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| [...]shop NZLPP Te Pouhuaki National Librarian thanks library sector REGULAR COLUMNS The Viewpoint: LIANZA &[...]Information: Banned! Career Pathways: Amy Brier Library of the Issue: Te Awe Library - Wellington History Corner: Fines-Free Movement[...]Staff Profile: Sarah Welland COVER IMAGE Te Awe Library - Wellington DESIGN Jess Davidson LIANZA Office[...]eeds your photos of our community, libraries and library life. LIANZA Media Kit available on request We would[...]saotearoa.org.nz/ credit.. Please submit these to library-life officeadmin@lianza.org.nz LIANZA Librery[...] |
| In this issue of Library Life, we are delighted to share a feature ona topic th[...]NZMS have recently done with the Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown at the Univer[...]are just weeks away from the largest gathering of library and information professionals in the country - th[...]partners demonstrate a genuine commitment to the library and information sector in New Zealand. LIANZA an[...]llectively made a magnificent contribution to the library and information sector. Thank you to everyone who[...]arliamentary Librarian and Deputy Chief Executive Library and Engagement / Tumu 0 te Pataka Rangahau and Tu[...]nership Programme over the first year, thanks the library sector and discusses three key initiatives underw[...]tainability. Thank you for reading this issue of Library Life, share it with colleagues and celebrate th[...] |
| [...]Fund has supported them to attend. Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz LIANZA has been awarding[...]many amazing people who have contributed to our library and information sector. Congratulations to[...] |
| Last year LIANZA was pleased to offer the library sector an opportunity to gain confidence and capa[...]perience of one the participants in this issue of Library Life. The members of the LIANZA SLANZA Tertiary Grant[...]de a qualifications uplift across the New Zealand library sector and help ensure our workforce is qualified and future-ready to demonstrate the value and impact of library and information services. | know the last few we[...]CONNECTED & EMPOWERED BY INFORMATION Issue 487 + Library Life + www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]- LONG OVERDUE THE RECENT REMOVAL OF OVERDUE LIBRARY FINES BY AUCKLAND LIBRARIES IS A SIGNIFICANT MILE[...]s ‘fines-free’? New Zealand's largest public library service became ‘fines free’ from September 1[...]ei District Council Libraries, Masterton District Library, Selwyn District Libraries, Upper Hutt Libraries,[...]PLNZ e-bulletin, September 23, 2021). Two public library services have not charged overdue fines for many[...]hen | started working here over 20 years ago, the library had never charged an overdue, which was wonderful. Being fines free encourages library use, and does not disadvantage anyone.’ At Ran[...]ict Libraries overdue fines were removed in 2008. Library manager Melanie Bovey shares, “We were vey lucky to have a far-sighted council who realised that having a library collection that half the town could not use due t[...]to particularly support those who need us most. Library fines are punitive, affecting mostly those who ca[...]to pay and preventing their use of libraries. Our library service could see that of the large number of mem[...]Libraries began with a literature Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz review, research about what[...]omes that were achieved. Workshops were held with library staff and council financial advisors to develop d[...]pondents were in support, and councillors removed library fines as part of approving the long term plan. Th[...]people who need libraries away and the removal of library fines is the right thing to do.” Mirla Edmunds[...]amnesty will mean everyone can return to use our library services |
| [...]in a rural location it is not simple to go to the library to return books with the time and cost of gas an[...]aries are part of a recent global trend to remove library overdue fines. The trend toward free-fine started[...]ober 2017, New York Public Libraries, the largest library system in the United States offered a one-off fin[...]ilies have to choose between dinner and using the library, but we know that this is a reality for many New[...]became the largest city, and the largest public library system in the US, to eliminate overdues fines. It[...]nes passed about $10. In December 2018, the Urban Library Council reported that ‘roughly 50 libraries had eliminated fines or fees for Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz some or all patrons’ in the USA and the number has continued to grow. Denver Public Library moved to free-fine in 2018 and the Denver Post re[...]free- fine 35% of patrons who had stopped using library services had re-engaged. In January 2019, San Francisco Public Library published a report that recommended the library cease the collection of late fines for patrons of all ages. The library had been fines-free for children and teens since[...]re the most frequently blocked from accessing the library due to overdue fines. San Francisco Public Library announced in in September 2019 that it was fabul[...]to fines-free made the transition to closing the library system in March 2020 due to COVID-19 lockd[...] |
