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A NEW ERA IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION COLLABORATION IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND. IATUL 2004 Krakow Ainslie Dewe Auckland University of Technology June 2004. Library and Information Advisory Commission (LIAC) . National Library of New Zealand Act 2003
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A NEW ERA IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION COLLABORATION IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND IATUL 2004 Krakow Ainslie Dewe Auckland University of Technology June 2004
Library and Information Advisory Commission (LIAC) • National Library of New Zealand Act 2003 • Advises Minister on library and information issues, including mātauranga Māori • Promotion of collaboration • Protecting, preserving and promoting access to information
Collaboration • Cooperative behaviour - may be informal and superficial but autonomy is retained • Coordinated activity - involves greater level of mutual commitment and resource sharing • Collaboration - leads to a new community through shared vision Hawkins, Brian. (2000), Libraries, knowledge management, and higher education in an electronic environment, http://conferences.alia.org.au/alia2000/proceedings/brian.hawkins.html Hawkins, Brian (2000)
Perceived Difficulties • Not invented here • My campus is unique • Desire for the way things used to be • Loss of autonomy • Change in behaviour
Political Climate for Collaboration • Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) • Facilitate collaboration and cooperation in tertiary education system • Connect to businesses, communities, iwi • Collaborating for Efficiency, Library Sub-group • Proposed Office of Library Co-operation • Facilitate practical collaborative initiatives • Improve performance of tertiary/research libraries
CONZUL and NZVCCCouncil of New Zealand University Librariansand New ZealandVice-Chancellors’ Committee • Big Picture report • Maximise the benefit to tertiary education and research from the total investment in New Zealand university libraries through closer collaboration • University libraries implement common system software as the opportunities arise Renwick, Helen. (June 2002), The Big Picture, http://www.conzul.ac.nz/BigPicture.pdf
The Big Picture • Maximise interoperability • Facilitate collaboration • Minimise maintenance of interfaces • Strengthen systems staff knowledge • Encourage best use • Assist service to users at other universities • Promote unity • Improve disaster recovery
CONZULSys Consortium • To use and develop the best enabling technologies • in a pioneering collaboration • which will enhance the innovative delivery • of library and information resources • to the New Zealand tertiary learning and research community
CONZULSys Consortium • Information & Resource Access Management System (IRAMS) • Hosted environment by a commercial vendor • Move to company structure • LCoNZ (Library Consortium of New Zealand) • Model for other consortial activities eg. Next Generation Internet (NGI)
LIAC - Collaborative Journey Advises Minister for the National Library on • library and information issues in New Zealand, including mātauranga Māori, and access to library and information services • the role of library and information services, including mātauranga Māori, in the cultural and economic life of New Zealand • any other matters requested by the Minister
LIAC Consultation • National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa. • LIANZA (Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa: Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa) • Te Rōpū Whakahau (Māori Library and Information Workers Association) • Museums and archives • Library and information bodies • Government agencies • International bodies
Partnership and the Treaty of Waitangi • Treat of Waitangi - important to New Zealand’s cultural and consititutional identity • Partnership with indigenous Māori people of Aotearoa New Zealand • Agreement between Māori and Crown • Māori ceded governance to the Crown • Guaranteed authority over their natural, physical and metaphysical resources
Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) • Māori name for LIAC • Ngā Kaiwhakamārama i ngā Kohikohinga Kōrero • Official advisors on the library and information sector • Māori - foundation language (te reo) of New Zealand • Ancestral language of the tangata whenua • Māori television promoting and preserving te reo • LIAC advising on preservation and protection of Māori knowledge (mātauranga Māori)
Collaboration with LIANZA • LIANZA - National Information Strategy • Ensure that all citizens have the opportunity to access and utilise a nation’s knowledge wealth • Enhance the social, political and economic well being of the country • State government position on the creation, management and use of information • Set direction for government action in support of strategic goals
National Information Strategy Three pronged approach to knowledge • Knowledge Access – Te Kete Tuätea – the infrastructure to access knowledge • Knowledge Content - Te Kete Aronui – content available and accessible through information infrastructure • Knowledge Equity – Te Kete Tuauri – skills needed to turn information into knowledge
LIANZA recommends that LIAC • adopt LIANZA vision for national information strategy to help New Zealand achieve knowledge based society • develop strategy further, using resources available to LIAC • recommend and promote it to appropriate channels • consider and action recommendations made by LIANZA’s sector groups
Collaboration with Museums and Archives • Te Papa - Museum of New Zealand • Archives New Zealand • Statements of intent • Plain language story of what the department is expecting to achieve, how it will go about it and how it will measure progress
Collaboration with the National Library • Strategic areas of interest • National Library’s Digital Strategy • Ministry of Economic Development’s Digital Strategy Review • Ministry of Education’s ICT Strategy • E-learning strategies • World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) • WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action • EPIC (Electronic Purchasing in Collaboration)
LIAC Vision Aotearoa – New Zealand: a leading information democracy • mapping the information landscape • imagining the information society • informing Aotearoa New Zealand
Conclusion • LIAC looks to a broader knowledge context • Mode 1 knowledge - generated within a disciplinary, primarily cognitive, context • Mode 2 knowledge - created in broader, transdisciplinary social and economic contexts • Heterogeneous practitioners - collaborating on defined problems • Mode 2 knowledge society - new models for social distribution of knowledge • Libraries at the heart of these changes Gibbons, M., Limoges, C., Nowotny, H., Schwartzman, S., Scott, P., & Trow, M. (1994). The new production of knowledge: the dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies.