Kia ora koutou

thank you for the wonderful send-off this morning, lovely card & pressies. This was very much appreciated. You are all lovely people, and have been wonderful supportive colleagues over the past 5 years (and more for those who were colleagues in the old days when I was here in the 90s too).

I will be based in the Alexander Turnbull from December onwards so please keep in touch. My home email address is horomaka@actrix.co.nz if anyone needs to contact me. I am also on Facebook. As Caroline mentioned also, I will be doing some performances in ChCh on Nov 25 (She Cafe, Governors Bay) and Dec 17 (The Dome, Hagley Park).

He mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa,

na Ariana Tikao

Mātauranga Māori within New Zealand Libraries

Tēnā koutou katoa
Ko te manu i kai i te miro, nona te ngahere.
Ko te manu i kai i te mātauranga, nona te ao,

Registrations are now open for the Mātauranga Māori in New Zealand Libraries workshop, developed and offered by Te Rōpū Whakahau to support LIANZA professional development and registration schemes.

Date: Tuesday 4th October 2011

Time: 9.30am pōwhiri
5.00pm pōwaewae/poroporoaki

Venue: Te Whatumanawa Māoritanga o Rehua Marae
79 Springfield Rd
Christchurch

Location Map: Te Whatumanawa Māoritanga o Rehua Marae

Cost: $350 members, $450 non-members

Limit: 30

The Mātauranga Māori within New Zealand Libraries workshop is designed to provide a targeted development opportunity for information professionals. The workshop is structured on the understanding of how Mātauranga Māori exists in the wider context of tikanga and Te Reo Māori and the content is underpinned by a kaupapa Māori philosophy where traditional Māori values and practices are applied in context.

You will learn and understand:
• The importance, diversity and structure of Māori knowledge frameworks (mātauranga Māori)
• The influence that tikanga and te reo Māori assumes in the development of Māori knowledge constructs and principles
• The importance of kaupapa Māori methodologies in researching the needs of Māori clients
• The relevance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi to the development and delivery of library and information services and resources

For those that are professionally registered, this fulfils the requirements of BoK 1 and BoK 11

Enrol online: Mātauranga Māori within New Zealand Libraries

Registrations close on Friday 23 September 2011

Maree Kibblewhite
Professional Development Manager
Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa
Level 4, 156-158 Victoria Street
PO Box 12-212, Wellington 6144
Tel: 04 801 5542
Fax: 04 801 5543
Email: maree@lianza.org.nz
www.lianza.org.nz

Kia ora koutou

Ko Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori tenei. He mihi nui ki a koutou. It is Maori language week from July 4-10th. Unlike other years we do not have any formal activities or events planned on campus this year, but we do have a display in the Education Library/Te Puna Ako. On our display table we have some wonderful little booklets especially produced by Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori. Feel free to come and help yourself to a booklet and if you want any pointers or help with pronunciation or phrases, feel free to get in touch. We also have some info packs on my desk for staff who want one. Nau mai, haere mai ki te korero Maori. This year’s theme is “Manaakitanga” which is all about caring for people, and how others feel in your company, it is also one word for hospitality. In terms of our library environment, it might be all about making students and staff feel welcome in our spaces, and providing friendly and relevant service to all who require it. A big part of manaakitanga is sharing kai, so we are going to have a shared morning tea on Wednesday morning at the the Education Library/Te Puna Ako at 10am. Nau mai, haere mai… na Ariana.

Interesting document: Attitudes toward the Maori language Fact Sheet

This new website launched last week by Victoria University provides some interesting discussion and ideas about the Crown-Maori relationship, and thoughts on the future of NZ. Their aim is to:

“assist the policy community and the wider public to gain a better understanding of emerging Crown-Māori relationships, and to help inform the design of institutions and policies that support the continuing development of a prosperous, cohesive and fair society for all New Zealanders”.

See website

Some keys (including a Subaru car key) have just been handed in to the Education Lending desk.

they are in our top drawer of the lending desk.

Ariana

Kia ora,

We are getting quite a few questions for a Maori language assignment which involves Maori Readers. The students choose a topic, and need to find readers about their topic, eg. weather, time, seasons etc. There are two methods of finding resources for them.

1. Via a catalogue keyword search for Maori Readers + topic (either in English or Maori)

2. Via a LEARN site that all Education students can access called Pataka Reo. Just ask them to log in to LEARN and access the Pataka Reo site. Then they click on Rauemi Reo (a section at the top of the site). Then scroll to the bottom of the page and they will see three documents about Maori Readers. The first one is about the various series and the grading systems. The second one is level 1 readers split into various topics. The third one features level 2 readers split into topics.

I have printed copies of these 3 documents and put them with the cheat sheets (on curriculum docs, building science concepts etc) to the left of the Education lending desk & also on the whiteboard in the LL office at Education.

So once they have found readers on their topics, then just look them up by title. The Maori Readers are shelved within their series then their author name, usually.

Any questions just contact me.

cheers

Ariana Tikao

Kia ora koutou

TEDxEQChCh website
I just wanted to share some info about this event I was involved with last weekend. There is some good info on their facebook site with some links to videos they showed at the event. TEDxEQChCh was a one-day event organised “to re-imagine Christchurch as a world-leading city, and to provide inspiration that will directly impact the future of Christchurch”. There was a mix of international and local speakers. I opened the event with a performance of my Tuia waiata, which took place in collaboration with Sand artist Joe Castillo beaming in his live imagery from the US, which was his interpretation of my song, and his response to the theme of the event. Unfortunately I don’t think that the talks are online apart from the videod ones they showed from previous TED events. But there is a good summary of the talks on this blog.

mauri ora,

na Ariana.

Kia ora koutou

We are getting a few questions on finding articles for this assignment about a literature review on Transition and Early Childhood. Last year a page was created on the Education Subject guide to help with this assignment. Available here

I have just added a box with a new literature review on the subject by Sally Peters which is now linked from the above page on the subject guide.

na Ariana.

Check this out: painting scenes that can only be seen when the books pages are fanned out, and when they aren’t fanned out, only the gilt on the fore-edge was visible.

http://foreedge.bpl.org/

Thanks to the Scout Report for this cool site (http://scout.wisc.edu/)

Kathryn

On Monday night we had a big leak in the Education Library, coming down the wall in the entrance to the Reader/School Journal Room on the ground floor. We rang security, and they came over fairly promptly, then they called in a plumber who isolated the problem after a while. He had to open up a wall over by the videos to access the pipe with the leak. He said he will be back tomorrow to fix the problem. The broken sign on one of the upstairs toilets relates to this. There will probably be wet carpet still tomorrow morning.