Past Events

2007 Events

October event

Margaret Calder was presented with a LIANZA award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to NZ libraries and significant special service to LIANZA.

This presentation was followed by an interactive presentation of highlights from the IFLA Conference 2007 .

The conference was held in South Africa, and proved inspirational in many ways to attendees. Excerpts from the opening address and pictures of conference events and surrounding areas were shown.

Panelists were:
Penny Carnaby National Librarian
Moira Fraser Parliamentary Library
Sue Roberts Victoria University of Wellington Library
Dan Dorner Victoria University of Wellington

August event 

LIANZA Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui Annual General Meeting August 21

LIANZA Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui Annual General Meeting was held on Tuesday 21 August at 5.30 pm in the Senior's Room on the Mezzanine Floor at Wellington Public Library.

Stephanie Cook, City Councillor, spoke to the meeting about library funding and charges to customers.

Robin Anderson, Sandra Clarke and Pauline La Rooy resigned after many years of service on the regional committee. The 2007/2008 committee was elected.

July event

"On the Couch with Penny"

February event

2005 Events

Annual General Meeting 2005

On Tuesday 16th August 2005, under the chairmanship of Robin Anderson.

Annual report of the Chair 2004/2005  (PDF 23 KB)

Copyright - developments & discussion

On Monday 25th July 2005, in the National Library Conference Room, SLIS and Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui Regional Committee hosted an expert panel discussion on copyright.

Geoff McLay (Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Victoria University of Wellington), Victoria Pearson (Senior Analyst, Intellectual Property Group, MED) and Tracy Parsons (Parliamentary Library, co-author of LIANZA Copyright Act Guidelines, 3rd ed., 2005) spoke to the following topics:

• what is copyright - some common misconception
• interpreting New Zealand copyright legislation
• challenges and ambiguities in the digital era
• projected changes to the Copyright Act
• the revised LIANZA Copyright Act Guidelines - a summary of the updates, and putting these into practice

This was followed by a question and answer session.

Visit by Lynne Brindley

To read Lynne's article 'Powering the World's Knowledge' see http://www.bl.uk/about/articles/intro.html

LIANZA Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui Regional Committee together with the National Library of New Zealand invited all interested librarians to meet with and hear Lynne Brindley.

The event was held on Wednesday April 20 at 5.30pm in the newly refurbished Main Foyer of the National Library - ground floor.

2004 Events
 

Annual General Meeting 2004

On Monday, 17th August 2004, under the chairmanship of Pauline La Rooy.

Annual report of the Chair 2003/2004  (PDF 63 KB)

Events in December 02 and January 03
 

Brenda Graves, Hutt City Libraries

The Fellowship was awarded to Alistair Smith 'a well-respected member of the profession' for his significant contribution as a lecturer at Victoria University, for his challenging of students and colleagues alike, and for the contribution he has made to the profession regarding storage, retrieval, and dissemination systems. Alistair was also responsible for the original LIANZA website. He has shown a real commitment to LIANZA. In accepting his award Alistair commented that he was pleased not to receive it from ALIA, as that would have made him a FALIA! He expressed his extreme gratitude at receiving the Fellowship. The awarding of the Fellowship was heartily endorsed by those present.

Tom Avery from Wellington City Libraries and David Jones from Turnbull reported on their time at Conference. Their attendance was sponsored by our branch.

Tom found the conference inspiring and well balanced, fast moving, with speakers building on ideas from previous speakers. Derek Law made a real impact and Larry Prusak was challenging. The speakers highlighted for him the difference between knowledge and information, and how we connect people to information through new technologies.

David was thrilled to find indigenous archives addressed in the programme as that is one of his special interests. He looks after the Maori collection at the Turnbull Library. There were issues not addressed yet including the functionality and cultural rights around digital information, and the idea of taonga Maori and how it sits with the information age. 

Both men enjoyed the socialising and networking with peers and colleagues. They felt that one had to experience the whole of conference to enjoy the benefit of discussion and debate around the world of libraries.