| A FEATURES next year, the San Francisco Public Library has worked with the school district to ensure every student has a library card and access to a digital school library, which is now being used regularly by students in[...]prior to 2018. Trafford Libraries, was the first library service of any significant size in the UK to rem[...]n the number of visitors to the libraries. Oldham Library removed fines in August 2019, and reported a 6.5% increase in new people joining the library than the year before. In 2018, the Irish Government announced a new public library strategy that aimed to develop the country’s li[...]ublic service: This strategy included providing a library service with no barriers to access and use, with no library fines or lending charges from January 2019 with the aim of doubling library membership from 750,000 to 1.5 million within five years. In Australia, there have been no library fines in the Northern Territory for some years, I[...]th more people in the 30-39 demographic joining a library. The Yarra Plenty Library system in Victoria removed fines for children and[...]ing overdue fines during COVID 19 lockdowns, when library patrons were unable to physically return books. In April 2020, Masterton District Library announced it would continue the free-fine approac[...]ven backing to continue for a two- Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz year trial. Upper Hutt Libraries became the fourth public library to become frees-fine for all users from November 2020. The library undertook extensive research internationally to i[...]seen ongoing benefits in increased membership and library usage by children and benefits for tamariki and t[...]or adults would not only bring people back to the library, but also create a culture of inclusivity. While[...]solutely welcomed new members who hadn't used the library due to fear of accruing overdue fees. It h[...] |
| [...]At Waimakariri Libraries in North Canterbury, all library users were fined for overdue items. In a proposal[...]fees policy it was noted that approximately 1,000 library users under 18 year old were blocked from using library services, due to relatively small fines, even if[...]kariri Libraries became free-fine from July 2021. Library manager, Paula Eskett acknowledges the generous s[...]District Libraries. “Support from other public library managers was crucial for our library service becoming free-fine this year.” Timaru[...]ries became free- fine for all users in mid-2021. Library Manager Jo Hunt explains, “Libraries are paid f[...]exercise. There was a fair amount of Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz desktop research as well to[...]lso identify arguments being made to get councils/library boards and communities over the line.” Hamilto[...]ems their teenagers and children borrow. “While librarylibrary? At Upper Hutt Libraries Marion Read notes[...] |
| [...]solutely welcomed new members who hadn't used the library due to fear of accruing overdue fees. It has also[...]going off to university or into jobs.” Kaitaia Library. Image credit: Far North District Libraries Have[...]within a certain period of time’ Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz Chris Piggot says the free-f[...]perceived or real, removed as well.” Wairarapa Library Service will be the next library ‘in the news’ as it extends fines-free to adults from October 12. Library Manager Annette Beattie describes the info[...] |
| [...]ntially being free-fine will bring back over 400 library customers who are currently debarred because of unpaid overdue fees. If adults are not using the library, it is likely their children are not. We hope to see adults return or begin to use the library and bring along their children also.’ "| think[...]rtening to see an increasing number of libraries, library services and systems around the world removing library fines. However, there is a lack of robust evidenc[...]nvisible barrier which still persists - that the library is not a place for everyone, when it absolutely i[...]his, the better. “ Sarina Barron Nelson Public Library Manager Dyane Hosler, Chair of Public Libraries New Zealand describes the response by library managers to a challenge made at their forum for a[...]g developed with the purpose of providing public library managers with support material Evidence is essen[...]impact on communities of removing the barrier of library fines. Ana Pickering; is the LIANZA Executive Di[...]a few months ago and she is grateful to the all library managers who generously responded to questions and provided information on their library service's fines-free journey. She says, “It was[...]o find robust research on the impact Issue 487 + Library Life + and outcomes of fines-free initiaitives[...] |
| [...]) ol-(04 Bible 1494. Courtesy the Macmillan Brown Library collection, University of Canterbury. |
| [...]that is particularly special... Macmillan Brown Library’s rare books collection boasts 7000 volumes of[...]s of the 15th Century and the Lubeck Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz FEATURES Bible w[...] |
| [...]ime: they are lively and expressive portrayals of life in the 15th Century. Macmillan Brown Library's LUbeck has been enhanced by illuminators unlike[...]ribes how A-Meister imbued his illustrations with life and personality: “To a degree otherwise unknow[...]the Lubeck Bible allow for a glimpse of everyday life and material culture within Germany during the Mi[...]the clothes people wore, and even Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz the musical instruments they might have played. THE ITEM'S SOCIAL LIFE Anthropologist Igor Kopytoff (1986) developed th[...]information. The Lubeck has lived an interesting life, starting out in Germany and ending up on[...] |
| [...]Community SPC Keynote: Decolonising the Pacific Library - Rethinking the library of the future Wednesday November 10, 10.30am WH[...]ved books and libraries. We did not have a school library at my primary school until my year six or seven a[...]e month was when the Suva City Council’s mobile library Putanga 487 « Library Life « came to visit. The mobile library was a little caravan and there was nothing more e[...]ful children’s books. The opening of the school library was the best thing that happened and | spent many[...]r, many schools still do not have a fully fledged library and those which do, do not have adequate resource[...]king forward to conversations about strengthening library services for and in Pacific communities and creat[...]ING TO THE LIANZA 2021 CONFERENCE AND THE WIDER LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SECTOR WITH YOUR KEYNOTE ADDRESS? I'd like to bring a different perspective on decolonizing library spaces and the ways that we might begin to rethin[...]ll discuss the notion of decolonizing the Pacific library with and for Pacific peoples themeselves and will[...]plore what that might look like in a contemporary library space, whether it is in a traditional inst[...] |
