Transforming Your Library - Professional Development opportunity

Are you interested in a discussion about Transforming your Library?  Or maybe finding out more about how you can incorporate a Reader-Centered approach to the services you provide in your library?  SLANZA Central’s Term 2 AGM & PD day just touched on these ideas with a fantastic presentation from Steph Ellis.

If you are a SLANZA member then join us for our next Discussion Topic over on our Google+ Community.  We will be kicking off on Sunday 11th September and running the discussion for the last two weeks of Term 3, having a break over the holidays, and then finishing off in the first two weeks of Term 4.

Not on our G+ Community yet?  Jump onto our SLANZA Community Online page for more information.

Not a SLANZA member?  Interested in C&YA Services & Librarianship?  Information on how you can join and take part in the fantastic Professional Development we offer is available on our Membership page.

We look forward to seeing you online

Sandi Faulconbridge

SLANZA PD Team Leader

Communique

SLANZA National Executive met online in the evening on 10th August. Matters of particular importance to members are shared here:

AGM

The Annual General Meeting was postponed in July due to insufficient numbers of members to meet the quorum. However an AGM is vital for the following reasons:

·         the president shares SLANZA’s strategies and vision with members

·         members have the opportunity to discuss issues with the National Executive

·         members view the financial statements of the organisation

·         members have the opportunity to respond to the AGM reports

·         it is a requirement under our constitution

NE are looking at holding an online AGM this year. We are trialling a digital meeting tool this coming week and will keep you informed as to how you can participate in our AGM.

School Library Survey

A phone survey of non-SLANZA schools is currently underway to establish information on the New Zealand school library landscape. NE would like to build a comprehensive picture of the situations facing school libraries around the country.  This data will be useful when promoting and advocating for the importance of school libraries.

Bicultural Toolkit

National Executive has had very little response to the request asking for members who would like to help shape the toolkit, particularly those members whose libraries already reflect our bicultural communities. The toolkit being developed is to help school libraries operate biculturally. If you would like to add or share input to the bicultural toolkit, please get in touch with your regional representative - it would be wonderful to have one person from each region supporting us in this endeavour.

2017 Study Grant applications are now open

We are please to announce that applications for 2017 SLANZA Study Grants are now open.  Closing date is Thursday 22nd September 2016.  

If you haven't thought about applying for one before, a study grant is a great way of providing support during your journey of ILS learning.

For more information, and to download the application form please visit the blog on our website.

http://www.slanza.org.nz/news/study-grant-applications-for-2017-now-open

Building a Quality Collection - PD this Wednesday in Kaitaia

Just a reminder that the SLANZA event, Building a Quality Collection is on this Wednesday after school at Kaitaia Intermediate School. We have 13 people registered but there is plenty of room and you are still welcome to join us in this discussion – we all run our libraries differently so we can all learn off each other.  There is a lot to cover in the session so we will be starting at 3:30pm.

Please forward to anyone you think may be interested in joining us – the cost for non-SLANZA members is only $10, (which they will need to bring on the day) so they are getting a bargain!

National Executive Communique

SLANZA National Executive met on 9th-10th July 2016 at St Patrick’s College in Wellington. Below is a summary of some of the discussions covered at the meeting. This communique is to keep members up-to-date with the work being done on their behalf by the National Executive.

Handover to new President

National Executive is proud to announce Karen Clarke (BA ILS., RLIANZA) as the new President of SLANZA. Karen is library manager at St Patrick’s College in Wellington, was the SLANZA Wellington Chairperson, NE President Elect and Treasurer, and has had five years as a NE representative. She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to this position with a positive, practical approach - here is an introductory video of Karen.

On that note, we sincerely appreciate the work Miriam Tuohy undertook in her time as President. We all greatly applaud Miriam’s technology skills but as a leader her soft-spoken, calm, considered views were highly regarded. Miriam now moves into her role as Immediate Past President to support Karen and maintain continuance through the National Executive.

