The first weekend of the holidays was a busy one for the Otago committee with a very successful “Weekend School’ combined with the SLANZA 2014 AGM. Those fortunate enough to attend were treated to a delightful variety of professional development ranging from Book Clubs, Summer Reading, English departments and Libraries working together, and a presentation by Joan Mackenzie star of “Whitcoulls Joan’s Picks”. The weekend was well organised with time for networking and sharing ideas. At the AGM Miriam Tuohy accepted the nomination as President elect and Fiona Mackie stood down as past president.
The National Executive met on the Sunday afternoon and Monday at Kings High School, Dunedin, hosted by Bridget Schaumann. We welcomed new NE representatives Cathy Kennedy for Aoraki and Sandi Faulconbridge from Central. Kirsty Adam and Joanne Fraser from Southland joined us for a discussion regarding how Southland can revitalise their region. This discussion was positive and Joanne and Kirsty feel that Southland has the energy and desire to offer SLANZA PD and events in the region. Correspondence included a message from SLANZA Life Member Linda McCullough from Waikato informing us of her retirement from National Library and thank you notes from Kathleen Van der Putten and Steph Ellis for their Study Grant and how it has helped them this year. The treasurers report indicated that income is down on previous years so our membership drive is more vital that ever. The report included a budget which is conservative yet allows us to work towards our goals. Our website will soon include a FAQ (frequently asked questions) page including questions about membership and the benefits of membership. A planned brochure outlining benefits of SLANZA is in underway. Currently we are looking for supportive quotes and photos to include. Please contact your local rep if you are able to assist with this. The NE is stregthening partnerships with organisations such as LIANZA, The Book Council and National Library and is keen to work with other organisations like The Principals Association and English Teachers and make them aware of the work we do and how their members can benefit. The region reports included many fine examples of the Professional Development provided to our members. Thank you to all the committees for the work they do on behalf of our members. SLANZA had input into the current NZQA review of Open Polytechnic Library qualifications and has contributed to the course documents. The Wellington region is working on a Tertiary Transition programme to share with members. We are working on Summer Reading initiatives with The Association of Public Library Managers and expect to have some resources available from SLANZA from the four Otago schools who presented at the Weekend School about their own successful programmes by the end of term. Other discussions of note: · The 2015 Christchurch Conference team are making good progress · This years’ LIANZA conference in Auckland is shaping up with a schools thread included. SLANZA members can register at LIANZA rates this year for the first time ever! · Members need to to find out about their own schools’ involvement in N4L (Network for Learning) and participation in the POND. From next year these inititiaves will have a wide ranging impact on all schools, we encourage school librarians to contribute as much as possible. · Our free online course “Connected Librarians” has been a huge success with over 100 graduates. This project is now being reviewed with plans to build on the course from next year. We are also in the development stages of creating an online community using Google+ to further support members. Finally, I hope that you all had a restful break over the holidays and are energised and ready to tackle Term 3. Lisa Salter RLIANZA l SLANZA Communications Leader l ruawailibrary.wordpress.com
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It gives the Life Membership Committee great pleasure to announce that the following people have been nominated by their peers and been successful in achieving Life Membership of SLANZA in 2014. These awards were announced at the Annual General Meeting 2014, held in Dunedin at the Weekend School.
