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.

​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 

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.