Bridget Schaumann, as the outgoing Immediate Past President, came to the end of another long innings with the NE - we thank Bridget for her integrity, her passionate advocacy of school libraries and, of course, her humour.

There are four other changes to the National Executive: we welcome Clare Forrest who joins us as the new NE representative for Wellington; Nick Vincent stepped down as the NE rep for Waikato/Bay of Plenty region; Sally Stanley-Boden, Aoraki representative, will take on the role of Treasurer; and Greig Daniels, who has been with us for six years, has stepped down from the position of Otago rep but will retain the editorship of Collected magazine into 2017, we gratefully acknowledge his workload and sage advice.

The AGM was postponed due to insufficient numbers of members to meet the quorum and this will be held later in the year.

Membership

Membership presently sits at 587 members, slightly down from this time last year as expected in a non-conference year. SLANZA membership entitles members to a variety of professional development opportunities including conferences, online courses, Google+ community discussions, network meetings and events, the eBook library, and Collected magazine. In addition, membership is an acknowledgement of the critical role of SLANZA as New Zealand’s organisation for support and advocacy of school libraries and library staff.

Pinterest and the Reading Website

National Executive are pleased to announce we are currently creating SLANZA Pinterest boards, organised in the same topics as on the Reading Website. Migrating our content to Pinterest gives members another platform to use when accessing the reading lists - we hope you enjoy the visual representation as much as we do. Fifty-three boards have been created to date, do  have a look and follow us, remember this is a work in progress. At the same time, updating and beautifying the Reading Website is underway. Roughly half the Year 9-13 reading lists have been updated to include cover images.

Professional Development

Our new eBook library was launched last month with a tremendous response and uptake by members - all the professional development books were borrowed within hours! NE will continue to buy more eBooks to populate the library. We wish to thank Wheelers for their support in providing our ePlatform for free, as well as giving us some additional titles. You may register here anytime - this opportunity is only available for members of our organisation.

The Term 2 Connected Librarians online learning module was on Digital Citizenship with an emphasis on the ethical use of information, and attributions. Congratulations to all those who participated and completed the course. These online courses are free for SLANZA members and are an opportunity to extend learning for school library staff. The next module being offered to members is  Content Curation, find out how you can best support your students and staff by providing great digital resources. Course registrations are open until the end of July, with the course running for two weeks from Monday 15th August, Week 4 and 5 of Term 3.

Last term saw the publication of the eighteenth issue of SLANZA’s online magazine Collected. With a theme of What SLANZA Means To Me it is chock full of affirmations of how SLANZA membership can have a positive effect both personally and professionally on it’s members, as well as the usual selection of thought provoking articles, book reviews and business member submissions.

The next issue of Collected will focus on eBooks and ePlatforms, as well as a selection of interesting articles and reviews of books recently published. The call for submissions will open September 15th and close on October 15th. Please consider submitting articles or reviews, we all gain so much from reading Collected and that can only happen from other librarian’s contributions. In addition, we have space available for advertising and are happy to accept business members, please contact Greig Daniels at collected@slanza.org.nz

The Google+ Community has grown to 116 members. Community members are welcome to share resources and join in discussions.

Study grant applications will be opening again in early August, with a closing date of Thursday 22nd September.

Professional Development Survey

Thank you to all those who responded to our recent PD survey. The information you’ve given us is important in guiding NE’s efforts to make continuing professional development accessible and affordable for all our members.

Bicultural Toolkit

National Executive is developing a toolkit of resources aimed at helping libraries operate biculturally. We are looking for members from throughout New Zealand who would like to help shape the toolkit, particularly those members whose libraries already reflect our bicultural communities. If you would like to add or share input to the bicultural toolkit, please get in touch with your regional representative - it would be wonderful to have one person from each region supporting us in this endeavour.

Conference 2017 - Fiery Futures

The Auckland Conference committee, led by Elizabeth Atkinson as convenor, is on track with organising the 2017 conference. This will be held in the second week of the July school holidays, Sunday 16th July to Wednesday 19th July 2017. The venue of King’s College, Otahuhu, has been finalised which provides excellent on site accommodation options and all meals. At this stage negotiations to secure two outstanding, international, library key-note speakers is well underway. The conference committee hope to have their website live by the end of the month, we’ll let you know when that happens. Make sure you save the date for an excellent professional development opportunity.

