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NZLPP STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP GRANTS

Jacinta Beckwith presents the Te Takarangi ki te Ao mahi at the Sustainable Libraries Symposium. Image credit: Mark Beatty, NLNZ

In addition to the NZLPP projects already mentioned, NZLPP strategic partnership grants were made available to sector organisations and partnerships, resulting in a number of new and extended projects in the sector.

TE RŌPŪ WHAKAHAU MĀTAURANGA -TE TAKARANGI KI TE AO

is an acknowledgement and celebration of Māori-led scholarship across time and genres. Bringing together 150 non-fiction publications, this collection provides an overview of some of the most important Māori leaders, thinkers and authors of our time. The NZLPP grant enabled the project group to take the publications out to marae and communities. Te Takarangi starter kits will be released later in 2022.

TE RŌPŪ WHAKAHAU - MATURANGA MĀORI

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT is an interactive workshop designed to provide a targeted development opportunity for information professionals, this was to be two days on a marae but changed to virtual with the COVID environment. Care packages were sent out to online participants to acknowledge a marae Kaupapa.

SLANZA – A BIT SUS

is a pilot training programme for school librarians to develop knowledge and resources to support youth to counter misinformation. SLANZA worked in partnership with Tohatoha to train 15 school librarians. The use of an online ‘escape room’ activity was negotiated with the University of Washington. Due to the success of the first cohort additional funding was provided for an extra 23 school librarians to take part in the training.

LIANZA/SLANZA TERTIARY GRANTS – both associations

originally put in similar bids to provide grants for tertiary qualifications, so were encouraged to combine forces to develop a co-governance model. The project aims to upskill the current workforce with library and information tertiary qualifications; attract new people to achieve tertiary library and information qualifications and gain employment in the library and information sector; and ensure the workforce is qualified and future-ready to demonstrate the value and impact of library and information services.

Foundations set early on, such as bringing on a project manager had many benefits. The operating model chosen resulted in Perpetual Guardian acting as grant administrators. There were 51 applications in March and 36 grants were made.grants were made to 48 applicants in the October round. Grant rounds will be held in October every year. However, tuition grants

and support for additional study costs are only one part of the puzzle – it needs more people involved to get the message out about working in the library and information sector.

TAITUARĀ AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES NZ – LIBRARIES CO-CRE8 WELL-BEING PROJECT.

This strategic project capitalises on existing assets: PLNZ’S 10 years of public library statistics and Taituarā’s web dashboards to demonstrate how public libraries contribute to the local government wellbeings. A library of best practice was set up through the Co-cre8 team site. An Ask an Expert webinar series was provided, and surveys were set up to gather qualitative data. This is a series of dashboards that council and public libraries can use to provide evidence about on economic, social, environmental, and cultural well-being. Data gathering is based on verbatim coding. A report on the data gathered will be available towards end of 2022.

HE KUPENGA HOROPOUNAMU

-A programme of work to inform and change libraries practice and service design to achieve better outcomes for Māori communities through taking a kaupapa Māori approach, improving whānau well-being, and increasing confidence in using library services to support success in education. The governance of this project was shared by CONZUL, National Library of New Zealand, Auckland Council Libraries and University of Canterbury. Some of the early findings were that relationships with mana whenua are key; the need for better access to research and heritage collections - aligned to the school curriculum; provision of Manaakitanga spaces; heritage and taonga need to be more visible and available; more Te Reo and Te Ao Māori capability in libraries; and the creation of career pathways in libraries.

PŪTOI RITO COMMUNITIES OF READERS PHASE TWO

– Pūtoi Rito Communities of Readers is a National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa initiative that aims to engage children and young people with reading for pleasure and wellbeing. Funding has enabled a second phase of the initiative in South Dunedin, with proposal to extend to Dargaville and the Waikato. Pūtoi Rito Phase One demonstrated that reading is both an individual pursuit and a social activity that can be stimulated, influenced, inspired and actively enabled by others.

Phase Two saw the project increasing community, mana whenua and schools’ engagement, and expanding locations for books in support services and information sessions for social workers and carers.

This project shows that the more communities surrounding tamariki and rangatahi understand their influence in creating young readers and the potential impact of reading for pleasure, the more effective they are in encouraging and supporting reading.

There were several other projects funded through the NZLPP, only the ones presented at the Sustainability Forum were included in this article.

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