Pre-Conference Sunday 11 October there is the Health SIG Study Day (and AGM) at the University of Otago, Christchurch School of Medicine – see the conference programme for further information
Those of us in the Special Library sector will be wondering what’s on offer at this year’s LIANZA conference – so here are some ideas to tickle the taste buds! Feel free to add suggestions for other sessions in the comments field.
Monday 12 October bright and early at 7.30am is the New Zealand Health Database Consortium (NZHDC) AGM.
Later at 2.30 pm is the session ‘Take a walk on the wild-side’: library service at the margins: the challenges of prison librarianship Susan Smith and Judith Wenborn will talk about providing a prison library service and discuss how other libraries can engage with marginalised users.
At 2.45pm, Melanie Brebner, Sue Spooner and Moira Clunie will present their study on the feasibility of providing curriculum materials produced to the DAISY standard to blind and low vision students in New Zealand
DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) is an open standard for structured, accessible digital books.
5.30 pm is the CATSIG meeting and HealthLIB AGM
Tuesday 13 October 7.30 am is the SLIS meeting
Tuesday at 10 am – Would you like to know more about open source library management systems and what it can do for your library? Come along to Joann Ransom and Chris Cormack’s session on Koha 3.0: are you ready to take the next step?
Koha was the world’s first open source LMS developed here in NZ in 1999 and the latest version 3.0 features many Web 2.0 options.
Then at 11am a subject that will be of importance to all libraries in the current recession: A model for difficult times: the merger of 6 special libraries. Hilary Rendell and Flora Wallace will present how shared resources and services can provide a model for a sustainable future for special libraries.
Also at 11 am Hearing From the People: Designing Effective User Surveys by Rachel Esson this session will focus on a review of over 50 user surveys in medical libraries with tips and practical advice about how to design user surveys to obtain the best response rates.
Other SIG meetings and AGMs to note:
- Tuesday 12 October 5.30 pm Preservation SIG meeting and ITSIG AGM
- Wednesday 14 October 7.30 am TelSIG and SciTech meetings.
- Also on Wednesday at 1.00 – 1.45 pm is the PubSIG meeting
Bernadette
LIANZA Conference 2009 Blog 
September 28, 2009 at 10:34 am
Special librarians will hopefully be spoilt for choice, especially on Tuesday. Also at 10am is Anand Kochunny from The Treasury talking about “Using wikis to collaborate with stakeholders: a study of central government organisations in New Zealand”.
Note that Hillary Rendell & Flora Wallace are actually speaking at 11.45, and that Rachel Esson’s session is at 12.00pm. Delegates will be able to move between rooms in order to attend different papers within a session.
On Tuesday afternoon Jan Rivers from the Department of Labour is presenting on “Meeting organisational needs for breaking news”, and of course special librarians may be interested in the Unconference style workshop on “Developing and sharing creative solutions” that is also at 2pm.
October 1, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Just a slight correction, Koha was developed in 1999, and went live January 5 2000.
October 1, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Thanks for that Chris. Sorry for the wrong information being shared. So that means that Koha will be 10 yrs old in just a few short months. That’s awesome.
October 2, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Hi, I’ve amended our post now to say 1999, thanks for letting us know.
October 1, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Thanks for noting this Chris, however I was referring to the information in the LIANZA conference programme. I will see if this can be amended.
October 2, 2009 at 2:54 pm
It’s amended now, thanks