The Academic Liaison Team have decided to change their team name, and Liaison Librarians have decided to change their job title.

• Liaison Librarian becomes Subject Librarian
  • ‘Liaison’ is used elsewhere in the university (there is a UC Liaison Office, with Liaison Staff), and the team thought that could be confusing. Also, we didn’t think students understood what ‘Liaison Librarian’ meant – who are we liaising with?
  • All Liaison Librarians prefer the title Subject Librarian.
• Academic Liaison Team (ALT) becomes Learning, Teaching & Research Support (LTRS)
  • Along with an aversion to the use of ‘liaison’, the team felt the use of ‘academic’ in this context was meaningless. Also, not everyone in the team is a Liaison (or Subject) Librarian, so we thought we would emphasise the Learning & Teaching/Research aspect of our roles in the team name.
  • Note that the Learning and Teaching team and the Research Services team make up the larger Learning, Teaching & Research Support team.

Please amend relevant documentation to reflect these changes.

In light of these changes email groups have been amended:

• _LR Library Academic Liaison is no more. You should use _LR Library Learning Teaching and Research Support

Also, two email groups are about to be added, in case you wish to contact the Leaning and Teaching team, or the Research Services team, only:

• _LR Library Learning Teaching
• _LR Library Research Services

Māori titles are very important to the team, and we are exploring new titles that reflect our new names.