Dorothea Brown was a major influence on librarians in the Canterbury area between 1976 and her retirement in 2004. She was generous with her support and was said to have a wicked sense of humour. Dorothea was the first woman to be appointed city librarian in Christchurch. She died on 30 September at the age of 83 and will be remembered for her impact on the library sector.

Sue Sutherland​, was deputy city librarian to Dorothea for eight years, she described her as “very, very passionate about the role that libraries play in a society. She was quite a formidable woman. If you were going in with a proposition you had to be pretty sure of your facts because she was always on top of the information.”

Dorothea’s early years
Dorothea Jongejans was born in the Hague in Holland in 1938. During the war her family moved to Utrecht where she went to school. As her family could not afford to support her at university, she was faced with the choice of either office work or emigrating to New Zealand. She says, “New Zealand sounded more fun”. 

After a long sea voyage, she arrived in Christchurch in 1957. She had a married sister living in Christchurch who arranged Dorothea’s first job in New Zealand at a soil testing laboratory. She was laid off after a few months and approached Vocational Guidance. They suggested that with her background in languages she might enjoy library work.

​Waimairi District Libraries
In 1976 Dorothea was appointed Waimairi District Librarian. The Bishopdale Library had just been built but had not yet opened. While still working out her notice at the university library she had to interview and appoint staff for the new library. She had nine years working for the Waimairi District Council and found, especially after her university experience, that it was a relatively small and innovative organisation to work for. It also gave her the experience of working with politicians. She began to regularly attend council meetings. In this job she was responsible for the Fendalton, Redwood and Bishopdale Libraries and a mobile library.

​Dorothea and LIANZA
Dorothea was a strong supporter of LIANZA and served as the president from 1982-83. She was often a speaker at conferences in the 1980’s and gave one very spirited address to the Local Authorities Division session at the February 1988 conference in defence of free public libraries. 

E kore au e ngaro, he kākano i ruia mai i Rangiātea
I will never be lost, for I am a seed sown in Rangiātea
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Te Wānanga o Raukawa is a tikanga Māori tertiary education provider based in Ōtaki. Hailed at the time as the 'smallest university in the world' Te Wānanga o Raukawa was established by the Raukawa Marae Trustees in 1981 with only two students (ākonga). Now with over 5000 ākonga, more than 70 courses are provided. Two of these are the Heke Puna Maumahara (Diploma in Information Management) and Poutuarongo Puna Maumahara qualification (Bachelor of Māori and Information Management).
The Puna Maumahara programme not only gives students the ability to champion a Māori perspective in the information and library sector but provides them with the tools they need to build expertise and knowledge within the industry.

Over the course of the three-year degree, ākonga develop a sound knowledge of the concept of Māori autonomy in relation to intellectual and cultural property rights. Filling their kete (basket) with the tools to apply preservation techniques and strategies for the care of taonga (treasures). Ākonga come from museums, libraries, archives, or from within iwi, hapū and marae. And it’s not just Māori attending. Maria Collier (Te Rarawa,Ngāti Whātua,Te Aupōuri, Ngāpuhi) kaihautū (manager) of the programme says it is for everyone, but the kaupapa (agenda) is Māori. “We want others to see the world through Māori eyes.”

Raymond Peeti (Te Ātihaunui-a-Paparangi, Nga Paerangi) is a kaiako (tutor) in Te Reo Māori at the wānanga. Originally a student in the He Puna Maumahara qualification, he graduated in 2018 with the undergraduate degree. He joined the programme after helping with the archives and preservation of his hapū’s taonga tuku iho (heirlooms) at his marae, Kaiwhaiki in Whanganui.

“I wanted to develop a robust archival system for my hapū. What he puna maumahara offered was the ability to do the course on my marae. It not only developed me but also my whānau, hapu and iwi, as the guardians of our taonga tuku iho.”

“We did learn the Dewey Decimal Classification System, archival and conservation techniques, but everything we learned we learned through a Māori lens. Our kaiako , Hinureina Mangan,  challenged us to see the Western constructs in museums, libraries, and galleries. She taught us to look deeper and use Māori eyes. “What do you see when you look at a wharenui,” she’d ask us. Some of us would say a house – but she challenged us to see the carvings, and ask who carved them, the tuku tuku panels and the stories they told, the photos and the wealth of knowledge in that whare. Everything came back to mātauranga Māori and who had the knowledge. We discovered how to take care of these taonga. It was ground-breaking stuff.”

