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Facing the Future: Ideas into Action - Workshops

26/2/2020

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Last year Dr Matt Finch and Brendan Fitzgerald held incredibly successful Futures and Impact workshops in Wellington. The two half-day workshops were received enthusiastically and the interaction and sharing with colleagues from across the GLAM sector was invigorating.

Feedback was that participants needed more time to use the tools and develop ideas, and more time to connect with colleagues. One participant reflected that; It was good to have people from outside your immediate context test your assumptions, and to do the same for others. We've taken all that on board!

LIANZA is delighted to announce that Matt and Brendan will now be returning to New Zealand this May to lead two-day workshops in Wellington and Christchurch. We are offering these intensive workshops to enable you take the time to turn your ideas into action, with support and coaching.

Glowing testimonials from past workshop participants:
  • Best facilitator seen in a long time; a good understanding of both strategic planning and the library field
  • Matt is one of the best. Clever listening and guidance and good subtle questioning of assumptions - a paradigm changer and questioner
  • Being both perceptive and creative, Matt has consistently developed realistic and workable solutions which have been embraced by our teams.
  • Matt was one of the best facilitators/speakers I’ve ever had the pleasure of working
    with. He was very well prepared and invested.
READ MORE TESTIMONIALS >
Don't miss out on this great opportunity! 
Register by Friday, March 13 and pay the invoice later.

Facing the Future: Ideas into Action
May 18 - 19, Wellington  OR  May 25 - 26, Christchurch

Event Details

Bring your real-life strategic challenges and the problems that live in the "too-hard basket" for discussion and scrutiny with your peers and colleagues from cultural institutions around Aotearoa.

On Day 1, you'll bring real challenges from your organisation to the workshop for analysis and response; on Day 2, you'll design, articulate, and share a plan of action to address those challenges.

Take this opportunity to look at your organisation's challenges strategically, to share and receive insights from beyond your usual networks, and to implement new tools and approaches for strategic thinking for meet future challenges.

There will also be an opportunity to join Matt and Brendan at a social event and to indicate your interest in receiving additional monthly follow-up coaching calls via Zoom or Skype with Matt and Brendan.
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About the Facilitators

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Matt Finch of mechanicaldolphin.com is a strategic consultant who works with libraries and other institutions around the world to help them find bright ideas and bring them to reality. He's currently a columnist for Information Professional magazine, and a facilitator on the Scenarios Programme at Oxford University's Saïd Business School.

Brendan Fizgerald is the director of 641 DI, a Melbourne-based consultancy working with the public libraries, the NFP sector and government agencies. Brendan has extensive experience at senior and executive levels in libraries and community agencies including over 10 years at the State Library of Victoria and Infoxchange.


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LIANZA TELSIG Survey results

19/2/2020

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​​Thank you for your responses to our recent LIANZA TELSIG survey *Checking our pulse.*

We had 66 responses, which was great!

What did we learn?
What can we do?
​What can you do?
The most common issues and challenges related to:
 
   - Funding and budget constraints
   - Lack of time, resources, staffing and doing more with less
   - How to keep up with a changing research environment, technologies and  roles for information professionals
   - For those of us in the Polytechnics and ITO’s, the impact and uncertainty of RoVE (Review of Vocational Education)
   - Maintaining professional growth, upskilling and having access to  training opportunities
 
The ways TELSIG can help address these included:
 
   - Networking opportunities – you want more
   - Professional development, to make us better in our roles
   - Knowledge sharing, to learn new ideas from one other, share successes
   and collaborate more effectively
 
Related to this, you may have heard about an upcoming Res-SIG and TELSIG combined conference in Wellington on 29-30 June. Please save the date and we’ll inform you of more details when we can.

Our final question asked was, How can you help TELSIG? Quite a few of you said you’d be happy to help us out and wanted to do more in your region. If that was you, we’d love to hear from you. Please send an email to natalie.smith@vuw.ac.nz so we can connect with you. One current need is for people to support our Journal Discussion groups and sign up for the roster of finding an article and questions related to the Bodies of Knowledge (not an arduous task). To put your name forward and find out more please email ivy.guo@vuw.ac.nz
  
Thanks again for your comments. We appreciate you and look forward to an exciting year for TELSIG in 2020.
 
