About

I'm Hana Whaanga.
I live in Wellington, the [cultural] capital of New Zealand, Aotearoa.
I identify as Maori.

I'm a self-confessed library geek. I don't just half live in libraries, I work in them and I'm passionate about information and this profession. I am excited by the intersections and possibilities there are within it, and for it. I like to write and muse a lot about all this.

Professional

I work as a Customer Service Team Member at Hutt City Libraries. A separate page lists what I'm currently up to and things I've done since deciding that this industry is for me. I envisage that this page will grow :)

Personal

I'm a geek. What else can I say?

I'm passionate about making information more accessible, passionate about making connections between people and the information they are seeking. Generally I quite like helping people, and I believe the world revolves around good communication and conversations. I also quite like soy-hot chocolates, though I am not lactose intolerant. I just like the taste of soy milk :)

My all-time, most favourite movie ever is The Wizard of Oz.

About site

I built this website from scratch and I currently still maintain this website from basic coding. This is not a blog. I have modified code from several places though of course. I'm not sure if I will ever add blog software to this site (see new section below for update on that decision). When I actually do find a decent amount of time to spend on this site, I learn quite a lot and I find reading and understanding markup syntax incredibly invigorating mentally.

I really enjoy working on improving library.geek, so be on the lookout for new content. I believe thoughts gets updated the most, but I envisage an upcoming professional page to be next in line. And apologies if something doesn't work quite right - I'm busy figuring out why...

About Blog

I've recently started a paper again for the third time, and it goes without saying that I really aim to complete it this time!

Part of the requirements of the paper are that you are to keep a learning journal for the duration of the paper. Therefore, I have added a blog (http://librarygeeknz.blogspot.com) to this site. I do know that I have a problem now of having a thoughts page as well as a blog. Two pages that have the same function - to share my thoughts in a web-log format. The learning journal clearly has a different brief, though essentially they are the same. Any suggestions on what I should do - send 'em my way please!