Joann Ransom

Levin New Zealand

Librarian

NGO / Public Service

Head of Libraries, Horowhenua Library Trust. I have worked at Levin Library since 1986, starting as a very junior untrained library assistant. I have risen through the ranks and was appointed Head of Libraries in March 2010. I am committed to public libraries and is a professional librarian with qualifications in English literature and computer network administration. I have worked on two award winning open source projects: as one of the team who developed Koha back in 1999-2000, and more recently leading development of Kete, an open source project for building a community digital archive of articles, images, audio, video and documents. I have presented at a number of national an