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Tuesday 13th October, 2009

Not able to get to LIANZA 2009 Conference this year? Do you still want a chance to catch up with friends and be part of the Conference buzz? Don’t want to miss out on the social side of conference? Are you hanging out to dance the night away with other like-minded folks?

Well, you can!

This year’s evening social event is open to delegates AND non-delegates – yes that’s you!

On Tuesday 13th October, 2009, from 7pm onwards, join the Conference crowd in SOL Square. There’s a variety of venues to choose from for food and drink. It’s up to you how you spend your ticket money at the venues. Tickets are $45 each, with special deals for those who buy in advance.

Find out about all the different venues : http://lianza2009.wordpress.com/category/social/ or www.sol.net.nz

Check out the promotional video : http://lianza2009.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/sol-square-its-gonna-be-a-good-night/ (keep an eye out for some familiar Aoraki librarian faces!)

Organise your tickets ($45 each) from tammy@conference.co.nz in advance. Tickets can also be purchased from the Registration Desk at the Christchurch Convention Centre during Conference.

If all else fails, just turn up in SOL Square on the night. We won’t turn you away!

http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/programme.html

Registration is now open! Don’t forget all new LIANZA members are automatically in the draw to win a free registration.

Tim Spalding
Tim Spalding is the founder and president of LibraryThing, the social cataloguing and social networking website. Tim started LibraryThing in 2005 as a pet project to catalogue his books.

Since then over 700,000 members have catalogued over 40 million books on LibraryThing, and whole new form of book life has been created. Before LibraryThing, Tim was a graduate student in Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan, and worked for a Boston publisher. He lives in Portland, Maine.

Tim has suggested that there are some good photos and biographic information about himself and LibraryThing if you are interested – http://www.librarything.com/press/

You may also like to check LibraryThing on Facebook too

Penny Carnaby

Penny is Chief Executive and National Librarian of the National Library of New Zealand, a position she has held since 2003. In this role Penny has led the Organisation’s digital strategy focused in three key areas covering digital content, connection and preservation to deliver a New Generation National Library. Penny is also Deputy Chair of the ICT Steering Committee for Education, a member of the Learning State Industry Training Board, the Library and Information Advisory Commission (LIAC), a member of National State Libraries of Australasia (NSLA), and Adjunct Professor in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington. In August 2008 Penny was re-appointed to chair the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) internationally.

Prior to returning to New Zealand in 2003, Penny was University Librarian and Deputy Librarian at Macquarie University in Sydney. Previous to this she enjoyed a long career in the tertiary sector in several roles at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT), including leading integrated education delivery services in library and learning services, e-learning and staff development. In 1999-2000 she served as National President of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA), and was awarded a Fellowship of the Association in 2001.

She has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Diploma of Education from the University of New South Wales.

Penny’s professional interest is in creating national frameworks and strategies to enhance the flow of information to all parts of society. She believes that New Zealand Aotearoa has the potential to become a leading information democracy.

Her personal interests include the environment and wildlife of Australia and New Zealand, and the management of a small farm on Banks Peninsula, growing native trees

Claudia Lux

For the last two years Professor Claudia Lux, has held the position of Director General of the Foundation Central and Regional Library, Berlin, (the biggest Metropolitan Library in Germany).

By the time Professor Lux speaks at the LIANZA Conference 2009 in October she will be the outgoing IFLA President with current “president-elect” Ellen Tise filling the role. The Conference Programme Sub-committee is excited to present someone of Claudia’s knowledge and international standing to participate in this year’s conference.

During her presidency “Libraries on the agenda!” has been her motto. At the outset she stated that “the top priority will be to have the concerns and needs of libraries put on the agenda of governments and local policy makers”. In addition to her recent IFLA role Professor Lux’s library career has seen her as Director of the Library of the Berlin Senate and Academic Librarian at the Berlin State Library, East-Asia Collection.

Attendees at last years ALIA conference in Alice Springs enjoyed Claudia’s warm style of presentation, her passion and vision for libraries in the 21s Century. Claudia has the ability to imaginatively inspire non library believers and take the naysayers on a journey with her. One key piece of advice from her was to make friends with your enemies and never let a networking opportunity pass you by. Along side a smashing cast of keynote speakers Claudia is going to add another strand of inspiration and connection to the greater library world.

Sir Tipene O’Regan
Sir Tipene O’Regan is Assistant-Vice-Chancellor Maori at the University of Canterbury, Chairman of Ngâ Pae o Te Maramatanga, the Centre for Maori Research Excellence at the University of Auckland and Upoko of the Awarua Runanga of Ngai Tahu. He has published and lectured extensively over many years on Ngai Tahu traditional history, Polynesian migration, Treaty issues and the evolution of biculturalism and the wider politics of Mâoridom.

In more recent years he has been a noted contributor to the debate on the forward development of the Mâori economy and the modernising of tribal institutions. He holds three Honorary degrees ; a D.Litt from the University of Canterbury and Honorary doctorates of Commerce from both Lincoln University and Victoria University of Wellington.

Hana O’Regan
Hana O’Regan was raised in Wellington in a family immersed in Mâori Treaty and identity politics. She received her secondary schooling at Queen Victoria Mâori Girls Boarding School in Auckland before becoming an American Field Scholar in Thailand for one year. Hana returned to pursue an undergraduate degree with a double major in Mâori Studies and Political Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington.

Hana left Otago University in 1997 to take up a position at CPIT (Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology) where she headed the Mâori language programme before taking up the position of Head of School in 2000. After four years at CPIT Hana took up the position of Manager of the Mâori Language Unit of the Ngâi Tahu tribal organisation where she helped develop and lead the tribal language strategy for a further four years. She returned to CPIT as Dean of Te Puna Wânaka, the new Faculty of Mâori Studies, in 2006.

Hana has been a member of The Mâori Language Commission – Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Mâori – since 2003. The bulk of Hana’s recent publications has been centred on Kâi Tahu tribal stories and histories for rakatahi, and most recently published an anthology of Mâori poetry, Kupu with co-author Charisma Rangipunga.

She is the proud mum of two beautiful children.

The LIANZA 2009 Conference Committee is very excited to offer one FREE registration to a first time LIANZA member. All you have to do is become a member – no Conference registration is required to enter the draw.

see the link below for more details:

http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/Registration.html

Richard Stallman
Twenty-five years ago he launched the GNU operating system. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today.

Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and the extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman developed a number of widely used software components of the GNU system, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.

Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of, and philosophy behind, free software, Mr Stephen Fry provides a lovely summary in the video below, which was posted as a happy birthday to GNU. It’s a rather good watch and we are hoping that Mr Stallman’s ideas about freedom of knowledge and information will find a receptive audience amongst library professionals.

The LIANZA 2009 Conference Committee is very excited to offer one FREE registration to a first time LIANZA member who is registered and paid for in the early bird registration period of 1st June and 31st July 2009. Each delegate will be put in a prize draw. The winner will be contacted in first week of August 2009.
If you are already a LIANZA member this offer is not for you, however, it is a great opportunity for a non LIANZA colleague or friend to join up, come to conference AND have their registration paid for so spread the word.

See the LIANZA website for more details:

http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/Registration.html