Where and when is it being held?
Auckland – Monday 31 July 2006
STRATEGIC PLANNING: FROM
THINKING TO CREATING THE FUTURE
LIANZA is looking to offer its members a one-day
workshop - Strategic Planning: From Thinking to
Creating the Future – by well-known International
Consultant, Robert McEntyre.
These workshops will be held in Auckland on Monday
31 July and in Wellington on 2 August.
This program focuses on the thinking, skills and
processes necessary to manage a strategic planning
cycle in small to large libraries and information services.
The program will assist managers and information
professionals to “create and strategically position the
library and information service”.
The program focuses on the thinking and process
associated with developing, implementing, reporting on
and reviewing a strategic direction and plan.
Outcomes
• understanding of the concepts underpinning effective
strategic thinking and planning
• ability to develop and implement a strategic plan
• ability to identify and document what is to be
achieved by an organisation or functional unit and
team
• ability to develop realistic and achievable objectives,
strategies and actions
• ability to monitor performance and report to key
stakeholders on outcomes.
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From 9.30am – 4.00pm at the Waitemata Room, Auckland City Library, 44-46 Lorne St, Auckland.
Cost - $389 incl GST for LIANZA members; $499 incl
GST for Non-Members
Wellington – Wednesday 2 August 2006
From 9.30am – 4.00 pm at the Hunter Lounge, Student
Union Building, Victoria University, Kelburn Parade,
Wellington.
Cost - $389 incl GST for LIANZA members; $499 incl
GST for Non-Members
Those interested in attending are urged to register early.
Pre-Requisites
A short, targeted reading list will be recommended for
reading prior to the programme. Some pre programme
“situational analysis” will be required.
For further information contact: Anna O’Keeffe or Rob
Arlidge, LIANZA National Office, Wellington Ph: 04 473
5834 or email [email protected]
For further information about Robert McEntrye :
www.mcentyre.com.au
HIKUWAI EVENTS
Auckland City
Monday, 29th May, was "The Big Reveal" at Auckland
City Libraries. The Central City Library has been
rearranged, so that the various collections and
services work together logically and are "exposed".
There is a new cafe on the ground floor, acting as a
beacon to draw people in. In attendance at the launch
were Judith Tizard, who is the Minister responsible for
libraries and Auckland (among other things), Auckland's
Mayor, Dick Hubbard, and several city councillors.
Auckland Digital Day
Tuesday, 6th June, was Auckland Digital Day. This free
event, co-hosted and organised by the Auckland
Heritage Librarians and Archivists Group and the
University of Auckland Library, was to update heritage
and information professionals in the Auckland region on
recent interesting digital developments. It included some
great presentations and a chance to network.
TVNZ library visit
Don't forget the Hikuwai visit to the Television New
Zealand library is on 27th June. This will include a draw
to watch that night's news live. Details will be emailed
through NZ Libs.
and frolics when applying for funds from your training
budget! Although you can delay your registrations,
please don't delay accommodation bookings - places
are busy on the mountain in July. For registration,
accommodation and programme information contact
[email protected]
Our special guests for the weekend include new
University of Waikato librarian Annette McNicol.
Wintec welcomes new staff
Stephen Harlow returns to Wintec to take up the role of
Information Literacy Librarian after briefly rekindling his
teaching career at Hamilton Girls’ High School.
Previously he had worked in Wintec’s Centre for Learning Technologies and at Scot’s College in Wellington.
Fran Skilton
Hikuwai reporter
[email protected]
In 2004 Stephen was recognised as a Flexible Learning
Leader and used his award to study storytelling which
he hopes to be able to use in his new role. He has an
interest in all things online while offline he enjoys a
young family, an old house, and playing bad electric
bass.
IKAROA UPDATE
Ales Vanek is the new Systems Librarian at Wintec
Library.
Events
Ales received his doctoral degree at Charles University,
Prague (Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship) in 2004. He is a member of LIANZA and Library
and Information Professionals of the Czech Republic.
Before he came to New Zealand he was working as
Information Specialist at the European Information
Centre based at Charles University in Prague. Among
his personal interests are nature photography, tramping,
soccer and snowboarding.
The Ikaroa region hosted a brief visit by LIANZA
President John Garraway on May 16th at Massey
University Library. A group of local librarians mingled,
sipped wine and munched on nibbles as John talked
about some of the key things he has been working on
as LIANZA President. Questions were raised about
Professional Registration, as there is still keen interest
in how this will actually be implemented. Following the
get-together a group of keen souls dined with John at a
local café.
People
UCOL Library has recently appointed Donna Thompson
in the role of IT and Electronic Services Support.
Donna who is a UCOL Batchelor of Information
Communications Technology (BICT) graduate has been
acting in the position for 12 months.
Pauline Knuckey, previously Head of the Distance
Library Service at Massey University’s Turitea Campus,
has moved (back) to Palmerston North City Library,
taking over from Lynette Collis as Head of Advisory
Services.
Jane Brooker
[email protected]
WAIKATO/BOP REGION
Weekend School
Clear Air for Clear Thinking...your committee is working
hard on the 5th Weekend School at the Grand Chateau
21-23 July 2006. Where else can you get a weekend of
education for just $65.00? Not to mention snow fights,
fireside drinks, fresh air mentoring and our inaugural
weekend school book club. Just don't mention the fun
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Ales will be based at Avalon Library but will work at the
City Library at times. He will also be the Liaison
Librarian for the School of Sport & Exercise Science.
Carol Spanhake
[email protected]
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION NETWORK TARANAKI
On Thursday 4 May
members of the new
LINT network (Library
and
Information
Network
Taranaki)
gathered at Hawera
Libr ar y
Plus
to
participate in library
tour and listen to a
presentation by Lynne
Walker on her recent trip to the ‘Places and Spaces;
Public Libraries in the 21st Century’ conference in
Adelaide, Australia.
As well as attending the conference Lynne took part in a
tour of several public libraries with a group of New
Zealand librarians. During her informative and
entertaining presentation Lynne shared images and
observations of a number of Australian libraries visited.
Those in attendance appreciated; the knowledge
shared, seeing Hawera Library, networking with each
other and sharing the delicious pizza provided by
Hawera library staff.