National Library Services to Schools

Some discontent is being voiced by members over the present service. The 0800 LIB LINE (0800 542 5463) is still proving to be the preferred channel of communication for school librarians - please utilise this service for any National Library issues and services. Likewise, email schoollibraryadvice@dia.govt.nz for help.

The ongoing effects of the transformation and the impact of this on our members is of concern for SLANZA. We are looking at ways we can support and advise our members around developing collections - both print and digital - that will best meet the needs of their school communities.

Our suggestion to members is to try the service, if it doesn’t work for you then gather data to present to the Principal and Board of Trustees to ensure adequate funding in your library budget to purchase new resources that are no longer being supplied by National Library. If you are not sure how to go about this, or where to source quality resources, please contact your local National Executive Representative. SLANZA is here to support school libraries and library staff - the network meetings, events and other professional development opportunities will help with your collection management.

SLANZA National Executive will continue to work on your behalf and ensure that the voice of school libraries from all over the country are heard.

Julia Smith

Communications

Google+ Virtual Library Tours

SLANZA Virtual Library Tours - Show us yer bits!!!

Many of us are thinking of making changes in small ways to our libraries.

Many of us are looking for ideas for re-builds or renovations.

Our biggest problem with this is being able to visit all those amazing, fantastic, spectacular libraries that you all maintain.  This may be because we are in other towns or regions around the country, or it could be a case of not being able to get time off work to visit our local school and public libraries.

Surfing the internet for ideas is all well and fine ... but it’s not the same as a tour of our colleagues’ libraries.

If you are a SLANZA member then join us over on our Google+ Community to find out more information and for an opportunity to share your own amazing space and virtually tour the libraries of your colleagues as part of our next Discussion Topic.

Not on our G+ Community yet?  Jump onto our SLANZA Community Online page for more information.

Not a SLANZA member?  Interested in C&YA Services & Librarianship?  Information on how you can join and take part in the fantastic Professional Development we offer is available on our Membership page.

We look forward to seeing you online

Sandi Faulconbridge

SLANZA PD Team Leader

Online PD Term 3 Course Reminder

Hello everyone.  Welcome back to another term.  I hope everyone that had a break got lots of lovely R&R time in, and that those of you who work through the school holiday period got time to enjoy the piece and quiet :-)

This is a reminder that Registrations for the Content Curation module of the Connected Librarians course are currently open.  

We are all pretty good at developing our print collection and compiling a pile of books appropriate for our students and teachers to use when they have a particular research topic.  After all that is what we do best ... match people and resources together.  But when it comes to online resources, just how do we make the equivalent of a stack of books?  Find out how you can best support your staff & students by providing great digital resources.

Applications close on Friday 29th July, and the course will be starting on Monday 15th August. 

This course is designed by New Zealand school librarians, for school librarians - those just starting out with online tools, who are ready and willing to try new things. 

The course is free for SLANZA members. 

Please visit the Online PD page on our SLANZA website for further information and to register.

Sandi Faulconbridge
Professional Development team leader

Professional Learning Through SLANZA's New eBook Platform

We are very pleased to announce that SLANZA members can now access a selection of eBooks to support their continuing professional development. ​

These resources will be available to members only, through SLANZA’s new eBook platform. 

Wheelers have made this possible by generously providing our ePlatform at no cost. We are very grateful for their support of our organisation, and our members’ ongoing professional growth.

We invite all current SLANZA members to register for the SLANZA ePlatform now.

When you register, please use your preferred email address (not a shared library email) and your personal membership number if known. ​We aim to process new registrations within 24 hours.

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

Term 2 event - Building a Quality Collection

This term’s event will be a friendly and useful discussion around all aspects of developing a great collection for your school library, everything from selecting books to promoting them. The more people who come and contribute to the discussion, the healthier that will be and the more we will all learn.