| [...]ls and periodicals alike. How can we innovate the library space beyond the perception of it being a resour[...]contemporary libraries. Head of Knowledge and Library Services Health Education England Keynote: Heal[...]are relevant to information specialists in other library sectors. My presentation will focus on the deve[...]Healthcare strategic framework for knowledge and library services in the National Health Service (NHS) in England is recognised as a model from Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz which colleagues in New Zea[...]RING TO THE LIANZA 2021 CONFERENCE AND THE WIDER LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SECTOR WITH YOUR KEYNOTE ADDRESS?[...]roles that we all play. At a fundamental level, library staff build reading skills that can be ap[...] |
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| [...]l more of your community with Libby Libby. The library reading app Libby, the library reading app from OverDrive, offers a state-of-the[...]al authors not available digitally from any other library service, including John Byron, Amy Suiter Clarke,[...]ned by reading mobrien@overdrive.com Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]lence and honouring the contributions made to the library and information profession in New Zealand for 71[...]ABOUT THE AWARD CITATIONS HERE >> Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz |
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| [...]es over in personal and professional development, life-long friends and colleagues. It is still a bit ha[...]y contributes strongly to society. Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz |
| [...]in their workplace and contribution to the wider library and information sector. Applicants can apply for[...]lso a great way of showing your commitment to the Library sector and being able to reflect on everything yo[...]eat way of doing that for myself. Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]endered a significant and special service to the library and information profession within New Zealand Aot[...]hip” in other aspects of my career and personal life. | feel sad not to loX-M lal oleclalcowslaNMtNelc[...]ward which recognises the value and importance of library run reading engagement programmes for our akonga.’ Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz Natalie Smith: “[...] |
| [...]an information professional. 5 NZ Certificate in Library & Information Services for Conti Nelg Tata Ro) NZ Diploma in Library & Information Studies (Level 5) NZ Diploma in R[...]Information Leadership O Graduate Certificate in Library ASTM M OM oe Mela UE Lol) and enrolment dates.[...]z ey ey ee Ante URATINI TUWHERA Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]braries In 2020 LIANZA offered the people in the library sector an opportunity to gain confidence and capa[...]to communicate effectively about the impact their library makes for its community. What has the experience[...]our own projects using the online Putanga 487 « Library Life « sessions as a guide with peer support. | ran[...]‘Fancy a Cuppa; that is run from a large public library located inside a mall in a lower socioecon[...] |
| [...]king shape. | learned that it was to be a new library and community centre to replace the last one that[...]ng. To my great delight in June 2017, | secured a library assistant role at Matuku Takotako: Sumner Centre[...]support to keep our libraries alive Issue 487 + Library Life + www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]ands and the USA. The adventurers Putanga 487 « Library Life « get to Aotearoa New Zealand in thei[...] |
| [...]y community Learn how to deliver a more engaging Library Experience Re-imagining the Library Experience Issue 487 + Library Life + www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]RUNNING A REGIONAL WORKSHOP LIANZA IKAROA RAN A LIBRARY EXPERIENCE DAY IN PALMERSTON NORTH, THE DAY BEFO[...]Clifford (L) and Leah Simon at the LIANZA Ikaroa Library Experience Day Image credit: Mojgan Sadighi Hey![...]erences. We found value and currently run Awapuni Library - one of our in talking with our peers and learni[...]t Ikaroa have been with the Palmerston North City Library Library Experience Day and find out what they for eight y[...]open group discussions. Both of us realised early Library Studies in 2016. Along with our colleague on that[...]session Sara, we now work together at the Awapuni Library. | on the survey alone. We really wanted the sess[...]n the day we gave a brief overview of the |karoa Library Experience Day. We had a rough survey results but[...]eak into groups was to provide an opportunity for library workers of eight and had them introduce themselve[...]questions to get the conversation Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz |
| [...]and participants, engaged i in the LIANZA Ikaroa Library Experience Day Image credit: Mojgan Sadighi of e[...]u recommend as great professional development for library workers? Is there a section of the community your library might be able to reach out to or strengthen connections with? How do you imagine your library services will change in the next 5, 10, 15 years?[...]ded some of the responses and those Issue 487 + Library Life « were shared more broadly, both on the[...] |
| [...]H TIMES TE POUHUAKI NATIONAL LIBRARIAN THANKS LIBRARY SECTOR Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa National Library’s New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme is supporting librarians and library services to be retained during Covid-19, at the s[...]eally proud of the work that’s been done by the library sector making this program successful. We've hea[...]key initiative is a strategic review of National Library's core services to New Zealand libraries (such as[...]e medium term (3 - 5 years). | want to thank the library sector all for the work they've been doing, we al[...]w.youtube.com/watch?v=Q51bXDuej6k Putanga 487 « Library Life « CELEBRATING 1 YEAR IN ACTION New Zealand Lib[...]m for electronic resources waived for sustainable library public libraries over 2 years sector projects oo[...]een provided with assistance to keep their public library internet free of charge. 11 Strategic Partnershi[...]24m for projects that benefit New Zealand's wider library sector in the long term. LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYS[...]ans, so that they can provide greater support for library users coping with the disruption and chang[...] |
