LIANZA Associateships

Congratulations to Katherine Chisholm, Carol Davison, Heather Hewlett, Pamela Jones, Jennifer McIvor, Cath Sheard and Timothy Stedman on being awarded a LIANZA Associateship in 2013.

An Associate of LIANZA is awarded to a personal member of the Association who has demonstrated the knowledge, skills, judgement, attitude and commitment of a professional librarian or information manager. For more information about each recipient go to http://tinyurl.com/l7f43j3.

The recipients will receive their associateship at the LIANZA 2013 Conference.

 

Katherine Chisholm

Katherine Chisholm had experience in a special library and National Library before moving into the tertiary sector.  Skills developed in each workplace have been transferable and she has strengths in reference work and collection management.  She was involved in the AnyQuestions service early in its operation and served as a judge for LIANZA's Children's Book Awards in 2006 and 2007.  Her current position as a subject specialist at Massey University extends the traditional library skills into support for academic researchers through the developing area of bibliometrics, and she has developed a particular interest in academic journal publishing.

 

Carol Davison

As Deputy Librarian and Head of Reader Services at the Canterbury Medical Library, Carol Davison has a vision of library service that is outcomes-based and tempered with pragmatism. She has demonstrated high-level analytic skills in carrying out expert searches of evidence-based medical literature for the Clinical Decision Support Unit. Through this, she has established and maintained the trust necessary to work collaboratively with hospital and university staff, using specialist library skills that complement their professional knowledge. She has co-authored papers with medical staff and indexed political science books.

 

Heather Hewlett

Adele has been the Shared Library Services Manager for Central Otago & Queenstown Lakes District since 2001, having previously been the Queenstown District Librarian.  The two Councils operate independently and Adele has had to navigate two management structures and provide two annual strategic plans.  Prior to this Adele was Section Head of Children's Services at Invercargill Public Library.

 

Pamela Jones

Pamela Margaret Jones is the South Taranaki District Libraries Children's and Young Adults Librarian.  In this role she has made an important contribution to the recreational and educational reading interests of the children and young people in the District. Her role includes the responsibility for the coordination of the delivery of resources and services across the seven libraries of the District.

 

Jennifer McIvor

Jenny McIvor has worked in a number of different libraries (National Library, public library, a special library for a power generating company and a health library) and has filled a number of roles, from children's librarian, cataloguer to team leader, a training and support librarian to reference librarian.

 

Cath Sheard

Catherine Sheard is the Assistant Manager Cultural Services, managing two LibraryPlus sites and Aotea Utanganui Museum for the South Taranaki District Council.  Cath is passionate about the services and resources provided by her libraries and the substantial impact that these can have in a small community.  Under her management both the Patea and Waverly Library have thrived and have become important anchors in the local community.

 

Timothy Stedman

As Resource Acquisition Team Leader at The University of Canterbury Library, Tim Stedman has been a leader in a time of seismic change, both in managing people and resources. During 2010 - 2012, he was also acting Resource Discovery Team Leader when he re-established business-as-usual as soon as possible after the earthquakes. This involved making arrangements for staff to work at different times and in different places, organising the replacement of materials, and negotiating access to resources with vendors.