LTR have been keeping busy with a mix of home set-up, covid-19 response, BAU, and projects. We’ve been keeping in touch through formal and informal Skypes and Zooms, emails and Slack posts. We’re set up in a range of spaces, from lounge rooms and personal offices to cupboards and bedrooms, and have a variety of technologies, from 3 screens to single laptops.

Specifically, we’ve been working on:

• AskLive, extending hours into the evenings for some
• Enquiries generally
• Consultations with students and staff – lots of tricky referencing enquiries
• Preparing for term 2
• Marking assignments
• Creating and updating subject guides
• Maintaining the Repository
• Doing literature reviews for academics
• Keeping up to date with information resources, passing on new offers, and being calm in the face of publisher idiocy and greediness
• Liaising with academics to make sure they have the resources they need to teach
• Starting the ball rolling with Open Education Resources at UC
• Running professional development sessions
• Feeding out cheerful and helpful messages through our social media accounts
• Attending College Zoom meetings/morning teas
• Planning and making online information literacy modules
• The Arts Researchers implementation project

The last week has been challenging, but the team have made it feel like a relatively seamless transition from on to off-campus. It’s easy to take their professionalism, enthusiasm, maturity and friendliness for granted, but in testing times like these those qualities really shine out.