Heather Mccaskill Email & Phone Number

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Support Community-Driven Emergency Management initiatives that build preparedness capacity and increase social capital• Work alongside community leaders to understand local issues, identify resources and facilitate opportunities to enhance resilience• Facilitate and deliver presentations and workshops to help schools, early childhood centres, residential care facilities and other organisations develop emergency plans• Facilitate Community Response Exercises, familiarising communities with their Community Emergency Hub guides and reviewing community assets• Liaise with and support CDEM volunteer and the CDEM volunteer programme• Support local or regional level responses by providing emergency management advice, guidance and expertise across the emergency management system.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Developing and maintaining relationships with preschools, schools, rest homes, and local organisations to promote and deliver outreach and mobile library services• Team member of working group for development of new mobile library vehicles, Pūrehurehu and Mangaroa• Coordinating the Housebound services project, focusing on delivering home library services to those unable to visit the library due to illness, age, or accessibility barriers• Assisting customers with reference enquiries and circulation of library material using the SirsiDynix library management system as part of the Kōtui consortium• Planning, supporting, and running holiday activities, educational talks and community gaming events• Organised panel on innovative library programming at LIANZA conference 2021, recruiting and coordinating panellists from libraries around New Zealand• Upper Hutt City Council EOC – Intelligence team member, including Upper Hutt Covid response in 2020 and 2021• Deployed as Logistics team member for Westport floods response in July 2021

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• New Johnsonville Library operations working group member – Collections, Makerspace, and Programming work streams• STEAMed team member – assisting with the implementation of the maker kits and the development of STEAM related services and programmes• Introduced and delivered digital literacy workshops for adults at Wellington City Libraries in partnership with the Digital Inclusion Alliance Aotearoa• eLibrary support team member – assisting customers and staff with eLibrary enquiries and training• Coordinating the development and management of the Tawa Library Facebook page• Editing and updating the Tawa Library branch web page• Delivering children and young adult services – Preschool story times, robotics/tech time, and AnyQuestions operator• Initiated Dungeons and Dragons programming for young adults, recruiting volunteers to deliver fortnightly sessions• Coordinating the development and management of library collections on Excio• Assisting customers with reference enquiries and circulation of library material using the Carl.X library management system• Part-time Collection Development team member including book selection, purchasing, and weeding of children and young adult material• Administrative tasks such as banking, end of month statistics, stationery ordering, and TROVE administrator• Shelving, mending, weeding and withdrawing items• PSA union delegate for Tawa and Johnsonville libraries, working with delegates across Wellington City Council advocating for PSA members in the workplace• Wellington City Council EOC – Intelligence and Logistics team member, including Wellington response to the Kaikōura earthquake in November 2016

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Editing webpages, creating intranet desk reference pages, and answering website enquiries from customers • Contributing towards the library social media Twitter and Facebook pages as well as publishing blog posts• Arranged a series of events for the Shakespeare 400th anniversary in partnership with the Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ• Supporting the libraries digital projects, including the new Heritage films and Ruth Gotlieb oral history pages, library homepage redevelopment, and heritage digitisation for Recollect• Assisting with customer reference enquiries

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Christchurch

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Library And Information Science

He Papa Reo (Certificate In Māori Language)

He Papa Tikanga (Certificate In Tikanga Māori)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy