Lianza Weekend School Sunday, Jun 15 2008 

LIANZA and Tasman District News and library news , tasmanlibrary-staff 8:41 pm

Saturday’s weekend school was really great.  I thoroughly enjoyed the day and particularly enjoyed the two keynote speakers.

There was a great turnout generally and a great representation of staff from the TDC libraries.  It is great that so many of our libraries staff took the opportunity to make the most of this professional development opportunity.

Kate DeGoldi was just enthralling.  I will be eagerly awaiting her next book in September after hearing the excerpt she read to us.  I’ll also be trying to find a copy of the Elizabeth Enright – Milendi Quartet.

Annette Milligan made me really think about our ability to create our own stressors  and equally our ability to reduce the stressors in our lives.

Her suggestions about telling oneself a positive statement to change one’s mindset were great and I know that it does work.

Cathy Vaughan, Debbie Bowden and the others on the committee did a great job on this years weekend school.  What a source of pride for TDC libraries to have hosted such a great event.  Thank you!

 

 

Week of 19 May Saturday, May 17 2008 

Aotearoa People's Network and LIANZA and Motueka Library and Richmond Library and library news , , , , tasmanlibrary-staff 11:52 am

  • On Tuesday  20 May, I will be heading to Kaikoura for the day to meet with the TOTS librarians.On the agenda is – getting a consistent policy for the repair/replacement of the talking book covers for the TOTS talking books
  • Also on the agenda is disucussing a potential collaboration amongst libraries to buy new Library Management Software.  Dunedin City have set up a collaborative LMS purchase with the 7 surrounding authorities.   The will be buying Symphony the new product from Sirsi-Dynix group.  They will be having a shared bibliographic database which will be hosted in Melbourne.We will watch with interest how this goes as there are several interesting and new concepts here.  The consortium buying of LMS has worked for the 5 districts in Auckland with the ELGAR libraries.  But the offshore hosting will be interesting to explore as well as the implications and manifestations of the shared bibliographic database.
  • Mayor Kempthorne has asked Lloyd and me to actively investigate potential collaborations with Nelson before the next meeting of the Council Community Services Committee.
  • On Thursday – I will be going to Tauranga courtesy of the South Island Library Managers Group.  Along with Sarah Thompson from Hokatika  I will represent the South Island Public Libraries.I’ll return on Friday night and back in the
  • The Coffee vending machine has been in place for 2 weeks in Richmond and so far we have received $2.80 return!  Helen made a bold sign for the machine so hopefully people will begin to notice that it is there and start to use it.  If we get to at least 40 coffees sold/ week over the next 2 months the man will leave it with us.  If not he’ll take it away.                                        FYI  – it is real coffee– ground when you order it.  For $2 its a reasonable cup of coffee!
  • I have a DVD which was sent from National Library about the National Digital Library of New Zealand.  It is about 12 minutes long and is really interesting.  If anyone would like to have a look please let me know.
  • Cathy Vaughan and I went to the meeting of the TOTS  Local History and Heritage Web project this past Thursday.  Nicola Harwood – Nelson Public Information Services Team Leader is now driving the project and we are starting to move towards getting the project really moving.  The next step will be a request for expresssions of interest from people/groups who may wish to be contracted for the writing, editing, web design and other elements of this project.  We will hold a meeting for all those who express an interest and I will give a presentation of the project and the plan from here.  The expectation is that those in attendence will consider how they might fit in and submit a written application with samples of their work and we will then contract a person/persons to undertake the project. 
  • Lianza weekend school is on 14 June and I would like to process all the registrations from TDC libraries so please forward them through to me so I can pay for all the registrations at once. Please could you get them to me this week. The programme can be found in the blog if you have not got one to hand.
  • Nicki Moen is working on the PLan for the Motueka library.  She met this week with an interiour designer who will be putting together a colour scheme for us. 
  • Peter Vause has had computer problems but has promised to get the scoping document for Richmond library to us very soon.