Moira Fraser Consulting

Moira has worked as a consultant since 2012, interspersed with periods of full time employment.  She specialises in continuous improvement of information, research and library services.   While many of her assignments have been overseas she has also undertaken library and information services roles and completed information management assignments in NZ. 

Selected publications

Developing a research service for the Hluttaw/Parliament of Myanmar.  Paper presented to the pre-conference of the IFLA Section for Library and Research Services to Parliaments, August 2015, Capetown.

Fast Forward to the Future: building a digital repository for the Myanmar Parliament to store, organize and make accessible parliament’s documents for the use of Members of Parliament, parliamentary Staff and Myanmar citizens. Paper presented at IFLA Joint Session of Law Libraries with Parliamentary Libraries, Information Technology and Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE), August 2014, Lyon, France.

Research services and library services in parliamentary libraries.   Presentation to the pre-conference of the IFLA Section for Library and Research Services to Parliaments, August 2012, Helsinki.

New Zealand Parliament Election induction project 2011.  Presentation to the IFLA Section for LIbrary and Research Services to Parliaments, August 2012

Making information more powerful: the work of parliamentary libraries.  Presentation to the World e-Parliament Conference., September 2012, Rome

Service continuity through 10,000 earthquakes in Christchurch: presentation to IFLA IT Section,16th August 2012.  Helsinki. Video presentation compiled from interviews with 4 Christchurch library services.

Using Web 2.0 to increase the use of digital resources.  Presentation to the Training Day for Latin American and Caribbean Parliamentary Libraries in San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 2011.

The New Zealand Parliamentary Library and the wider development of Parliamentary Libraries over 150 years. Paper published in Library Trends issue on parliamentary libraries, written by Moira Fraser and John E. Martin which discusses the development of the NZ Parliamentary Library in the context of other significant parliamentary libraries in the English-speaking world.