How To Stop Duplicating Effort
“Libraries are a source of significant creativity, resourcefulness and innovation. However, many are expending duplicate effort to solve the same problems or to take advantage of similar...
View ArticleDo You Have The Guts To Say ‘Yes’?
The talkfest is over. It’s time for action. The Ideas Factory workshop generated 141 challenges which have been available for discussion and voting for nearly three months. Two areas that generated...
View ArticleProvide And Pray
Earlier this year I listened to a podcast from The Engaging Brand about a new book called “The Social Organisation: How to Use Social Media to Tap the Collective Genius of Your Customers and...
View ArticleOpportunities As Seeds
My name is Tosca Waerea and, currently, I work for Auckland Libraries in their digital services team. Specifically, I’m involved with our social media streams. Prior to the 2010 local government...
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Last Thursday Megan Ingle, Sean Murgatroyd and I held our first Reality Librarianship event. When Megan and I started developing these ideas in the beginning of March 2012 (just three months ago) we...
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By Megan Ingle. Last Thursday (June 7th), Sally Pewhairangi, Sean Murgatroyd and I held our second Reality Librarianship event. Librarians from all over New Zealand took time out to join us online for...
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By Sean Murgatroyd. The project team asked me if I’d like to do the write-up the weekend before the third Reality Librarianship talk featuring Paul Hayton. I had to laugh as I had every expectation...
View ArticleWas=Me. Is=We.
Yesterday marked the 500th edition of The Daily News. Much has changed since the first edition on 21 January 2011 and this is the first in a series of posts to mark the occasion. Was=Me. The age of...
View ArticlePart 1: Strengthening The Profession
The impetus for a programme of work around ‘Strengthening the Profession’ came from a strategy paper to market the profession presented to Council in 2009. During 2011, Council ran a workshop at the...
View ArticlePart 2: Three LIANZA Projects
Laurinda Thomas, LIANZA President Elect Yesterday I published part one of an interview with LIANZA President Elect Laurinda Thomas about the Strengthening the Profession projects that LIANZA has...
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Image Source: http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23184545 On Saturday 19 October at 7pm NZT, we’re taking Heroes Mingle to the world – Heroes Mingle goes global! Megan and I will be the only NZ librarians...
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