Hinureina Mangan and Ani Pahuru-Huriwai were part of the team that designed and set up the programme in the late 1990s. They were both former tumuaki (presidents) of Te Rōpū Whakahau, and integral in forming the Tiriti partnership relationship with the then NZLIA, now LIANZA. Over the years the qualification has been supported by many kaiako who offer their time freely as kaiawhina (helpers) because of their commitment to this mahi (work). They include Vicki-Anne Heikell, Bernard Makoare and many others around the country.
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The theory of Nga Puna Maumahara - Marae-Based Repositories (MBR), comes from Marae-Based Studies (MBS). It supports the idea that "for our long-term survival as a people every marae, every hapū and every iwi must have some of their people taught right at home by people from home" (Mangan N; ARCHIFACTS; 2005, p91).

PUTTING THE TOOLS  BACK INTO THE HANDS OF THE COMMUNITY 
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The Alexander Turnbull Library outreach services team supports the library’s public events programme. The team includes a field conservator, who advises community groups on care of collections, and two oral history advisors. Vicki-Anne Heikell (Te Whānau-a-Apanui) is the field conservator in the team. She talked to Library Life editor Angie Cairncross about her work and how she loves putting the tools of conservation into the hands of the community.

Mai i taumata ō Apanui ki Pōtaka
Ko Whanokao te maunga
Ko Mōtū te awa
Ko Whakaari te puia
Ko Te Whānau-a-Apanui te iwi

Vicki-Anne Heikell grew up in Gisborne/Tairawhiti on the East Coast. As an undergraduate she had a summer job with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust doing desk research at Antrim House before the Māori heritage team went out onto marae. As she was from the East Coast she got to spend a cool and hot summer at Porourangi Marae, Waiomatatini with the team doing practical stuff like removing old paint layers from poupou and cleaning down. She  worked with Cliff Whiting, Jack Fry, Ben Pewhairangi and two conservation students Ben Whiting and Nick Tupara. 

She had specialised in paper conservation and wanted to see what was happening in North America. She visited the U’mista Cultural Centre in British Colombia- to see what they were doing. She met with conservator Miriam Clavir who had previously visited Aotearoa to interview Māori conservators for her book ‘Preserving what is valued’ and visited the Ghetty Museum a few weeks before its opening in December 1997.

“When you’re working with taonga it’s about keeping yourself safe. I’m always guided by the people I’m working with and who’s taonga I’m working on to see what’s appropriate.”

When asked about her feelings on receiving a New Year’s honour earlier this year she said it really made her think about all the wāhine toa of the library and museum sector.

“I want to acknowledge those wāhine toa of the library sector who nutured and challenged us younger ones as we came through. They worked really hard. They supported and cajoled Māori into the sector and encouraged Māori as users of libraries to get organisations and initiatives up and running. These include Miria Simpson,  Ann Reweti,  Haneta Pierce, Hinureina Mangan, Meri Mygind, and my contempories who I continue to work with like Ani Pahuru-Huriwai, Cellia Joe Olsen and Hinerangi Himiona.

“Getting awards like an MNZM - I see this as a potential way of elevating important discussions.”

For more information on Vicki-Anne’s work and conservation resources explore the following:

• Caring for taonga - photographs (natlib.govt.nz)
• Caring for your collections – photographs 
• Caring for your collections - audio-digitisation 
• Caring for your collections – family collections 
• Caring for your collections – te reo Māori 
• Caring for your collections – Samoan 
• A sunrise at mitimiti blog (After Hone Tuwhare) 

Award-winning authors, librarians, a children’s bookseller and reviewer, as well as respected proponents of te reo and te ao Māori, make up the two panels of experts selected to judge entries in the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
 
Educationalist and author Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith, who was a judge in the 2021 awards, will convene the English language panel in 2022. She is joined by acclaimed author Kyle Mewburn, public librarian Laura Caygill, children’s bookseller, reviewer and author Adele Broadbent; and Poutiaki Rauemi/National Manager Māori for Services to Schools at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand, Ruki Tobin. Ruki was on Te Kura Pounamu panel in 2021, and for the 2022 awards brings his deep knowledge of te ao Māori and te reo Māori to both judging panels.
 
The panel judging the Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for books written or translated into te reo Māori for 2022 is convened once again by Anahera Morehu, Tumuaki Tuākana/Immediate Past President of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA). Alongside her is communications specialist Te Amohaere Morehu; Online Content Service and Rauemi Developer – Te Ao Māori at the National Library Horowaitai Roberts-Tuahine; and Ruki Tobin. Te Kura Pounamu panel is appointed by Te Rōpū Whakahau, the national body representing Māori within the library and information profession.
 
