Director
Lindisfarne Information Consulting Ltd
Wellington
New Zealand
Amanda Cossham will be presenting on Professional development and education – identifying and meeting information needs on Wednesday
Lindisfarne Information Consulting Ltd is an information management consultancy company based in Wellington and Nelson. Amanda and co-director Sarah Welland specialise in developing records and archives management solutions for public and private sector organisations.
Amanda lectures for The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand in information and library studies. Her research interests focus on continuing professional development for records managers and librarians, including interdisciplinary approaches to information management. Information architecture is becoming a passion for her.
Originally qualifying as a librarian 20 years ago, she discovered records management in 2000, and upgraded her postgraduate library studies diploma to a master’s degree (MLIS) at Victoria University of Wellington, by specialising in archives and records. This built upon her experience with indexing, abstracting and cataloguing, and with thesaurus development.
Recent projects have included the development of classification structures and retention and disposal schedules for New Zealand public sector agencies. Lindisfarne worked with Convention Bronze Sponsor SWIM Ltd on the development of Archives New Zealand’s general disposal authority (GDA) covering district health board (DHB) records, published at the beginning of the year. Lindisfarne had particular responsibility for the non-clinical records and a review of recordkeeping practices across the DHBs.
Cossham, A.F. & Fields, A.J. (2006). Next generation libraries need next generation librarians: Library training, library education and continuing professional development. Paper written for and presented at Lianza Conference 2006: Next generation libraries He Huarahi Whakamua, 8-11 October 2006, Wellington.
Cossham, A.F. (2005). Information therapy? Web experience design? What is information architecture all about? Informaa Quarterly 21(4): 38-41.
Cossham, A. F., Fields, A. J. & Oliver, G. (2005). Where to from here?: Continuing professional development in New Zealand. Paper presented as a keynote session at IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section conference, Oslo, 10-13 August 2005. Published In Continuing Professional Development - Preparing for New Roles in Libraries: a Voyage of Discovery. Sixth World Conference on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning for the Library and Information Professions. Edited by Paul Genoni and Graham Walton. Munich, Saur.
Cossham, A. F. (2004). The professional development needs of New Zealand’s records managers. (Open Polytechnic of New Zealand working paper 4/04). Lower Hutt, New Zealand: The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. The professional development needs of New Zealand’s records managers
Cossham, A.F., & Oliver, G. (2003) Gaining knowledge and expanding the skill base: the professional development of New Zealand's records managers. Pre-forum paper and presentation at Archives and Records Education Stakeholders (ARES) Forum, Melbourne, 12-13 June 2003.
Amanda is a member of the editorial board for the New Zealand Library and Information Management Journal.
Amanda Cossham
Director
Lindisfarne Information Consulting Ltd
6 Arahanga Grove
Maupuia
Wellington6022
New Zealand
Telephone: +64 (0)27 430 9013
