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• LIANZA Monthly Waiata Practice

  • Start
    Thursday, June 05, 2025
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  • End
    Thursday, September 04, 2025
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Microsoft Teams

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  LIANZA MONTHLY WAIATA PRACTICE 
  First Thursday of the month, 12.30PM-1PM

  Come join us for the LIANZA monthly waiata practice.

  Do you know all the words of LIANZA’s special waiata? It was prepared especially for the Association in 1995 in both Māori and English, by Mike Kawana.

  Join us in this session to practice this waiata and others as we get ready for LIANZA 2025 Conference.

  This event will be facilitated by LIANZA Council member Hana Whaanga and comms advisor Angie Cairncross. The LIANZA waiata can be found at the bottom of this page and you’ll find other waiata in the Tikanga guide here.

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• LIANZA Children & Youth Services Network 2025

  • Start
    Tuesday, June 10, 2025
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  • End
    Tuesday, December 09, 2025
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  • Schedule
    7 sessions
  • Location
    Microsoft Teams

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  LIANZA CHILDREN & YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK
  Every second Tuesday of the month, 2-3 PM 

  LIANZA offers a time and space for children and youth service librarians and library staff to connect in a peer-to-peer network. This network supports anyone from within the profession engaging with children, youth, parents and whānau. We invite you to jump online on the second Tuesday of the month to share your ideas, experiences and questions with your CYS colleagues across Aotearoa. 

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  July 8 – THE NZ CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT BOOK AWARDS

  What’s involved in being the LIANZA representative on the NZCYA Book Awards? What books are on this year’s longlist, and how can libraries help promote these? 

  Come along to this interactive session with Laura Caygill, LIANZA’s representative on the NZCYA Book Awards and a previous book awards judge, to learn about these awards and LIANZA’s role in supporting them. This is a great opportunity to learn about how your library can celebrate the best of New Zealand’s books for children and youth.

  Laura Caygill is Operations Manager at Selwyn Libraries. She is the current LIANZA representative and was one of the judges for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults.  Laura worked as a journalist before moving into libraries. She has worked in libraries in Ōtautahi, Tāmaki Makaurau, and Waimakariri.

  August 12 – WORKING WITH PRE-SCHOOLERS AND TAMARIKI TIME

  This session will focus on storytimes, interactive events and tamariki time activities for pre-schoolers in libraries. Come along to learn what others are doing and share your experience. Joining us to share their experience are Penny Guy, Tauranga Libraries, and Li Chen, Kāpiti Libraries.

  These sessions are NOT recorded so that we can encourage discussion, questions and the sharing of experiences.

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• LIANZA TEL SIG Online Journal Discussion Group

  • Start
    Thursday, June 26, 2025
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  • End
    Thursday, October 23, 2025
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  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Microsoft Teams

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  LIANZA TEL SIG ONLINE JOURNAL DISCUSSION GROUP
  Last Thursday, every second month, 5.00PM-6.00PM

  LIANZA TEL SIG Journal Discussion Groups meet on a bi-monthly basis to discuss articles relevant to tertiary institutions. Each article is connected to a LIANZA Body of Knowledge (BoK).

  There are three groups:

  • Auckland CBD: contact tom.avery@openpolytechnic.ac.nz if interested.
  • Wellington: meets bi-monthly, contact ivy.guo@vuw.ac.nz if interested.
  • Virtual group: meets bi-monthly, contact Vickie Ward vickie.ward@cdhb.health.nz if interested.

  The LIANZA TEL SIG Journal Discussion Group monthly journal articles can now be found on LIANZA Connect >

  We also have a TEL SIG Journal Discussion Group Facebook forum.
  You do not have to be a registered librarian to participate in a LIANZA TEL SIG Journal Discussion Group.

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