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (NZSA) will become the naming sponsor of the prize for the best first book at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
 
Submissions for the 2022 awards are now open to books published between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022. The first deadline, for books published up to 30 November 2021, is Tuesday 14 December 2021. More details about how to enter can be found here.
 
Category finalists will be announced on 2 June 2022 and the awards ceremony is due to be held in Wellington in the first part of August 2022, preceded by a programme of finalist author events under the Books Alive banner.
 
The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are made possible through the generosity, commitment and vision of funders and sponsors Creative New Zealand, HELL Pizza, Wright Family Foundation, LIANZA, NZSA, Wellington City Council and Nielsen Book.

Three new members have been accepted to the LIANZA Standing Committee on Copyright (LSCC). They are Lee Rowe, Bridget Knuckey, and Rose Beasley. LIANZA was delighted with the number of expressions of interest received. The standing committee will now have 10 members, with balance of representatives from across different library sectors.

​Lee Rowe of Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology has an interest in the ethical issues around the sharing of human expression and the knowledge that it encompasses. She believes there is a need to balance the rights of creators with the rights to use and share knowledge that benefit society.
She has been working at Toi Ohomai since 2008 where she manages copyright policies and procedures for the team there. This has resulted in her becoming knowledgeable about copyright legislation, copyright licenses, Creative Commons licenses and open access publishing. Lee has increased her understanding of Matāuranga Māori and indigenous knowledge over recent years and helped provide training in this area.

LIANZA members recently voted to pass a new constitution, which comes into effect from April 1, 2022. The association has been working since February 2020 to review its strategic governance leadership and organisational structure. Governance, advisory and organisational changes were been proposed and aim to position the association and its members for the future.
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Two working groups, five in-person regional meetings, and three online member consultations over July-August 2021 and two member surveys contributed to the development of the proposed organisational structure and new constitution.
 
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the review either on a working group, attending a hui or responding online. Thank you also to all members who e-voted over the month prior to the AGM.
 
The draft minutes of the LIANZA 2021 AGM are available to read here and the new constitution is available here .
 
This constitution will be sent to the Registrar of Incorporated Societies prior to it coming into effect on April 1, 2022 and the LIANZA Code of Practice will be updated by early May, 2021.
 
New council roles
Under the new constitution there will be four elected councillors and two appointed councillors on LIANZA Council. The transition plan means that the three regional councillor roles for LIANZA Te Whakakitenga aa Kaimai, LIANZA Ikaroa and LIANZA Murihiku will cease from June 30, 2022.
 
Nominations for the first two elected councillors and one appointed councillor will be sought in early April, with elections closing in early May, 2022. The three regional councillor roles for LIANZA Hikuwai, LIANZA Te Upoko te Ika a Maui, and LIANZA Aoraki cease from June 30, 2023. Nominations for the next two elected councillors and one appointed councillor will be sought in early April, with elections closing in mid-May, 2023.

The Te Rōpū Whakahau Tumuaki will cease to be an officer of the Association from June 30, 2022 and the Te Rōpū Whakahau councillor ceases to be a councillor on that day too. The new constitution requires that one of the two appointed councillors has skills in Tikanga and Mātauranga Māori knowledge and allows for one appointed councillor to be sought from beyond the library and information sector.
 
If you have not checked out the summary of the governance, advisory and operational changes proposed by the review of LIANZA’s strategic leadership governance and organisational structure can be found here.
 
Future incorporation
This governance review has also been conducted to ensure our Association is prepared for the introduction of the new Incorporated Societies Act.  LIANZA is currently incorporated under the Library Act (1939). The new Incorporated Societies Bill has not sought to ‘repeal’ the Library Act (1939), but has made provision for our act to be amended. LIANZA members supported the remit for LIANZA to take legal advice about whether to remain incorporated under the New Zealand Library Association Act 1939 or whether to incorporate under the new Incorporated Societies Act, when it is passed into legislation.

Librarians of the world – unite! This is the core message and sentiment from IFLA WLIC 2021 presentations this year says Neda Zdravkovic, Auckland Institute of Studies Librarian. Neda attended the online conference for the very first time thanks to a LIANZA grant. She re-connected with her colleagues from overseas university libraries, institutes and organisations to hear about the key challenges all LIS professionals across the world are currently facing during the pandemic.

