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    L R Y Newsletter of New Zealand Library and Information Association

    Te Rau Herenga o Aot[...]TE HUI 0 TE RAU HERENGA O AOTEAROA

    NEW ZEALAND LIBRARY 8: INFORMATION ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE



    15-18 O[...]ut new products and services which can

    make your life easier, and/or funds go further.

    / To take time[...]crew’: Jill Best, Convenor, 1997 Conference and Library
    Manager, Jacquie Tonkin, Community Services Libra[...]dministration Officer, all from
    Wanganui District Library.

    We really look forward to seeing you in[...]
    Piki Perez, Circulation Librarian, Wanganui District Library and

    Te Roopuu Whakahau representative

    Homai te[...]have been
    continually reading about each month in Library Life.

    The road has been long and hard with the pace f[...]e Committee

    Back: Raewyn Lowe, Manager, Hastings Library; Lynda Clarke, Hastings Community
    Library; Sue Fargher, Waipawa Library; Sandra Metz, Wairoa Library.

    Front: Mary Ris/zwartlz, Flaxmere Library, (Chairperson); Jannette Birdsall,
    Waipukurau Library,

    kaupapa. After graduating in 1989 (BA) she left[...]iaison Librarian) for
    Waikato iwi by the National Library of New Zealand, to assist
    with any aspect of Maor[...]n needs by acting as a link
    between Maori and the library community.

    Fellow presenter Heather Mataamua is[...]ens Librarian AND studying for
    the Certificate of Library Studies! Phewll

    Bernard Makoare is of Ngati What[...]ain from Maori
    an opinion on the effectiveness of library services in meeting
    Maori information needs.

    Chr[...]the Co-ordinator for the Project. Chris is
    now a Library Consultant for Bicultural Development and also
    cu[...]hed and many of
    us look forward to hearing more.

    LIBRARY LIFE 213, JUNE 1997
    [...]rs, employment, Education Review Office, National
    Library and cultural affairs. She has been a high profile[...]de Silva and Suzanne
    Porter from Glen Eden Public Library will both speak on the
    development of multicultural library services for the Waitakere
    area. Anoma’s commit[...]brarian has resulted in growth and variety to the
    library's services. She was appointed to this role in 1995 after
    graduating from Massey University and gaining library
    qualifications and work experience through Glen Eden Public
    Library. Suzanne Porter, fellow presenter and Waitakere
    Libraries Manager, started her career with the Napier City
    Library. Deputy City Librarian in 1987, she was then
    approached to manage both the Library and Visitor
    Information Centre which she did unti[...]ent:

    within a corporate environment in a special library. Waitakere
    Libraries are currently undertaking an[...]process to determine the future direction of the
    library.

    Absolutely Positively Change will begin with Ja[...]es in the United Kingdom and then to the Tertiary
    Library Network in Sydney, Australia. Once back in New
    Ze[...]onference Convenor:

    Jill Best, Wanganui District Library, Private Bag 3005, Queens Park, Wanganui, New Zea[...]5, Fax: 06 345 5516, E-mail: wap@whanganui.ac.nz

    LIBRARY LIFE 213, JUNE 1997
    [...]MN

    I<ia ora koutou,

    This is my final column for Library Life as President.
    In spite of, or perhaps because of,[...]l
    presentation of the report. It is now up to the library
    and information services to put the recommendatio[...]was also a chance to speak with
    people in diverse library systems about their
    expectations of the NZLIA. Th[...]monetary donations or have assisted
    in compiling Library Life through their regions. Others
    have sent messages[...]kainga maha
    Ka mutu i konei

    Naku noa

    Na,

    Nan

    LIBRARY LIEE 213, JUNE 1997
    [...]terest Groups and the National Council of the N Z Library
    Er Information Association, Wellington, 8 May 199[...]ional membership of SIGS at $10 only and sending

    LIBRARY LIEE 213, JUNE 1997

    many members to events — s[...]G Liaison
    person, NZLIA web site and email lists, Library Life?

