Please note that some of these issues and decisions may have to be revisited because of decisions being made at a university-level
Notes
- Teams are busier now that Term 2 has begun. AskLive is busy.
- Getting work equipment for staff at home is proving to be difficult
Level 3
- There is a process, and forms, for requesting staff work on campus at Level 3. There is also a Health & Safety plan
- Students are asking for access to the library for study space, and for access to printers
- Balancing learning, teaching and research requirements with safety guidelines and staff and student wellbeing is difficult
- Requests and advice from UC, the Tertiary Education Commission, CONZUL, and the government can vary, and in some cases are changing and developing daily
- The library wants to be constructive in its response
- At this stage providing study space is not possible due to the health and safety requirements at Level 3
- Priority is supporting online learning including scanning material for Learn
- We will also provide a ‘click and deliver’ or ‘click and collect’ service for staff and postgraduate research students for physical items
- We may provide some other restricted services on a case-by-case basis
- Our priorities are to provide access to physical material (either by scanning it or by making the physical copy available) for teaching purposes, and for staff and postgraduate student research
- We will look at two shifts – one morning and one afternoon – for a small team to collect and scan material, and release it to staff and students by the most appropriate means
- Managers will work on how a wider service, either later in L3 or in L2, will work
Social distancing will be very important over winter with the flu season coming. I asked my doctor and she said that social distancing measures will apply just as much with winter coming. Will there be a limit on numbers on campus or in say the library at any one time The US are predicting a resurgence of COVID-19 when their winter kicks in. I know that there situation is a very different from ours: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/121178553/coronavirus-second-worse-wave-of-covid19-in-winter-likely
We will be following the social distancing advice on the govt website https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/resources/tables/COVID-19-alert-levels-detailed.pdf
This indicates no physical distancing required once we get to level 1.