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1 Pacific Gems Showcase GLAM Presentations Hosted by the Pasifika Information Management Network Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 2006, by Tim Parkinson. (CC BY 2.0)

2 Auckland Libraries - Pacific Focus Your place of imagination, learning and connection 55 Physical Libraries 4 Mobile Libraries Digital Library

Our customers Pacific Auckland and Te Kauroa s Pacific focussed priorities Work in partnership with Pacific peoples to develop programmes that are culturally relevant Work with Pacific communities to

3 Our customers Pacific Auckland and Te Kauroa s Pacific focussed priorities Work in partnership with Pacific peoples to develop programmes that are culturally relevant Work with Pacific communities to ensure their stories are collected and preserved for posterity Strengthen the range of Pacific material, both in Pacific languages and about the Pacific region Auckland Libraries - Pacific Focus - Presentation to PIMN BRCSS Talanoa Pacific Gems

Our Services Partnerships, products, events and programmes Resources in Pacific languages and with a Pacific focus available across the whole network and in 19 specific physical collections (soon to

4 Our Services Partnerships, products, events and programmes Resources in Pacific languages and with a Pacific focus available across the whole network and in 19 specific physical collections (soon to be 55 and floating) Regular bi-lingual and language specific storytimes Pacific Family History resources and distinctive and unique taonga cared for in and shared from Heritage collections Our people workforce development and role of Libraries Adviser-Pacific Service Development Regular Pacific and general programming and events including Pasifika and all Pacific Language Weeks Auckland Libraries - Pacific Focus - Presentation to PIMN BRCSS Talanoa Pacific Gems

5 TUPU (connecting their) YOUTH (to the) LIBRARY Key Principles 1, 2 & 3 1. Relationship Building with Youth 2. Knowing What Youth Want 3. Partnerships With Others (Right: Adullam Boys Club) (Above: Power-Up Station)

6 Key Principle 4 Staff Engagement 1. Team Vision - Powerful Influence of Literacy, Education and Information 2. Team Culture - Family, strong friendships 3. Buddying - Pair up experience with inexperience 4. Utilizing Staff Talents - Using existing staff talents to connect with youth

7 Summary Four Key Principles 1. Relationship Building With Youth 2. Knowing What Youth Want 3. Partnerships With Others 4. Staff Engagement Above: Beulah playing games with youth. Right: Tupu staff members (L-R) Ruiha, Henry, Livi, Avei

8 Pacific Island Resources at Central Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries Pacific Gems showcase - Talanoa

9 Variety of family history resources Missionary and church records Civil registration (births, deaths, marriages) Adoptions Genealogies Emigration, immigration & passenger lists, travel permits Wills & Probates Telephone and business directories Electoral rolls Cyclopedias Published family histories Books, magazines, microfiche, microfilms Pacific Island Family History Resources at Central Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries

10 Cook Islands Missionary records & civil registration 3 COO Births Adoptions (not to be copied) Marriage Deaths Genealogies Cook Island Gazette Tahiti 3 TAH Civil registrations Divorces, assorted legal documents Consulate registrations Tahiti and the Society Islands : shipping arrivals and departures, 1767 to 1852 by Rhys Richards and Robert Langdon Pacific Island Family History Resources at Central Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries

11 Fiji 3 FIJ B D M records for General B D M records for Fijians B D M records for Indians B D M records for Europeans Genealogies and pedigrees for some families - *Registers include Rotuma Island with gaps - ** Indian records often have the village in India named Pacific Island Family History Resources at Central Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries

12 Niue 3 NIU London Missionary Church Baptisms London Missionary Church Rolls , 1928 & 1948 Civil registrations BDM, Emigration lists Genealogies World War I records Pacific Island Family History Resources at Central Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries

13 Samoa 3 SAM American Samoa Western Samoa Births Marriages Deaths Wills & Probate Passports, travel permits, passenger lists British consulate registrations Civil registrations British military registrations British subjects register Pacific Island Family History Resources at Central Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries

Tonga 3 TON Free Wesleyan Church records (incomplete) 1830 1982 Enemy aliens in Tonga, May 1916 : as listed by the British Consul in Tonga, from the Western Pacific Archives transcribed by Christine

14 Tonga 3 TON Free Wesleyan Church records (incomplete) Enemy aliens in Tonga, May 1916 : as listed by the British Consul in Tonga, from the Western Pacific Archives transcribed by Christine Liava'a Koe kau to'a na'anau poletau = Valiant volunteers : soldiers from Tonga in the Great War by Christine Liava'a Pacific Island Family History Resources at Central Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries

15 Tuakana-Teina Project National Library of New Zealand Mereana Taungapeau

19 Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are." Mason Cooley

20 Summer reading loss : what the research tells us Significant Socio-economic Cumulative and long-lasting Urgent Making progress throughout the school year, losing ground over the summer months

21 Key components

22 Western Pacific Archives University of Auckland Stephen Innes, Special Collections Manager November 2013

23 Distribution of the Western Pacific Archives after 1978 Western Pacific Archives disestablished 1978 Pitcairn to UK Gilbert and Ellice Islands to Kiribati and Tuvalu British Solomon Islands Protectorate to Honiara British Commissioner and Consul to Tonga to UK New Hebrides British Service to UK Western Pacific High Commission to UK From UK to University of Auckland Library 2002

25 Robert Turnbull, Ernest Hadfield and Alexander Turnbull, at the Turnbull Home

26 Lord Ranfurly reading the annexation proclamation to Queen Makea of the Cook Islands

27 Niuean people awaiting the decision of their ariki on the annexation of Niue

28 Unitec Pacific Strategy Goals: 1. To increase Pacific participation and perspective in governance and operational decision making 2. To develop, enhance and maintain relationships with Pacific communities 3. To ensure successful participation, completion and progression of Pacific students within Unitec programmes 4. Contribute to the relevance of programmes to Pacific communities >>UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Unitec Library

29 Library initiatives >>UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Unitec Library

30 Library Initiatives >>UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Unitec Library

35 Pacific Gems Showcase Pasifika Information Management Network Presenters: Abigael Vogt, Liz Muliaga, Richard Misilei, Seonaid Lewis (Auckland Libraries) Mereana Taungapeau, Roger Swanson, Fuatino Leaupepe (National Library) Stephen Innes (University of Auckland Library) Donna Salmon (Unitec Library) Christina Tuitubou (Auckland Museum) Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 2006, by Tim Parkinson. (CC BY 2.0)

Births, Deaths and Marriages

Genealogical Sources Guide Births, Deaths and Marriages Mr & Mrs William Esquilant. 1900. De Maus Collection. c/n E3024/34 Hocken Collections/Te Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago Library Nau Mai