The next LINT meeting will be held at the Pacific International Hotel Management School Library in Bell Block,
New Plymouth in late June. PIHMS Librarian Raewyn
Hope has invited network participants for a tour of the
library and an informal presentation of Raewyn’s 2005
LIANZA Conference paper on setting up the library.
Danae Etches
[email protected]
programmes, digital preservation and interoperability,
metadata frameworks and shared learning opportunities. It will see the sectors playing an increasing role in
delivering on the aspirations of the Government’s Digital
Strategy (www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz), particularly in
relation to digital content.
Leaders in the library, museum, archives and art gallery
sectors are encouraged to think strategically about the
eight elected positions on the NDF governance
group. Calls for nominations will be made before the
end of July through LIANZA and Museums Aotearoa.
Courtney Johnston
Communications Adviser
National Library of New Zealand
[email protected]
PUBLIC LIBRARIES FEATURE IN COMPUTERWORLD IT AWARDS
eLGAR's Smarter Systems Project has been short listed
as a finalist in three categories in this years Computerworld Excellence in IT Awards.
The categories are:
LINT particpants relax and enjoy a warm welcome and pizza served
by Hawera Library Plus
DIGITAL FUTURES:
A New Look Relationship between New
Zealand's Libraries, Museums, Archives and
Art Galleries
A new governance model for the National Digital Forum
(NDF) (http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/) was announced at a
meeting at Te Papa in May. The new model will enable
much greater involvement from New Zealand’s library,
museum, archives and art gallery sectors.
In 2001 the National Library of New Zealand, Archives
New Zealand and the Museum of New Zealand Te
Papa Tongarewa, as New Zealand’s three national
collecting institutions, collaborated to deliver the first
NDF. The NDF focus was to build the capability of New
Zealand’s museum, library, archives and art gallery
sectors in order to respond to the rapidly evolving digital
and virtual worlds.
The NDF has held well-regarded annual conferences
since 2001, and also produced the award-winning
Matapihi project (www.matapihi.org.nz). It is now felt
that the relationship between libraries, museums,
archives, art galleries, and iwi has developed to such an
extent that a new look NDF is called for.
In the new look NDF governance group, the CEOs of Te
Papa, the National Library and Archives New Zealand
and an iwi representative will be joined by eight
representatives elected from the library, museum,
archives and art gallery sectors, and iwi.
The new governance group will provide greater strategic
focus for national digital initiatives, including digitisation
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• Excellence in the Use of IT for Customer Service
• Most Successful Project Implementation for the Year
• Excellence in the Use of IT in Government
A quick re-run ... "eLGAR" stands for Libraries for a
Greater Auckland Region" and consists of the public
libraries of Auckland, Manukau, North Shore, Rodney
and Waitakere. Three years ago a consortium was
formed to purchase, implement and operate a new
library management software system. The project is
known as Smarter Systems.
The Computerworld Awards are considered to be the
premier awards within New Zealand's IT sector.
With three nominations, The Smarter Systems Project
stands out very prominently within the nominations
listing. Local Authorities occasionally achieve nominations in these awards, but it unusual for public libraries
to feature.
The eLGAR Board is obviously delighted with the
results so far and sees the recognition this brings as
being a really positive outcome for all public libraries.
The association of public libraries with "IT smarts" is
timely - particularly with various national initiatives going
on with broadband, digital activities, etc....
The winners will be announced at a function in July.
Between now and then the judges [different judging
panels for each category] will conduct in-depth interviews with the eLGAR Board. It is through this process
that the eventual winners are decided.
The competition for the awards will be tough. A full listing of the short listed nominees can be viewed at the
attached link: http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/
news/AC8E8EEC7744300ACC2571750024E2CB
Geoff Chamberlain, Beverly Fletcher, Chris Sleekly, Su
Scott, Allison Dobbie, and Ian Rae.
eLGAR Board.
CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS GO TO NIGERIA
Seven rather shaky pallets of boxes of Chemical
abstracts and some assorted tropical agriculture books
and journals have started their journey to Nigeria.
The older portions of the collections of the AgResearch
Library, Grasslands (PAG) and HortResearch
Palmerston North (PS) libraries were housed communally in a store on the Fitzherbert Science Centres’ site.
Over recent months portions of this collection have
been consolidated within their respective Crown
Research Institutes, for storage at Palmerston North or
as a contribution to the large centralised store which
AgResearch is developing at its Ruakura (Hamilton)
site. There were however journals which were surplus to
the needs of either of the CRIs; some of these were
“free disposed” to other libraries, gifted to staff or
shredded.
Happily, from the surplus collection a significant run of
Chemical abstracts and lesser collections of plant
physiology and tropical agriculture journals and books
have been sent to the Federal University of Technology,
Imo State, Nigeria. Getting the boxed volumes to
Nigeria was a delightful exercise linking the CRI
librarians, Fiona Lovatt-Davis’ Books without Borders,
the assistance of Carter Holt Harvey’s fullcircle team
and a great deal of perseverance, good will and
humour.
Other libraries contemplating disposing of their paper
collections may wish to contact Fiona at
[email protected] to discuss how they may
contribute to this very worthwhile process.
Steven Northover
Knowledge Team Leader HortResearch
[email protected]
NATIONAL LIBRARY GETS BUDGET GO
AHEAD TO PLAN MAJOR EXPANSION
The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna
Mātauranga o Aotearoa received exciting news in the
2006 Budget, when it was allocated $300,000 to
evaluate options for a major expansion of the Library’s
Wellington building.
Announcing the funding allocation on 9 May at the
National Library Society AGM, the Hon Judith Tizard,
Minister Responsible for the National Library, said that
the money will enable the National Library to explore
options to add an extra floor to its building to relieve
extreme pressure on collection storage space. ‘This
development recognises the importance of the National
Library at both local and central government levels,’
said Minister Tizard.
A capital injection of $18 million has been earmarked for
this development in 2008/09 subject to receiving the
appropriate information and Cabinet approval.
National Librarian Penny Carnaby said that the
announcement was wonderful news for the National
Library. ‘This is a excellent opportunity for the National
Library,’ said Ms Carnaby. ‘It will future-proof the Library
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for the storing of its heritage collections for 15-20 years,
vastly improve working conditions for many of our staff
members, and importantly, it will help to redefine the
National Library as a destination and place that will
become increasingly important to all New Zealanders.’
Over the next few months, the National Library will be
engaging a project leader to lead the process of
developing concept plans, obtaining capital cost
estimates and logistics costs, and consulting on the
architectural concepts.
