National Forum on Public Libraries and Diversity 2009
Waitakere Libraries and Wellington City Library hosted forth National
Diversity Forum for Public Libraries on 23rd August 2009. The forum was held at
Wellington City library and was well attended by representatives from 12 public
libraries , Massey University and Victoria University as well individuals
working for Ethnic services and students developing interest in working with
culturally diverse community.
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Hajar Ali, a young refugee from Iraq, speaking about her life experience and her journey as a refugee and about her chapters in the book -
Earthless People. |
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Gunhild Litwin speaking about first
language maintenance project - First Voices. |
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Keynote speaker Amanda Golding speaking about Wellington City Council's
'Migrant Employment Project' along with the recipients of the
participants who are now employed by different organisations such as the
National Bank. |
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Parrill Stribling with Shivangi Pradhan during the workshop
on new Diversity projects. |
The forum offers an opportunity to bring together library &
information professionals, managers and policy makers who are engaged in
delivering or developing services for ethnic communities in different
capacities.
Diversity Programme and Registration Form 2009
Join us to listen to our experienced and talented speakers.
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Diversity Forum
2009 Programme (Size 119K)
Diversity Forum 2009
Registration form (Size 87K)
Purpose of the forum
The purpose of every 'National Diversity forum for Public Libraries' is to
help you to:
- Consolidate support for the development of library services for
multiethnic communities and thus provide equal and equitable access to
information for all
- Share knowledge and learn from peers
- Identify opportunities to collaborate and optimise the value of
knowledge and resources.
- Showcase the projects that you have done within your library.
Participants in 2006, 07 and 08
For the past three years, Diversity Forum attendees came from 18 different Public
libraries in New Zealand. This included people who worked in different
capacities in public libraries and individual and students who have special
interest in developing services for multiethnic communities. Some of them
included:
- Library assistants who directly come in contact with customers from
different cultural backgrounds
- Customer Services Managers, Team Leaders and Policy makers
- Library professionals involved in Service Development, Program and
Project Management, Outreach services, and Teachers
- Students who are interested in knowing more about multicultural Services
within Public Libraries.
According to survey responses, what these individuals have in common is a
strong desire to network and gain from peer experience. Since the first forum
many new initiatives have been taken by libraries to develop services for people
from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Join Your Peers
A special interest discussion list was launched by Christchurch City
Libraries. It's a New Zealand wide forum for library professionals engaged in
developing multicultural services and collections in libraries.
Join the discussion list.
Past Forums
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