Call to join your SLANZA committee

An excerpt from my Chairperson's report:

At a national level SLANZA offers members Professional Development in many forms: Collected magazine; Connected Librarians - online courses; community discussions on Google+; and the National Conference. At a regional level your committee strives to offer members local Professional Development through sessions and workshops.

Unfortunately, SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau is struggling at the moment.  We have no contributions from this region to the Collected magazine, no one from this region enrolled in furthering education through Connected Librarians online PD, and only one member from Northland has joined the Google+ PD discussion forum. Shockingly, four of the last six events planned for members have been cancelled due to lack of interest. In addition, the three committee members that hold positions of office are stepping down at our AGM and there are no apparent members willing to join the committee.

I am disheartened and deeply concerned for the future of SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau.

“SLANZA will only thrive if members value and contribute to the organisation at the local and national level.”  

~ Lisa Salter ~

If there is a problem in the PD provided then communicate that issue or better still, get involved and be the change. If the problem is the distances to travel, members driving to committee meetings are entitled to a petrol subsidy or can connect through Google Hangouts or Skype.

Providing local Professional Development for school library staff, the SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau committee meets four or five times a year to plan, implement and action these events. Committee members are expected to attend and contribute at meetings which are usually scheduled to follow on after a PD session. As a team, there is not a lot of work. 

Please get involved in SLANZA by joining your regional committee.

AGM this Thursday, June 25, Kerikeri High School Library, 3:45pm for afternoon tea, 4:00pm start followed by a session on Digital Tools for Efficient and Dynamic Curation, finishing with a Committee meeting.

Replies/discussions to me please - jsmith@kerikerihigh.ac.nz