Courtney Johnston
National Library of New Zealand
[email protected]
NEW WHANGAREI CENTRAL LIBRARY
OPENED BY PRIME MINISTER
“Eight million dollars and not a
penny
m or e! ”
then-Mayor Craig
Br own
r oar ed
down the table in
my direction at the
meeting in 2003
when
Counc il
voted in favour of
building a new Central Library for Whangarei. A
landmark day, it was the day we started out to build a
library but ended up doing something much bigger than
that. The building was formally opened by Prime
Minister Helen Clark on Saturday 13 May 2006 during a
day of cultural celebrations which included the unveiling
of nine pou at the entrance, a project funded entirely by
the community. The pou project has already attracted
the attention of the Race Relations Commissioner for its
positive contribution to race relations. Many people
have commented that this project has lifted up
Whangarei to a new level of civic pride and a sense of
having arrived in a cultural sense. This is the largest
civic building project in Whangarei for some 25 years.
When I arrived in Whangarei some four years ago, new
to the world of libraries as well as to Northland, my heart
sank. The flagship Central Library was an Institute of
Architects’ Gold Medal award winner in 1938 – and still
a world class library in 1953 according to a visiting Canadian expert – but much of its original character had
been masked by unsympathetic extensions in the ‘70s
and ‘80s. Despite the extensions, the amount of library
space in the District was just 27% of the Public Library
Standards recommendation for a District the size of
Whangarei.
Design/build seemed the best way to go - the last thing
we needed was to have everyone agree on a design
that costed out at double the $8 million budget set in
stone by the mayor and Council. So design/build it was:
we all knew what the price would be and the only
variables were how much space there would be and
what it would look like. We received two tenders, both
of which involved excellent library designs. We chose
the Kerr Construction/Jasmax/Hawthorn Geddes
consortium because the Jasmax design worked best for
the library ‘flow’. Now a reality, the design wins compliments from customers and architects – particularly the
elliptical stairwells and skylights and the way the building interacts with the nearby Cafler Park. Prime Minister Helen Clark, when she toured the library after the
opening on 13 May, said that the building was
“stunning” and commented in particular on the way we
had “brought the forest inside” with the views through
the ten-metre high window walls.
Eight weeks after the library opened for business, with
visitor numbers up 50% and staff wondering how they
managed for so long to put up with the lack of space in
the old building, it’s hard to imagine it’s been open for
so short a time. Staff say from the first day or so it felt
like they had been working there for a long time. The
café – a Robert Harris ‘small footprint’ espresso bar and
the first Robert Harris venture into libraries, has exceeded expectations and is a constant hive of activity
next to the newspapers and magazines in the sunny
northwest corner. There are also tables outside in the
courtyard where customers can get a good view of the
mighty pouihi, carved totara poles.
While the pou concept is based on Maori spiritual tradition, only five of the pou are Maori – there are others
representing Celtic, Korean, Pacific Island and Dalmatian communities as well as a generic pou. Individuals
and community groups have donated money, time,
goods and services to a value of around $130,000 to
make the pou project possible. Each around seven metres in height, the pou are an imposing and inspirational
tribute to cross-cultural collaboration and to the community involvement that has made them possible.
The pou were unveiled and blessed (each in the tradition of the culture from which they come) at a moving
dawn ceremony on the same day the Prime Minister
opened the building.
Pauline Rose
[email protected]
Pauline Rose was Whangarei District Libraries Manager
from July 2002 to September 2005, when she was
seconded to manage Council’s Long Term Council
Community Plan (LTCCP). She continued to manage
the new Central Library building project as well as her
Community Plan role.
NEW LOOK TAKES THE AUCKLAND
CENTRAL CITY LIBRARY INTO THE
FUTURE
The results of the $2.6 million redevelopment of the
Auckland Central City Library were revealed on Monday
29 May when Mayor Dick Hubbard officially declared it
open. Innovative features to take the library into the future include a new café called real, a new entrance, new
furnishings, a News Zone, as well as interactive floor
games for children that are the first of its kind in New
Zealand.
The key driver of the redevelopment project was to
transform the library into a vibrant and dynamic CBD
destination attracting more than one million visitors each
year. The redevelopment also supports the vision of
libraries helping to build strong communities. While the
Central City Library has a strong heritage and research
role, it is also the community library for the CBD and the
three floors are themed to reflect this.
Information points at strategic positions within the library
aim to provide information quickly and easily as well as
offering a welcoming and inviting customer experience.
One of the key challenges in the redevelopment project
has been taking a marble clad building designed in the
1960s, whose imposing design was inwards focused,
and opening it up to the street. The vision of the architects was to create a “lantern” design that acted as a
beacon to draw people in as well as reflect the library’s
role of an information provider outwards.
Allison Dobbie, Libraries Group Manager says:
“The new look Central City Library has been a great
success with both customers and staff with lots of positive feedback around the look and feel of the library and
we’re already noticing how much the café and the interactive games have become a
draw card.”
For more information, please go
to www.aucklandcitylibraries.com
or call 09 377 0209.
Prime Minister Helen Clarke stands under the front door sign with
our wonderful Maori singers
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Felicity McGuinness
Central City Library Manager
Auckland City Libraries
Ph (09) 307 7767 or 027 473
8442
NATIONAL LIBRARY TAKES NEXT STEP
IN PRESERVING DIGITAL HERITAGE
The next step forward in collecting and preserving New
Zealand’s digital heritage has been taken, with the
notification of the National Library Requirement
(Electronic Documents) Notice 2006 in the New Zealand
Gazette on 11 May 2006.
The finalisation of the National Library Requirement
(Electronic Documents) Notice 2006 comes after two
periods of consultation. The publication of the
Requirements Notice begins the implementation of the
National Library’s extended legal deposit responsibilities, as a result of the passing of the National Library of
New Zealand Act 2003.
The extension of legal deposit to include electronic
documents will assist the National Library in collecting,
preserving and making accessible the published works
of New Zealanders for the benefit of current and future
generations.
‘Now our published digital heritage will be catalogued
and safely stored in the same way that our published
print documentary heritage has been for more than 100
years,’ National Librarian Penny Carnaby said.
