Professional

Current Employment

Librarian, Hutt City Libraries, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Professional Interests

• Writing!
• Learning!
• Teaching!
• Web design and usability
• Tailoring library services to a younger and more expectant generation
• Literacy and developmental needs of children
• Community library services
• Networking and collaboration
• Advocacy for libraries, learning, sharing and education

Currently / Extra curricular activities

• Library Life Editor
• Website Advisory Group member, LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa)
• Chairing two workshops at the LIANZA 2011 Conference

Previously

• Presented a co-written paper at the ALIA libtec 2011 conference: “Writing basics: choosing the right media and the right audience to deliver your message“
• All in a Twitter presentation (accompanying text document) – June 2009
• “Tweeting” EDUCAUSE, a conference held in Perth May 2009
• Giving a conference feedback session to the local library community with two prominent Librarians in Perth, Kathryn Greenhill and Constance Wiebrands – December 2008
• Attending the LIANZA Conference 2008 Poropitia Outside the Box in Auckland New Zealand, travelling return from Perth WA, with my own finances
• Recipient of scholarship to attend TelSIG seminar, June 2008. Had a short piece on my experience of it published in their August 2008 newsletter

Qualifications / Credits

• Student profile with the Open Polytechinic of New Zealand
• Level 6 Information and Library Studies Diploma, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
• Professional Registration with the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa
• Level 5 Information and Library Studies Diploma, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
• Poster girl for library assistants in New Zealand on a careers website