Ngā mihi
 
Your TELSIG Committee – Marisa King, Rukawai Jury, Ivy Guo, Farasat Shafi Ullah, Mojgan Sadighi, Mohan Lal and Natalie Smith 
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PLNZ 2020 NATIONAL FORUM

4/2/2020

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PLNZ 2020 NATIONAL FORUM – TOMORROW’S LIBRARY TODAY
27-28 MAY, MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA WELLINGTON

 
HERE ARE FOUR GOOD REASONS TO ATTEND:
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1. We are entering a new, unexplored decade. 2020 might feel suspiciously like the last one but don't be fooled. There are significant shifts happening in the operating landscape of the public library sector. This year’s forum promises to expose you to bold ideas, challenging perspectives and answer some of today’s questions about tomorrow’s libraries.
 
2. The forum is not a conference. The speakers are friendly experts from within and outside the library sector in areas such as Organisational Leadership, Freedom of Speech, Visitor Experience, Digital Fusion, and Transformative Management. The mornings are dedicated to quick-fire presentations then you select your discussion focus for the rest of the day.
 
3. The programme offers a new format and retains old favourites: Library Tours – the new Johnsonville hub and urban pop-ups, the stand-up regional reports – find out what other libraries are doing around the country, and the Mayor’s Breakfast (only in this case it is entitled the Future Mayors’ Breakfast) introducing some of the youngest councillors to enter local government. What is their vision of the future? And updates and insights into PLNZ’s strategic direction and programmes.
 
4. From developing your unique leadership style, managing your people, your Council, and your community, to strengthening your resolve to face the future, there is something for everyone, regardless where you are in your career. The 200 National Forum is a calendar highlight for all public library executives, senior managers, team leaders and emerging heads of service.
 
Full programme available: early March.
Early Bird registration opens:  mid- February.
 
We look forward to seeing you there.
 
Ngā mihi
Hilary Beaton, PLNZ
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Support The Ockhams NZ Book Awards In Your Library 2020

3/2/2020

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On March 4, 2020 the 16 finalists of one of the most important literary events of the year – the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards – will be announced – and we’d love the support of libraries in promoting these wonderful New Zealand books and their talented authors. You can look at the long list now, which was released last week. 
 
Here are eight things you can do to get involved:
  1. Order promotional material (displaying the finalists) for your library.  You can order 20 bookmarks at no charge, or a full pack containing 50 eight-page booklets, 50 bookmarks and two A3 posters for the very reasonable cost of $30 plus GST, including cost of delivery. Just complete this form by 5pm, February 10, 2020.
  2. Download a finalist poster from March 4, 2020 from http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/resources/
  3. Create a finalist book display. Any promotional material orders will include a free allocation of finalist stickers to put on your books.
  4. Connect on social media https://www.facebook.com/NewZealandBookAwards/ and https://twitter.com/theockhams using the hashtag #theockhams
  5. Watch out for news items about the shortlist announcement from March 4, 2020 and share them on your facebook page.
  6. Organise a finalist author event
  7. Read and review shortlisted titles
  8. Share book reviews on your social media pages/web-sites
Get in touch with Helen at LIANZA or Belinda at the New Zealand Book Awards Trust if you have any questions. 
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Less than three weeks until NZ Festival of the Arts begins

3/2/2020

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​Writers are artists who create worlds with words drawn from their experiences and imaginations. They pull us through time and space, hold up revealing mirrors, refigure the way we live and question the DNA of our every day.​

For the 2020 New Zealand Festival of the Arts, the Writers programme has been extended over three invigorating weeks to present even more extraordinary voices that will take us on journeys to Zambia, Chernobyl, America, Antarctica and back to talk sex, science, gender politics and Aotearoa. We ride into love, hug trees, peer at the future, question who we are, confront inequality and discover what keeps us awake at night. ​​

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​Young Minds Take the Library

​Bring the whānau to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa for a Writers festival for children and young adults. See author interviews led by young readers, listen to stories read aloud to live improvised music, let a teenager lead you through the Pūkana: Moments in Māori Performance exhibition, write secret notes to leave in library books, take part in workshops and make your own mini book. Authors include international guest Scarlett Thomas (WorldQuake), Sacha Cotter and Josh Morgan (The Bomb), Whiti Hereaka (Legacy), Vincent O’Malley (The New Zealand Wars: Nga Pakanga O Aotearoa) and more.

Saturday 14 March 10am, FREE at the National Library
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