Please RSVP to me by Friday 17 June.

Building a quality collection - from selection to promotion and everything in-between

SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau Term 2 event

Saturday 25th June, 10:00am-12:00pm

Kerikeri High School Library,

Building a quality collection, from selection to promotion and everything in-between

Cost: Free to SLANZA members, $10 for non-members

To register, please contact Julia Smith at Kerikeri High School Library

Professional Development Survey

I am writing on behalf of the SLANZA National Executive to ask for your help.

As you know, helping to build a confident and knowledgeable school library profession is incredibly important to us. We believe that our communities deserve the very best school libraries possible, and it is one of our strategic goals to improve the professional standing, working conditions, and qualification levels of the staff who work in those libraries. Enabling access to a range of professional development opportunities is a vital part of achieving this goal.

In 2012, SLANZA surveyed school library staff about their Professional Development needs. Around 200 people responded to that survey, and as a result of what we learned, our Connected Librarians online PD modules were developed and introduced the following year.

Fast forward four years, and as part of our ongoing work in the area of Professional Development for school library staff, we are asking for your input again.

This time our survey is focused on work and qualification profiles - your library situation, employment, and continuing professional development including library & information studies qualifications.

The survey is open to SLANZA members and non-members alike, so please forward the survey link (below) to any library colleagues - SLANZA members or not, school library staff or not - who would like to participate. All the responses we receive will provide crucial information to guide our professional development strategy and our relationships with other professional development providers.

Please follow this link to access the survey:

http://goo.gl/forms/yMuvyJTLa6wh7e1i2

The survey will remain open until the 31st of May.

We really appreciate you taking a few minutes to have your say.

Thank you,

Miriam Tuohy

President

School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa

LIANZA Hikuwai Weekend School - professional development opportunity in Whangarei

I wanted to promote the LIANZA Hikuwai Weekend School, 28-29 May in Whangarei. 

Lisa Salter has been heavily involved in planning and assured me they have worked hard to keep the price affordable. If you check the programme you will see a children’s and young people strand – perfect for us.

This will be a great professional development opportunity right in our back-yard. Earlybird registrations close end of April!

SLANZA Collected magazine - open for submissions

We  are  now open for submissions to Collected  18

The theme for this issue is  "What SLANZA Means to You". 

We will have articles on the various services and advantages SLANZA has for members. But we would also like to hear from you about your  experiences with SLANZA and our profession.

We also need articles on other matters that may be of interest to your fellow  SLANZA members. This could include book reviews, articles about awesome PD you’ve attended or provided or anything you may think will be appropriate

Our deadline is May  15. Details about submissions, images and the magazine in general can be found at slanza.org.nz under the Resources tab under Collected.

We look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me at slanzacollected@gmail.com

Greig Daniels

Editor, Collected

Registration Open for Connected Librarians Digital Citizenship module

We are pleased to announce that Registrations for module #6 (Digital Citizenship) of the Connected Librarians course are now open.  Digital Citizenship covers a very large range of topics - for this module we will be concentrating on the ethical use of information and its attribution - otherwise known as Referencing and Citation.

Applications close on Thursday 5th May, and the course will be starting on Monday 16th May. 

This course is designed by New Zealand school librarians, for school librarians - those just starting out with online tools, who are ready and willing to try new things. 

The course is free for SLANZA members. 

Please visit the Online PD page on our SLANZA website for further information and to register.

Sandi Faulconbridge
Professional Development team leader

Engaging Book Talks - Term 1 event

Unfortunately, due to insufficient interest in the SLANZA Professional Development opportunity planned this Saturday, the event has been cancelled.

March 2016 SLANZA NE summary

SLANZA National Executive met on 12th-13th March In Wellington. Below is a summary of some of the discussions covered at the meeting. This communique is to keep members up-to-date with the work being done on their behalf by the National Executive.  

