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Libraries and SDGs – an update

3/12/2019

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The People’s Report is an Alternate Report on the SDGs and includes 17 reports contributed to by more than 20 New Zealanders from different organisations. They share a commitment to a more just, equal and sustainable world and have individual or organisational perspectives on a particular goal or target. The reports vary in style and thinking, demonstrating the rich diversity of the sector, and work and focus of the organisations.
LIANZA is proud to have contributed some library content and stories.
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READ THE REPORT

Ronja Ievers (Hui E! Community Aotearoa) says:
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​It has been four years since New Zealand made a commitment, when it signed onto the global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to empower people, reduce inequalities, promote social, economic and political inclusion, and to leave no one behind. Yet knowledge about the SDGs in New Zealand is still fragmented, and government engagement is low.

The many people who have contributed to the People’s Report in various ways hope that it, and the government’s own progress report (VNR), will provide a basis for moving forward together–in greater partnership to implement a vision and framework that clearly link Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the SDGs and the Living Standards Framework, to create a more just, equal and sustainable future.

The People’s Report also includes newly released data; links to reports and reviews; case studies; interviews; recommendations and high level results from a survey of organisations in June 2019.
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The many people who have contributed to The People’s Report in various ways hope that it, and the government’s Voluntary National Review (VNR) report, will provide a basis for moving forward together–in greater partnership to implement a vision and framework that clearly link Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the SDGs and the Living Standards Framework, to create a more just, equal and sustainable future.

Case studies included in the final People’s Report are from Auckland Library, Waimakariri Library and Counties Manukau Health Library.  Information was also provided by LIANZA and the National Library of New Zealand.
Writers and contributors are:

  • Dr Gill Greer and Moko Morris, Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Te Atiawa (co-editors of the Report)
  • Ana Pickering – Library and Information Association New Zealand
  • Anaru Fraser, Hui E! Community Aotearoa
  • Amy Beliveau, Family Planning New Zealand
  • Arend Merrie, Auckland DHB
  • Brian Smith
  • Brooke Hollingshead, AIDS Foundation
  • Barbara Bedeschi, Business and Professional Women New Zealand
  • Barry Weeber, Environment and Conservation of Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Carolyn Savage, BPW NZ
  • Cath Wallace, Environment and Conservation of Aotearoa New Zeal
  • Catherine McInally, NCW Climate Change and Environment Committee
  • Christine Caughey, NCW Climate Change and Environment Committee
  • Chris Glaudel, Community Housing Aotearoa
  • Dr Dan Ducker, ECO Matters
  • David Corner, IHC New Zealand
  • Frances Manwaring, Moxie Design Strategy
  • Gretchen Leuthart, Volunteer Service Abroad
  • Professor Girol Karacaoglu, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington
  • Iris & Wereta Pahau, Remutaka Māori Women’s Welfare League and Awe Consultants Ltd
  • Ivan Chirino-Valle, Generation Zero
  • Jack Boyle, Post Primary Teachers Association
  • Jane Lohrey
  • Dr Joanna Spratt, Oxfam New Zealand
  • Joy Dunsheath, United Nations Association of New Zealand
  • Julie Haggie, Transparency International New Zealand
  • Karena Brown, E Tū
  • Dr Katie Bruce, Volunteering New Zealand
  • Maisy Bentley
  • Manjula Sickler Auckland DHB
  • Marie Doorbar
  • Nick Henry, NZ Council of Trade Unions
  • Paul Barber, New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services
  • Paula Eskett – Waimakariri Libraries
  • Rachel Dobric, New Zealand Climate Action Network
  • Rae Julian, Equality Network
  • Ronja Ievers, Hui E! Community Aotearoa
  • Sarah Morris, Office of the Children’s Commissioner
  • Stephen Goodman, Volunteer Service Abroad
  • Winston Roberts – National Library of New Zealand

​Sustainable Development Goals in te reo Māori

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Marisa King (left) and Natalie Smith from LIANZA TELSIG alongside the new posters.
An inter-disciplinary team from Victoria University of Wellington  has translated the 17 SDG goals into te reo Māori, and paired this translation with the SDGs in English in the form of posters.  