The extension of legal deposit to include electronic
documents comes into effect on 12 August 2006. From
this date legal deposit regulations will apply to:
Offline electronic documents (for example videotapes,
audiotapes, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs and CD-ROMs)
Internet documents (including entire websites, and
individual documents published on websites, such as
annual reports and consultation documents)
Publishers of offline electronic documents will be
required to supply these to the National Library.
Publishers of internet documents are required to assist
the Library to obtain a copy of the item upon request.
The National Library will make copies of internet
documents through periodic web harvests.
The National Library has developed an online submission tool for internet publishers, and will be encouraging
publishers to upload their internet documents. A number
of publishers have used the submission tool since it
came online in September 2005.
As an alternative to the submission tool, an email
address has been established so that publishers can
alert the National Library when they post new internet
documents.
The National Library will be working with publishers over
the next three months to ensure the smooth introduction
of the extension of legal deposit.
More information about the extension of legal deposit,
including contact details, can be found at http://
www.natlib.govt.nz/en/services/5legaldeposit.html
Courtney Johnston
Communications Adviser
National Library of New Zealand
[email protected]
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CELEBRATING MARGARET MAHY
Christchurch people have always regarded Margaret
Mahy as one of their own, ignoring in their one-eyed
Cantabrian way the fact of her Whakatane birth, her
Auckland university education, and her Wellington
librarian training. They prefer instead to date their
ownership from the early literary years of the mid 1960’s
when Margaret first moved to Governor’s Bay, just over
the Port Hills from Christchurch city, and began her
(published) writing career.
On 21 March this year, Margaret, internationally famous
children’s author, and equally famous former Children’s
Librarian at Canterbury Public Library, celebrated her
seventieth birthday.
She appears to have been
celebrating it ever since, and the feeling was at Christchurch City Libraries that if anyone ever deserved a
moveable birthday, à la Elizabeth R, it was Margaret.
We decided to continue this year of celebration by
holding a literary symposium to look more closely at
Margaret’s literary legacy, with a particular emphasis on
her young adult books. In the months since our
planning began, Margaret has achieved yet another “
literary milestone, again on the international stage.
In April Margaret was awarded the Hans Christian
Andersen Author Award by the International Board on
Books for Young People. She will be presented with
her medal in Macau, China, on 21 September. In
awarding the 2006 medal to Margaret, the jury
recognised “one of the world’s most original re-inventors
of language”, and the rich poetic imagery and magic of
her work, known to children and young adults all over
the world.
We are anticipating that the symposium “Following the
Looping Line” will capture some of that magic.
A literary symposium
Following the looping line: a celebration of Margaret
Mahy is an all-day event to be held on Sunday, 2 July,
2006.
Featuring some of New Zealand’s leading writers for
children and some of our most notable commentators
on children’s literature, the symposium is aimed at an
adult audience – those with a professional interest in the
work of Margaret Mahy, such as librarians, teachers,
and students of children’s literature – and those
members of the general public with a regard for
Margaret and an interest in her books.
The programme will open with a keynote address by
Tessa Duder, writer of a number of young adult books,
including the Alex quartet, and author of the recently
published literary biography Margaret Mahy: a writer’s
life.
This will be followed by a discussion of Margaret’s
literary legacy by a panel of children’s literature experts
and academics consisting of Anna Smith, who lectures
in children’s and young adult literature at the University
of Canterbury; Claudia Marquis, who has a similar
teaching role at the University of Auckland; and John
McKenzie, who heads the Centre for Children’s
Literature at the Christchurch College of Education,
delivering the Diploma of Children’s Literature. It will be
chaired by Christchurch City Libraries’ own expert in
children’s literature, Bill Nagelkerke, who recently
returned from Italy where he was a member of the IBBY
jury which awarded Margaret Mahy the Hans Christian
Andersen Author Award.
Authors David Hill, Joanna Orwin and Gavin Bishop will
contribute to a second panel discussion, this time
focussing on Margaret’s influence on her fellow authors,
and ways in which her international success has
affected the local market for children’s literature, in both
writing and publishing.
Kate De Goldi, author of several young adult novels and
more recently the picture book Clubs, as well as a
regular reviewer of children’s books on National Radio,
will then engage in a ‘conversation’ with Margaret. The
day will conclude with a slide show tribute, and a drinks
and nibbles hour.
This is a unique opportunity for New Zealand librarians
to meet together, to hear exciting, quality speakers, to
enjoy good food, and above all, to celebrate New
Zealand’s most magical writer, Margaret Mahy.
Registration is open to interested members of the public
and the teaching and library professions, at a cost of
$50.00 each. More information on how to register for
this exciting and stimulating event can be found on the
Christchurch City Libraries website at http://
library.christchurch.org.nz/News/2006/
MahySymposium/
Annette Williams
Christchurch City Libraries
[email protected]
VALA 2006
In February 2006 with the assistance of the ITSIG
sponsorship I was able to attend VALA2006. VALA, the
biennial conference held in Melbourne, focuses on
current issues and new trends in technology for library
and information professionals. VALA2006 had the
theme of 'Connecting with users'. Speakers at the
conference presented on a diverse range of topics and
included a range of international speakers for the
plenary sessions. The concurrent sessions represented
a number of different strands and focussed on mostly
practical examples and experiences from practitioners
in a range of institutions including academic, public and
state libraries. While most presentations focused on
Australian experience and projects, there were several
sessions on current projects in New Zealand. At thirty
minutes for each presentation, including time for
questions, the presentations were brief, and often a
quick skim over the highlights. For most presentations
the full papers and podcast can be found at http://
vala.org.au/vala2006/prog2006.htm
Keynote speaker Sandy Payette, leader of digital library
research and development projects in the Information
Science programme at Cornell University, offered an
interesting session on technology evolving with user
needs. She opened with a discussion of the generaLibrary Life, Issue 303 - June 2006
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tional differences in the use, acceptance and integration
of technology, and noted library and information
professionals should have an awareness of the
upcoming generation of information users and their
expectations, and implications for strategic directions.
She pointed to the millennials (those born after 1982)
as an example of a generation who experience
online collaboration early, have technology woven into
play, and link social interaction and study in their use
of technology (blogging, IM). From this she suggested
some trends (service oriented architecture, web 2.0,
semantic web) and a move away from monolithic
applications, which may enable user participation
and integration between social and scholarly
communication networks. Key concepts included the
notion of services (individual resources and applications
rather than one package), the architecture of
participation, the enabling of researchers to build new
information units and enabling processes of research.
