National Executive Communique

Fiery Futures SLANZA 2017 Conference was amazing, and for many of us this week we are looking around our libraries with eyes wide open and a large action plan! Thanks for all your contributions, your energy, your feedback and your input into conference 2017. We hope it inspires and ignites you! We will have photos and presentation links up from conference soon on our web page!

During Conference at the AGM, the appointment of the co-Presidents was confirmed. Julia Smith from Kerikeri (Te Tai Tokerau region) and Kirsty Adam from Invercargill (Southland region) will share the role for the next two years. We are really excited at the energy and skill these two will bring to SLANZA - we are in for a great journey!

National Executive are thrilled to confirm that Book Protection Products will continue to sponsor SLANZA until 2020. This ensures that we have ongoing support to provide excellent professional development to all our members. Please support our sponsors
Unfortunately, NE has accepted the resignation of our SLANZA Administration Officer, Ngaio Blackwood. Ngaio stepping up to a full-time, sole charge position in a large school library. Although Ngaio only held the position of Administration Officer for a short while, she whipped us into shape with exceeding efficiency. We will miss her skills, but this does provide the opportunity for employment for another person in this role, and this job has been advertised through the Listserve.

Another change announced at conference was that we will hold the SLANZA National Conference tri-annually instead of biannually. SLANZA is trialing Regional Conferences, weekends of learning, networking, and inspiration. This change from our bi-annual National Conference is in direct response to the extraordinary workload on our volunteer members in the three major cities to produce such a high standard of conference every two years. We hope to extend and spread that workload by introducing these Regional Conferences in between our major National Conferences. Therefore, we are excited to announce that next year, Otago will host the 2018 SLANZA Regional Conference in September, followed by the Waikato / Bay of Plenty region in 2019.  We will celebrate our 20th birthday at the big 2020 SLANZA National Conference in Wellington.

We also have some new professional development in the pipeline, and just to make sure we are on the right track we will be sending out an email to ask members what you want. Please when it hits your inbox reply to us, so we can target what you need and want!

Lastly thanks to all of you who put your hand up to serve SLANZA in your recent regional AGM’s. We applaud you all and hope it is a meaningful and enjoyable experience for you!

Below is your local NE representative and their contact email should you need any help or support as you library on…

Te Tai Tokerau - Julia Smith  JSmith@kerikerihigh.ac.nz
Auckland - Trish Webster  trishwebster@rangitoto.school.nz
Waikato/Bay of Plenty - Glenys Bichan bic@camhigh.school.nz
Central - Stephanie Gibbons  Stephanie.gibbons@npbhs.school.nz
Wellington - Clare Forrest  c.forrest@raroa.school.nz
Aoraki - Sally Stanley Boden  sts@burnside.school.nz
Otago - Bridget Schaumann  sc@kingshigh.school.nz
Southland - Kirsty Adam  kadam@jameshargest.school.nz

Glenys Bichan
Communications
SLANZA National executive

bic@camhigh.school.nz