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ARANZ 2004 Twenty-Eigth Annual Conference Programme

Nga Taonga Tuku Iho: Treasures Passed Down

Maori Archives & Records

Conference Thursday 19th–Saturday 20th August 2004, Kingsgate Hotel, Fenton Street, Rotorua

Proudly sponsored by:
* Rotorua District Council * Zetta Florence * New Zealand Micrographics Services * Te Rōpū Whakahau * Hoare Research Software Ltd *

• Day 1 Thursday 19th August
• Day 2 Friday 20th August
• Day 3 Saturday 21 August
• Speaker Profiles
• Accommodation

Day 1 Thursday 19th August

Preconference Workshops Day

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Day 2 Friday 20th August

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Day 3 Saturday 21 August

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Speaker Profiles

Roma Niemirska

Corporate Information Manager, Rotorua District Council

Roma manages the three specialized information units of Council – Records, Archives and Property. Key focus is on information management of Council and customer service.

Neven Hill

Manager, Information Management, Rotorua District Council

Neven has worked for the Council in excess of 23 years, commencing as a cadet in the regulatory area, and has a passion for customer service and how technology and software can enhance this. He is driven from a user perspective, not a technical bent, hence continues to be a champion for easy to use and friendly interfaces.

Waid Crocket

Manager: Information Management, Tauranga City Council

Waid has come from a GIS background and was initially employed by the Council as their Land Information Manager. As things do – structures change, people move on and areas with no manager get assigned to other people, which is "kind of" what happened with her. She inherited the Records Management area about 2-3 years ago and has restructured it since into Information Management.

Deirdre Wogan

Deirdre is an independent consultant based in Wellington, with post graduate qualifications in Records Management and Archives from Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA. She has worked in the fields of Records Management and Archives for over a quarter of a century in public sector agencies, as a consultant in private practice, as a tutor for the Open Polytechnic and as a researcher. Interests include genealogy, local history, cemeteries and shipwrecks in the Wellington area, playing croquet and making patchwork quilts.

Professor Whatarangi Winiata

Whatarangi Winiata is the Tumuaki of Te Wananga-o-Raukawa.  He is of Ngati Raukawa.  His fields of current research interest include the theory of hapu and constitutional arrangements.  His earlier research was in international finance.

Mereana Coleman

Ko Marotiri te maunga, Maungahauini te awa, Te Whanau-a-Ruataupare te hapu, Ngati Purou te iwi.

Mereana is the Library Manager at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Whakatane, having been in the position for 5 years. Prior to moving to Whakatane, Mereana worked as a librarian at the National Library in Wellington, Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Te Puni Kokiri and was a Manuscripts Librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

David Colquhoun

David Colquhoun is Curator of Manuscripts and Archives at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.  He has a Masters of History from Auckland University and a Diploma in Museum Studies.  His previous professional positions were as Arrangement and Description Archivist at Archives New Zealand and as a research officer with the Waitangi Tribunal.  He has worked for the Alexander Turnbull Library since 1989.

Hinureina Mangan

Tainui te waka, Kawhia te moana, Ngati Mahuta te iwi.

Hinureina is the Kaihautu/Director for Maori & Information Management Programme at Te Wananga-o-Raukawa, having been in the position now for 3 years. It is a 3 year Bachelor programme that views, develops and teaches Matauranga Maori as the basis for all Information Management concepts. Hinureina has experience in the education field, having spent a number of years as a kaiako in Kohanga Reo, Kaiarahi Reo in Kura Kaupapa and tutor at the University of Waikato. She has a BA in Maori and is presently completing her Masters Matauranga Maori at Te Wananga-o-Raukawa. Her thesis looks at the development of a theoretical framework for a Matauranga Maori-based classification system.

Bernard Makoare

Bernard is Project Manager, Ngati Whatua Heru Hapai: Te Runanga o Ngati Whatua. He is currently secretary of Tama ta uaua marae, Kaihu. He is also Ngati Whatua representative Taumata-a-iwi Auckland Museum, and a member of Haerewa Maori artisits committee Auckland City Art Gallery – Te Toi Tamaki and newly appiointed to Puatatangi Committee of Toi Maori Creative New Zealand. He is an artist, designer and musician. Bernard was formerly Tumuaki o nga Ratonga Maori – Maori Services Manager, Auckland City Libraries – Tamaki Pataka Korereo. Bernard’s paper describes the Ngati Whatua Heru Hapai kaupapa which encompasses strategies for Cultural heritage – MUA; language revitalisation – REO; Education – AKO; and Arts and creativity TOI specifically for Ngati Whatua people and lands. It also explores some issues of cultural identity and cultural heritage information management which have become highlighted in the course of developing and planning these strategies.

Nick Tupara

Nick is currently the Maori Liaison Officer, Gisborne District Council, dealing with issues of Cultural Heritage, The Treaty of Waitangi, the Waitangi Tribunal, Kaitiakitanga and Tangata Whenua. He has in the past been called as an expert witness on Maori Resource Management before the Waitangi Tribunal and the Environment Court. He has also been a lecturer, and guest lecturer, on whakairo, art, marae, toanga, Maori heritage, and in archaeological studies, and museum studies at Te Wananga-o-Raukawa, Toihoukura at the Tairawhiti Polytechnic, Massey University , and Victoria University. As the former head of the Maori Heritage Unit at the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, he had a responsibility for Iwi and professional input into national issues on Meeting House Conservation and Restoration, Heritage Taonga Collections, Wahi Tapu Site and Historic Places, Archaeological site and Maori Hertiage Site values, Assessments and Maori Heritage Policy Development.

