Lianza 10 - Centennial Conference - November 28 - 1st December 2010

Chris Szekely is Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library, a part of the National Library of New Zealand. From 1999 to 2007, he was Manukau City Librarian in South Auckland; one of New Zealand’s fastest growing urban areas, serving the country’s largest populations of Maori and Pacific Islanders. He was a founding member of Te Ropu Whakahau, an association for Maori working in libraries and information management, and instrumental in establishing the International Indigenous Librarians‘ Forum. He was appointed as an inaugural Commissioner on the Library and Information Advisory Commission in 2003, and in 2006 became a Fellow of LIANZA.

His tribal links are with Nga Puhi, Ngati Ruanui and Ngati Maru.

David Shumaker is a Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America, where his teaching interests include the role and future of librarians in society, the management of libraries and information services, marketing, information systems, and library public services.

David’s research and writing focus on the changing roles of librarians in business and educational organisations. He and his co-project leader, Mary Talley, were awarded the 2007 Special Libraries Association Research Grant for their project, “Models of Embedded Librarianship.” The final report of the project is available at http://www.sla.org/pdfs/EmbeddedLibrarianshipFinalRptRev.pdf

David’s research is supported by 27 years at the MITRE Corporation, where he rose to the position of Manager of Information Services. In this position he was responsible for MITRE’s corporate library, records management, and archives operations. Earlier in his career, he was a Library of Congress Intern, a cataloger, and an automation specialist for the U.S. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. He holds graduate degrees from Drexel University and the University of Maryland.

During the Conference David will be exploring the opportunities for embedding librarians and librarianship within our parent organisations.

Check out his blog at: http://embeddedlibrarian.wordpress.com

Carol Tenopir is a professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the Director of Research for the College of Communication and Information, and Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies. Her areas of teaching and research include: information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, the information industry, online resources, and the impact of technology on reference librarians and scientists. She is the author of five books, including, Communication Patterns of Engineers, (IEEE/Wiley InterScience, 2004) with Donald W. King.

Dr. Tenopir has published over 200 journal articles, is a frequent speaker at professional conferences, and since 1983 has written the “Online Databases” column for Library Journal.

She is the recipient of the 1993 Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award from the

American Society for Information Science/Institute for Scientific Information and the 2000

ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence. She also received the 2002 American Society for Information Science & Technology, Research Award and the 2004 International Information Industry Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Tenopir holds a PhD degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.

Presentation: Sharpening the Value Edge of Academic Libraries
Sunday 28 November, 4.30pm - 5.30pm

Academic libraries bring value to their stakeholders in research, teaching, and learning. Measuring, demonstrating, and increasing that value is a challenge faced by librarians world-wide. Tenopir’s presentation will discuss methodologies and provide findings from her research projects that demonstrate the value, outcomes, and return on investment of the collections and services offered by academic libraries.

LOUISE SCHAPER

Louise Schaper, M.S.W. and M.L.S., consultant and writer, has focused on transformations and innovations throughout her career as a librarian in a various library and information services.

She has held positions managing technology for the University of California San Diego libraries and headed up several departments within the AT&T Bell Laboratories Library Network where she initiated the world’s first experimental broadband-based virtual library. She served as visiting instructor of quality management for libraries at Syracuse University and received its 21^st Century Librarian award in 2003.

As executive director of the Fayetteville Public Library (Arkansas) where she led the transformation of a small, underperforming library to a vital, heavily used community center for learning housed in an 88,000 square foot U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Silver certified facility that opened in 2004. In 2005, the library was named Library of the Year by Thomson Gale and Library Journal over larger and better-funded libraries in Seattle, Cleveland and Minneapolis. It was also named a New Landmark American Library and a Landmark Green Library by TravelSmart magazine. The library was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant and an International City County Management Association Public Library Innovation Grant for a photovoltaic solar array. Use of library collections and services quadrupled during her tenure. Louise’s motto is “give the residents the best possible return on their investment in library services” and she consistently did this at significantly lower cost than peer libraries. Implementing strong technology and facilities management, i.e. RFID, self service, automated building systems and green operations, was key to delivering efficient services. The library board of trustees have named the lobby in her honour.

Louise is the author of 19 papers including “Let Green Creep: Ten Steps to Sustainable Library Operations” in the May 15, 2010 issue of Library Journal’s Library by Design supplement.

Louise is passionate about sustainability, innovation, books, edgy magazines, Steve Jobs’ devices, slow and organic food, and art and design. Every day she bicycles, reads, works, cooks, does yoga and meditates.

