Nominations are now open for the position of President Elect

5 June 2014

 

Good afternoon SLANZA members,

 

The National Executive of SLANZA wishes to announce that nominations are open for the position of President Elect.  

 

We also wish to announce that the current National Executive is nominating Miriam Tuohy, currently the National Executive Representative for the Central Region as our nominee for this position.  

 

If there is a member of SLANZA who wishes to nominate and run against the NE nominee this would mean an election would have to be held, as the President Elect will take up the position at the AGM in July, details of which you were sent yesterday.  If this is the case we will need to receive the nomination by the date indicated on the form below, and it should be sent to Carole Gardiner our administrative officer.

 

Yours,

Bridget Schaumann

sc@kingshigh.school.nz

 

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Bridget Schaumann

President 

School Library Association of New Zealand

Nomination of President Elect for the term 2014-2015

SLANZA National Executive is calling for nominations for the position of President Elect.

 

The President Elect is the person who will become the next President of SLANZA from July 2015 till July 2017, or earlier in the circumstances that the current President is unable to complete the term of office.

 

This position requires an in-depth understanding of the workings of SLANZA and its stakeholders so it is preferable that this person should be either a current member of the National Executive or someone with previous National Executive experience.

 

Nominations close with the Admin Officer, SLANZA at 5pm on Monday 16 June 2014.

Nominations can be emailed in the first instance to:   admin@slanza.org.nz or if necessary posted to:  Returning Officer, SLANZA, PO Box 27-321, Marion Square, Wellington 6141.

 

Please complete a separate form for each nomination.

 

Name of Nominee:

SLANZA member number:

School:

Position:

Phone number:

Email:

 

 

Name of Nominator:	Name of Seconder:
SLANZA member number:	SLANZA member number:
School:	School:
Position:	Position
Phone number:	Phone number:
Email:	Email:

 

Having been nominated, I agree to submit autobiographical notes, a personal statement (of not more than 150 words) and a current photograph, which may be circulated to voters with the voting papers in the event of an election.

 

Signature (Nominee): ……………………………………………………                Date ………………………………….

* Please ensure spelling of Nominee’s name, and all other details are entered correctly.

2014 SLANZA AGM

Attention SLANZA members – Notice of 2014 AGM

The 2014 SLANZA AGM will be held in Dunedin at the King’s High School Library on Saturday 5th July at 12.15pm, as part of the SLANZA Otago Weekend School.

While it is expected that most people wanting to attend the AGM would also be registering for the Weekend School, it is not essential and you are welcome to attend just the AGM if that is your preference.

Please send any apologies for the AGM to admin@slanza.org.nz<mailto:admin@slanza.org.nz> before Wednesday 2nd July.

Regards,
Carole Gardiner
Administration Officer

SLANZA
School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa
Te Puna Whare Mātauranga a Kura
P O Box 27321
Marion Square
Wellington 6141
www.slanza.org.nz

SLANZA Event - Gamify The Library - Sat, 21 June

Your SLANZA committee is delighted to announce that Michelle Simms is coming up to Northland next month for a PD session. This is a great opportunity for all library staff. Michelle will present her Gamify the Library session, which focuses on what gamification is - not about video games, rather the game mechanics and concepts that engage people being utilised in an educational environment. In additional sessions after morning tea, we’ll be picking Michelle's brains on online tools and genre shelving. 

Please register with me, Julia Smith, and consider whether you would like lunch at the venue - soup and bread, prefer to eat in town or make your own arrangements. 

Original/enlarged poster can be found here

SLANZA AWARD Nominations - Only a month until nominations close

Hi SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau members

This is a reminder about nominating your fellow members for an award.

Slanza Award Nominations - Only a Month till Nominations Close:

Hi all

Just a quick note to remind you that nominations for  2014 SLANZA Awards are open. This is a good chance to consider your fellow members and colleagues, and principals and acknowledge their efforts.

