AGM Announcement

Apologies for the late notice but we need to hold our regional AGM this term! Therefore it will be added to next Saturday’s PD event, Building a Quality Collection which covers all aspects of developing a great collection for your school library, everything from selecting books to promoting them.

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. Petrol money to attend committee meetings is available, as is the ability to connect by Google Hangouts or Skype. As a team, there is not a lot of work.

We really need new people to get involved and share their ideas. We need people with enthusiasm for school libraries, who are prepared to help out. We also need a succession plan of people moving through the committee and gaining an understanding of their region and members’ needs, and that may include progression to representing their region on the National Executive.

Please consider joining our committee. Currently only three or four of us meet to plan and organise events for the whole region and that is not ideal. It would be wonderful to welcome some more people on board.

Liz Christiansen has kindly agreed to continue in her role as Treasurer which she took on last year. Thank you so much Liz. I am happy to remain as the Chairperson but I encourage someone to be involved in the committee who would consider this position in a shared role or to take over next year. We also have the following positions available:

Secretary - take notes at meetings and write up, share with committee and save on SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau Google Drive account

Communications - receive communications from Chairperson and/or Secretary, and repost (no editing involved) out to Te Tai Tokerau members and onto blog. The job is to keep the members informed of meetings and events at a regional level

These two positions could well be amalgamated although it is helpful to share tasks around. Our AGM itself will only take 15-20 minutes on the Saturday 25, and if all willing, we will continue after the PD session Building a Quality Collection with a committee meeting to brainstorm and plan the Term 3 and 4 events either at school or in a café in town.

Please support local SLANZA to help bring useful Professional Development opportunities to our members.

Any questions, or to register for the Building a Quality Collection session, please email me