President Elect

Nominations for President Elect were called for in Term 4, with SLANZA NE nominating Karen Clarke. As no other nominations were received, we are delighted to confirm Karen in the role of President Elect. Karen Clarke (BA ILS., RLIANZA) is library manager at St Patrick’s College in Wellington and the SLANZA Wellington Chairperson. She comes to this role after five years as a National Executive representative on SLANZA and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to this position. Congratulations Karen.

Strategic Plan

Following on from a brainstorming session at our last NE meeting in October, considerable time was allocated to setting new goals, working out objectives to attain those identified goals and establishing an action plan and activities to help us achieve those objectives over the next couple of years.

Financial and Treasurer's Report

Our finances have been helped by a welcome profit from the SLANZA Conference 2015 in Christchurch. The profit can be wholly attributed to the generosity of the conference venue, St Andrew’s College.

Membership

At this point about 70% of members have paid their membership, thank you. Please note that all membership fees for 2016, $60 per person, are now OVERDUE. Membership needs to be paid by the end of this month, 31 March.

Membership Drive

NE successfully applied to Community Post, a service offered by New Zealand Post where pre-paid envelopes are donated to non-profit organisations to support community projects or events. The envelopes received will enable us to send all  New Zealand schools the SLANZA brochure detailing the role and benefits of joining SLANZA.

The Central region would also like to acknowledge the generosity of Kerry Rich from Konica Minolta in Napier who printed 500 of the SLANZA brochures free of charge.

Online Professional Development

Our popular Connected Librarians courses are online learning modules to extend learning for school library staff. Certificates for the three modules completed last year, Professional
Reading, Social Bookmarking, and Community Connections, will be emailed shortly. The next module being offered to members is Digital Citizenship with an emphasis on the ethical use of information, and attribution. This module will be available early Term 2, with registrations opening soon.

The Google+ Community has grown to 111 members. Community members are welcome to share resources and join in discussions. We will soon be launching our second in-depth monthly discussion on this platform. Our first discussion was based on R David Lankes’ book Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries For Today's Complex World - issues important to our role in schools and how our library serves our school community. We’ll let you know more details soon.  

Collected Magazine

The next issue of SLANZA’s online magazine Collected will focus on new practices, tools, and tasks you have implemented since learning about them at the Christchurch conference. The issue will also include members experiences of the RLIANZA revalidation process, as well as book reviews on books recently published.

Call for submissions will open April 11th and close on 15th May. Please consider submitting articles or reviews, we all gain so much from reading Collected and that can only happen from other librarian’s contributions.

Biculturalism

National Executive is developing a tool-kit of resources aimed at helping libraries operate biculturally. This work is part of our involvement with LIANZA’s “Future of libraries” initiative.

Conference

An Auckland Conference committee is confirmed and have begun assessing venues for the SLANZA Conference in July 2017. In an attempt to keep costs down and camaraderie strong, schools with accommodation facilities are high on the criteria list.

Thank you to all members who attended the Christchurch Conference last year and filled in and returned the Conference Evaluation form. Likewise, thank you to all those members who did not attend yet took the time to complete the Conference Attendance survey. Together, these two surveys will provide valuable information for planning and organising the upcoming conference.

National Library

Elizabeth Jones (National Manager Capability Services for Schools) and Wendy Macaskill (Online Content Services and Products Developer) joined us to discuss the new roles and services within the National Library. To date, 1,200 schools have registered for the new Lending Service.

SchoolsCat will be replaced with Record Manager, a cloud-based platform. Record Manager will allow schools to find records and download them to their own library systems, a key benefit being that Record Manager searches the whole of WorldCat, giving schools access to a wider variety of records than currently available through SchoolsCat. Services to Schools will be communicating with schools to let them know about the changes and what they need to do to use the new services which will go live from 12 May 2016.

The reduced fee courier service offered through CourierPost is available as a school-wide service, not just for National Library book returns. This offer may well be worth comparing to your school’s present delivery service.

The 0800 LIB LINE (0800 542 5463) has proved a critical channel of communication for school librarians - please utilise this service for any National Library issues and services. Likewise, email schoollibraryadvice@dia.govt.nz for help.

