Loriene Roy
(first native american ALA president)

Workplace wellness – healthy passport checklist; workplace environmental scan (to make sure place is healthy); lifeways challenges/competitions; pedometer give0aways at midwinter meeting; ; exercise pavilion with chair yoga, seated aerobices, carpal tunnel exercises etc;

Supporting LIS education through practice: searchable datablase of work experiences/practicum; “The Service Connection” being published; education forum;

Circle of literacy: highlighting services for immigrants, indigenous children, those incarcerated;

Projects: national oral history program; national library camp feasibility study (inspired by 10-year-old asking when it was and there was none); meeting effectiveness training (podcasts giving training/ideas); disaster preparedness (eg flu pandemics etc)

Questions
re advantages of international networking of indigenous libraians – answer: five forums so far; need to expand network, eg South America; accomplished action plan etc;

Korowai with pukeko feathers presented to Loriene.

Hon Judith Tizard

Presentations to Judith Bright (for sustained leadership; mentor; researcher – in field of theological librarianship) and Barbara Garriock (for contribution to profession; sharing knowledge esp small polytech libraries)

Tizard: “one of the things I love about librarians is they always look as though they’re having a wonderful time.”

“I’m appalled that you’re going to have fashion advice […] I’ve always thought librarians were among the best-dressed people I ever saw!”

moving NZ from a knowledge economy to a knowledge society

“What other sector touches so many people…”

Penny Carnaby

Visit in South Africa – lots of money going into community libraries. Felt like being “in the centre of an emerging democracy”.

This year LIANZA & NatLib, working with Dept of Corrections to bring more literacy programmes into prisons. First Public Library Summit – libraries as “seriously dangerous places”.

National Library

• National Digital Heritage Archive. $24million budget. – world leading project, gaining international recognition.
• Building redevelopment
• New generation national library strategy

John Truesdale to join National Library team (press release at 10am)

The knowledge equation – things happening recently/to come:

• Epic 2005
• AnyQuestions 2006
• findNZarticles 2006
• Maori Subject Headings 2006
• National Digital Heritage Archive 2005-08
• Digital Strategy (disccussed 3x in South Africa)
• World Summit on the information society
• Matapihi
• launch of Digital Content Strategy last week
• OCLC brought into libraries of NZ – connecting all NZers to 57,000 libraries
• People’s Network
• nzresearch.org.nz will go live in a few weeks
• National Digital Forum – starting to say why don’t we have national digitisation programmes?
• Creative Commons coming in a few weeks
• Community collections springing up – eg Kete Horowhenua; Cardrona

Homework for the next year: develop a nz framework (unifying search and discovery layer); connect the ketes.

Vye Perrone

Librarians’ image – in the past we knew all our resources, but with the internet there are too many resources to know – without people libraries are only collections – new users now not used to waiting for things.