Jan Rivers, customer services librarian for Mt Albert Libraries attended the Waikato/Bay of Plenty weekend school in Whitianga on 30 April - 2 May 2010.
Attendees were from libraries including Taupo, Otorohanga, Tauranga, Whakatane, Te Kauwhata and Hamilton and they gathered together for a packed programme. The programme was divded into short segments (30 mins) for each presentation which showed how much could be learned in such a compact timeframe, a high energy mini conference.
I was invited to talk for Auckland City Libraries about Developing a Search Strategy. This search strategy is the same that is delivered as part of the reference interview training.
Rodney libraries also presented a paper on Value Managmeent of Volunteers. I was impressed by the demonstrations by librarians of freeware to create a virtual library tour (Wintec Library), online user education (Tauranga Public Library) and a kete for getting your local history and communities online. The kete included audio and video stream input from participants.
Thames library gave a great example of experiences running incentive based reading programmes for adults. Joan Gibbons from Wintec talked to us of the need to take our own responsibility for including Maori content, rahter than always depending on our Maori colleagues, illustrated by children's picture books with Maori knolwedge concepts as a vehicle for understanding.
Phillippa McKeown Green from the University of Auckland shared a great cheat sheet for finding free music, particularly sheet music, on the internet.
A LIANZA professional registration journal workshop captured participant's learnings from the weekend.
Monday, May 10, 2010
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