| [...]Engagement with Maori - The 5 Wai's Framework Library Managers TIME COMMITMENT Resources ty to engage[...]rning plans * 194 courses completed Issue 487 + Library Life + The top 10 offerings: Getting Started with Sm[...]: Using Canva To Bring Your Marketing Projects to Life 9. A framework for Digital Inclusion for your library community 10. Working with Tangata Whenua Rone Oa NZLPP MAHI TO BE IN HANDS OF LIBRARY SECTOR Now that we are more than halfway through the funded COVID recovery period, National Library is preparing to start placing the NZLPP ma[...] |
| [...]ce efficiencies and inform future Putanga 487 « Library Life « July — Dec 2021 Transition planning Jul -[...]plementation sustainability options for National Library services to the sector, primarily APNK, EP[...] |
| [...]orate where those crossovers are.” Issue 487 + Library Life + “the programme is going well for me and | en[...]k but now | look at all the channels as it is all library content and helpful for the overall picture.’[...]d Libraries Partnership Programme on the National Library’s website. Article contributed by Helen Heath,[...]s Advisor, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa National Library. www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]. LIANZA Council will also appoint Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz one councillor with s[...] |
| [...]TED? LIANZA has provided leadership to the wider library and information profession for 110 years and currently operates under its own Act of Parliament (Library Act 1939). It has a strong national network, acti[...]connections, and serves all parts of the diverse library and information sector. However, the current gove[...]perational changes. Te Ropt Whakahau Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz Rachel Esson (LIANZA[...] |
| [...]Get_Made%3F treasure-island-2021/ Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz |
| [...]present, she is seconded to Masterton District Library as the assistant manager but is normally employed[...]s worked in libraries for 12 years, starting as a library assistant at the National Library of New Zealand. She was previously the chair of t[...]favourite thing was project managing the region's Library Assistants Days. She is also helping out on the L[...]cial committee. When not engaging with all things library, she likes to searches the land for the best lon[...]attend (and organise) events again. Issue 487 + Library Life + www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]OLUMNS LALITA BLANCH LALITA HAS COME TO THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SECTOR FROM A BACKGROUND IN TEAC[...]NGTON. TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR LIBRARY JOURNEY? | was born in South Australia and moved[...]and Auckland Writer's Festival. | Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz decided that if | were to get that job | would also get some library qualifications and that is what lead me to[...] |
| [...]people, in fact | passed on my job at the school library to one of my peers when | decided to spend some t[...]YOU GIVE TO SOMEONE CONSIDERING STUDYING TOWARDS LIBRARY QUALIFICATION? Give it a go, and do the papers i[...]community in public libraries if | get a job in a library. | am definitely interested in bringing th[...] |
| [...]ork possible and support people at every stage of life, whether it's the Parliamentary Library, Archives New Zealand, school libraries, or smaller regional museums. | know in our public library, | am helping people find information and solve p[...]too small; it all makes a difference in someone's life. These institutions tell our stories and safeguar[...]NZA? Victoria University of Wellington Master of Library and Information Studies and and Open Polytechnic Bachelor of Library and Information Studies qualifications are recogn[...]opment/professional-registration/ Putanga 487 « Library Life « wwwilianza.org.nz |
| [...]dia so we can spread the good ideas. Issue 487 + Library Life + DISINFORMATION MISINFORMATION Meanwhile Siou[...]FLA FAIFE committee. (International Federation of Library Associations - Freedom of Access to Inform[...] |
| [...]MNS PATHWAYS IN THIS COLUMN, WE INTERVIEW LIBRARY AND INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS - FINDING OUT HOW[...]PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARIAN & DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE LIBRARY AND ENGAGEMENT AT THE NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT IN M[...]s, my professional working career Putanga 487 « Library Life « in Aotearoa has all been at Parliament. I'm c[...]arliamentary Librarian and Deputy Chief Executive Library and Engagement / Tumu o te Pataka Rangahau and Tu[...]ew Zealand Parliament, leading the Parliamentary Library and Engagement team / Te Pataka Rangahau, te Whak[...]onsible for a range of activities which include: library and research services information management for[...]our MPs and our democracy. CAN YOU DESCRIBE YOUR LIBRARY JOURNEY UP UNTIL THIS POINT? I'm very new to the library sector, becoming the Parliamentary Librari[...] |
| [...]a librarian was based on what | saw in the school library and public library. Those librarians who provided a welcoming space[...]was an avid reader so spent a lot of time at the library. Image credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliamentary_Library While my current role is not a role | thoug[...]and opportunities for the tamariki. Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz LIANZA REGULAR CO[...] |
| [...]r communities. They illustrate who Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz we are, where we come[...] |