Professional Development

National Executive are preparing a survey for our members (and others working in school libraries) around professional development, including Library and Information Studies qualifications. The survey results will be used to inform our future PD, and help shape our relationship with PD providers.

AGM

Early days yet but we have an exciting event lined up for the AGM which will be held the first weekend of the July school holidays, Saturday 9 July, 2016, in Wellington. More information to come as speakers are booked.

SLANZA National Executive will continue to work on your behalf and ensure that the voice of school libraries from all over the country are heard.

Engaging readers with engaging book talks : Term 1 2016 event

Calling all school library teams and teachers who like to promote books to students...

Are you wanting to help students connect with the "right book", increase reading mileage and enthusiasm, get the books off the shelves and into hands and hearts? 

Come along and hear the lively and inspiring library team from Westlake Girls' High School - Megan Davidson (Teacher librarian) and Paula Walters (Librarian), as they demonstrate the art of book talking.

They show you how they approach book talking fiction in their library - how many books, how many students, how long it takes, what they promote and how they do it...  They will give you handouts with tips and suggestions for effective book talking, and give an actual demo of how they do it.   This session will be suitable for teachers of students at ALL levels, not just secondary.

I've seen the results of Megan promoting books in variety of ways, so quick and energetic, finding the hook to make the book interesting and intriguing, resulting in students LEAPING out of their seats at the end to grab the books that piqued their interest - such a rush, like the first day of the Harrods sale!

Also on the programme will be a catch up about what SLANZA is up to at the national level from our Regional Representative, Julia Smith, and also a short report back from people who attended the SLANZA conference last year in Christchurch- there were lots of highlights and resources available to draw to your attention...

Date: Saturday, 2nd April 2016
Time: 10.00am to 12.00 noon
Place: Kamo Intermediate School Library, Whangarei  (many thanks to KIS and TLR, Trudy Norrish, for the hospitality)

Costs: SLANZA and LIANZA members $10, non-SLANZA members $20
If a school has a SLANZA member, then all people from that school can attend at the membership rate.

Programme :

10am - Welcome, SLANZA National Executive feedback
10.10 - SLANZA Conference feedback from primary and secondary school library staff who attended
10.35 - Morning tea
11.00 - 12.00 - Engaging readers with engaging book talks - Megan Davidson and Paula Walters

To register, please contact Julia Smith on jsmith@kerikerihigh.ac.nz

Please share this with others in your school who you think may be interested, and do come along - these events need participants to make them fly!

Welcome to the 2016 School Year

I do hope you’ve been able to have a restful break over the summer, and are now looking forward to the day-to-day business of working with students and staff in your school in what I am sure will be a busy and interesting year.

First some good news: Karen Clarke has been elected unopposed (no other nominations were received) to the position of President Elect. Karen was nominated by the National Executive, and brings to the role a great deal of experience and passion for working on behalf of all school library staff. Karen has served many years on the National Executive, including most recently acting as SLANZA’s treasurer. We know she has the best interests of you all, and our organisation, at heart and will do a fabulous job of leading SLANZA when she takes on the role of President from July of this year.

In other news:

·         The results of our 2015 Reading Survey have been collated by Trish Webster, and shared with you via the School Library Email List. The information is also available on our Reading website, along with the 2014 results.

·         Last week I signed SLANZA’s attestation in support of  the application to NZQA for the revised sub-degree level Information and Library Studies qualifications to be listed on the qualifications framework.

·         2016 SLANZA membership invoices have been sent via email. If you have not received an invoice and you were a current member as at the end of 2015, please get in touch with Jacky Reid (admin@slanza.org.nz). If you are not yet a SLANZA member, you can find the membership application on our website here.

·         Your regional committees will let you know about upcoming events in your region. Help organising these events is always welcome - please get in touch with your local representative if you’d like to be involved, or find out about joining a committee. Contact details are on our website here. We must also thank Book Protection Products for their ongoing support of our Professional Development events.

Wishing you all the best for this term,

Miriam Tuohy
President