    3. Policy representation - how should ma[...]
    CENTRAL REGION



    A year in the life of New Plymouth District Libraries

    It has been a[...]ce measurement schedule
    extension of New Plymouth Library Saturday opening
    hours (at no extra cost)

    substantial renovations to New Plymouth Library's
    circulation/entrance and work areas

    introducti[...]of a Brief for a planned upgrade of New
    Plymouth Library

    We are now looking forward to a year of consolid[...]tending,
    facilitated by Hugo Manson from National Library, Margaret
    Carr, local journalist, and Katherine Q[...]ts have included one to Fletcher Challenge Energy
    Library and NZ Worley. Another was an entire tour of

    El

    Methanex including the Library. The site was enveloped in
    a steam condensate clo[...]osted a visit, since this Department captured
    two library staff members, it was interesting to see how
    library experience relates with their Department's activi[...]n Centre recently sent a German tourist
    up to the library to send an urgent message home by e-mail.
    When sh[...]ollowing morning, there was a message back to the
    library from her recipient in Dusseldorf. PLEASE could we[...]ELY. Hmmm... Well he'd given us her name. Ask
    the library staff, did she give any clues where she was going[...]n... OK, we left a message with
    Wellington Public Library just in case. We tried the Tamara
    Backpacker in c[...]ll done, Sonia, Jill K, Donna, Muriel and Carol.

    LIBRARY LIFE 213, JUNE 1997
    [...]IT (formerly Hawke’s Bay Polytechnic) has a new library
    manager, Leslie Clague. Leslie’s background has[...]on librarianship/’) She started her New
    Zealand library career at Fletcher-Challenge, she has run her
    own video production company, been Manager of the
    National Library's Business Information Service in Auckland,
    and D[...]forward to the challenges
    of providing a tertiary library service which can incorporate
    some of the skills[...]up as much knowledge as possible to
    benchmark our library with others.”

    For the last five years Leslie h[...]d effort is placed in research. This means that a libraryLibrary is
    working hard to upskill staff, develop electro[...]eep an information hungry public

    fed.”

    ”The library is also about to hire an Information Literacy
    Librarian to develop training tools and programmes for both

    LIBRARY LIFE 213, JUNE 1997

    Standing
    from left:
    Diane[...]
    [...]he Returning Officer
    will be included in the next Library Life.

    NZLIA promotion.

    The draw for the free persona[...]was
    won by:

    Zona Whyte from St Dominic's College Library, Auckland.
    Congratulations Zona.

    President, Nan[...]Billing
    System, in partnership with the National Library. This
    System is administered by the Association's[...]Cash payment, or by whatever means the supplying
    library requires.

    Alison Dobbie
    JSCI

    The following is a statement from the National
    Library:

    The National Library has considered its position in relation
    to the ne[...]mits libraries to
    introduce charges. The National Library has decided that its
    basic document supply servic[...]of
    the new interloan scheme. During this time the Library will
    monitor interloan traffic and decide whether[...]ropriate to introduce charges later. The National Library
    wishes to show its continued support for the inte[...]erally and to encourage resource sharing between

    LIBRARY LIFE 213, JUNE 1997
    [...]elow. All charges are exclusive of GST.

    National Library Charges for Document Supply
    Please note that the National Library of New Zealand

    Collections Policy published in July 1996 and available

    updated on the National Library's web site contains full

    information about access to the various collections held in
    the National Library.

    (l)National Library General Collections
    Normal Service: All normal do[...]collection by client): $15

    (2)Alexander Turnbull Library Collections
    All supply of microforms to other lib[...]the
    collections held in the Alexander T‘urnbull Library will
    continue to be free of charge.

    (3)International Interloans (requests made by the National
    Library on behalf of a New Zealand library for a document
    or copy supplied from overseas): T[...]the launch.

    To order I00/<for the insert in this Library Life.

    LIBRARY LIFE 213, JUNE 1997

    supplying institution. These char[...]of the interloan service offered by the
    National Library, but for information of libraries the char[...]
    [...]as been appointed to the position
    of Professor of Library and Information Studies in the newly
    formed Schoo[...]information management: the former Department
    of Library and Information Studies, Department of
    Communicat[...]er in Information Management in the Department of
    Library and Information Studies at Loughborough Universit[...]formulation
    of the new School, as well as to the library profession. She
    was involved with the protest over the restructuring of the
    Wellington Public Library and in her address to the National
    Library Society's AGM on May 5, ”Library Statistics: The
    Wellington Public Library, a Cautionary Tale”. -‘she gave
    independent a[...]from
    Srinakkarinwirot University's Department of Library and
    Information Science, returns to Thailand at t[...]as very valuable for building links with
    the Thai library profession and Srinakkarinwirot’s
    programme.

