Future Of The Profession Workshop - 20 October, Hamilton

Future Of The Profession Workshop - 20 October, Hamilton

Posted by: Megan Button | Posted on: 26 Sep 13

LIANZA has been invited by ALIA to run a Future of the Profession workshop and feed into their vision (you can see their Wiki at The Future of the Profession).  This is a really great opportunity for the membership as the results of this session will also inform LIANZA’s Strengthening the Profession work.
If you want the chance to have your say about where you think the future of the profession lies, this is a can’t miss workshop at the University of Waikato Library.  Beginning at 11am immediately prior to conference on Sunday 20^th October and finishing at 1pm this is a great way to contribute to the LIANZA’s thinking about where we are headed. The workshop will be facilitated by Nicki Moen.
A picnic lunch will be provided and we will have you back to Claudelands Event Centre in time to catch the buses to the Powhiri.
If you are interested in attending please register with Alex (officeadmin@lianza.org.nz)
If you have any questions get in touch with Joanna (joanna@lianza.org.nz

Future of the Prfession

Future Of The Profession Workshop - 20 October, Hamilton

Posted by: Megan Button | Posted on: 24 Sep 13

LIANZA has been invited by ALIA to run a Future of the Profession workshop and feed into their vision (you can see their Wiki at The Future of the Profession).  This is a really great opportunity for the membership as the results of this session will also inform LIANZA’s Strengthening the Profession work.
If you want the chance to have your say about where you think the future of the profession lies, this is a can’t miss workshop at the University of Waikato Library.  Beginning at 11am immediately prior to conference on Sunday 20^th October and finishing at 1pm this is a great way to contribute to the LIANZA’s thinking about where we are headed. The workshop will be facilitated by Nicki Moen.
A picnic lunch will be provided and we will have you back to Claudelands Event Centre in time to catch the buses to the Powhiri.
If you are interested in attending please register with Alex (officeadmin@lianza.org.nz)
If you have any questions get in touch with Joanna (joanna@lianza.org.nz).

LIANZA

LIANZA are you a member? Why not we should be uniting together t strengthen our profession for the future.

From LIANZA website....

Purpose

LIANZA works
(i) for library and information professionals in New Zealand Aotearoa by building communities to represent their professional interests and provide professional development services to them;
(ii) with library and information organisations to support the delivery of library and information services that are vital  to the economic, social, and cultural wellbeing of New Zealand Aotearoa.
Membership of LIANZA is open to individuals and organisations alike: the only membership requirement is an interest in the sector. As of January 2013 LIANZA had 1,638 personal members and 324 institutional members for a total membership of 1,962. LIANZA’s membership reaches into every library sector including public, tertiary, business, health & medical, law, central government, school and theological libraries and their professional staff.
LIANZA is an incorporated society founded in 1910. It is governed by an elected National Council, chaired by the LIANZA President and administered through its National Office, who act in accordance with the association’s Rules and Code of Practice. The LIANZA Community comprises the national organisation, Regional Committees, and Special Interest Groups representing industry sectors, activities and sub-regions. The National Library and LIANZA together provide the libraries Interloan Services. LIANZA Members are free to join as many groups and associations within the community as they wish.
In 2007 LIANZA established a Profession Registration Scheme and provides a framework and programmes for the library and information professional to continue their professional development and to receive awards and recognition for professional attainment.
In addition LIANZA hosts an annual Conference which typically attracts in excess of 600 library and information professionals and includes a vendor exhibition of around 65 library suppliers.
LIANZA publishes a fortnightly magazine Library Life and twice annually its research publication The New Zealand Library & Information Management Journal
LIANZA has a formal partnership with Te Rōpū Whakahau (TRW), an organisation which unites Maori librarians and information specialists in Aotearoa New Zealand.
LIANZA is a member of IFLA - The International Federation of Library Associations.
Read the 2012-2015 LIANZA Strategic Plan

Librarians

Joanna Matthew LIANZA Executive Director

I am the recently appointed Executive Director of LIANZA and am excited to be a part of this organisation. I have a not for profit background although I have also worked in the manufacturing and health sectors. My library experience dates from my college days where I worked on the circulation desk. In my spare time I am an avid reader and enjoy spending time at the beach with my dogs.

Vendor, Sponsor, Keynote OCLC

OCLC connects libraries in a global network to manage and share the world’s knowledge and to form a community dedicated to the values of librarianship: cooperation, resource sharing and universal access. The network links members to a powerful, cloud-based infrastructure that provides the systemwide intelligence and cooperative platform needed to collectively innovate and drive operational efficiencies in metadata creation, interlibrary loan, digitization, discovery and delivery. It also provides opportunities for cooperation and resource sharing built around a worldwide community of users—working together at the scale of the Web.
The OCLC cooperative is member-owned and member-governed. Librarians guide and shape our direction through a 16-member Board of Trustees—more than half of whom are librarians—and a global council of librarians, who are elected by librarians from regional councils of member libraries.

EPIC

 Watch out for Paula Banks at Conference
Electronic Purchasing in Collaboration (EPIC) is a consortium of libraries that license packages of electronic resources to be used in New Zealand libraries.

What does Electronic Purchasing in Collaboration (EPIC) do?

EPIC’s vision is to provide access to high-quality electronic information for all New Zealanders.
EPIC is a New Zealand initiative that provides access to electronic resources (e-resources) through a consortium of member libraries.
The initiative enables member libraries to increase their purchasing power through collaborative purchasing. EPIC provides libraries with the advocacy and support to work with global information providers.
EPIC’s core strategies are to:

• procure sets of quality e-resources for all-of-country access and/or self selecting groups of libraries
• use New Zealand libraries across all sectors as the delivery agents
• guide development though a governance group that represents member libraries
• ensure a fair and affordable subscription cost model
• fund operations through a subscriptions component and host support from the Department of Internal Affairs acting through the National Library of New Zealand as the lead agency
• facilitate collaboration, within the consortia and with other agencies, to achieve affordable solutions to e-resource management
• adopt a partnering approach with e-resource providers.

EPIC acts to:

• enable collaborative and flexible procurement options for libraries
• provide a single point of billing, reducing costs for vendors and libraries
• support libraries to effectively access and use e-resources
• assist libraries to interpret and promote e-resources.

Ulverscroft

We offer a wide variety of large print titles in hard and soft cover formats as well as abridged and unabridged audio books. Many titles are written by the world's favourite authors and Ulverscroft is considered the leading world-wide publisher of large print and unabridged audio books.
This website is for public libraries only.

3M

We bring change through visionary leadershipSustaining innovation, growing business and building brands are no easy tasks, yet 3M has triumphed on all fronts for more than a century. 3M’s success is not accidental. Focussed leadership, discipline and trust have enabled a proven legacy over the years as we have continued to deliver upon a vision for unyielding innovation, uncompromised quality, and unparalleled progress for our customers and ourselves.
We have been a committed member of the New Zealand community since 1953, and our continued tradition of innovation has become a vision and self image of 3M, and has positioned the company well for sustainable growth in the future.
Operating sustainably
At 3M being environmentally sustainable is nothing new as we were one of the first companies Worldwide to introduce a formal environmental policy.
Globally we introduced the 3P (Pollution Prevention Pays) programme in 1975, and we have been operating by this policy ever since. 3P prevents pollution at the source in products and manufacturing, which back in 1975 was considered highly innovative thinking. To date, globally, 3P has resulted in the elimination of more than 3 billion pounds of pollution and saved us nearly $1.4 billion.