A current Cornell project, Fedora, was used as an
example.
Two other keynote speakers, Professor Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (Universal Digital Library) and
Daniel Clancy (Google Print) discussed their respective
projects. Daniel Clancy ran through the rationale behind
Google Print, partnerships with libraries and publishers;
and said one of the intentions for the Google Print
project is that it acts a catalyst for more digitisation
efforts. He listed issues for the project as selection,
archival quality versus access, accessibility, copyright,
preservation, other digital efforts and community impact.
Much of the Google Print project is well documented
and he fielded a number of questions from the floor.
Professor Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, from the
Indian Institute of Science, spoke on the Universal
Digital Library, a project that began in 2001 and has so
far scanned about 600,000 books, and will
probably have one million scanned by the end of 2007.
The project involves international collaboration
including texts from USA, China, Egypt and Australia.
The aim is to connect users with digital content. In
addition to online access they have experimented
with a mobile 'kiosk' - a bus prints texts on demand. The
UDL project set out to digitise whatever it could. He
discussed issues around quality (the aim was to be
'good enough'; they did not want 'best to be the
enemy of good'), copyright (and suggested a way of
compensation), the challenges the project has faced,
and the type of research it has triggered.
In the concurrent sessions I attended many of the technologies and trends discussed were familiar and have
been in use for a while. The sessions focused on ways
these were being used in library environments and
some of the ways that libraries were working to ensure
that technology and content provided through libraries
were understood by library staff and effectively used by
library users. Blogs, wikis and RSS featured in several
sessions - Sean Volke from Thomson Gale gave an
overview of blogs, wikis and RSS; and Sandra Jeffries
and Corey Wallis from the University of Southern
Queensland Library talked about the use of RSS and an
in-house blog (known as the reading room) for library
staff professional development. The project aimed to
address gaps in IT knowledge, experiment with new
technology before offering it to customers, and as a
useful aid to disseminate relevant professional reading.
The project has lead to the establishment of faculty
librarian blogs for academic staff, future plans include a
blog for information to students, and the investigation of
RSS feeds from databases.
Many of the sessions discussed ways of training and
developing skills in use of technology by both front line
staff and the communities the technology was delivered
to. Jo Manuel, from PLAIN Central Services, South
Australia, presented a session on a pilot traineeship
scheme that placed IT trainees in rural libraries, with the
aim of assisting local library users to improve their skills
to access online services (Get Connected @ Your
Library project). While the project was aimed at
assisting the local community, in some cases it had the
outcome of up-skilling library staff; in addition it drew in
a different group of library customers. For the local
communities, the most popular skills taught were use of
email, shopping on the internet, and the use of various
Microsoft applications. Barry Nunn from the
State Library of NSW ran through a project that has
been developing services to the 264 branches of
97 library services in the state since 1997. The first part
of the project focused on connectivity and the
development of infrastructure. In 2001 their project
ensured a high speed link to at least 70% of the rural
communities. The following work has been on
providing content; through using a consortium they are
providing a number of databases to the library
services. They have developed an ongoing training
programme offered to staff in the branch
libraries covering topics such as browsers, search
engines and directories, search strategies and
databases.
One of the more entertaining sessions was the
panel discussion Top Ten Technology Trends,
chaired by Anne Beaumont, and featuring Richard Giles
who presented off site. Richard Giles gave an overview
of various trends: Flickr, mashups, Myspace,
Skype, |gaming, podcasting, the creation of virtual
worlds. Other sessions included Picture NSW from
Judith Peppard and Derek Whitehead, and the
digitisation of heritage maps from Peter McGrath and
Shirley Firth of the State Library of Victoria.
About 750 delegates
the conference offered
about a number of
library practices, and
practice of information
areas of work.
attended VALA this year;
a great opportunity to hear
Australasian libraries and
the ideas and professional
professionals in a variety of
I would like to thank ITSIG and Christchurch City
Libraries for providing support to attend VALA.
Amanda Brown
Christchurch City Libraries
[email protected]
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THOMSON GALE
ADVERTORIAL
More Power to you by July 2006!
Thomson Gale Introduces New Platform for MegaSearching called PowerSearch.
Thomson Gale’s new technology platform is the ultimate
one-stop search solution. From mid July 2006 librarians
and customers will notice a change in the search interface for:
• Student Resource Centre
• Discovering Collection
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Centre
The migration of these databases to the PowerSearch
platform means they can be cross-searched with the
Gale Virtual Reference Library. Libraries can also
choose to switch their InfoTrac OneFile database over
to PowerSearch as well, giving a total of five databases
that are able to be cross-searched.
Key benefits of the new platform:
• A common user experience that reduces the need
for training and simplifies documentation. Products
will have the same look and feel but will retain some
specific searching capabilities for particular product
data sets
• Improved capability for libraries to customize the interface to local needs
• A "brought to you by" feature that offers libraries the
opportunity to brand the database
• Support in all databases for standards and functions,
such as OpenURL, library holdings, interlibrary loan,
Z39.50, and Z39.80
• Support of a common vocabulary to enhance search
precision
• Continued support for standardized usage reporting
meeting ICOLC and COUNTER guidelines
• Improvements for federated search vendors to
search inside Thomson Gale resources
• Better article-linking capabilities to ensure users find
full text and images
• Enhanced access to the library catalog through the
Thomson Gale platform by increasing the amount
and quality of MARC records
• Advancements in Thomson Gale's InfoMark technology to share searches and articles via email, web
pages, and links
So how does your library switch InfoTrac OneFile to
PowerSearch?
Any customer who chooses to enable
PowerSearch now will be able to do so
through their InfoTrac Config account, or
through a request to Liza Riley or Fiona
Rigby
Thomson Gale will be migrating all of its databases to
PowerSearch over the next two years. Watch this
column for future database migrations.
For further information please visit www.gale.com
or contact Liza Riley ([email protected]) or
Fiona Rigby ([email protected])
JOHN WILLIAM BLACKWOOD (BILL)
Memories from the
Library School class of ‘54
A phone call from Palmerston
North bought us the news that
Bill had died peacefully on the
morning of February 17, 2006.
He had been fighting cancer for
some time and faced the battle
bravely. His attitude was to
accept each day as it came. We
all felt he was now at peace
after a very full and amazingly
active life for one handicapped with cerebral palsy.