    M[...]Service Prize in Libr 521 and 522
    (Management of Library and Information Centres I and II)
    while the Swets[...]ekera.
    Bernadette Murray received the New Zealand Library
    Association Mary Fleming Prize in Libr 526 (Bibli[...]or the best piece of written work on an aspect
    of library and information studies. She wrote on the topic,
    ”The ’Inclined Plane’: The Role of the Library Within the
    Working Men's Club Movement (with part[...]-nine students from our first group of Masters of
    Library and Information Studies students graduated on May[...]s, case
    studies and essays on the electronic era, library building,
    marketing and security issues, and mult[...]ower”: Alastair Smith has been part
    of National Library's Information Technology Strategy
    Steering Commit[...]en elected as one of the officers of the
    National Library Society for the coming year.

    From Philip Calvert[...]ological University (NTU) in
    Singapore. He says:

    LIBRARY LIFE 213, JUNE 1997
    [...]umn.

    The International Digital Electronic Access Library (IDEAL)
    is now accessible at http://www.idealibra[...]on 25th April 1997, are available at http://
    WWW.library.ucsb.edu/universe/ The sessions centred
    on develo[...]n and
    Implementation, The Mission and Role of the Library Web
    Site.

    The E—Bulletin from CAUSE (the Assoc[...]lled ”Beyond the Beginning - the
    Global Digital Library which is organized by the UK Office
    for Library and Information Networking. It's held in June
    16-[...]urce Guides, the Argus
    Clearinghouse is a virtual library of over a thousand
    topical guides for researchers[...]day.”

    Thanks to Rachel Lilburn, Department of Library and
    Information Studies, School of Communication[...]l libraries”.

    DIGLIB is hosted at the National Library of Canada
    and managed by IFLANET.

    To subscribe s[...]ist is LIBJOBS which is an employment
    service for library professionals and is a public service of
    IFLA. It[...]e Long

    lbspl@twp.ac.nz
    WBOP Regional Councillor

    LIBRARY LIEE 213, JUNE 1997
    BIBLIOBABBLE

    Ainslie Dewe

    Ainslie left Lincoln University Library at Easter to take up a
    new position as University[...]n industrial chemist then left the laboratory for Library School.
    She has chaired the New Zealand Vice-Chan[...]of the
    NZLIA. Ainslie had led Lincoln University Library since 1988,
    first as College Librarian. She would like to be remembered for
    delivering the transformation of library services at Lincoln from
    a collection-centred, ca[...]fter 18 years as
    Medical Librarian at the Philson Library, University of Auckland.
    She was instrumental in[...]non-American instructor accredited
    by the Medical Library Association. She also acted as a
    consultant on the development of hospital library services in
    Australia. She was a strong advocate[...]act:

    Liz Hardley

    Collections Librarian

    Philson Library, School of Medicine

    University ofA uckland

    Cong[...]Picking up a job in Saskatchewan introduced me to life on
    the Prairies. Combining wheat was familiar but[...]left lots of time to read
    volumes from the ranch library (titlessuch as The Last Days of
    Pompeii, The Wand[...]wa School was followed
    by a permanent position as Library Adviser at the Country
    Library Service in Christchurch. And memorable days they[...]Mahy, as my boss. A move to the Teachers College Library to
    the quaintly-named position of Joint Librarian[...]re combined on the Ilam site.
    The new Henry Field Library was sheer luxury compared with
    the town site prefab and is still in my unbiased opinion the best
    college library in the country.

    The eighties were momentous time[...]y 1997 from the Christchurch College
    of Education Library. Our best wishes for your retirement, Gerry.

    Fra[...]ss Process Re-engineering of the capital's Public Library
    system to achieve the vision of being ”The firs[...]on”.

    Thanks to Peter Hunter, Wellington Public Library for this
    information.

