On Wednesday 28th January at 11.05am until noon, in the Central Library Staff Room, staff who attended the LIANZA Conference will be reporting on the sessions they attended.

The programme will run as follows:-

1. Helen Kissell on Stephanie Poulopoulus and Denise Clarkson: Better looking than a blog – adventures in zine collecting At Wellington City Libraries and Lawrence Lessig who was a keynote speaker. He has “concentrated his scholarship on the problem of how law should govern the exchange of information and ideas in a digital age” See http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/39/1.

2. Meg Upjohn on Dylan Horrocks: The rise and rise of the graphic novel: Comics as a literary form and Stealing, sharing or borrowing? Art, literature and piracy in the online age.

3. Vicki Clark on Dr Diane Mara: Invisible Knowledge, Virtual Journeys and Real Communities, Professor Mason Durie: Global colonisation, the Kiwi tradition, and the public good, Spencer Lilley: Catching the Next Wave and Judy McFall-McCaffery: Connecting and collaboraring: Collecting materials from the Pacific.

4. Cynthia Bishell on Teri Ta’ala: Te Wero i te Upoko Tukutuku – the challenge of Maori Subject Headings and Mark McCrindle: Changing Times, Emerging Trends – Understanding Today’s Learners.

5. Sandra Gover on Helen Mandl: Far from common – innovative approaches to designing information rich learning and research spaces and Carolyn Robertson and Sally Thompson: Community collaboration and consultation: a recipe for succsss in long term library facilitiy planning.

6. Donna Barber on Fiona Rigby and Lewis Brown: Digital NZ – thinking outside “the book”: Innovations in New Zealand digital content and Chris Todd: Joined up data and dissolving catalogues.

7. Deborah Fitchett summing up the themes – Leadership, Storytelling and Innovation.

8. Questions

Please email Maureen if you wish to attend