Check out this article for a good giggle 🙂

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4981644/New-Zealand-library-causes-stir-Kardashian-photoshoot.html?ito=social-facebook

Kia ora koutou.

We may not be very fast at puzzles, so we have pulled out the ‘Te Reo Scrabble Board’ instead to celebrate Matariki. We’ve also got some lovely books on display, including one written by our very own…..see if you can spot who under the sticker (eep!).

Ngā mihi,

Lisa.

We have finally finished a puzzle at Education! We were getting blitzed by those engineers…not that it’s a competition or anything 🙂

Kia ora anō koutou.

Don’t forget, today’s staff waiata session is being held at Education Library at 11am. Come along and support us keen singers on this side of campus so we get the full waiata rōpū experience!

Ngā mihi,
Lisa.

Kia ora koutou.

Next week on Wednesday 31 May, we are wrapping up NZ Music Month at Education Library with a staff waiata session. This will run from 11am-12pm, and will be lead by the lovely Tamara Kirwan and John Kapa. We will sing some waiata that we use often in UC, and then may also learn a new waiata.

So, the only thing we need now is you – Haere mai, come one come all, come along to Education and sing with us! Let our voices unite and fillllllll the library with song.! (ahh yes, I’m just a bit excited about it :-)).

Ngā mihi mahana,

Lisa.

Kia ora koutou.

Today we are hosting the lovely singer Alice Tanner, so bring your lunch over to Dovedale for some music in the library bliss.

Alice’s performance starts at 12.15pm.

Ngā mihi,

Lisa.

Kia ora koutou.

The Education Library will be hosting two special lunchtime performances this month to celebrate NZ Music Month, and to get something fun and non-move-related happening over at the Dovedale side of things 🙂

Come along on Tuesday 16th May to see Darren Pickering, jazz pianist extraordinaire. And yes, although I have called in a favour to have Darren here, I hardly had to twist his arm – he loves the idea of bringing music to our library! Darren has performed internationally, including at festivals in Cyprus and Lebanon, and he continues to be a regular performer at jazz festivals throughout NZ. We are incredibly lucky to have Darren playing solo piano live in the library ahead of his New Zealand Jazz Festival performances this month.

On Monday 22nd May we will have a performance from singer/songwriter, composer and musician, the multi-talented and very lovely Alice Tanner. Alice is a professional singer who performs around NZ in many different genres and bands. She will be singing a mixture of covers, originals and jazz standards for her performance in the library.

Both performances are free, so bring your lunch and come along for some live music in the Education Library!

Darren Pickering: Tuesday 16 May, 12.15pm – 12.55pm.

Alice Tanner: Monday 22 May, 12.15pm – 12.55pm.

Kia ora koutou.

I have put a display up in Te Puna Ako today for NZ Music Month called “Can you name the instrument?”.  For a wee challenge this month, the first staff member to be able to correctly name me all the instruments in the cabinet (without using Google or looking at the answer sheet 🙂 ) will score themselves a box of chocolates!

*Note: I’m so confident, I haven’t even brought the box of chocolates yet, so haere mai – come over to Education and wipe that smug John Key grin off my face!

Nā Lisa.

Kia ora mai tātou.

The Māori Library Whānau is made of a group of UC Māori Library staff who meet on a regular basis. Members of the rōpū are Nekerangi Paul, Rā Steer, Gabrielle Faith, Waitangi Teepa, Hugh Joughin, Te Paea Taiuru and myself. Matua Nekerangi holds a leadership role within the rōpū, and we are kindly aided by Ripeka Tamanui-Hurunui who is Kaiārahi Māori (Service Units) in the office of AVC Māori.

The Library Whānau meet:

• to provide professional and cultural support for Māori staff working in UC Libraries
• to ensure Māori have a voice that informs UC library policies and practices relating to the care of Māori material in our library and archives, and to the provision of library and information services
• to improve Māori customer access services and improve work place culture for Māori staff.

Our focus the last few months has been on editing and presenting Ngā Awa e Rua – the library bicultural strategy. Our latest hui was focused on how we are going to present our next Ngā Awa e Rua workshop (coming up this Tuesday 11 April) so that all library staff can learn about the strategy and we can all start feeling supported to implement it.

After each hui, a member from the whānau will post a brief memo here on Counterculture on behalf of the rōpū to let you all know what we have been up to.

Mauri ora!

Lisa – on behalf of te Whānau Māori.

“In the context of the Treaty, the antithesis to bicultural is not multicultural but monocultural. Biculturalism cannot be used to deny our multicultural reality or diminish our clear duty to all people. But nor can multiculturalism be used to deny Māori their status as a constitutional entity in this country. Less prosaically, and applying this to libraries, where else but in Aotearoa can we expect libraries to maintain and provide for the record of the Māori people?”

Judge Eddie Durie, 1994

Chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal

(p.7) Szekely, C. (1999). Issues and initiatives in indigenous librarianship: Some international perspectives. Auckland, NZ: Te Rōpū Whakahau.