YouTube Video - Roving Librarians

2011 Lianza Presentation

Here is a link to this year's presentation.

http://www.conference.co.nz/files/docs/lianza/wednesday/1330%20joanne%20smith.pdf

Carnegie Centre - Dunedin

Interesting mini tour of the old Dunedin Library by local library "celebrity" Mary Ronnie. I use celebrity loosely, no doubt she is well known and popular but as a past library manger not anything too rock & roll. She would have to be 80+
Beautiful space in terms of the architecture but totally impractical as a library.

Athenaeum Library - Dunedin

Would seem like a quirky little library if Williamstown had not just relocated into the Mechanics Institute! As it was I found it cute, although thank goodness I don't have to work there. Subscription of $69 per year, customers can borrow up to 3 items at a time, everything is totally manual (not a PC in the place) WOW!!

Lianza - SUNDAY AM

Oh My! up at what felt like the crack of dawn to get to the library tours at 9am. Would have been 7am in Melb (a time that means nothing to me on a Sunday!) Saw the Athenaeum Library (which is subscription based) the Carnegie Centre (which was the public library from 1908-1981) and the Public Library (toured pre-opening Ooooo exciting)

Certainly worth getting up for!

Dunedin - SATURDAY

Well I made it here for Lianza again this year. I am speaking on Wednesday, which is a bit of a pain. I will be tense in anticipation all through the week. Dunedin is beautiful, it was lovely and warm when I changed in Wellington but Dunedin is misty and mysterious!

2010 Margery C Ramsay Scholarship

Tomorrow the next winner of the MCRS will be announced, I am heading along to the presentation at the SLV. I wonder how the person feels?! If they are half as excited as I was they will be up all night. Good Luck to you ...whomever you are!