Libraries Are Crucial To Our Digital Future

Lots and lots of words being written in the UK about public libraries. The lastest is the following from the Guardian. Libraries are crucial to our digital future / Lynne Brindley [The Guardian] Visits may be in decline, but we can boost digital literacy within our communities. You report that, according to a government review, [...]

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What Next? Council? Leadership?

Tomorrow April comes around, which not only means a large number of silly jokes, but that also the first quarter of the year has passed us by. In the yearly library cycle for LIANZA it means that soon (I am pretty sure I haven’t missed it) a call will go out for nominations to fill [...]

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Laptop Love

It’s an exciting week for us this week.  Not because it’s the last week before semester break, although that is also a Good Thing.  No, this week we’re launching our 20 new netbooks into circulation. So maybe it is because I am a bit of a nerd that I think this is exciting! A quick [...]

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Today Officially Marks LIANZA’s Centenary

A press release from LIANZA worth noting and celebrating Today officially marks LIANZA’s centenary In January 1910 the Dunedin City Council resolved to convene a conference of the representatives from Public Libraries of New Zealand for the purpose of discussing matters affecting the general conduct and management of libraries. On 26th March 1910 the first [...]

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Details, Details, It’s All In The Details

Yesterday the government made it’s announcement of the various proposed restructurings that were rumoured last week, including the merging of National Library and Archives into the Department of Internal Affairs. Like most Government documents the “Cabinet Paper” detailing the rational and the proposed actions is a longish, dry paper, full of management and political speak. [...]

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Over There, Over Here, Everywhere

It has certainly been an interesting few days. In our corner of the world there has been a lot of reaction to the Governments announcements on mining and benefits, topics I am not going to touch on. In the US the Obama administration finally passed its health reforms, and Bill Gates starts planning a new [...]

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An Interesting Subject

Juvenile or Children’s? That’s the question that was posted today on the list serve with regards to subject headings for children’s books. Currently we retain the official ALC headings as downloaded from Te Puna, which are “Juvenile”. Mainly because that has been the practice since before I arrived, and I had not really thought much [...]

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List Mania

On the job experience is something one can’t replicate in an academic environment regardless of profession.  I was musing about the things I’ve actually used from my formal library training, and those that I’ve learned by working within the environment. Things I’ve used that I learned from formal library training 1. Report writing – this [...]

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Congratulations Joann Ransom Library Mover and Shaker

Our own Joann Ransom, from Horowhenua District Libraries has been named one of Library Journal’s 2010 Movers & Shakers. She is the first Kiwi to make this prestigious award. Well done. Joann Ransom, Horowhenua Library Trust, Levin, New Zealand For the People New Zealand’s Horowhenua community—a district of 30,00090 minutes north of Wellington—had a problem. Its many [...]

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Internet Filter Debate Merry-Go-Round

The announcement that two ISP’s have signed up to run their service through the new government filter service has led to some debate on the list serve about censorship. Previously myself, Sean and others have had a vigorous debate about the pro’s and con’s of censorship and filtering, in particular with regards to the act [...]

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