The wards available are: 

Award of merit for information literacy

Award of merit for literacy and enjoyment of reading

Award of merit for promotion

Award of merit for research

Award of merit for library assistant

Principal's award

Certificate of appreciation

Certificate of recognition

Nomination forms and eligibility criteria  can be found on the SLANZA website under the tag Resources , then Awards. All nominations must be received by June 20, 2014. 

Awards will presented at the SLANZA AGM in Dunedin during the July Weekend School in Dunedin.

Any questions or queries contact me at greig@tokohigh.school.nz

Best

Greig Daniels

SLANZA Advocacy Leader

2014 SLANZA Otago Weekend School - 5-7 July 2014

Hi SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau members - A message from SLANZA Otago just in case some of you would like a trip down South.


We are very excited to announce that the 2014 SLANZA Otago Weekend School (incorporating the SLANZA 2014 AGM) will be held at the beginning of July.

The SLANZA Otago committee are hard at work putting together a fantastic programme for everyone who has a passion for school libraries of all kinds.  We are especially delighted to be able to bring you so much quality professional development for the amazingly low registration price of $40 for SLANZA members.

 Details are  available on the SLANZA website here<http://www.slanza.org.nz/otago>.

We need to receive your registration and payment by 27th of June so please don't delay - mark the 5th to the 7th of July in your diaries now!

If you have any questions, please get in touch.  We are very much looking forward to seeing you in July.

Carole Gardiner
Secretary, SLANZA Otago
(on behalf of the SLANZA Otago committee)


Carole Gardiner
Librarian

Information Centre | Queen's High School |195 Surrey Street | Dunedin 9012 | www.queens.school.nz
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Another Connected Librarians course due to start in week 4

I would thoroughly recommend this course, so get your registration in quickly :)

 

 

We are pleased to announce that registrations for the fourth round of SLANZA’s online professional development course - Connected Librarians - will open TODAY  Monday 19 May. Because we have a waiting list for course places, there are currently only 10 places available.  In order to ensure that our participants come from a range of school levels (primary, intermediate and secondary) we will select people from the registration list accordingly. Because Term 2 is somewhat shorter than normal, successful applicants will receive invitations to our learning community during Week 3, and the course will begin in Week 4. If your registration is accepted, it is essential that you ensure you have access to Google Plus using the email account you have registered with, before the course starts.

The Connected Librarians course is designed by New Zealand school librarians, for school librarians. It is aimed at those just starting out with online tools in their library. Participants will be required to sign up for, and use a selection of 6 online tools (1 new tool each week). Each week’s work contains background readings and/or videos, tasks to complete using that week’s tool, and participation in discussions to share and reflect on your learning for the week.

The course is free for SLANZA members.

More information about the course is available here, or you can contact me directly with any questions.

 

Miriam Tuohy

 

Adrienne Hannan summary

In the second weekend of March, 2014, SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau successfully hosted the resourceful, multi-talented, high-achieving, Adrienne Hannan from Wellington. 

Adrienne Hannan is the Children's and Youth Services Co-ordinator at Wellington City Libraries as well as a combat medic in the New Zealand Army Reserve. Being a soldier has given Adrienne useful skills and knowledge, particularly flexible thinking. Her talk was a meshing of the two environments she works in. 

Adrienne called her presentation The 10 Commandments of Manoeuvre Warfare, claiming that they are essentially a set of commandments that will enable librarians to achieve success. As the decision makers that our students / community see daily, the librarians need all the information on the running of the library - what the library is trying to achieve, what resources they have and how and when to use them, the history and reasoning of high-level decisions that have been made. This sets the librarian up to make sound strategic decisions without the unnecessary delays of gaining permissions from authority; they can implement the library's objectives and mission, be adaptive, responsive and take initiatives.

Twenty-one people from Northland attended the session to see what librarians can learn from the New Zealand military in the 21st Century. It was an entertaining and engaging presentation, and indeed, the military do have valuable lessons for librarians.