| LIANZA REGULAR COLUMNS A TE AWE LIBRARY - WELLINGTON Te Awe Library is the third and final pop-up library to open in the Wellington CBD following the unexpected closure of the Wellington Central Library Te Matapihi Ki Te Ao Nui in March 2019. The library is located in the Harbour City building running[...]pop- up was planned to complement Arapaki Manners Library and Service Centre, opened in May 2019 and He Matapihi Molesworth Library which opened in September 2019. Te Awe Library is situated on two floors of a refurbished herit[...]designed by students from Clyde Quay Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz Image credit: Te Awe Library and Kelburn Normal Schools who created patterns[...]ting librarians. Although deemed a ‘pop-up; the library will be here until the revamped Te Matapih[...] |
| [...]p libraries could permanently replace the Central Library - or move into the David Jones building when vac[...]y office blocks. A walk to the Wellington Central Library was hard to fit into a lunch break, but Te Awe is[...]ck up reserves or grab some reading material. The library’s most successful event attracted Image credit: Te Awe Library over 120 people; way too many for the space, but[...]staff who worked previously at Wellington Central Library, some have moved across from other libraries in t[...]e, variety and a great career.’ Putanga 487 « Library Life « wwwilianza.org.nz After working for 3[...] |
| [...]nancial barriers were a normal part of the public library model. American millionaire philanthropist Andre[...]ouncils in New Zealand struggled with how to fund library services without charging patrons. This was a sei[...]er, with an impressive total of eighteen Carnegie library buildings funded nationwide in just eight years, the ethos of the ‘absolutely free’ public library gained traction in New Zealand. Carnegie's visio[...]e Munn-Barr Report in 1934, a major survey of our library sector. The Carnegie Corporation, set up by Andre[...]work, had shifted its focus from funding physical library buildings to funding education and development in the library sector. Written with the support of the Carnegie Corporation, by Ralph Munn of the Carnegie Library of Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz LIANZA REGULAR COLUMNS Pittsburgh and Auckland Public Library's John Barr, the report sparked a new era of grow[...]rtments for ratepayers and residents: Wellington Library in particular came under fire for the charges for[...]r funding models and issued their first 100% free library books to the public in 1951. The tough economic[...]on and World War II meant it took decades for our library sector to meet the Munn-Barr Report's recommendat[...]nderlined how important it was to implement free library services for all. The enthusiasm and forward-thin[...]serve. Nicole Thorburn; (@nicole_thorburn); is a library assistant and heritage geek at Thames- Cor[...] |
| [...]pleting my journal. Donna Salmon, RLIANZA Unitec Library Putanga 487 + Library Life « wwwlianza.org.nz |
| [...]lass, | reflected how Doing BoK Cluster 2: Unitec Library, much harder it was for me to know whether (Profe[...]literacy (Professional | Understanding Wellington Library learning in the online environment. | realise tha[...]to distribute as a (Professional | Understanding Library, Gisborne PDF, so that people can view it regardl[...]t Librarian at Victoria University of Wellington, life-long learner, quilter, fabricaholic, walker, coff[...]ife, aunty & mother to 2x fur babes. Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]Open Polytechnic Senior Academic Staff Member for Library and Information Studies, Sarah Welland, enjoys ke[...]servation and digitisation. She also teaches the library studies course ‘The Information Industry: One[...]g is learning how to be aware of the Issue 487 + Library Life » www.lianza.org.nz different perspectives towa[...]the week.” For more information about studying library and information programmes and courses at[...] |
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| [...]NZLPP Te Pouhuaki National Librarian thanks library[...]Library of the Issue: Te Awe Library - Wellington[...]ING PHOTOS Te Awe Library - Wellington Ana Pickering[...]community, libraries and library life. DESIGN LIANZA Media Ki[...]submit these to EDITOR library-life officeadmin[...] |
| [...]rom the Memory of the World, the In this issue of Library Life, we are[...]enging times our Deputy Chief Executive Library and a challenge to progressing a fines-[...]genuine commitment to the library Rangahau and Tumuaki Tuarua o can read a b[...]Te Pouhuaki National Librarian, Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna library and information sector. Thank Rachel Esson sha[...]anks to the over the first year, thanks the library We are just weeks away from the[...]ctor and discusses three key largest gathering of library and[...]LIANZA is reviewing its strategic Library Life, share it with colleagues E huri tō aroaro ki te[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]Thriving Together, draws closer library and information sector.[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]across the country as we have to offer the library sector an SLANZA Tertiary Grants[...]e in September 2020 with 72 New Zealand library sector Ngā mihi nui, partici[...]ent February to July. Their learning impact of library and information has been shared at a series[...]ts in this issue of Makaurau, but once again we Library Life. have seen the resourcefuln[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]iation of New Zealand removed in 2008. Library and overseas had done and[...]far-sighted council who realised library staff and council financial and residents.’ How have our that having a library collection advisors to develop dif[...]LaHatte explains, “The majority library service became ‘fines overdues.”