Life membership is awarded to people who have contributed greatly over a number of years to our organisation. They have gone well above and beyond, they have given of their time and energy over many years for the betterment of our org and all of the people nominated this year have been stalwarts of the organisation since it’s inception. It is a hard thing making choices between such worthy nominees but after a great deal of deliberation the following people are being recognised for their contribution and awarded Life Membership in 2014. Jenny Millar Jenny has been with SLANZA from the very beginning. She was on the steering committee for SLANZA for the year before it’s inception. Prior to that she was heavily involved in the School Library Network, she was the first Otago/Southland representative for SLANZA and her foresight and vision, amongst the others on that committee have formed and shaped what we have become. She continued in this role for many years. She has been a major contributor to sub committees of the National Executive, giving of her own time for years. Keeping the Otago/Southland region humming when the chairperson was based in Otago and hosting and organising Otagoites, no easy job, organising meetings, and always keeping us in the loop with what was happening at a National level. She has been a huge help to local librarians and her work promoting and reviewing books has been fantastic. Jenny is a SLANZA stalwart. She is tough, resilient and a rock to those in the school library world who need one. We heartily endorse her nomination and are most pleased and happy to reward her with this Life Membership. Rosalba Finnerty This is a person who has been one of the standing stones of SLANZA since it started. She has been involved in almost every area of librarianship over her career and not content with that has become an archivist on top. Rosalba has served her time on the National Executive, she has been involved in so many conferences and committees that it is not possible to count them. She has represented the National Executive at committees of many kinds over the years and still does this today when needed. She has retired from her position at Samuel Marsden Collegiate, and gone on to have an illustrious career in archives, both for that school and for SLANZA, her lounge playing host to a mountain of paper and digital records, she has been in this privileged position for the last two years and her dedication and thoroughness has sharpened all the NE up. Because of her we are better organised and future ready. Rosalba gives up her weekend on National Executive weekends to cater to the National executive, it is a mighty thing, she is our emergency minute taker and advisor on matters of many kinds. Her knowledge of the history of the organisation is regularly called upon. This barely covers it. She is an advisor, an ear to many, a fantastic stalwart of the Wellington committee and all round organiser of everyone and everything. It is an utter pleasure to award her Life Membership of SLANZA. Janet McFadden The nomination for Janet McFadden was fulsome in its praise for her work for, with and alongside SLANZA for many years. Janet has been one of the biggest advocates for the benefit of school librarians belonging to SLANZA, she has been a committee member of the Wellington region for many years. Janet was the first convenor of the Wellington region, as early as 2002 she was helping organise Wellington conferences and has continued to do that regularly. No conference is complete without a presentation from Janet. Her dedication to school librarians across the country, and particularly in Wellington has been always appreciated. Janet has spent her professional life working to provide a wide range of resources and skills to school library staff. Her willingness to help and support others, well beyond the realm of her role at National Library and her continued commitment to the profession of school librarianship at all levels is testament her professionalism and leadership. Janet is a hard working endless promoter of school libraries, the people who work in them and SLANZA as an organisation of value and importance to those people and for this we are incredibly grateful and are delighted to award this Life Membership. Gerri Judkins The name Gerri Judkins is one which is clearly associated with SLANZA and her dedication to SLANZA is legendary. Not only within her home district of the Waikato but amongst all those who have stood back and admired the energy, the enthusiasm and the sheer gutsy determination that kids will read, that school libraries are the places where kids get the stuff to read. Gerri is a reading and school library evangelist. Her work on the SLANZA National Executive has left lasting effects. Her understanding of the different circumstances in which school librarians work had a major influence on decisions made around the NE table. Gerri understood the world that most of us worked in, it was refreshing. Gerri is still giving presentations promoting SLANZA, the work that we do with reading in schools, promoting the Lit Quiz and being the powerhouse of energy she has always been. I think she is currently in Russia at IASL doing exactly that. Gerry is the little engine that could, could promote SLANZA endlessly, could attend meetings when others couldn't, could answer tricky questions and indeed could ask them, could use her endless supply of contacts to make stuff happen, could organise a mini-conference with almost no time and limited funding and could be the person who had read every book available so that she could promote it to her kids and sell it to a whole NE meeting. Gerri Judkins does SLANZA proud and therefore it is not a difficult decision to award her this Life Membership. We offer our sincere congratulations to these awardees. We want them to know that SLANZA has appreciated their efforts and has received enormous benefit from their work for our organisation. Bridget Schaumann President All places at the SLANZA Otago Weekend School to be held in the first weekend of the July holidays have been filled and registrations are now closed.
Everyone who has registered should have been contacted by an Otago Committee member to have their registration confirmed and will receive more details regarding the weekend before the end of next week. If you have any questions regarding the Weekend School, please contact Carole Gardiner (Secretary, SLANZA Otago) at [email protected]. SLANZA members are still welcome to attend the SLANZA 2014 AGM at King's High School, Dunedin at 12.15 on Saturday 5th July without registering for the Weekend School. If you would like to submit an apology for the AGM please send it to [email protected]. Collected Magazine out now!