Lois Robertson

Lois has been a Lecturer at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand since May 2003 where she is the Course Leader for both 72 175 Principles of Records Management and 72 275 Electronic Documents and Records Management. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies from Massey University and a Master of Information Management and Systems (Electronic Recordkeeping and Archiving) from Monash University. A depth of workplace experience and a wide range of teaching and information management experience inform her work. This includes 4 years tutoring art history and theory, various roles in academic and heritage libraries, archives and records management, and experience working with a leading consultant in electronic records management. Lois has a particular interest in developing ways to enable students acquire the knowledge and skills to enhance their career prospects. She is a champion of the convenience and flexibility that distance learning offers and is currently working on a teaching qualification to underpin her practice. Keenly aware of the changing needs of the profession, she has been actively involved in the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) Council and is on the ARANZ Wellington Branch Committee.

Rachel Lilburn

Rachel is a Lecturer within the School of Information Management at Victoria University.  Before joining the university, Rachel worked at National Archives, now Archives New Zealand, as Head Appraisal Archivist, and was their first local authorities archives and records advisory officer. Rachel graduated in 1993 with a Master of Arts (Archives) from the United States’ Western Washington University, and is passionate about improving the state of archives and records education in this country.

Hinerangi Himiona

Hinerangi has recently moved home to Tai Tokerau (Northland) after spending the past year as Archives New Zealand’s first Kaiarahi – Maori Manager. She is no stranger to ARANZ, having been a Council member from 1997-1998 and has spoken at previous ARANZ conferences on Maori issues. Hinerangi has returned home to the north with her family to assist iwi and hapu in the development and management of their heritage resources and has also returned to consultancy work. In this presentation Hinerangi will share some of her experiences and highlights of her past year as the Kaiarahi – Maori Manager of Archives New Zealand. She will focus particularly on the importance of communities, and in particular Maori communities and how important it is to work with them or not at all.

Arapata Hahiwai

Arapata is the new Director Matauranga Maori at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and is responsible for the Maori and Moriori taonga held at Te Papa Tongarewa. Arapata has extensive experience of the Museum community having had a number of positions and responsibilities including Curator, Manager of Bicultural Operations and the Community Partnerships Manager Maori for National Services. Arapata has a strong involvement in tribal affairs including being a member of the Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Inc. Kahungunu Arts & Cultural Centre Working Group and the project leader for Te Waka Toi and his people of Te Whanau-a-Ruataupare, Tokomaru Bay, on the restoration of the Ruatepupuke carved meeting house in the Field Museum, Chicago, in 1993. He has carried out research both within New Zealand and overseas and is fully aware of the responsibilities and obligations of his position with regard to the taonga.

Haki Tahana

Haki is a descendant of Ngati Pikiao and Ngati Maniapoto. Haki was raised in and around the Rotoiti district and is active with the Ngunguru marae in Whangarei. Currently, Haki is the Maori Information Services Librarian at Whangarei District Libraries. Presently Haki is working on a project involving their new library – which involves forging relationships between Iwi and Library.

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Accommodation

Kingsgate Hotel (conference venue) is offering a Conference rate of $99 incl GST. When booking please quote Reference # 361181.

phone 0800 808 228
central.res@mckhotels.co.nz

The following motels are immediately beside or across the road from Kingsgate Hotel on Fenton Street so no walking!

Wylie Court Motel

Standard room = $95 ($20 per extra person)
Executive = 112 ($20 extra person)
phone 07 347 7879 www.wyliecourt.co.nz

Regal Palms Motor Lodge

Studio 2 person = $140 ($20 extra person) spas in all units
1 bedroom suite 2-4 persons = $185.00 spas
phone 0800743000 www.regalpalmsml.co.nz

Silver Fern Motor Inn

Corporate $99 (spa in all units)
phone 0800 118808 www.silverfernmotorinn.co.nz

Collingwood Gables Motel

Studio = $85 x 2 persons ($20 extra person)
1 bedroom = $95 x 2 people ($20 extra person) spas in rooms
2 bedroom = $145 x 4 people ($20 extra person) spas in rooms
phone 07 3477795 www.motelrotorua.co.nz

Rose Court Motel

Studio = $90 per couple. spas in all units
Large studio = $105. spas in all units
Family - $125. spas in all units
phone 0800 833744 rosecourtmotel@xtra.co.nz

Coachman Motor Inn

Corporate studio = $99 1 person ($20 per extra person) spas
phone 0800 884400 coachman@clear.net.nz

Ashleigh Court Motel

Studio (sleep 2,3 0r 4 people) = $95 ($15 extra person) spas and kitchens
Family (sleep 5) = $110 ($15 extra person) spas and kitchens
phone 0800 337338 www.ashleighcourtrotorua.co.nz

Transport is either provided or there are shuttle buses from the airport.