[...]and councillors removed library joined nine other public libraries Louis[...]Auckland Libraries was not District Library, Selwyn District is committed to helping our[...]libraries away and the removal of library fines Libraries. Public Libraries New[...]Zealand reports that current data us most. Library shows 75% of NZ public libraries fines[...]of libraries. Our library service[...]Manager Connected Two public library services have could see that of the large[...]stopped return rates over 20 years ago, the library more likely to be Māori or Pacific[...]ill mean everyone can fines free encourages library Achieving fines free at Auckland[...]return to use our library services use, and does not disadvantage[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]to grow. Denver Public Library[...]ive than fines stopped using library services to go to the library to return books with the for getting[...]2019 it became the Library published a report that overdue.”[...]city, and recommended the library cease[...]Libraries User library system in patrons of all ages. The library[...]communities, African American library overdue fines. The trend[...]from accessing the library due Ireland and Australia. In October[...]Public Library announced in the largest library system in the[...]transition to closing the library dinner and using the library, about[...]Urban Library Council reported COVID-[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]ould year trial. Public Library has worked with waive fines for four yea[...]per Hutt Libraries became every student has a library card times the number of overdue the fourth public library to and access to a digital school bo[...]become frees-fine for all users library, which is now being used is one of lowest-ranking from November 2020. The library regularly by students in every Austr[...]income. Marion Read Libraries, was the first library membership had increased by[...]” and the number of visitors rose a library. The Yarra Plenty by 3%. From April 2019 to the Library system in Victoria Becoming[...]Nelson Public Libraries had Oldham Library removed fines and 15. The Australian C[...]ongoing benefits in increased joining the library than the million of existing fines some membership and library usage year before.[...]free-fine for all users from July library strategy that aimed to in 2020.[...]fines for adults would not only providing a library service with overdue fines during COVID 19 bring people back to the library, no barriers to access and use, lockdowns, when library patrons but also create a culture of with no library fines or lending were unable to physically[...]efinitive numbers, but we the aim of doubling library District Library announced it have absolutely we[...]approach started in lockdown. library due to fear of accruing[...]lot easier for our staff. There are been no library fines in the and in August 2020 announ[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]desktop research as well to North Canterbury, all library Of course, fines aren’t how[...]ept put made to get councils/library zero overdue fees policy it was up an u[...]ime we probably the line.” library users under 18 year old only have a small handful of were blocked from using library overdue books, so they are not[...]rather than penalty “While library fines don’t have from July 2021. Library manager, charges. Removing fines means[...]Stephen reports that, ‘New junior library managers was crucial in July 2020 an[...]and young adult memberships for our library service becoming City Libraries in July[...]in mid-2021. approval was required, so Library Manager Jo Hunt we had to prepa[...]ouncil becoming a fines-free library? through rates, like sports fields meetin[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]Kaitaia Library. Image credit: Far North District Libraries[...]reminders Wairarapa Library Service will be is too early to say definiti[...]e do take the the next library ‘in the news’ as it numbers, we have abs[...]items not October 12. Library Manager hadn’t used the library due to returned that we have deemed to[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]ted makes sense.” Annette outlines library services and systems students by[...]21. approach, “Potentially being library fines. However, there is a Victoria Un[...]lack of robust evidence in New Library Client Services Manager 400 library customers who are Zealand and other[...]community to incur fees during not using the library, it is likely in 2020, Overdue Fines:[...]to waiver fines it would be the library and bring along their Benefit Public Lib[...]Barthorpe barrier which still persists - that the library is[...]are prevented from accessing Nelson Public Library Manager[...]blem is the late returns in the the response by library managers stories and collate a body of[...]n a working group has been barrier of library fines. issue.” Students do[...]is exceeded or if they have of providing public library[...]few months ago and she is grateful to the all library managers who generously responded to questions and provided information on their library service’s fines-free journey. She says, “It w[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]Macmillan Brown Library[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]more literate. However, these Macmillan Brown Library’s WHAT MAKES THE[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]skilled, the THE ITEM’S SOCIAL LIFE greatest, achievements of the A-Mei[...]of objects like the expressive portrayals of life in (1916 until 1946), describes[...]illustrations with life and who might have owned or read Macmillan Brown Library’s personality:[...]ctures in terms interesting life, starting out in white photographs. When[...]referred to as A-Meister and everyday life and material co.nz/unlocking[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