The first issue of this year is on the virtual shelf now with the theme of Modern Learning Environments and how they are changing thinking and opening conversations around school library service provisions. Open your minds and learn more about this concept before you NEED to know. We have plenty of book reviews from fellow school librarians who know what works in their schools. We are fortunate to have the support of our Business members and their contributions will keep you abreast of the latest commercial offerings. Check out what is happening in your region and have a look at what is being offered in others. Members are encouraged to attend events in other regions or to support their local committee in bringing good ideas to their own area. Please feel free to share the magazine, we would appreciate if you could print one out and share in your staffroom or forward to your teaching team. Thank you for all the quality contributions and assistance in editing. Final appreciation goes to the Pool of Talentteam of proofreaders. Lisa Salter Editor SLANZA Collected Magazine Slanza Award Nominations - Only 11 days till nominations close
Hi all Just a quick note to remind you that nominations for 2014 SLANZA Awards are closing soon. , The awards available are: Award of merit for information literacy Award of merit for literacy and enjoyment of reading Award of merit for promotion Award of merit for research Award of merit for library assistant Principal's award Certificate of appreciation Certificate of recognition Please check that all documentation is enclosed with applications. Nomination forms and eligibility criteria can be found on the SLANZA website under the tag Resources , then Awards. All nominations must be received by June 20, 2014. Awards will presented at the SLANZA AGM in Dunedin during the July Weekend School in Dunedin. Any questions or queries contact me at [email protected] Attention SLANZA members – Notice of 2014 AGM
The 2014 SLANZA AGM will be held in Dunedin at the King’s High School Library on Saturday 5th July at 12.15pm, as part of the SLANZA Otago Weekend School. While it is expected that most people wanting to attend the AGM would also be registering for the Weekend School, it is not essential and you are welcome to attend just the AGM if that is your preference. Please send any apologies for the AGM to [email protected] before Wednesday 2nd July. Regards, Carole Gardiner Administration Officer Time is running out for these. The closing date is next Friday 6th of June.
I know that some are underway as I write. If you have questions or concerns about the process, don’t hesitate to contact me at [email protected] Thanks Greig Daniels Just a reminder that Nominations for life membership are closing soon. More details about the process can be found under membership tab.. Please remember to include all the paperwork required. The closing date is June 6 2014. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me at [email protected]
Thanks Greig Daniels SLANZA Award Nominations - Only a Month till Nominations Close:
Just a quick note to remind members that nominations for 2014 SLANZA Awards are closing soon. This is a good chance to consider your fellow members and colleagues, and principals and acknowledge their efforts. The wards available are: Award of merit for information literacy Award of merit for literacy and enjoyment of reading Award of merit for promotion Award of merit for research Award of merit for library assistant Principal's award Certificate of appreciation Certificate of recognition Nomination forms and eligibility criteria can be found on the SLANZA website under the tag Resources , then Awards. All nominations must be received by June 20, 2014. Awards will presented at the SLANZA AGM in Dunedin during the July Weekend School. Any questions or queries contact me at [email protected] Best Greig Daniels ![]() We are pleased to announce that registrations for the fourth round of SLANZA’s online professional development course - Connected Librarians - will open next Monday, May 19th. Because we have a waiting list for course places, there are currently only 10 places available. In order to ensure that our participants come from a range of school levels (primary, intermediate and secondary) we will select people from the registration list accordingly. Because Term 2 is somewhat shorter than normal, successful applicants will receive invitations to our learning community during Week 3, and the course will begin in Week 4. If your registration is accepted, it is essential that you ensure you have access to Google Plus using the email account you have registered with, before the course starts. The Connected Librarians course is designed by New Zealand school librarians, for school librarians. It is aimed at those just starting out with online tools in their library. Participants will be required to sign up for, and use a selection of 6 online tools (1 new tool each week). Each week’s work contains background readings and/or videos, tasks to complete using that week’s tool, and participation in discussions to share and reflect on your learning for the week. The course is free for SLANZA members. More information about the course is available here, or you can contact me directly with any questions. Miriam Tuohy Professional Development team leader |
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