Adrienne Hannan's 10 Commandments of Manoeuvre Warfare:

Focus on the enemy, not on the ground 

·         ground = environment, enemy = students, the flexible element

·         must have policies and practices that are student focused rather than on the environment

·         need to be adaptive and responsive to students, flexible to change as students change

Act more quickly than your enemy can react 

·       be quick to grab initiatives

·         need to keep up to date

·         be an early adopter, adapter, initialiser

·         don't wait for the students' demands to reach a certain level before implementing a new service, policy or platform

Issue mission-type orders 

·         big picture mission, we are doing this in order to achieve this

·         what is our intent, what is our end state, how do we work to get there

·         specifics of people, resources, timeframes

·         communication is key

 Avoid strengths, attack weakness 

·         identify weaknesses honestly, find the gaps in your services

·         concentrate resources on strengthening those areas, fill the gaps

·         work with the ones who will support you

Exploit tactical opportunities, reinforce success, not failure

·         "success should be seen as a culture, not the result of a task"

·         need to create and celebrate successes no matter how small

·         slowly build up a culture of success (Major Slim) 

·         recognise relative successes of different people, who are your pln 

Always designate the main effort 

·        key push to achieve the mission

·         define the school library's mission

·         clearly defined roles of who is part of main effort and who is supporting it

·         strategic planning

Avoid predictability

·         don't let students get bored as they may well stop using the library

·         capture their attention by doing things they won’t expect

·         show you are a mover and shaker of library world

·         change perceptions, be flexible

Support movement with fire 

·         adequate resources for the mission 

·         coordinated mission with those that are moving forward - evidence based practice

·         back each other up and support each other in a co-ordinated way

Command from the front 

·         management is task and object focused

·         leadership is about setting standards, initiatives, influence, visibility

·         emphasis on leadership rather than management

Act boldly and decisively 

·         create environment that people make decisions

·         praise decision-makers

·         be flexible, change tack if it doesn't work 

·         take risks on board, try them anyway, 

·         reinforce success - specific praise

·         be essential, proactive

We finished the session with group discussions on how we may exploit tactical opportunities to reinforce success in our libraries.

2013 Summary

Calling for contributions to Collected magazine

There is much talk and some action regarding MLEs (Modern Learning Environments) and MLLEs (Modern Library Learning Environments), especially in the Canterbury region and in pockets around the country.  What does this mean to us and how will it affect us?  That is a big question.  Whether it is around the corner for you or on a distant horizon, school librarians need to be aware of changing thinking in schools and be prepared with a way forward.  Having an idea of how your library fits in the scheme of things before the need arises is the best way forward.  

We are now calling for contributions to our first issue of Collected for the year with the theme “MLE, MLLE; What, Who and How” and will be looking at the big picture.  If you have knowledge in this area we hope you will share your experience with our readers.

And in every issue we like to include reviews of books suitable for students.  Please consider sending in a review for this issue. 

Deadline is Wednesday 14 May and we plan to print mid-June.  

Any questions or offers to Lisa Salter - slanzacollected@gmail.com

Thank you

Lisa Salter 

SLANZA Communications Leader

SLANZA Awards and Life Membership 2014 - Nominations are now open

Once again  SLANZA is pleased to open applications for nominations for the 2014 SLANZA Awards to be awarded at our AGM at the 2014  Otago Weekend School in Dunedin in July. Nominations close on Friday 20 June.
You can nominate in the following categories:

Award of merit for information literacy
Award of merit for literacy and enjoyment of reading
Award of merit for promotion
Award of merit for research
Award of merit for library assistant
Principal's award
Certificate of appreciation
Certificate of recognition

Eligibility criteria for the awards  and directions for nominations can be found at
the  SLANZA website under the Advocacy banner in Resources

This is a chance to recognize excellence among your peers, in your region  Please consider those around you who are worthy of recognition and either nominate them or encourage them to apply.
Thanks!

Greig Daniels  SLANZA Advocacy Team Leader