Christmas Gathering: - Jan 22nd

Unfortunately, the weather behaved more as though it was Conference than it should have for the summer evening !!, but a band of us braved the brisk wind to take the air on the roof of Hutt City's Central Library.

Craig and Andrew provided the BBQ sausages and steak, from the more sheltered loading bay, as the BBQ didn't quite make it to the roof.
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The Dreadfuls played in the background as we got on with the business of eating.

Thanks to Robin for taking care of the drinks. It was lovely to see 'Wayne' and 'Bruce' again after their stint as B1 and B2. Suitably attired in plastic aprons with appropriate tools as well!

John and I gave a rendition of the Lounge Sweets' 'Kiss me honey, honey kiss me' for those who had missed the conference dinner, or just hadn't quite caught all the words. We got our own back though in providing the words for all to sing The Drifter's 'Up on the roof'.

Good company, good food and a laugh to welcome in the New Year.

Loriene Roy

On 4 July 2002, Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui Branch of LIANZA hosted guest speaker Dr Loriene Roy at a lunchtime address at the Lecture Theatre, Law Faculty, Victoria University of Wellington.
  Loriene is a very talented advocate of the library and information profession, and lectures in library and information sciences at the University of Texas. She was a former president of the American Indian Library Association and a Councilor -at-Large for the American Library Association, and has involvement with Association for Library Information Science Education, Oral History Association, Popular Culture Association, Public Library Association, Worldcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She is enrolled on the White Earth Reservation (Minnesota) and is a member of the Pembina Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.   Loriene spoke of ways that tribal communities are revitalising culture through language, culturally responsive education and the development of cultural centres. She spoke in detail on the following four strands.

1. The AIHEC - American Indian Higher Education Consortium's cultural learning centres project. In 1972 the nation's first six Tribal Colleges joined together in an informal collaboration. There are now 32 member colleges and more recently, seven colleges have managed to build tribal cultural centres.

• The goods for these centres are donated
  
• There is voluntary labour
  
• $10 million dollars has been raised with assistance of groups such as Kelloggs, Lilly ad Log Homes. The difficult part of the establishing tribal cultural centres is to find money for their construction.

These centres will provide opportunities for:

• Museum exhibits
  
• Tribal archives
  
• Social spaces
  
• Language centres
  
• Class rooms
  
• Mediation (religious purposes)
  
• Peformance - music, drum, dance
  
• Educational tourism

http://www.aihec.org/

2. Tribal Tourism Partnership Initiative is part of the United Tribes Technical College in North Dakota.

This initiative offers opportunities for:

• Economic development (including casinos, golf courses)
  
• Interpreters
  
• E-commerce - Native people should be able to protect their handicraft and manufacture what they decide
  
• Opportunity to develop indigenous virtual museums - interactive and bilingual
  
• Bringing back tribal stories 

http://www.unitedtribestech.com/tourism/index.asp

3. New training and educational opportunities for tribal staff.

A museum practices workshop was held 3-14 June 2002 sponsored by the Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College and Science Museum of Minnesota. - It included subjects such as 

• Principles and ethics of collection management
  
• Legal issues
  
• National Conference on Tribal Archives, Libraries & Museums, was held May, 2002, Mesa, Arizona
  
• Haskell -development of tribal archives class and tribal museums - LIS school - established at University of Texas
  
• Museums - the National Museum of the American Indian has been established as part of the Smithsonian Institute and will provide further opportunity for training through internships and fellowships.

http://www.nmai.si.edu/

4. Opportunity to join an international indigenous virtual museum collective to prepare a proposal for funding from the National Science Foundation's programme "International Digital Libraries Collaborative Research and Applications Testbeds". There was an opportunity to secure one of ten grants of up to $1 million, but the date for applications has now been closed off.

A small but enthusiastic audience enjoyed Loriene Roy's non-stop address and afterwards bombarded her with questions arising from the issues raised.