Customer Service Team Member, Hutt City Libraries, Wellington New Zealand.

Professional Interests

• Writing!
• Learning!
• Teaching!


• Web design and usability
• Incorporating social software into everyday library services
• Delivering library services to a younger generation
• Literacy and developmental needs of children
• Community library services
• Networking and collaboration
• Advocacy for libraries, and mentoring

Currently working on / involved with

• Completing an information and library studies diploma with the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
• The LIANZA Wellington regional committee, Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui
• Volunteering at a local Catholic primary school
• This website!

Previously

• All in a Twitter presentation (accompanying text document) - June 2009
• "Tweeting" EDUCAUSE, a conference held in Perth May 2009
• Giving a conference feedback session to the local library community with two prominent Librarians in Perth, Kathryn Greenhill and Constance Wiebrands - December 2008
• Attending the LIANZA Conference 2008 Poropitia Outside the Box in Auckland New Zealand, travelling return from Perth WA, with my own finances
• Recipient of scholarship to attend TelSIG seminar, June 2008. Had a short piece on my experience of it published in their August 2008 newsletter

Qualifications / Credits

• Professional Registration with LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa)
• Level 5 Information and Library Studies Diploma, OPNZ (Open Polytechnic of New Zealand)
• Poster girl for library assistants in New Zealand on a careers website