Gale Cengage Vice President for Strategic Partnerships and Markets

Stephen Abram, MLS, is Past-President 2008 of SLA and the past-President of the Canadian Library Association. Previously Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute Stephen moved to Gale Cengage in January 2010 as Vice President for Strategic Partnerships and Markets. He was Publisher Electronic Information at Thomson after managing several libraries. Stephen was listed by Library Journal as one of the top 50 people influencing the future of libraries. He has received numerous honours and speaks regularly internationally. As well as writing for the Library Journal Stephen’s columns appear in Information Outlook, Multimedia and Internet @ Schools, Feliciter, and Access. He is the author of ALA Editions' bestselling Out Front with Stephen Abram. His blog, Stephen's Lighthouse, is a popular blog in the library sector

Stephen says that we are well into the new Millennium and the challenges facing libraries are reaching an exponential roar. It's the information age, there must be a huge role for libraries, right? What are the real challenges facing libraries and the library profession? Is it Google and the web, or is it what it's always been - lighting the darkness with information? What are the top strategies we need to employ to ensure our success in our communities and learning institutions? Will advertising driven search engines really win the hearts and minds of our customers? Are our collections right for today or will use of Google's vaults of digitized books grow wildly in importance? Are libraries and librarians ready for the next round of technological and social change? Will our local and national cultures be overwhelmed by generic world services? Stephen, as always, will deal with these issues in a provocative and entertaining manner.

Dr Jesus Lau is Director of the Unit for Library and Information Services (USBI) in Veracruz and coordinator of the Virtual Library and Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico. Dr Lau has developed and co-ordinates distance education Information/ knowledge papers undertaken by 29 tertiary institutions situated throughout the Spanish speaking world in Central, South America and the Caribbean.

Jesus is a member of the Governing Board and Executive Committee International Federation of International Federation of Library Associations; a member of the Board of Director of the Special Libraries Association (USA) and chairman of the Academic Libraries Accuload / OCLC (USA). He has also written 15 books and more than 100 papers and journal articles published in many countries.

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Assistant Librarian, General Assembly Library, Wellington

Mr James will speak on the Dewey System of Library Classification and how it can be effectively adapted to requirements of New Zealand libraries.

Mr James is well qualified to speak on this topic. In 1896, as Acting Librarian of the General Assembly Library, Mr James introduced the Dewey decimal system into New Zealand and applied it to the classification of the contents of that institution. Since then he has introduced Dewey, by request, into the Public Library at Christchurch.

Though there are critics of the new system, and those who sneer that it is more likely to find favour amongst “the less scholarly among librarians”, Mr James argues that the Dewey system is a means of attaining “effective usefulness” within the New Zealand libraries.

MARK COHEN

Newspaper Editor, Evening Star, Dunedin

One of the leading advocates of a free public library for Dunedin, Mr Cohen will speak on the travelling libraries scheme. Drawing on the experiences of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales he will look at how a similar travelling library scheme could operate successfully in New Zealand.

He will argue for the need for the provision of practical support from Central Government, for low freight charges to be applied to books being sent from the cities to the rural areas, and that the such books be available at no cost, except for cost of transportation, to country libraries, associations of country teachers, school libraries, farmers’ institutes, study clubs, individuals or groups of individuals in any part of the Dominion.

J.P. FRENGLEY
District Health Officer, Wellington

In the first of two papers on this hot topic, Mr Frengley will discuss the problem of infectious diseases being conveyed to the healthy on the leaves of a book and what can be done to prevent this. Though the proof that this is actually occurring is not fully advanced, he will argue that “the natural instinctive repulsiveness which most persons have to knowingly coming in contact with paper which has been breathed upon, sputtered upon, or handled by anyone in those stages of any infectious diseases when the emanations, secretions and excretions, normal or abnormal, are known or well believed to contain the organisms by which such infectious diseases are propagated”

Though Mr Frengley recognises that it is economically unsound for the Librarian to disinfect all books, both infected and non-infected, he will argue that provision needs to be made for those with infectious diseases to be barred from borrowing library books. To this end he will propose that the people living in a house notified to the District Health Officer under the Public Health Act 1905, Section 25 will not be allowed to borrow books, periodicals or newspapers, or to return books that have been in such an abode

HERBERT BAILLIE

Public Library, Wellington

Reporting on his study trip to the United States, Mr Baillie looks at the question of the recent request to the Library to fumigate books every day. Based on the experiences of the Portland Library (Oregon) during an infection scare during 1907 when the Library was ordered to be closed and the building and all books, including those on issue at the time, were fumigated with formaldehyde gas, Mr Baillie argues that fumigation is ineffective, and that the vapours from the formaldehyde does not sterilise books stacked on shelves.

Since the Wellington by-laws already prohibit the use of books by those suffering infectious disease, Mr Baillie argues that it is better that books already circulating be destroyed rather than returned to the Library. He proposes that this could be done with the Health Department adding an instruction regarding circulating library books to the usual notices left at premises where there are cases of contagious diseases.