    LIBRARY LIFE 213, JUNE 1997
    [...]is work has gone
    into the New Zealand Dairy Board Library's trial of the NZLIA’s
    Cost Benefit methodology[...]Philippa Pointon. The
    trial report shows that the library's return on investment exceeds
    the 13% required b[...]trial, statistical
    information on a wide range of library and information services
    and products was collect[...]these products and services to
    the clients of the library. The result of this combination is a
    measurement[...]t value attributable to clients
    who choose to use library services and/or products. The return
    to the library is then analysed and cross checked using two
    diff[...]analysis, and a written report.
    Additionally, the library staff at the Dairy Board assisted the
    trial process by running a Library and Client survey over a
    calendar month, during w[...], it also
    tested the time input required within a library setting, to
    complete all of the component tasks w[...]ting of activity and over time, the development,

    LIBRARY LIEE 213, JUNE 1997

    COST BENEFIT METHODOLOGY TRI[...]tives for
    service delivery within the Dairy Board Library. With the
    increase in challenges to the effective[...]n any organisation to examine the impact that the library
    has on its clients, to determine what benefits it[...]hat the
    continued funding of, and support for the library can be justified.
    At the Dairy Board, we were for[...]nal experience I know how
    difficult it can be for library managers striving to provide an
    efficient and eff[...]menting the methodology, or even in trialling it, library
    managers will, if they are not able to fund a sec[...]the collection of data on,
    and the reporting of, library activity. That approach, coupled
    with the develop[...]t measures for
    services and products will provide library managers with the
    tools required to negotiate sus[...]work
    commitrnents.”

    ”Identifying how well a library meets their clients’
    requirements for informati[...]move away from a cost-based budgeting process for
    library services. Being able to quantify services and val[...]he
    results, will appear in the July 1997 issue of Library Life. Any
    one wanting additional information be[...]
    [...]@ak|nzim.co.nz http;//www_ak|nzim_co,nz

    NATIONAL LIBRARY News

    As many of you are aware, the National Library has moved
    to the next phase of its review, now that the Government has
    finalised the Library's corporate directions.

    We are in the throes of[...]going
    well), deliberations on the business of the Library will be
    conducted by a Business Management Group,[...], the Chief Librarian of the ‘lexander
    Turnbull Library, and the two Assistant National Librarians
    (User[...]mid-June (the
    Chief Librarian, Alexander Turnbull Library, and Head of
    Secretariat by re-confirmation, the[...]CONSULTANCY SERVICES

    P O Box 332
    Waikanae 6454

    LIBRARY LIFE 213, IUNE 1997
    [...]l1lics.telememoau.

    8-17 September 1997

    Academic library planning and design:
    challenges _for the future.[...]p://
    www.britcoun.org/seminars/

    September 24-26

    Library Technicians’ Conference.
    InterACTion. Canberra.[...]97@portia.murdoch.edu.au.

    November 10-12

    Public Library/Reference and
    Information Services Section
    Confer[...]May 29-30

    Professional development seminars for
    library staff: Team building/Customer
    service/Positioning[...]402-6874.

    July 25-26

    Absolutely Positively YA: Library
    services to young adults conference



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    NATIONAL

    1997. Wellington.[...]October 15-18

    New Zealand Library 8 Information
    Association Conference.
    Information is for life: Te
    Matauranga mo ake ake. Wanganui.,
    Newzealand[...]LlBEX:Bureau for International Library Staff Exchange
    Thomas Paryy Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Llanbad[...]
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    Librarian is also part of the Library Management Team,
    contributing to decisions and of[...]e, please appy to:

    Maree Hall,
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    J0/771 Wrig/1[...]”W W’ W 14 PL-SIG Suesuthertand (CP)
    National Library School Services will §EgEARCH SIG Earb?/l/allfra[...]d

    In response to client demand, and to
    Masterton Library and the Wairarapa

    reflect the increase in publi[...]enkins
    Acting Natinal Librarian
    May 1997



    Library Life 213, June 1997
    ISSN 0110-4373 Published by the
    New Zealand Library
    8- Information Association,
    Level 6, 139-141 Feat[...]d by NZ Print, Wellington.

    Opinions expressed in Library Lile are not necessarily
    those of the Association[...]ficial policy. this is indicated.






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