Staff Presentations
NZ's Digital Content Strategy: challenges and opportunities for the tertiary sector
A public lecture by Chief Executive / National Librarian Penny Carnaby to mark her appointment as Adjunct Professor in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington.
Oceans of Opportunities - LIANZA Keynote Address 2003
Inaugural address to New Zealand Library Profession by Penny Carnaby, National Librarian, at LIANZA 2003.
Building a Web Curator Tool for the National Library of New Zealand
This paper by Gordon Paynter and Ingrid Mason describes the National Library of New Zealand's and the British Library's collaboration to design and build a Web Curator Tool that supports the selection, harvesting and quality assessment of online material by collaborating users in a library environment.
Digital preservation & preservation metadata activities presentation
A paper on metadata preservation given at the ERPANET Metadata in Digital Preservation seminar, Marburg, Germany, September 2003.
RDA (Resource Description and Access): the structure of the final draft
An overview of the structure of the final draft of RDA for Workshops presented by LIANZA, CatSig and the National Library in March 2009. Covers the conceptual differences between RDA and AACR2, the changes to the MARC format associated with implementing RDA and some more specific details of the new rules.
RDA (Resource Description and Access) Implementation
A presentation developed for Workshops presented by LIANZA, CatSig and the National Library in March 2009. Describes the 4 main factors involved in the implementation of RDA: final publication of RDA, evaluation by the national libraries associated with the development of RDA, changes to the MARC formats and implementation of MARC changes by library system vendors.
The FRBR model (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records)
An examination of the FRBR model (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) using Shakespeare's Macbeth as an example. This presentation from the RDA Workshops presented in March 2009 by LIANZA, CatSig and the National Library, concentrates on the Group 1 entities Work, Expression, Manifestation and Item.
Introduction to RDA (Resource Description and Access) & FRBR
A presentation developed for Workshops presented by LIANZA, CatSig and the National Library in March 2009. Provides brief background to the development of RDA (Resource Description and Access), compares what RDA will do with what AACR2 does, outlines FRBR (functional requirements of bibliographic records), and highlights some steps that can be taken prior to implementation.
The PDF document contains an introduction to the workshop, and the Powerpoint file contains the slides shown in the workshop.
The Delete Generation: Citizen-created content, digital equity and the preservation of community memory
Text of a lecture given by Penny Carnaby (Adjunct Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, National Librarian and Chief Executive of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) at Victoria University on 4 March 2009.
Going Global - Digital Convergence Across National Libraries and the Global Research Community
A presentation to the 2009 Annual Research Libraries Group Partnership Meeting in Boston highlighting how the digital paradigm is redefining the world of national libraries and research institutions.
Libraries as a common denominator: from the citizen, country and global perspective
A presentation to the Bridging Worlds 2008 Conference at the National Library of Singapore.
The Future Turnbull: the 2009 Founder Lecture
Research libraries throughout the world face similar challenges in re-thinking traditional approaches to collection management and service delivery in the context of the digital age. As New Zealand's pre-eminent research library, the Alexander Turnbull Library is no exception.
This document is the text of the Friends of the Turnbull Library's annual Founder Lecture, given by Chris Szekely, Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library, in June 2009.
National libraries in the digital age: leadership and collaboration
The digital paradigm is redefining the world of national libraries, providing them with an opportunity to take a leadership role at both a national and international level. This paper looks the key issues, outlines international examples of collaboration and explores new initiatives in the digital age.
Presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Milan, 2009.
A new equity emerges: citizen-created content powering the knowledge economy - Penny Carnaby
New systems of knowledge creation are emerging, driven by citizen-created content. What are the likely trends and opportunities for libraries in this changing environment? This paper explores the challenges of citizen-created content, and outlines some examples of New Zealand's response to these challenges.
This paper was presented at the 2009 LIANZA (Library & Information Association of New Zealand) Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand.
