Closing the gaps: Maori and information literacy

Paper presented at User Education for User Empowerment: Commonwealth Library Association Conference 19 – 20 October 2000 Christchurch, New Zealand.This paper focuses on the reasons why information literacy is a concept that has yet to make an impact on Maori. Although Maori participation as librarians and library users has increased dramatically over the last decade there are still a range of barriers that continue to inhibit access to library and information services for Maori. The relevance of these barriers to the 'information literacy divide' are analysed and actions are identified which will allow a strategy to be created to close the gap

Aurora Leadership Institutes: Assisting future leaders to maximise their leadership skills and potential

Paper presented at Oceans of Opportunities: Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa 2003 Conference, 7 – 10 October 2003 Napier, New ZealandThis paper provides background information on the Aurora Leadership Institutes and the Aurora Foundation. The latter part of the paper focuses on the looming leadership crisis in the library profession in New Zealand and overseas and identifies several strategies that require implementation to ensure that the crisis is averted

Reflections on professional training: A post-Auroran view

Paper presented at Capitalising on Knowledge: Australian Library and Information Association 2000 Conference, 23 – 26 October 2000 Canberra, ACTThis paper looks at the relationship between education for librarianship, professional development and leadership training

Indigenous intellectual and cultural property rights

Paper presented at the 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference 22-26 August 1999 Hobart, Tasmania1999 heralds the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Indigenous Peoples. A number of issues will be highlighted throughout the decade and new opportunities will emerge. In recent years both Australia and New Zealand have witnessed a rebirth of interest in indigenous issues. One of the more complex issues that has emerged has been that of cultural and intellectual property rights. Assertion of property rights over traditional forms of knowledge will become one of the leading challenges for indigenous peoples during this decade. Indigenous intellectual and cultural property rights do not fit neatly into western legal frameworks and this therefore leaves the knowledge of indigenous peoples vulnerable to exploitation. Indigenous peoples are establishing their own networks and working through international organisations such as the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations to identify sectors where cultural and/or intellectual property rights are being compromised. Libraries and information centres store and provide access to a variety of resources that fall into the category of intellectual and cultural property and this will subject our sector to intense scrutiny. This paper will identify what constitutes cultural and intellectual property rights, how it conflicts with western law, and what the implications for libraries and information centres are

Was the MSSTA 2 mission successful?

The Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array (MSSTA) is a rocket borne solar observatory designed to address a wide range of scientific questions relating to two aspects of the structure and dynamics of the solar atmosphere: (1) The heating and dynamics of chromospheric and coronal structures including spicules, coronal loops, bright points, and planes; and the role of the fine scale structure of the chromospheric network in the transport of mass and energy between these structures, and (2) The large scale structures of the corona, including the interface of prominences and filaments with material at coronal temperatures, the transition region structure of coronal holes and plumes, and their relationship to the solar wind. In order to address these fundamental scientific problems, the observational objective of the MSSTA is to obtain a set of high resolution spectroheliograms with the following properties: (1) Sufficiently broad spectral coverage and accurate photometry to allow modeling of structures covering the full range of temperatures observed in non-flaring chromosphere/corona, 10(exp 4) K to 10(exp 7) K; (2) Sufficient spectral resolution (lambda / delta lambda approx. 30-100) in each spectroheliogram to allow isolation of the emission from lines excited over a narrow range of temperatures; (3) To address objective (a), spatial resolution sufficient to resolve structures on the sun on a scale of 100-200 km (0.1-0.3 arc seconds); to address objective (b), images of the full disk and inner corona with resolution at least 1.0 arc second, and high sensitivity images of the extended corona (to approx. 3-4 solar radii above the limb) with resolution of approx. 3 arc seconds; for both objectives (c), direct measurements of the coronal magnetic field. (4) To access the role of non-thermal phenomena in the heating and dynamics of the chromosphere/corona interface, high resolution (lambda / delta lambda greater than 1000) spectroheliograms with spatial resolution of 1-3 arc seconds

Instanton size distributions from calibrated cooling

Using an under-relaxed cooling algorithm we investigated the vacuum in the $2d\ O(3)$ model and $4d$ pure gauge $SU(2)$. We calibrated the amount of cooling performed to have similar physical effect at different lattice spacings.Comment: 3 pages, (Talk given at LATTICE'94, to appear in the proceedings. Uses espcrc2.sty. 2 uuencoded compressed postscript figs appended.

Infrastructure and technology constraints to agricultural development in the humid and subhumid tropics of Africa:

Green Revolution technologies have not been widely adopted in Africa. What are the chances that they will play a major role in the near future? This paper shows that the enabling infrastructure, especially rural roads and irrigation systems are not likely to be in place in the humid and sub-humid tropics of Africa in the next 20-30 years. Consequently a typology of the more appropriate set of technology that is input and infrastructure efficient, has high returns to seasonal labor and is sustainable is presented. Research institutions should be geared up now to produce them for use in 10-20 years.Green Revolution Africa., Infrastructure (Economics), Rural development Africa., Technological innovations., Irrigation., Africa.,