Kaihautū/Director
Bachelor Māori & Information Management Degree Programme
Te Wānanga o Raukawa
Ōtaki
New Zealand
Hinureina Mangan will be presenting on The Special Challenges and Value of Records as taonga to the mana and credo of Māori on Monday
Hinureina Mangan descends from the iwi (tribe) of the Tainui waka, one of the legendary eight original Māori immigrant canoes, and in particular the tribes known as Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Te Kiriwai in the Kāwhia moana (coastal) area and Ngāti Pourāhui in the inner fertile lands of Pirongia, part of North Island’s Waikato region.
She has a background in teaching, specifically Māori education, and experience in the Māori language, te reo Māori. She worked as a tutor at Waikato University where she gained a Bachelor of Arts degree. She was a kaiako (teacher) at kohanga reo (pre-school language units) and contributed to the creation of pre-school teaching and learning resources. She was kaiako at kura kaupapa Māori (Māori language primary schools) for children from years seven to nine.
Hinureina is currently the Kaihautū/Director of the Bachelor Māori & Information Management Degree Programme at Te Wānanga o Raukawa, a Māori language tertiary education institution in Otaki, some 100 kilometres north of Wellington. The programme began as a diploma in 1999 and gained NZ Qualification Authority as a Bachelor degree in 2002.
She describes the degree programme, saying: “We had in mind a programme that would assist iwi, hapū (sub-tribe) and whānau (family) to care for their own taonga (treasure, knowledge) about their home, at home, and by people from home. We captured the view that it be unique and distinct and encapsulate elements of the Māori worldview so that they may be expressed in five key areas specifically: systems, management, preservation, collections and intellectual & cultural property.
“The key thrust is that teaching ensures the students look at information management through Māori eyes. Fundamental to this are expressions of kaupapa (values) such as manaakitanga (generosity), rangatiratanga (ownership), wairuatanga (spirituality), ūkaipōtanga (home), pūkengatanga (skills; abilities), kaitiakitanga (preserving, maintaining), whanaungatanga (kinship); whakapapa (genealogical links), kotahitanga (unity), te reo (language).”
Hinureina Mangan’s first venture into the library, archival, museum world began when she was asked to be part of a team at Waikato Museum of Art and History Tainui Exhibition, Te Ara o Tainui. The initial work entailed interviewing twelve koroheke (male elders) and rūruhi (female elders) within the Tainui region. This progressed to assisting the curator with transcribing voice-tapes and cataloguing them, researching, translation and text selection.
She began working in the library field proper with the National Library of New Zealand in 1993 as the Takawaenga-ā-Rohe (Tainui), the Māori Liaison Librarian. She coordinated and facilitated many preservation, oral history and research seminars for iwi, hapū and whānau and assisted kura kaupapa Māori libraries with resourcing, development and strategic planning to provide better services to students and, in some cases, to their communities. She continues to work with iwi, hapū and whānau in the development and establishment of their puna maumahara, their memory banks or repositories.
Professionally, Hinureina has been the Tumuaki (President) of Te Rōpū Whakahau, the Māori in Libraries & Information Management society, and a member of the Library and Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Council. She was a member of the organising committee for the inaugural International Indigenous Librarians Forum, 1999; co-author for the publication Te Reo in Libraries; facilitator for Te Ara Tika: Guiding Voices publication; facilitated many seminars including sessions at Te Pātaka Kōrero, the resource centre at Hopuhopu, Ngāruawāhia, the seat of the Māori monarch, and presented papers at a number of conferences.
Hinureina Mangan
Kaihautū/Director
Bachelor Māori & Information Management Degree Programme
Te Wānanga o Raukawa
PO Box 119
144 Tasman Road
Ōtaki
New Zealand
Telephone: +64 (0)6 364 7820
