Newsletters and Lianza
The Office works to develop and maintain relationships with libraries around New Zealand in order to ensure the classification information needs of librarians are being met. In order to do this, the Information Unit regularly corresponds with libraries and distributes information in various ways.
Newsletters
Every few months the Office sends out a newsletter to libraries via email. This newsletter highlights current news and issues from the Office relevant to libraries. Recent newsletters have covered the new label posters produced by the Office, box sets of DVDs and labelling of children's books accompanied by DVDs. If you would like to receive this newsletter contact the Information Unit.
November 2011 libraries newsletter (pdf v9.0, 346 kb)
Books and magazines requiring classification labels (to 18 November 2011) (Excel 34 kb)
For archived newsletters look here.
LIANZA
Since 2005 the Office has attended the annual Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa conference. Members of the Information Unit run a stand offering information relevant to librarians, answer questions, and give advice about censorship and classification issues.
2010 Centennial LIANZA Conference
It was great to see so many familiar faces and meet so many new people at the 2010 conference in Dunedin. In keeping with the theme of the conference, our stand this year focused on how New Zealand's censorship of books has changed over time.
One of our Information Unit Advisors, Michelle Baker, presented a paper on this topic at the conference.
From The Butcher Shop to The Peaceful Pill: A History of Book Censorship In New Zealand (pdf v9.0, 336 kb)
2009 LIANZA Conference
The 2009 LIANZA conference at the Christchurch Convention Centre in October was a great success for the Office and we look forward to attending future events. The following information sheets were specifically created for the 2009 conference and are now available to download as PDFs:
Key Information for Librarians (pdf v9.0, 218 kb)
Graphic Novels Information Sheet (pdf v9.0, 217 kb)
You can also download our flowchart about Labelling restricted books, comics, graphic novels and magazines. (PDF, v9.0, 432kb)