Upcoming events

Switch to Calendar View

• LIANZA Webinar - Explore Te Tōtara Development Journeys

  • Start
    Tuesday, May 20, 2025
  •  
  • End
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Microsoft Teams

  Register

  
  

  LIANZA WEBINAR - EXPLORE TE TŌTARA DEVELOPMENT JOURNEYS
  Tuesday April 29, May 20 & June 24, 2.00PM-3.00PM

  From April to June, the Te Tōtara community of practice (CoP) will take three Te Tōtara journeys:

  • 29 April: Using Te tōtara for your personal learning journey
  • 20 May: How team leaders use Te Tōtara to develop team capability
  • 24 June: How Te Tōtara can support recruitment and planning in your organisation

  This is your opportunity to join the CoP online and learn more about the practical implementation of this library and information workforce capability framework.  

  

  
  

  “A critical point for me was to develop a business-as-usual development culture. It means that staff could start seeing work in libraries not just as a job, but as a career.” Sarah Corbet, Hamilton Libraries.

  
  

  

  
  

  Rachel Fisher says Te Tōtara “gave me a framework to work off rather than my own self-created framework. And if everyone has the same framework, then expectations are clear. People have a clear pathway to grow.”

  
  

  Please invite your colleagues, team leaders, recruiters and planners to these sessions where we talk with library kaimahi who are using Te Tōtara and walk through the steps to build capabilities in your setting.

  Take a look at the resources here before joining us at one or all of these sessions: Te Tōtara Workforce Capability – LIANZA

  Show details
• LIANZA Webinar – What is the Library Challenges Register and why is it important?

  • When
    Wednesday, June 04, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (NZST)
  • Location
    Microsoft Teams

  Register

  
  

  LIANZA WEBINAR - WHAT IS THE LIBRARY CHALLENGES REGISTER AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
  Wednesday June 4, 12NOON-1.00PM
  

  This webinar introduces you to the LIANZA Library Challenges Register. Join LIANZA Freedom of Information committee members Louise LaHatte and Marlies Zyp Van der Laan to learn more about the register, and when and how to report a challenge. Louise and Marlies will discuss why the register is an important extension of the Freedom to Read Toolkit and how data from the register will be stored and used.

  Please invite your colleagues to this event so all library and information kaimahi are aware of this tool.

  Show details
• LIANZA Monthly Waiata Practice

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

  Register

  
  

  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.

  Show details
• LIANZA Children & Youth Services Network 2025

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

  Register

  
  

  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. 

  Upcoming Events

  May 13 – ENGAGING TE REO MĀORI SPEAKERS IN YOUR LIBRARY’S CHILDREN AND YOUTH PROGRAMMES

  Join Maatakiwi Wakefield from Ngā Ratonga Māori me Puananī team at Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi. We are privileged to have Maatakiwi join us again this year to share her invaluable experience and wealth of knowledge. Maatakiwi will talk about her experience providing programmes for Te Reo Māori speakers. She will share about the projects that have been successful for speakers of te reo Māori and how Māori and mātauranga Māori are being used in Ōtautahi libraries beyond Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori and Matariki. Please join in the discussion to share your own experience in this area.

  June 10 – LIBRARIES SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND YOUTH DIGITALLY

  Netsafe’s Alex Patrick will present on what Netsafe does, the Hector’s World programme for children and how these resources might be used in libraries. Vicki Stephens from the National Library’s Services for Schools will also join us to talk about what digital resources are available to support teachers and students. Find out about the resources available and where the students or teachers you might work with can find these to support all areas of the curriculum.

  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.

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

  Show details
• LIANZA Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui Webinar – Change management for the exhausted

  • When
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025
  •  
    12:30 PM - 1:30 PM (NZST)
  • Location
    Microsoft Teams

  Register

  LIANZA TE UPOKO O TE IKA A MĀUI WEBINAR - CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR THE EXHAUSTED
  Wednesday June 25, 12.30PM-1.30PM

  Whether you’re in charge of the change, the change is happening around you, or the change is happening to you, change seems to never stop in the library world. How do you make change the best it can be, for yourself and others? 

  Join us for this honest (and sometimes funny) look at change in all its stressful glory, how we can navigate our way through the frustration, exhaustion, and opportunities, and how we can bring ourselves out the other side in one piece. 

  Your presenter

  Laurinda Thomas is the Manager, Libraries, Community Spaces and City Archives, at Wellington City Council. Laurinda has worked across the libraries and information field for more than 25 years, holding positions across both the private and public sector. She has an MLIS from Victoria University of Wellington, holds LIANZA Professional Registration, is a LIANZA Associate, and a qualified change management practitioner.

  Show details
• LIANZA TEL SIG Online Journal Discussion Group

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

  Register

  
  
  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.

  Show details