'The act of translating the SDGs affords a contextual lens through which we can navigate our progression to a more sustainable future together as New Zealanders,' says Tonya Sweet, Senior Lecturer in Design for Social Innovation at the University’s School of Design.

Ms Sweet says, 'Seeing the SDGs translated into te reo I am inspired by a new sense of identity and place-based point of orientation in addressing these goals. The translation has a telescoping effect, in which the enormity of these global goals has been transformed to fit within a New Zealand context.'


The translation is in the process of being officially registered with the United Nations. The posters can be used to support local initiatives that address these addressing these global challenges.

​You can download the PDFs of the posters for printing here.

Libraries, Development and UN 2030 Agenda SDGs

​LIANZA looks forward to supporting members to use the Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for making visible the wide impact of libraries. 

You can read about the work that IFLA has done here, find the IFLA Toolkit for libraries here and read SDG stories submitted by libraries globally here. IFLA have also created a storytelling manual to assist libraries in telling their SDG stories. 

IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development  
Access to information is a fundamental human right that can break the cycle of poverty and support sustainable development.  
The library is the only place in many communities where people can access information that will help improve their education, develop new skills, find jobs, build businesses, make informed agricultural and health decisions, or gain insights into environmental issues. 
Their unique role makes libraries important development partners, both by providing access to information in all formats and by delivering services and programmes that meet the needs for information in a changing and increasingly complex society. 
Through the Statement on Libraries and Development, IFLA affirms that: 
• Libraries provide opportunity for all 
• Libraries empower people for their own self-development 
• Libraries offer access to the world’s knowledge 
• Librarians provide expert guidance 
• Libraries are part of a multistakeholder society 
• Libraries must be recognised in development policy frameworks 
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IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto 25th Anniversary Poster

2/12/2019

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On 29 November 2019, the IFLA-UNESCO Public Library Manifesto celebrates its 25th Anniversary. This is a great opportunity to celebrate the missions and work of public libraries.

To help in this, and as part of IFLA’s broader Public Library Manifesto Advocacy Toolkit, IFLA have produced a poster which you can print out and use in your own activities around the anniversary.
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Share information about what you are doing with us on social media using the hashtag #PublicLibraryManifesto!


Download the posterEnglish [PDF] [JPEG]
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​Stand Up for Library Workers

2/12/2019

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In May 2019 the PSA notified the six large urban councils that they believe library assistants working in local government suffer from illegal gender-based pay discrimination, and that they have an arguable equal pay claim under the Equal Pay Act 1972.
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The PSA have asked these six councils (Auckland, Tauranga, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin) to set up a joint working group to resolve their claim using the 2017 Reconvened Joint Working Group Principles of Pay Equity.

​While this process only pertains to people doing the job of library assistants, the PSA believes that all local government workers who are working in female dominated occupations are likely to suffer from gender-based pay discrimination. This includes other library workers and administration and clerical workers. Their aim is to use equal pay settlements achieved in one occupation, or in another sector, to achieve equal pay across our membership.
A bargaining committee has been established with representatives from the nominated councils. This group has met briefly with council representatives and is focused on developing a timeline and agreeing a Terms of Reference. At the culmination of this process our aim is that they have an agreed equal pay rate for library assistants that they will be able to take to each individual council and bargain for its implementation at that council. Parallel to this work, a campaign will be run to engage library assistants across all councils to gain widespread and public support for our case.
 
LIANZA supports this claim and will be working with the PSA over 2020 to promote their campaign, which began November 18th.  
 
The PSA are asking library assistants across New Zealand, Aotearoa, to support this campaign. One thing that you can do right now is to help them educate the public about all the different tasks, roles and responsibilities that are part of a library assistant’s work. You can do this by taking a photo of yourself or a work colleague carrying out one of the many jobs of a library assistant i.e. running book clubs, assisting members of the public with IT issues, holiday programmes, after school care programmes, book Clubs; chess Clubs; knitting clubs; and craft sessions.
 
These photos will be used on PSA posters and their web page to raise awareness around our claim. Please send any photos to the PSA comms team at comms@psa.org.nz with the subject line Libraries campaign.
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