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site last updated
6 July 2010

Introduction | Current projects | Timeline | Position statements | Strategic plan |  Structure | Values | Partnerships

Strategic plan

1. Vision Statement
   
   1. Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa
      Let us keep close together not apart

   Rationale
   This whakatauki is used to highlight the isolation of Māori in the industry and to bring them together.

2. Mission Statement
   
   1. To encourage and support Māori engaged in librarianship and information management
   2. To advocate kaitiakitanga of taonga within libraries and information institutions
   3. To unite indigenous librarians with innovative, excellent leadership

   Rationale
   These are the original statements from Te Rōpū Whakahau's original constitution created in the 1990s. They still have relevance today and form the basis for Te Rōpū Whakahau initiatives, activities, projects, and work.

3. Interventions
   
   1. Te Rōpū Whakahau holds hui-ā-tau, issues newsletters, administers to listserves and is involved in the management of library and information qualifications to encourage and support Māori engaged in librarianship and information management
   2. Te Rōpū Whakahau has relationships with organisations and research groups to deliver on on its mission statements and to consider or take on further initiatives of our partners
   3. Te Rōpū Whakahau also supports international indigenous library and information initiatives such as:
      • The establishment of an international indigenous librarians and information workers' council
      • The ratification of council aims and creation of interventions

   Rationale
   These interventions help us to deliver on initiatives which arise from our mission statements and allow us the flexibility to take on further initiatives arising from collaborative partnerships.



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