I am truly grateful for this fantastic opportunity to re-connect with my dear colleagues from overseas university libraries, institutes and organisations and hear about the key challenges all LIS professionals across the world are  facing during the pandemic. These are  issues of operational, acquisitions, research information management (RIM), resourcing, budget cuts, digital access, open access and resourcing, systems and practices that bring creative solutions and innovations in the library sector. But most of all – the wealth of opportunities for international and worldwide collaborations - both locally, nationally and overseas- brought about by the necessity to find fast and effective solutions in terms of funding, systems, resourcing and ensuring growth (survival?) in the future.

Knowledge sharing and professional exchange communities of practice (CoPs) are one of these collaborations and I have been fortunate to network and ZOOM meet with our colleagues from OCLC (US and Netherlands), from the Dutch Libraries (Advisory Committee from the Dutch National Library and public libraries) and CILIP (ECIL & MILA groups, UK) which resulted in recognising the shared need to learn from each other and for mutual on-going collaborations.

As a result, the LIANZA TELSIG Committee has hosted our very first webinar with our international guests Dr Rebecca Bryant and Titia van der Werf, both of whom are Senior OCLC Research Programme Officers. We are currently networking with Dutch Libraries and CILIP team to organise more LIANZA TELSIG webinars in early 2022 with guest presenters from the UK & Netherlands.Thank you LIANZA and thank you IFLA WLIC 2021 for this fantastic experience and the opportunities brought by the conference event. 

​Rauhine Coakley (Potini Ngāi Tahui) and Michelle Kupenga (Ngati Porou) are this year’s Helen Zwartz Scholarship recipients. The scholarship provides funding for librarians or staff working in a public library serving one of NZ’s smaller communities or Māori and Pacific communities, to undertake a residency at the National Library of New Zealand.

Rauhine is a community engagement librarian from Hokitika. Her role is funded by the National Libraries Partnership Programme. She’s helping to make her library a more bicultural space and to take Te Ao Māori programmes out into the community. Michelle is from Tairawhiti and works at the HB Williams Memorial Library in collections and customer services.
 
Together they recently spent an amazing and intense week in Wellington. “It’s been really eye opening, everyone’s really passionate about what they do here and friendly,” says Michelle.

Their week started with a mihi whakatau at the Alexander Turnbull Library with the Māori staff. The team had pulled out artefacts from the collection from each of their local areas. “That was a beautiful welcome,” said Rauhine.
They met with Cellia Joe Olsen and heard more about the Alexander Turnbull Library and Te Rōpū Whakahau. Their tour around the library allowed them to see a Goldie and Lindauer painting as well as some of the collection and the history of our nation. They visited Newtown Library with Zoe Miller and met with some of the younger team members, hearing about how they were engaging with their communities.

Rauhine says, “Our National Library visit was tailored on what we wanted to learn. I wanted to hear more about the Ngā Upoko Tukutuku, also the Māori delivery of programmes and what the library does in that context, and to find out how the National Library supports public and school libraries over the country.”

Michelle said her goals were similar. “We have a significant Māori community and I wanted to see what I could take back, what National Library does and how they do it. I wanted to find out new ways that we could work with our communities that might be successful for us.”

“I wasn’t aware of the schools programme before I came here, where they bring schools in to see Te Tiriti, whakaputanga and the He Tohu documents held here,” says Rauhine.

“We’ve been able to look at the rooms (I could call them halls) where the conservators work. We got to see the restoration of a really old book. Just seeing the amount of effort that goes in to preserve these books and paintings was amazing, the paintings they worked on looked brand new.”

“It’s really amazing going through all the different rooms housing these taonga. The rare books area – it’s phenomenal,” Michelle says.

“One of the storage areas we went into is kept at two degrees. You can only stay in there for 20 minutes at a time and you must wear a coat in there. That’s where they store the film negatives,” Rauhine commented.
If you love your job as a librarian Michelle and Rauhine encourage others to apply for the Helen Zwartz Scholarship in 2022.- The experience is amazing, they say.

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Rachel Esson National Librarian Te Pouhuaki with Michelle Kupenga (left) and Rauhine Coakley. Image credit Llewelyn Jones, Imaging Services, National Library

In June, $1.5 million was granted to a LIANZA and SLANZA partnership through the Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme (NZLPP). This fund will be used to aid a qualification uplift across the entire library and information sector.

The aim of the funding is to upskill the workforce, attract new people to achieve tertiary qualifications and to ensure the workforce is qualified and future-ready, and positioned to demonstrate the value and impact of library and information services in Aotearoa New Zealand. A joint project advisory group was formed in late August and significant progress has been made towards achieving these aims. 