We first met together as a group at Library School,
Wellington, in early February, 1954. In a class of fifteen
Bill was the only man. The slight awkwardness he felt
soon disappeared and he quickly became one of the
group.
To quote from his editorial in the magazine
Colophon, put together by the class of 1954 at the close
of the year - “For myself, whatever misapprehensions I
may have experienced on first finding myself the sole
representative of the male species among so many of
the ‘fair sex’, I soon came to realise that my position
was a happy one”.
When the time came to elect our chairperson Bill was
unanimously voted in. We couldn’t have chosen better.
Bill had an astute mind and a very quick and at times
wicked sense of humour. He guided us well through the
year, watched over us and made sure our load of
assignments wasn’t too heavy. He stood up for us and
on one occasion requested an apology from a tutor after
some comments to one of the students about public
libraries.
The year was a busy and a happy one. When we
weren’t clacking away on our elderly typewriters or
visiting various libraries we often got together and
shared social outings. As it was an election year
several evenings were spent together discussing the
candidates and their policies. Even when we disagreed
the evenings were fun and rewarding. It was here Bill’s
great debating powers came to the fore. He had done a
lot of debating at Otago University and twice been a
member of the team that won the inter-university Joynt
Scroll debating trophy.
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Another incident that comes to mind is when Bill offered
to clean some windows of a flat where three of the
students lived. As he was climbing the step-ladder a
passer-by asked if he could manage. He replied “I’m
not all there you know.”
The end of the year came quickly and plans were made
to meet together some time in the future. Our first
reunion was at Waikanae in 1995. It was wonderful
catching up on everyone and hearing their news. We
met again at Christchurch in 1999 and at Tauranga in
2004 – our Fiftieth Jubilee. Bill attended them all and
thoroughly enjoyed being back with his “fair ladies”.
In 1975 he received a Fellowship of the New Zealand
Library Association, an award that was shared by only
49 others at the time.
Bill’s greatest accolade was in 1997 when, in the
Queen’s Birthday honours, he was awarded the QSM
for Public Services. These included work in the library
profession, for the church and work for the disabled and
other social services.
His autobiography, Rich and Rewarding, was published
in 2001. It was the culmination of hard work and
dedication and was well received. It gives hope and
encouragement to those with physical disabilities and
challenges.
We will always remember you Bill for your perseverance, courage, and support. When we gather for our
next reunion we know you will be there with us in spirit.
Seonee Ware ©
[email protected]
Joan Brock ©
On behalf of “class 54”.
SUNDAY OPENING A WINNER FOR
LIBRARY
The Ashburton Guardian
22 May 2006
If day one is anything to go by, Sunday opening at the
Ashburton Public Library is a winner.
Seven day opening is among a raft of measures being
trialled by the library to boost flagging patronage and
chief librarian Jill Watson rated yesterday’s support as
very good.
The library opened from 1pm to 4pm and more than 100
people opted to spend some of their Sunday hours
browsing the shelves. Mrs Watson said patronage was
steady during the three hours, with many people
commenting that the Sunday opening meant they would
finally be able to
use the library.
“We had three
new members
and a couple of
membership
renewals
from
people who had
not been in for a
long
time.
Others said they worked six days a week and Sunday
was the only time they could use the library,” she said.
The initiative for Sunday opening came during a library
survey, with the suggestion made by a number of borrowers. Sunday opening is commonplace in many libraries around New Zealand.
The level of support was particularly pleasing because it
had been a fine day, Ms Watson said.
“If it had been pouring I know we’d have been even
busier.”
While Sunday opening is on trial for about three months,
if the support shown yesterday continued, it was almost
certain it would become a permanent feature of the library, she said.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
STUDYING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AT
CHRISTCHURCH COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION!
ADVERTORIAL
Did you know that all the Diploma in Children’s Literature courses
are Level Seven on the NZQA Register and are therefore graduate
level courses?
Did you know that all the Diploma in Children’s Literature courses
are available by correspondence?
Did you know that librarians as well as parents and teachers can
study the Diploma in Children’s Literature?
Did you know that librarians have had their research published in
our latest issue of Talespinner, a journal of New Zealand-based
research, feature articles, comments and entertainment??
Did you know that most of the Diploma of Children’s Literature
courses are also stand alone courses and can be studied independently of the Diploma programme? Did you know you could use
one course as professional development?
Did you know that teachers and librarians who graduate with the
Diploma in Children’s Literature can get a 50% Masters degree
credit?
Did you know that in 2006, you can do some papers of the Diploma in Children’s Literature face-to-face during the week over a
semester or in the weekends?
Did you know that over a thousand people have studied some of
our compulsory courses like CL711 Image and Narrative and have
found it both challenging and rewarding?
YOU DIDN’T? Well, read on!
The Diploma in Children’s Literature is internationally
recognised for its depth, range and quality. Simply put,
there are no equivalent qualifications anywhere else
available for both parents and professionals (teachers,
publishers, writers and librarians!) to study children’s
literature at home. One advantage of distance education
is that people in diverse circumstances can fit a study
programme around their lives. However, not everyone
likes to do correspondence courses and some people
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have asked for the qualification to be offered as a faceto-face event. The advantage of this is that you can get
the pleasure of many minds at work as you develop a
relationship with other course members. To respond to
this request, we are going to offer some of the courses
in a flexible way. That is, through a regular evening time
or over some weekends, you will have the chance to
study with others some of the most popular courses in
the Diploma qualification either in Christchurch or
Timaru. At the same time, you will get all the course
materials from the distance course, and be expected to
do some of the course requirements through correspondence. In other words, you get the best of both worlds.
DOES THIS INTEREST YOU? If so read on….
Here are some of the courses
that might interest you as a librarian. With these courses under your belt, you could graduate with the DipChLit!
CL711 Image and Narrative.
This course focuses on the picture book as a vehicle for exploring the nature of story and
illustration in children’s and
young people’s literature. Having explored the different types
of picture books, the course looks in detail at the nature
of narrative and narrative art.
