MUSAC user group meeting

The next meeting will be at Central Normal School on Wednesday November 9th at 4pm.

We hope to see you all there.

Social get-together

You are invited to join with other school librarians and SLANZA Central members for a Coffee and Chat.

We’ll be at Barista’s in George Street from 7.30pm to ? on Friday 4 November (and other first Fridays in the month).
If you’re a SLANZA member then your first coffee is free – plus there’ll be nibbles too.

If you are able to come please RSVP to this Pat Bellhouse library@pnghs.school.nz

We look forward to seeing you!

SLANZA Central AGM

Just a quick reminder about our local AGM, and shopping evening at Paper Plus on the Square next week.

Date: Wednesday 6th July, 5pm

Venue: 2nd floor of the City Library for the AGM (NZ and Pacific Island collection),
then on to Paper Plus on the Square for drinks, nibbles and shopping.

For catering purposes, we will need to know numbers, so please RSVP to me by Friday July 1st.

A note from Victoria: if you have any specific requests for particular titles or subject matter, please let her know as soon as possible so she can prepare for it.
email: palmerstonnorth@paperplus.co.nz Attention: Victoria
Also if you are wanting to purchase on the night and don’t have a school library account, if you email or phone her with the name of your school, address, phone number, email, order number required or a name, she can have an account set up ready in advance (accounts can be set up on the night too).

Looking forward to seeing you there!

MUSAC User’s Group meeting Wednesday 2nd March

The next meeting will be at PN Girls High on Wednesday March 2^nd at 4pm.

It was decided to have a focus topic (the first will be all things finance – overdue prices, making sure your purchases are in the right reporting year, and what reports you need to do for the auditor/board etc, and how to deal with “donated” items) then everyone can share their issues or new found gems of knowledge!

We hope to see you all there.

Professional development evening and Access-It user group meeting

Professional Development evening

**Thursday 4th November, 6.00pm to 8.00pm**

Programme

Drinks and pizza to start, followed by a quick run-down on SLANZA news and events, then our 3 speakers:

• Joyce Richards (Nga Tawa Diocesan School): Maori resources – both print and online
• Sue Callaghan (Feilding High School): NEMP Information Skills report released September
• Silver Dunlop (Company of Heroes): Graphic novels and comics

Cost

FREE! for members and non-members, so if you know any library staff who might be interested but are not members of SLANZA, feel free to pass this invitation along to them too.

Venue

Russell Street School library, Russell Street, Palmerston North

Please RSVP

no later than Wednesdsay 3rd November, to miriam@russellst.school.nz

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Access-It user group meeting

If your school uses Access-It library software, and you’d like to share – or learn – tips on how to get the best out of your system, please join us. This is an informal session, so just bring along your questions and ideas ready to share!

Please note the new date (previous date clashed with the PN primary network meeting)

Thursday 18th November, from 4.30pm

Cost: FREE!

Venue: Russell Street School library, Russell Street, Palmerston North

Please RSVP: no later than midday 18th November, to miriam@russellst.school.nz

SLANZA 10 year celebrations

On Friday 29th October we celebrated SLANZA’s 10th anniversary, at the National Library’s new Schools centre in Parnell, Auckland.

There is a blog post about the event on the main SLANZA blog, and there’ll be more information and photos in the next issue of Collected which is due out this month.

Posters from each of the region were displayed at the centre – here is a copy of ours. Thank you to those who contributed ideas and words for the poster.

AGM information

Our AGM will be held on Wednesday 23rd June 2010 at Intermediate Normal School Library, South Street, P.N.

• Drinks and nibbles at 4.30pm
• AGM at 5pm
• Our guest speaker to follow the AGM, will be Karlyn Eales of Vautier Pharmacy, who will speak on “The Use of Sunbeds and the Possible Dangers”.

Come and join your colleagues for this event.
If you are coming please email our Secretary, Dianne (dianne@cloverlea.school.nz)

The committee are all prepared to stand again, however, if you would like to join us (we’d love to have you and your ideas) please email Dianne.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Let’s go shopping!

Welcome back to a new school year, everyone!

We’re starting off our events this term with a full day Book Shop Tour, in Palmerston North and Feilding, on Thursday March 25th. It’ll be a great opportunity to have a catch up, share book recommendations, and find some new gems for your library.

Here are the details, mark it on your calendar now, and we’ll see you there!

9:30 a.m.
meet at Bruce McKenzie’s main store on George Street (time for a coffee first?

11:00 a.m.
Whitcoulls on Broadway

Grab some lunch, in Palmerston North or Feilding, then we’re off again!

1:00 p.m.
Paper Plus in Fergusson Street, Feilding

3:00 p.m.
Poppies in Goodbehere Street, Feilding

If you can’t make it for the whole day, you could just meet up with us along the way as it suits you.
And if you’d like any more information, please contact Pat.

See you soon!

Why not apply for a free SLANZA conference registration?

Hi everyone,

So far I have only had one application for a free registration to attend the SLANZA conference to be held at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School, Christchurch from Monday 28 September to Wednesday 30 September 2009.

Why don’t you apply?

Early bird registration is $350 so that would be a big saving and make attending possible!

Come on everyone – I hope we can hold a draw amongst our members.  I don’t really want to go back to National Executive and say that only one member was interested!

Email me with your request asap.

Pat

Here’s a great opportunity

Do you want to go the the SLANZA Conference but don’t know where the money is going to come from?

Well, here’s what you can do – apply for one of the two  ‘free’ registrations that Central has on offer.

This is a wonderful opportunity to join with your other library colleagues for some fun and inspiration (via PD)!

Not sure where or when Conference is?

It is being held at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School in Christchurch from Monday 28 to Wednesday 30 September 2009.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Pat