LIANZA's new governance proposal : Consultation Meeting Tues 26 May

Hello all

Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui (Wellington) region would like to invite members to discuss the recently announced LIANZA proposals on enhancing the Association's governance structure, and the changing ofinstitutional member fee bands and rates. Current Regional Councillor Paddy Plunket will facilitate an informal brown bag lunch meeting, talking about the proposals and seeking your feedback.

What: Consultation on the LIANZA proposals
When: Tuesday 26th May, 12.15 - 1.15pm
Where: Reserve Bank Building, Level 10, 2 The Terrace, Wellington
RSVP: Please RSVP to Laurinda Thomas, by 5pm Monday 25thMay.

For more information about the proposals, please see the following documents:

• Governance Proposal (pdf)
• Institutional Membership Proposal (pdf)

Cheers,
Hana and Laurinda.

LIANZA2009 Call for abstracts deadline extended!

For all you library folk who were hoping to become famous by speaking publicly at this years LIANZA conference in Christchurch in October, you've been given divine intervention - the deadline's been extended to next Wednesday! (27th of May)

See the conference blog for more details, here and here.

Chur,
H

LIANZA Conference 2009 Update

Call for Abstracts

The LIANZA 2009 Conference Committee invites the submission of abstracts for this year's conference at the Christchurch Convention Centre, October 12-14.

Our theme this year is "he tangata, he tangata, he tangata", and we are looking for contributions that celebrate the importance of people, both within and outside our profession.  The Conference will, "Acknowledge the past, Embrace the present, and Advance the Future".

In 2009 we are encouraging participation from all parts of our profession

• Young and not so young;
• first time presenters and seasoned campaigners;
• recent graduates;
• those new to the profession and experienced librarians;
• representatives from all aspects and sectors of librarianship and related fields.

To support this we are offering opportunities for local mentoring to assist with nurturing your idea into an abstract and then into an engaging presenation.  We are also offering a wide variety of formats, so that hopefully there is something for everybody.

Don't be shy - if you've got something you're passionate about, a great idea, something that has worked for you and might have wider applicability, or something controversial; please consider presenting at LIANZA 2009.  This is your chance to interact with the people in your profession, engage in some healthy debate, and contribute to our collective future.

Please visit the call for abstracts for more details.

Thinking of writing a paper?  Come to our Presentation Skills workshops

The Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui regional committee is pleased to confirm we are offering a series of three workshops on presentation skills this month.  One's actually already been but I'm sure if you contact Paddy and ask nicely, she could let you go to two of them on a reduced price. 

The regional committee accepted a proposal from Paddy Plunket and Moira Fraser which covers Voice and body language, Beginnings and endings, Engaging with your audience, Content & visuals, and Interactions.  The next one is on Thursday 14th May.

Check out the Conference Blog

The 2009 Conference blog is chock full of interesting posts.  This is your place to go for up to the minute information, and to get your thoughts out there!  http://lianza2009.wordpress.com/.

PS.  I (Hana) may be writing for it soon.

Join us on Facebook

Conference 2009 is also on Facebook – search for LIANZA Conference 2009 in events and groups.  Make contact with other people attending or thinking about attending Conference.   Or maybe make friends with the mysterious Libby Church!

Professional Registration

Don't forget that you've only got until the 30th of June to apply for Transitional Registration.  See the links on the sidebar for info about it and an application form.  

PS. I am applying for it and this does in no way suggest you should too, but have a read anyway if you're even vaguely interested.

You will need:

• current membership with either LIANZA, TRW, NZLLA, SLANZA, SLA or IAML
• a 500 word (guideline) whittled-down CV
• certified copies of relevant qualifications
• NZD$56.25

Cheers and I wish you luck!  Yay, more letters after your surname!

Easter weekend musings

Hi everyone,

My name's Hana and I'm a commitee member on the Wellington Regional Council... of LIANZA that is, not the ever-reliable WRC.

I just had a brief musing before, on a Saturday night yes.  Nonethless it's worth writing about I think.  I was reading through the pages of our LIANZA website presence, (visit it if you haven't already) and came across this thing called Magpie online.  I've actually already come across it and wondered what it was, and at the time, suggested archiving it because it was just some wierd thing on our webpages that I didn't know anything about.  Funny how you want to get rid of things (in some way or another) that you don't understand or don't want to know about at the time.  Anyway, I gather Magpie was some post-print newsletter, pre-blog sort of Wellington region industry updatey thing, and it's interesting to see how time's have changed.  As I understand, it was started by a former committee member, Neil Coup.  I'll leave the corrections about this and other facts in this post to current more clued-up committee members :)

I'm in the process of writing a web development strategy for our committee, including a style-guide (and the way I'm talking it up, it's going to be ummm pretty far-out!), and it's good to come back to see how things used to be done here in terms of communication.  Back in the good ol' days of the early 1990's, there was a format of a "...beige multi-page newsletter..." which is an improvement I gather, from the "...variously-coloured double-sided single page..." previous era.

My how times have changed.  We didn't even have consultation regarding if fellow committee members approved of my recent template change on this blog!  I'm continuing to read this archive as I type this, as history is so important to document.

By the way, I thought I'd make a note of the reason why this previous regional newsletter was called "Magpie".  It's because it included lots of shiny things from around the place.  Cute, but doesn't hold a huge lot of relevance anymore and isn't intuitive.  I've been trying to come up with a catchy sort of thing for our committee, but yeah, to no avail.  Maybe just saying the reo translation faster will make us sound cooler??  Back to basics - we are LIANZA Te Upoko o Te Ika a Maui!

Anyway, it's quite amazing how things change.  There seemed to be a bit of documentation back just 10 or 15 years ago in this regional committee.  Now I don't see it as much, but I haven't actually seen a committee member pull out a folder full of past minutes during a meeting as I haven't even met my fellow members! (been in Perth, forgive me, I'm still there actually, oh the shame).

So times have changed, yeah yeah, and everything moves a lot faster now, we all love nz-libs, but we love blogs just as much, and RSS feeds and other stuff that I'm sure Timothy can fill me in on.   NZ-libs is a stalwart for us I think.  I've been keeping up with your conversations, oh yes, and some really interesting stuff is going down on there.  I propose (actually Paddy proposes) that we regularly post something controversial up here and let you know about it on nz-libs.  Good idea?  I thought so too.

Anyhoo, 'til my next musing/aimless ramble - watch out!  Stay safe! aaand remember to return your library books on time!

H