Many thanks to all library staff who have given me such a warm welcome. To those I’m yet to meet I’m Peter Lund and have just arrived to take up the post of Academic Liaison Manager. For the last 9 years I’ve been working at Loughborough University Library where I led the Science Faculty team and was responsible for support for researchers across the Library service. Previously I worked in industrial R & D managing an Information Service for Akzo Nobel and as an Information Scientist with Metal Box plc. Whilst at Loughborough I won a Travelling Librarian Award which facilitated a study visit to libraries of research intensive universities in the USA. This certainly fuelled my desire to try working overseas.

I spent 6 weeks in NZ in 2000 spending some happy times tramping the Rees – Dart track, sea kayaking in the Abel Tasman national park and punting on the Avon – coincidentally all adventures fuelled by Bumper Bars as I recall. Now I’ve come back to Christchurch with my family: my wife Heather and our daughters Emma (9) and Freya (7). We all love camping, walking and boogie boarding so we reckon we will love New Zealand. Once our container arrives I hope to be cycling to campus.
I look forward to working with academic, library and other support colleagues to enhance library and information services for the UC community.