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

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