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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 TRW’s original constitution created in the 1990s. They still have relevance today and form the basis for TRW 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.

Structure 

Te Rōpū Whakahau consists of two main groups, with Ngā Kaiwhakahau as the executive council representing the membership. Members may also create their own regional associations. These now include Te Tai Tokerau, Te Hikuroa, and Tirohanga-ā-Kaimai.

Ngā Kaiwhakahau is made up of three office holders, Tumuaki (President), Kaiawhina (Secretary) and Kaitiaki Putea (Treasurer), and no more than seven positions set aside for Kaiwhakahau or councillors.
Ngā Kaiwhakahau meet regularly, six times a year from July through June of the following year.