Regional Councillor's Report to the Region

LIANZA Council met for a full day in Wellington on 11 August. This was the first face-to-face meeting of the 2009-2010 Council.

Key outcomes of this meeting:
Governance Structure
• after analysis of survey results and Council discussion is was decided that there was not a clear mandate to implement all the changes in the discussion paper, significantly the changes to regional councillor roles and Te Ropu Whakahau representation.
• The following will be drafted as motions to be put at the AGM
o Formal adoption of the draft purpose statement
o Vice-President to be disestablished and a President-Elect role established.


Institutional Membership/Fee Structure
While the FTE model was agreed as a fair way to establish fees, this needs more work on scenarios and modelling. A small group will be set up to carry on with this work.

Strategic Direction
Council continues to work on our key strategic goals of Advocacy and Membership Services. Regional Councillors will have two specific actions around membership & engagement to focus on for the coming two months.
Mine are to establish a regular communication plan to the Region (this blog post is part of it :-)), and to investigate how I can help those who want to set up regular forums for registered librarians to get together (virtually or physically).

Professional Development Plan
Work on the 2010 plan is progressing. Please continue to feed ideas on possible CPD through to me or direct to Maree Kibblewhite.

Penny Carnaby - National Librarian
Penny joined us and discussed issues at the National Library. Over the next 18 months Penny will be "on the road" a lot. Would this be a chance to have her join us for a Regional meeting?



Other items of interest

Work on the redevelopment of LIANZA's online presence continues with the establishment of a small working group to drive this forward.
It is satisfying to see this start to move foward and I look forward to development in the near future.

Don't forget to register for the Presentation Skills Seminar by 18th September.

That's all for now, as always any questions/comments/feedback please contact me!
Heather Lamond - Ikaroa Regional Councillor

Governance and Membership discussions

Hi again all
Dates are firming up for these meetings.

These will be informal discussions, so please read the documents, think about your answers to the questions in them, bring your own questions and suggestions.

Taranaki
Wednesday 17th June @ 6.30pm for Fish and Chip tea, followed by discussion. $5.00 if you would like Fish and Chips, but please let Lynne know.
Hawera LibraryPlus
RSVP by Monday 15th June to Lynne Walker lynne.walker@stdc.govt.nz

EastIn SIG
Wednesday 10th June @ 6.00pm
Hastings Central Library - light refreshments
RSVP by Monday 8th June to Paula Murdoch paulam@hdc.govt.nz

Cheers
Heather
Ikaroa Councillor

LIANZA Council discussion papers

Hi all

Here are the links to these papers, one on LIANZA Governance, and one on LIANZA Institutional Membership

http://www.lianza.org.nz/library/files/store_022/LIANZA_Governance_Proposal.pdf
http://www.lianza.org.nz/library/files/store_022/LIANZA_Institutional_Membership_Proposal.pdf

Each of the papers has a series of questions for you to consider and to which you may wish to contribute feedback. We will be running a survey from the Monday 8th June to Tuesday 6th July using Survey Monkey and you will be sent the link to this survey on the 8th June.

In the meantime I am planning for a series of meetings in the Region to discuss these proposals, so keep an eye out for the notices about the dates of meetings in your area.

Once you have read the papers we would encourage you to attend your regional meeting for discussion and clarification of the proposals. We would appreciate any formal feedback you have on the proposals to be expressed using the survey to enable us to manage and analyse the responses.

Of course, feel free to comment here on the blog, or email to NZ-Libs listserv.

Kind regards
Heather
Ikaroa Councillor

Council update

Hi all
As previously mentioned at various meetings, there is a discussion paper forthcoming around LIANZA's Governance structure (watch for it in the next couple of weeks).
Councillors have been asked to attend meetings in their region to discuss the proposal and gather feedback. At this stage these meetings would need to be sometime between mid-May and the end of May.
I am happy to come out to TIG-SIG and EastIn SIG for these meetings, and there will be a meeting in Palmerston North (details to follow).
Those in Taranaki and Hawkes Bay, please give some thought to possible dates and venues for later in May and let me know.

Also, the Remuneration Survey for 2008 was released sometime ago and I'd like to know if there is interest in having a presentation in Ikaroa on the Survey.

Don't forget to register your interest for the Vince Collins Display Workshops, currently proposed for Palmerston North and New Plymouth. See the LIANZA website for details. http://www.lianza.org.nz/news/newsroom/news1239828417.html

Any questions? Please contact me.
Cheers
Heather
Ikaroa Councillor