E-Blog

The following audio files from LIANZA Conference 2006 are now available on the LIANZA website:

Stephen Abram
Bonnie Cheuk
Martin Nakata
Simon Morton
2006 LIANZA AGM

The sound recordings were made by David Hardgrave and copies can be purchased from David: totalrecall@xtra.co.nz
 

I was running around a lot during Conference.  I’m not really sure if my feet even touched the ground over the four days (starting with the Bungy!).  I had good intentions of uploading some photos to Flickr and blogging on the E-Blog. 
 
So I’ve decided to start blogging post-conference.  I’m currently listening to Simon Morton’s show This Way Up and am going to try ‘live’ blogging his interview with Tara Brabazon.  This Way Up is a great show and I always learn something new.  I’m going to be in Shanghai in a couple of months (for Xmas!) and fully intend to visit Thamestown (http://www.thamestown.com/english/default.htm) - which he is talking about right now. 

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Dagmar Schmidmaier President of Alia blogged LIANZA 2006! Visit: http://blogs.alia.org.au/

Don’t forget to check out Timothy Greig’s awesome Flickr Photoblog: http://www.flickr.com/groups/lianzacon06/pool/ as mentioned previously in this Blog. Great photos!

Russell Garlick from Katipo blogged about presenting at LIANZA 2006 http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/blog/?cat=6

Fiona Rigby

Tune into Simon Morton’s show “This Way Up” on Saturday 14 October to hear his interview with Tara Brabazon. It will be 9 minutes somewhere between noon and 2pm.

If you miss it - don’t worry - you can catch it by Podcast at: http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/thiswayup

For everyone’s information after a inspiring conference.

Is this what we want for the future?

The Secondary Futures project has just released a report saying that in 20 years times education will be ‘virtual’, and that teachers or books will no longer be needed! 

Full story here http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3825768a11,00.html

And the full report is here: http://www.secondaryfutures.co.nz/pdfs/Students_First.pdf

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Things started in high spirits for the people who had volunteered to be Venue Managers and Assistants. We had an 11am briefing and took a quick tour of all the conference venues. It was a bit daunting as there are so many rooms to be looked after, but we were a keen bunch and it’s amazing what adrenalin and coffee can achieve!

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One thing that stuck out at conference this year was the frisson between the increasing freedom of information flow (web 2.0, the digital strategy, broadband etc) and the right of indigenous peoples to hold certain information tapu, or sacrosanct, except to particular individuals. For example, Professor Nakata suggested introducing authentication to view digitised information on burial rituals and similar sacred oral traditions.

I guess my question remains how can librarians maintain indigenous provenance, kaitiakitanga, or guardianship in the digital realm when we are driven to free information from its traditionally analogue boundaries?

And how does the web, a tool built around such freedom, allow authentication based on cultural IP? Do we need only look at the corporate models around intellectual IP for our answers?

Brent

The photographs from LIANZA Conference 2006 are now available on the LIANZA website under Events & Conferences in the photo gallery:
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/gallery2/main.php

In one of Tuesday afternoon’s sessions, a presenter inserted the phrase ‘die die’ into the Wikipedia entry for Queen Elizabeth II. It took a Wikipedian just 11 minutes to revert the entry to the previous (presumably correct) version. What does this tell us about the effectiveness of the Wikipedia approach? Is it appropriate to waste the person who corrected the entry’s time in this way?

A few questions have since occurred to me. Is this any different from someone writing a comment in a library book? How long would it take library staff to find this and erase it, assuming it was made in pencil?

It was reported (by the writer herein) that Ginette McDonald and her erudite attendant Sheila Ford spent an enjoyable 10 minutes at the Stand with Conference regulars Andy and Andrew at the NZ Micrographics Stand.

It was a great chance for Ginette to learn about this firms important work for the libraries of New Zealand, also some of the antics of the crazy duo at past Conferences (mostly printable, perhaps more on that another time!).

Ginette was seen scribbling (penning?!) many quips and notes – the audible cogitations of left and right brain clashing with the resonance of her frontal lobe absorbing fantastic technical detail from such displays as the four-metre hanging of the Parliament buildings through the the NZ Woman’s Weekly floating past her eyes on a microfilm scanner. Wellywood’s Frodo beckoned to her from movies on the 40” TV, and their “NZ Libraries Online” coupled with “Google Earth ™ “on the huge “Smart Board” projection system swept her off her feet as she reminisced with Andy Fenton about the last time they’d been together – at Imran Khan’s celebrity cricket match some years ago. Andy recalled one memorable catch that Ginette had made from behind that brought tears to his eyes – then, and now!!!

Look out for us tonight Ginette…