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| [...]came to visit. The mobile library WHAT DO YOU THINK[...]tal steps and walking THE WIDER LIBRARY AND in[...]opening of the school library was[...]library spaces and the ways that[...]Leader Culture for have a fully fledged library and[...]strengthening library services for[...]nd should decolonizing the Pacific library Pacific Library - Rethinking the[...]with and for Pacific peoples library of the future[...]contemporary library space, I have always loved books and[...]institutionalized, fixed space school library at my primary have an opportunity to spea[...]lly sourced content City Council’s mobile library Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]HEARING WHILE THERE? How can we innovate the library a love for reading in Pacific[...]nity to share work from THE WIDER LIBRARY AND England[...]health literacy motivating and Library Services SPEAKER, WHAT WENT[...]At a fundamental level, library for thriving communities: a I was thril[...]kers in all sectors will see specialists in other library framework f[...]re sectors. library services in the National all making[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]THE WIDER LIBRARY AND TO LEARN WHILE AT[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]lic value collaboration, learning THE WIDER LIBRARY AND to inform and enrich[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
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| [...]h more of your community with Libby Libby, the library reading app from OverDrive, offers a state-of-the[...]al authors not available digitally from any other library service, including John Byron, Amy Suiter Clar[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]lence and honouring the contributions made to the library and information profession in New Zealand fo[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]research qualities, contribution to LIANZA, held library or information management positions for at least[...]and testimonials from at least two members of the library and information profession. Nominees do not need[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]es over in personal and professional development, life-long friends and colleagues. It[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]in their workplace and contribution to the wider library and information sector. Applicants can apply for[...]way of showing your commitment to the Library sector and being able to reflect on everything yo[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]red a significant and special service to the library and information profession within New Zealand Aot[...]award which recognises the personal life. I feel sad not to value and importance of library be in libraries any more, but[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]focus in everything to do for the library community and to tauira with whom[...]LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES NZ Certificate in Library & Information Services for Children & Teens (Level 6) NZ Diploma in Library & Information Studies (Level 5)[...]gression and to learn more Bachelor of Library &[...]profession. He enjoyed the introduction to library[...]as now decided Graduate Certificate in Library[...]“I have had many benefits from studying library Visit the website for more information[...]studies played a huge part in my library career by[...]helping me gain my first library position and they[...]New Zealand Diploma in Library and will continue to be a positive fac[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]s In 2020 LIANZA offered the people in the library sessions as a guide with p[...]mmunicate effectively about the impact their library makes for its community. What has the experi[...]ty of Practice public library located inside a mall in a lower (CoP). This[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]earned that it was to be a new library and community centre to replace the last one that[...]ight in June 2017, I secured a library assistant role at Matuku Takotako: Sumner Centre[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
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| [...]Clifford (L) and Leah Simon at the LIANZA Ikaroa Library Experience Day[...]es. We found value and currently run Awapuni Library – one of our in talking wit[...]roa have been with the Palmerston North City Library Library Experience Day and find out what they for ei[...]group discussions. Both of us realised early Library Studies in 2016. Along with our colleague[...]on Sara, we now work together at the Awapuni Library. on the survey alone. We really w[...]e day we gave a brief overview of the Ikaroa Library Experience Day. We had a rough[...]nto groups was to provide an opportunity for library workers of eight and had them in[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]ers and participants engaged in the LIANZA Ikaroa Library Experience Day[...]oom. We’d also professional development for library workers?[...]in • Is there a section of the community your library the chats rather than keeping an eye[...]session went! • How do you imagine your library services will[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]R Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library’s New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme is supporting librarians and library services to be retained during Covid-19, at[...]proud of the work that’s been done by the library sector making this program successful.[...]keep their public library internet free of charge. impact they can.[...]024m for projects that benefit New National Library’s core services to New Zealand[...]Zealand’s wider library sector in the long term. libraries (such as[...]PLAYS IMPORTANT ROLE I want to thank the library sector all for the work[...]for library users coping with the disruption and for Ao[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]Canva To Bring Your Marketing Projects to Life “The key to success was mapping the myriad[...]9. A framework for Digital Inclusion for your library of opportunities to the focus areas for capabilit[...]OF LIBRARY SECTOR The Learning Management System (LMS) site[...]nd funded COVID recovery period, National Library continues to be built out. And the uptake over fo[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]sustainability options for National Library libraries can continue to support their comm[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]y and at all the channels as it is all library content and often find that I come away with new[...]Partnership Programme on the National Library’s procedure that was shared particularly useful[...]the ways that Aotearoa National Library. our projects overlap and are looking at ways to[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