CL712 Story and Meaning. This course focuses on
myth, legends and folktales as a vehicle for exploring
the nature of meaning in literature. It finally asserts,
having examined a range of critical perspectives, a
transactional model of the reading process and demonstrates how different critical perspectives allow various
meanings to be negotiated. This is also available faceto-face in Christchurch commencing July 10, 2006
CL713 Patterns of Language. This course focuses on
poetry (but does not exclude prose texts) and provides
participants with the opportunity to examine the nature
and experience of language in children’s literature. This
is also available face-to-face in Timaru commencing
July 10, 2006
CL714 Research in Children’s Literature This course
enables the student to identify the current state of
knowledge in a selected area of children’s literature and
to answer a self-selected research question with reference to field-based methodologies. Students have their
work published in our research journal Talespinner.
CL722 Genre in Children’s Literature. The concept of
genre is foundational to a study of children’s literature in
that it is the means by which the field can be classified
and studied. However, the reality of diverse writing is
such that the term is problematic and provokes considerable academic debate. The aim of this course is to
enable the course participant begin to understand the
nature of the debate, to select a limited range of genre
and to examine a range of texts within each genre and
across age levels that exhibit typical characteristics of
that genre, historical antecedents, ways of narrating,
hidden ideologies and books that challenge the boundaries.
CL721 Young Adult Fiction. This course will survey a
range of fiction written for young adults and will offer an
understanding both of the distinct nature of the adolescent experience and aspects of youth culture which
bear on reading “youth” fiction.
CL734 Book Selection in Children’s Literature. This
course is designed for both public librarians as well as
school librarians, enabling course participants to profile
a library collection in terms of selection criteria, develop
a collection management plan having identified a range
of issues about the differing roles of libraries and develop a professional development strategy in terms of
marketing children’s literature within the school and/or
the community.
Are you up to the challenge? Find out more on our
website:
http://www.cce.ac.nz/info/childrenslit/ndpchlit.html
or by filling in the following request form.
Administration Officer
Diploma in Children’s Literature
Christchurch College of Education
[email protected]
BPANZ REVIEW AWARDS
The Book Publishers Association of New Zealand Reviewer of the Year and Review Page or Programme
Award are an integral part of the annual Montana New
Zealand Book Awards, recognising the role of the critic
within this country’s book publishing industry.
This year the judges are independent publisher and editor, Linda Cassells, and executive director of the New
Zealand Society of Authors and poet, Elizabeth Allen. Overall, they commented on how well the reviewers who submitted reviews, connected with their material and their audiences.
“We were particularly impressed with the range of New
Zealand and international books reviewed – including
those for children and specialist audiences – and also
by the editors’ choice of reviewer,” they said in a joint
statement.
The finalists for the BPANZ Reviewer of the Year
Award are:
David Eggleton
Jolisa Gracewood
Paula Morris
David Eggleton and Jolisa Gracewood review primarily
for the New Zealand Listener. Paula Morris reviews for
the New Zealand Listener and The Dominion Post.
The finalists for the BPANZ Best Review Page or
Programme Award are:
New Zealand Listener
North and South
The Dominion Post
The winners will be announced at the Montana New
Zealand Book Awards gala dinner in Auckland on Monday 24 July 2006. The BPANZ Reviewer of the Year
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and Best Review Page or Programme awards are organised in conjunction with the Montana New Zealand
Book Awards and are administered by Booksellers new
Zealand. They are sponsored by the Book Publishers
Association of New Zealand.
Sandra Noakes
Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2006
[email protected]
www.montananzbookawards.co.nz
JOY COWLEY WINS THE NEW ZEALAND
POST BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
Joy Cowley has won the New Zealand Post
Book of the Year with her novel,
Hunter. This novel so impressed the judges
for this year’s New Zealand Post Book
Awards with its power and originality that
they singled it out as a tour de force of
fiction writing with the potential to become
a classic of fiction writing for young readers
on the international stage.
The award was presented to Joy Cowley by Prime
Minister Helen Clark and New Zealand Post’s Chief
Executive Officer, John Allen, at the awards ceremony
hosted by the Hon. Judith Tizard, Associate Minister of
Arts, Culture and Heritage, at Parliament on
Wednesday 17 May.
This year marks the tenth year that New Zealand Post
has sponsored the New Zealand Post Book Awards for
Children & Young Adults. Mr Allen said they were
delighted to have watched the awards go from strength
to strength over the past decade. “The importance of
nourishing children’s literature, and therefore encouraging our young people to read, cannot be overestimated,”
he said. “Books not only impart knowledge but more
importantly they enrich the imagination, giving our
children the ability to innovate and create.”
The judging panel, chaired by Julie Harper, manager of
Jabberwocky Children’s Bookshop in Auckland, and
including writer Graeme Lay and television producer,
Carol Hirschfeld, read and debated the merits of 118
books published during 2005 and submitted for these
awards. They concurred that New Zealand has a
wealth of talented authors and illustrators creating
wonderful works for children and young adults. “We
were taken on many journeys – journeys that informed
us or took us to imaginary, exciting worlds, journeys that
made us laugh and cry and appreciate the experience
of others,” said Ms Harper.
The category winners and honour award
recipients in the New Zealand Post Book
Awards 2006 are:
New Zealand Post Book of the Year:
Hunter by Joy Cowley (Puffin)
Junior Fiction Category:
Hunter by Joy Cowley (Puffin)
Honour Award: Sil by Jill Harris (Longacre Press)
Young Adult Fiction Category:
With Lots of Love from Georgia by Brigid Lowry
(Allen & Unwin)
Honour Award: Kaitangata Twitch by Margaret Mahy
(Allen & Unwin)
Picture Book Category:
A Booming in the Night by Ben Brown,
illustrated by Helen Taylor (Reed Publishing)
Honour Award: Haere – Farewell, Jack,
farewell by Tim Tipene, illustrated by
Huhana Smith (Huia Publishers)
Non Fiction Category:
Scarecrow Army: The Anzacs at Gallipoli
by Leon Davidson (Black Dog Books)
Honour Award: Blue New Zealand: Plants,
Animals, Environments – A Visual Guide by
Glenys Stace (Puffin)
SHORTLIST
ANNOUNCEMENT
Nominations for this year’s Nielsen BookData New
Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award cover a wide variety
of titles and subjects. This year’s shortlist includes two
fiction titles, a very topical non-fiction title, and a book
celebrating the relationship between poetry and the
New Zealand landscape.
This award is unique in that it acknowledges the key
role booksellers play in supporting New Zealand writing
and publishing. Booksellers are asked to vote for the
book they have most enjoyed reading, selling and
promoting.
