Organization
The organization is governed by its National Council, which is chaired by the president and based at the National Office in Wellington. In addition to the national association, the LIANZA community includes: eleven SIGs; six Regional Councils; as well as affiliations with the New Zealand Law Librarians Association (NZLLA); School Librarians Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (SLANZA): Te Rōpū Whakahau – a national organization for Maori librarians and information specialists founded as a LIANZA special interest group in 1992 and which became an independent organization in 1996; and New Zealand Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML (NZ)).
The six regions in which the regional councils are located are: Hikuwai (formerly Auckland) Region; Waikato/Bay of Plenty Region; Ikaroa (formerly Central) Region; Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui Region; Aoraki Region; and the Otago/Southland Region. The Maori names of many of these regional groups reflect the importance of biculturalism in New Zealand. SIGs include groups for library fields such as cataloguing, tertiary (academic) librarianship, health librarianship, information technology, preservation, special librarianship, and public librarianship, as well as a bicultural group, regional groups such as the East Coast Information Network, a Special Libraries Group for the north of New Zealand, and the Taranaki Information group. Other groups include the Special Needs SIG and the Research SIG.
LIANZA is responsible for several publications. Chief among these is Library Life, LIANZA’s fortnightly e-newsletter, and the New Zealand Library and Information Management Journal (NZLIMJ).
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