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| [...]Tumuaki Anahera Morehu and to the wider library and[...]their perspectives and thoughts. (Library Act 1939). It has a[...]However proposed advisory and diverse library and information[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
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| [...]present, she is seconded to Masterton District Library as the assistant manager but is normally[...]s worked in libraries for 12 years, starting as a library assistant at the National Library of New Zealand. She was previously the chair of t[...]ject managing the region’s Library Assistants Days. She is also helping out on the L[...]committee. When not engaging with all things library, she likes to searches the land for the best[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]year job I would also get some library which resul[...]beginning of 2020, so almost TO THE LIBRARY AND time for two years, completed[...]myself with the post-graduate A LIBRARY JOURNEY? I looked up to her role[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]people, in fact I passed on my job at the school library to one of my peers when I decided to spend some t[...]MEMBERS TOWARDS LIBRARY QUALIFICATION?[...]community in public libraries if I get a job in a library. Eloisa As[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]all the same know in our public library, I am BOOK TO SOMEONE,[...]someone’s life. These institutions history. I love it, even[...]stage of life, whether it’s the fiction after my univers[...]Parliamentary Library, Archives It’s more accessible than the[...]Victoria University of Wellington Master of Library and Information Studies and and Open Polytechnic Bachelor of Library and Information Studies qualifications are recogn[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]committee. (International Federation of Library response may have depended on your Alert Level[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]ime at A M Y BR I ER Library and Engagement / my desk c[...]I really enjoy - working with INTERVIEW LIBRARY the Parliamentary Library and people, sharing and develop[...]• library and research services can be close,[...]to be able to support our MPs LIBRARY AND ENGAGEMENT[...]parliament.nz and LIBRARY JOURNEY UP WHY DON’T YOU START[...]Parliament, I’m very new to the library sector,[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliamentary_Library becoming the Parliamentary[...]and enjoy what you are studying. I school library and public library. h[...]opened up new worlds and at the library. o[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
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| [...]LIANZA REGULAR COLUMNS 49 LIBRARY OF THE ISSUE T E[...]Image credit: Te Awe Library Te Awe Library is the third and Molesworth Library which and Kelburn Normal Schools final pop-up library to open in opened in September 2019.[...]deas the unexpected closure of the Te Awe Library is situated on around birds and nature, which Wellington Central Library Te two floors of a refurbished[...]Creative and Brand team then 2019. The library is located won the 2021 New Zealand[...]deemed a ‘pop-up’, the library up was planned to complement Awe’ or w[...]will be here until the revamped Arapaki Manners Library and provided the design focus with[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]Image credit: Te Awe Library we’ve received lots of positive o[...]n-site and is a drawcard replace the Central Library – streaming live too.[...]oking office blocks. A walk to the Library, some have moved forward to a gradual easing of Wellington Central Library was across from other libraries in[...]s when physical access reading material. The library’s and programmes, digital literacy[...]Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]local councils in New Zealand Library’s John Barr, the report find its roots in the C[...]rowth for Libraries model of the late library services without charging New Zealan[...]or annual total of eighteen Carnegie library for ratepayers and residents.’ subs[...]s funded nationwide in Wellington Library in particular barriers were a normal part of[...]came under fire for the charges the public library model. ‘absolutely free’ public library for their services - following the[...]d to issued their first 100% free library however, had a different vision shape lib[...]arr Report in decades for our library sector as a steel industrialist. The books 19[...]eport’s had provided an opportunity for library sector. The Carnegie recommenda[...]e his was to implement free library he felt ‘working boys’ like himself phila[...]inking of library buildings to funding librarians[...]ncial in order to receive funding the library sector. Written with barriers betwe[...]ng subscription fees or of the Carnegie Library of Nicole Thorburn; (@nicole_thorburn); is a library assistant and heritage geek at Thames-[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]. Donna Salmon, RLIANZA Unitec Library Putanga 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
| [...]BoK Cluster 2: Unitec Library, much harder it was for me to know w[...]ional Understanding Wellington Library learning in the online environment. I r[...]s a (Professional Understanding Library, Gisborne PDF, so that people can view[...]Victoria University of Wellington, life-long learner, quilter, fabricaholic, walker, coff[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
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| [...]they information that can occur by Library and Information Studies, complete their qual[...]understanding the environment teaches the library studies how to manage information in[...]ation accurately is an studying library and information as well as online study. One of[...]Issue 487 • Library Life • www.lianza.org.nz |
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