Best First Book Award:
The Unknown Zone by Phil Smith (Random House
New Zealand)
Children’s Choice Award:
Nobody’s Dog written by Jennifer Beck and illustrated
by Lindy Fisher proved a favourite with New Zealand
children when it won the coveted Children’s Choice
Award.
The winner of each category was awarded with
$5,000. The winner of the New Zealand Post Book of
the Year Award takes home an extra $5,000. The
winner of the Best First Book and the Children’s Choice
Award receive prize money of $1,000 each. The honour
awards were presented in each category in recognition
of particular features in each book.
New Zealand Post has been a steadfast sponsor of the
New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young
Adults since 1997. Their partnership has seen the
awards flourish, growing from strength to strength over
the last decade. New Zealand Post’s support of these
awards reflects their deep commitment to promoting
literacy and literature throughout the country. Working
closely with Booksellers New Zealand, New Zealand
Post and other dedicated segments of the community
actively encourage New Zealand children to read and
enjoy books. For those with limited access to new
works, New Zealand Post also purchases and
distributes books by the New Zealand Post Book
Awards finalists by supporting the Books in Homes
programme each year.
The New Zealand Post Book Awards are also supported
by Creative New Zealand and Book Tokens (NZ) Ltd
and are administered by Booksellers New Zealand.
Sandra Noakes
New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young
Adults 2006
[email protected]
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The award carries a prize of $NZ2500 for the winning
author. All booksellers who vote will enter a prize draw
for a subscription to a Nielsen BookData bibliographic
service.
The 2006 shortlist is:
The Captive Wife by Fiona Kidman, published by
Random House NZ Ltd
He Will Be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good
Men by Celia Lashlie, published by HarperCollins New
Zealand
Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs by Linda Olsson, published by Penguin Books NZ
The Nature of Things : Poems from the New Zealand
Landscape edited by James Brown, photographs by
Craig Potton
Bookseller members of Booksellers New Zealand will
have the opportunity to vote for a winning title from this
shortlist. Voting closes Friday 30 June 2006 and the
winner will be announced in Auckland at the 2006 Book
Industry Awards and Conference Dinner on Sunday 23
July 2006.
Martine Poiree
[email protected]
FINALIST LIST HIGHLIGHTS A ROBUST
YEAR FOR NEW ZEALAND PUBLISHING
The finalists in the prestigious Montana New Zealand
Book Awards 2006 have been announced. Over the
last five months the judging panel narrowed down a
staggering 210 entries, the highest ever for these
awards, to a group of 26 finalists spread across eight
categories.
Lawrence Jones, Emeritus Professor at the University of
Otago and convenor of the judging panel, said 2005
was a great year for New Zealand publishing in terms of
quality as well as in quantity. “The entries for fiction and
poetry were especially strong,” said Jones. “It will be a
difficult but pleasurable task to select a winner in each
category from among the five distinguished finalists in
fiction and the three in poetry and then to select from
those two texts the recipient of the Deutz Medal.” Jones
is joined on the panel by Linda Burgess, novelist, script
writer and teacher of creative writing, and Bob Ross, a
publisher with over 40 years experience in the trade.
Great Sporting Moments: The best of Sport magazine 1988 – 2004 edited by Damien Wilkins (Victoria
University Press)
The judging panel follows a strict set of guidelines taking into account enduring literary merit and overall authorship; quality of illustration and graphic presentation;
production values, general design and the standard of
editing and the impact of the book on the community,
with emphasis on issues such as topicality, public interest, commercial viability, entertainment, cultural and
educational values and lifespan of the book.
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture Category:
The Art of Māori Weaving: The Eternal Thread / Te
Aho Mutunga Kore by Miriama Evans and Ranui
Ngarimu (Huia Publishers)
The finalists in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards
2006 are:
Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry:
How to Look at a Painting by Justin Paton (Awa Press)
I Had a Black Dog: His Name was Depression by
Matthew Johnstone (Pan Macmillan Australia)
Environment:
New Zealand Birds in Focus: A Photographer’s
Journey by Geoff Moon (Reed Publishing)
Pōhutukawa & Rātā: New Zealand’s Iron-hearted
Trees by Philip Simpson (Te Papa Press)
Fiction Category:
Blindsight by Maurice Gee (Penguin Books)
Swimming with Orca by Dr Ingrid N Visser (Penguin
Books)
The Captive Wife by Fiona Kidman (Vintage)
Dreamhunter by Elizabeth Knox (Fourth Estate)
Responsibility by Nigel Cox (Victoria University Press)
Watch of Gryphons and other stories by Owen Marshall (Vintage)
Illustrative:
Contemporary New Zealand Photographers edited
by Hannah Holm and Lara Strongman (Mountain
View Publishing)
Faithfully Mozart: The Fantastical World of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Donovan Bixley (Hodder)
Poetry Category:
Footfall by Brian Turner (Godwit)
Jeffrey Harris by Justin Paton (Victoria University
Press / Dunedin Public Art Gallery)
Lifted by Bill Manhire (Victoria University Press)
The Time of the Giants by Anne Kennedy (Auckland
University Press)
Montana Medal for Non Fiction:
Biography Category:
Charles Fleming: Environmental Patriot by Mary
McEwen (Craig Potton Publishing)
Dingle: Discovering the Sense in Adventure by
Graeme Dingle (Craig Potton Publishing)
Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life by Alexa
Johnston (Viking)
History Category:
Black November: The 1918 influenza pandemic in
New Zealand by Geoffrey W Rice (Canterbury University Press)
Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s –
1950s by Rosemary McLeod (HarperCollins Publishers)
We Call it Home: A History of State Housing in New
Zealand by Ben Schrader (Reed Publishing)
Reference & Anthology Category:
The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand by Roger
Smith / GeographX (Craig Potton Publishing)
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The winner of the Poetry category will be announced on
Montana Poetry Day, Friday 21 July 2006. The winners
of the other categories, plus the Deutz Medal for Fiction
or Poetry and the Montana Medal for Non Fiction will be
announced in Auckland at a special awards ceremony
on Monday 24 July 2006.
The principal sponsors of the Montana New Zealand
Book Awards are Montana and Creative New Zealand.
The awards are managed by Booksellers New Zealand
and supported by Book Publishers Association of New
Zealand, the New Zealand Society of Authors and Book
Tokens (NZ) Ltd.
Sandra Noakes
[email protected]
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