• Of key importance is appointing a funding agent to prepare and manage future grant rounds. The advisory group are in the process of finalising this agent to act in the role. 
• The advisory group is developing an evaluation framework with key outcomes to measure the success of the project and guide the development of the selection criteria and applicant eligibility.
• A warm thank you goes to Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Kuratini Tuwhera - Open Polytechnic and Te Wānanga o Raukawa for engaging so openly and positively about this project.

 
Grants will be available to all library professionals and those interested in gaining library and information qualifications. Further information on the grant’s application process and selection criteria will be available early in 2022 with the first tertiary grant round aiming for Trimester Two enrolments.

The library sector is concerned that the Government has agreed to extend the term of copyright for another 20 years. Libraries foresee this having a significant impact on their sector.
 
New Zealand and the UK have reached agreement in principle on the key elements of a free trade agreement (FTA). The details of this agreement have still to be finalised and legally verified, and the domestic approval processes must be completed, but the FTA will affect copyright terms here once it is enacted.
 
“Copyright terms differ depending on what is being protected. Books, for example, are protected for the life of the author plus fifty years. This will be extended to the life of the author plus seventy years and a new scheme will be established to restore to authors income from copyrighted works that are on sold,” says Melanie Johnson, chair of LIANZA Copyright Standing Committee.
 
The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) has members from across the library and information sector and museums and archives.
 
“One of the costs to New Zealand of greater access to the UK for our primary produce under the FTA, is the extension of the term of copyright, for authors, performers and producers. This means not only books, but films and music will be locked up for a further 20 years after the death of the authors, delaying the entry into the public domain of culturally significant New Zealand works and the creation of new works based on those works. 
 
“The most significant cultural works produced by New Zealand artists and writers will be delayed from entering the public domain until 2040 at the earliest. Professor Roger Horrocks observed in his 2011 publication that it was only during the Depression and the Second World War that a critical mass was reached of serious thoughtful work in poetry (Allen Curnow and ARD Fairborn), painting (Colin McCahon, Toss Woollaston and Rita Angus) fiction (Frank Sargeson, John Mulgan and Dan Davin) and music (Douglas Lilburn). While Rita Angus is now in the public domain, most are not.
 
“Early New Zealand films, television and radio shows are starting to emerge from copyright. Locking them up for another 20 years will impact on cultural institutions without the resources to source permissions to use these materials.
 
“The impact of this on our libraries and library users will be significant. Australian researchers compared the availability of books in countries which had copyright terms of 70 years plus life, with countries such as New Zealand which had 50 years plus life. They showed that books are less available and more expensive where they are protected by copyright than when they are in the public domain. The result is that libraries are obliged to pay higher prices in exchange for worse access.[i]”
 
When looking into the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2016, the New Zealand Treasury found that the net cost of copyright term extension to New Zealand consumers would be $55 million per year.[ii] 
“Research conducted in the US has also shown that ownership of copyright by publishers does not ensure availability of works, rather works disappear after their initial publication and do not reappear until they are out of copyright[iii].
 
Extending the term of copyright means less New Zealand content will be available, say LIANZA. It will also exacerbate the ‘orphan’ works problem for collections of music, films and sound recordings, artistic and literary works in libraries and archives. Orphan works are generally works of little or no commercial value, but they can provide valuable pickings for historians and artists.
 
“It seems that agreeing to extend the term of copyright will come to be seen as a retrograde step if we heed developments overseas. Independent reviews, such as the Hargreaves Report in the UK in 2011, and the Productivity Commission Report in Australia in 2016 have noted the negative impacts of overly long terms. Further, reportedly the Authors’ Guild in the US has said it is against term extension and would likely support a roll back to a term of life-plus-50. This is consistent with research showing that term extensions only benefit copyright owners and not authors. 
 
“Given the Government has 15 years to implement the change, we can only hope that the  slow reform of the Copyright Act will result in the full 15 years being taken to incorporate this into law and to counteract the negative impacts on users and creators, an expansion of some of the exceptions to encourage the creation of new works by New Zealanders, says Ms Johnson.”


[i] [Flynn, Jacob and Giblin, Rebecca and Petitjean, Francois, What Happens When Books Enter the Public Domain? Testing Copyright’s Underuse Hypothesis Across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada, June 10, 2019). University of New South Wales Law Journal, Vol. 42, No 4, 2019, U of Melbourne’s Legal Studies Research Paper No. 878 Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract+3401684]

[ii] : https://www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2016-05/ris-mfat-tppnia-may16.pdf

[iii] .[Heald, Paul, How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared