Professor Durie is giving a keynote address on Monday 3 November. His topic:
Global colonisation, the Kiwi tradition, and the public good.
Among other challenges, New Zealanders must face the double edged prospect of global colonisation. On the one hand being swept up in a global avalanche will create new opportunities for the nation and for those who want to explore new frontiers. But on the other, global inundation will challenge the substance of what is generally known as the Kiwi tradition. Being part of the globe while also being grounded in ethos of Aotearoa requires a type of public good leadership that is attuned to the landscape, its peoples, their histories, their aspirations, and the inevitable to and fro from an increasingly abstract construct masquerading as the globe.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Study expo in Christchurch
Open Invitation to all...
Thinking about Library study? Considering Libraries as a Career (or know someone who is)?Find out more about study options, courses, LIANZA membership and professional registration and whether study is right for YOU!
With staff/colleagues to discuss the options and information from:
* Open Polytechnic
* Victoria University
* LIANZA
* Te Wananga-o-Raukawa
Venue: Our City O-Tautahi - Library (1st Floor) http://www.ccc.govt.nz/OurCity/(corner of Worcester Boulevard and Oxford Terrace) Christchurch
Thurs October 9th 2008 2pm - 3:30pm (drop in any time)
RSVP alice.cruickshank[at]ccc.govt.nz
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
[AORAKI] LIANZA 2008 Conference Sponsorship
The LIANZA Aoraki Regional Committee is pleased to offer a sponsorship opportunity to attend the LIANZA Conference 2008, Poropitia: Outside the Box in Auckland, 2nd - 5th November 2008.
Applications for sponsorship are invited from all Aoraki paid up personal members of LIANZA, SLANZA or Te Ropu Whakahau. The committee has decided to offer this sponsorship to anyone who feels they have a case for attending conference, no matter their length of time in the profession, however preference may be given to first time attendees.
Sponsorship support may be applied for to cover registration costs (excluding Gala dinner), travel and reasonable accommodation. Applications for partial sponsorship are welcome as it may mean that the committee is able to support more people to attend.
In your application please include:
* Length of membership and any involvement in the above associations.
* Reasons for applying, including how attendance at the conference will benefit you.
* A breakdown of your estimated costs for attending this conference.
* An indication of any other financial support you would receivefor attending, e.g. workplace funding.
More information about the conference programme and social events can befound at http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2008/index.html.
The successful applicant(s) will be required to prepare a written report(to be published in Aoraki Librarians) and possibly speak about their experience at a local meeting of members.
Applications must be received Friday 3rd October 2008 and can be addressed to:
The Secretary
LIANZA Aoraki Regional Committee
PO Box 2175
Christchurch Mail Centre
Christchurch
or alternatively can be emailed to Kathy.palmer[at]natlib.govt.nz.
The successful applicant will be notified shortly after the closing date.
Applications for sponsorship are invited from all Aoraki paid up personal members of LIANZA, SLANZA or Te Ropu Whakahau. The committee has decided to offer this sponsorship to anyone who feels they have a case for attending conference, no matter their length of time in the profession, however preference may be given to first time attendees.
Sponsorship support may be applied for to cover registration costs (excluding Gala dinner), travel and reasonable accommodation. Applications for partial sponsorship are welcome as it may mean that the committee is able to support more people to attend.
In your application please include:
* Length of membership and any involvement in the above associations.
* Reasons for applying, including how attendance at the conference will benefit you.
* A breakdown of your estimated costs for attending this conference.
* An indication of any other financial support you would receivefor attending, e.g. workplace funding.
More information about the conference programme and social events can befound at http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2008/index.html.
The successful applicant(s) will be required to prepare a written report(to be published in Aoraki Librarians) and possibly speak about their experience at a local meeting of members.
Applications must be received Friday 3rd October 2008 and can be addressed to:
The Secretary
LIANZA Aoraki Regional Committee
PO Box 2175
Christchurch Mail Centre
Christchurch
or alternatively can be emailed to Kathy.palmer[at]natlib.govt.nz.
The successful applicant will be notified shortly after the closing date.
Monday, September 22, 2008
New session!
We are offering an additional session - to be notified in the conference programme this week.
Presenter will be Gary Elmes, General Manager - Systems Management at Datacom Systems Ltd.
Gary's topic will be:
The challenges of digital preservation
An ever-growing proportion of the cultural, social, and research artefacts generated by our society are being created in digital form. As the growing number of digital preservation and repository initiatives around the world attest, effectively preserving these digital artefacts for current and future generations is an important objective for archivists, librarians and historians.
