Te Rōpū Whakahau Partnership

LIANZA - Te Rōpū Whakahau Partnership Agreement

The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa: Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa and Te Rōpū Whakahau are committed to the recognition and implementation of the Treaty of Waitangi in all of their activities.

This document acknowledges a formal partnership between these two organisations while recognising their independent status. The agreement provides for mutual support in the pursuit of bicultural development of librarianship in Aotearoa New Zealand. This support takes the following forms:

LIANZA agrees to:

1. make provision for two Te Rōpū Whakahau representatives, one of whom is the chairperson, to become part of the LIANZA Council. The Te Rōpū Whakahau Chairman has the status of officer.
   
2. allocate resources to Te Rōpū Whakahau to support Māori and bicultural initiatives.

 
Te Rōpū Whakahau agrees to:

1. provide two representatives to LIANZA Council.
   
2. provide guidance to the LIANZA Council relating to bicultural development and a Māori perspective on the Association's general business.

This agreement is reached on the understanding that the conditions will be ratified annually.

Tuesday 19 November, 2002
 

WHAKAAETANGA

Kei te noho here ngā kaupapa a Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa me Te Rōpū Whakahau ki te whakapūmau me te whakatinana i ngā oati o Te Tiriti o Waitangi ki roto ki te katoa o ā rātau nei mahi.

E whakapūmau ana te pukapuka nei i tētahi ariā mahi tahi whai tikanga i waenganui i ngā rōpū e rua nei, ā, me te mōhio anō hoki he mana wehe kē tō ia o ngā rōpū e rua nei. Ka whaka takoto he huarahi mahi tahi i roto i te whakaaetanga nei hei waihanga i tētahi tikanga kākano rua i roto i ngā mahi tiaki pukapuka i roto o Aotearoa. E whai ake nei ngā momo mea hei tautoko i tēnei huarahi:

 
Ka whakaae Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa ki te:

1. whakawātea i ngā tūranga e rua mō ngā māngai o Te Rōpū Whakahau ki runga i te kaunihera o Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa. Ko tētahi ko te manukura tonu o Te Rōpū Whakahau, ā, ka noho ia hei āpiha.
   
2. tuku rawa ki a Te Rōpū Whakahau hei tautoko i ngā hinonga Māori me ngā hinonga kākano rua hoki.

 
Ka whakaae Te Rōpū Whakahau ki te:

1. whakawātea kia e rua āna māngai mō te Kaunihera o Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa.
   
2. tuku tauira whakahaere ki te Kaunihera o Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa mō ngā take e whai pānga ana ki te waihanga tikanga kākano rua me tētahi tirohanga Māori i roto i ngā mahi whānui a tēnei rōpū.

E tutuki ai tēnei whakaaetanga i runga i te mōhio ka whakatūturutia ēnei tikanga ia tau.

Turei 19 Whiringa-ā-raki, 2002