But achieving effective preservation is a remarkably tricky task, at a number of levels. Compared to physical artefacts, digital items are being created at a truly massive rate, many of them only fleetingly and in very informal circumstances. Technology degradation (“bit rot”) and obsolescence continually threaten to destroy or render inaccessible stored artefacts. Copyrights can often complicate and limit our options on how we store and provide access to items. Creating appropriate “meta-data” to facilitate a useful means of finding artefacts is, especially for non-text items, problematic.
This presentation will explore some of these issues and look at the approaches and standards (such as OAIS) that are emerging to deal with them.
Presenter will be Gary Elmes, General Manager - Systems Management at Datacom Systems Ltd.
Gary's topic will be:
The challenges of digital preservation
An ever-growing proportion of the cultural, social, and research artefacts generated by our society are being created in digital form. As the growing number of digital preservation and repository initiatives around the world attest, effectively preserving these digital artefacts for current and future generations is an important objective for archivists, librarians and historians.
But achieving effective preservation is a remarkably tricky task, at a number of levels. Compared to physical artefacts, digital items are being created at a truly massive rate, many of them only fleetingly and in very informal circumstances. Technology degradation (“bit rot”) and obsolescence continually threaten to destroy or render inaccessible stored artefacts. Copyrights can often complicate and limit our options on how we store and provide access to items. Creating appropriate “meta-data” to facilitate a useful means of finding artefacts is, especially for non-text items, problematic.
This presentation will explore some of these issues and look at the approaches and standards (such as OAIS) that are emerging to deal with them.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Earlybird registration for Poropitia Outside the Box closes tomorrow
Here's a reminder of what's on...
Keynotes: Dylan Horrocks, Dr Diane Mara, Professor Mason Durie, Mark McCrindle, Professor Lawrence Lessig, Professor Marilyn Waring.
Network meetings: Health SIG, EPIC user group, Preservation SIG, ITSIG, PIMN, PUBSIG, SLIS, CatSIG, TelSIG, SLANZA.
LIANZA AGM
Vendor exhibitions
Visits and tours: Land and identity tour, a special sailing of the Ted Ashby, Auckland City Libraries, Māori Television, Russell McVeagh's Law Library , Auckland War Memorial Museum Library, AUT Library, Business Information Commons (University of Auckland), National Maritime Museum. (These are filling up fast!)
Plenty of opportunity to network and socialise with your colleagues.
See you in Auckland in November!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Mark McCrindle
Mark McCrindle will be giving a keynote on Monday 3 November and a workshop-type presentation the following day. Here is the workshop outline:
Today’s students - Generations Y & Z - are not only growing up in fast-changing times, but they have different characteristics, values, and priorities from those of us who manage and provide information services. Based on the latest Australasian research Mark will provide us with a better understanding of the students and new graduates who are or are not our customers, and give us a glimpse into their future. He will give insights into the motivations and learning modalities of today’s students, and equip librarians and educators with strategies to connect with this multi-modal generation.
This practical workshop is designed to equip librarians, teachers and others with tools to engage effectively with these new generations. The workshop will appeal to school, public, or tertiary librarians, or to special libraries that are used by young graduates.
From young people’s use of technology to creating the right learning environment: see what works best today.
Key issues:
Today’s students - Generations Y & Z - are not only growing up in fast-changing times, but they have different characteristics, values, and priorities from those of us who manage and provide information services. Based on the latest Australasian research Mark will provide us with a better understanding of the students and new graduates who are or are not our customers, and give us a glimpse into their future. He will give insights into the motivations and learning modalities of today’s students, and equip librarians and educators with strategies to connect with this multi-modal generation.
This practical workshop is designed to equip librarians, teachers and others with tools to engage effectively with these new generations. The workshop will appeal to school, public, or tertiary librarians, or to special libraries that are used by young graduates.
From young people’s use of technology to creating the right learning environment: see what works best today.
Key issues:
- Multimodal communication: reaching the 3 learning channels.
- The classroom of 2020: what teachers need to know.
- Maximising retention: dealing with declining attention spans.
- Motivating & involving today’s learners.
- Flexible delivery: integrating new technology with these new students.
- Meeting the workplace needs & expectations of the Generation Y.
- Communicating with the ever-changing learner.
- Customer service today: dealing with the expectation inflation.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Lawrence Lessig
Checked Professor Lessig's blog recently?
His new book will be released on 16 October:
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.
2008 LIANZA conference is your chance to hear this leading thinker. His topic will be "Keeping the outside outside the box: The role of independence in the profession of the librarian, and academy, and the threats that both now face."
His new book will be released on 16 October:
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.
2008 LIANZA conference is your chance to hear this leading thinker. His topic will be "Keeping the outside outside the box: The role of independence in the profession of the librarian, and academy, and the threats that both now face."
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