This is the second in our periodic reporting on the tasks the LTR team have completed since the previous report (on 18 June 2021).

This comes from our visual management board, so it doesn’t include everything we’ve done, just the project-type activities.

• Scopus Affiliations: Looking at all the authors from 2015-2021 who are affiliated to UC in Scopus, but are not in Elements and figuring out who they are/what department they work with.
• Academics attitudes to textbooks research: Fiona, Lisa and Sara, along with Cheryl Brown (UC) and Richard White (Otago), surveyed academics nationally to establish how they view textbook use, how they choose their textbooks and their attitude to open textbooks. Fiona produced a report on the survey findings and we will be presenting the results at the LIANZA conference in November.
• Visualise Your Thesis: This year’s competition asked our postgraduate students to create a one-minute video that explains their research to a general audience. We had 13 entries, representing all of the colleges.
• Literature for Edu Mātauranga Māori endorsement: This involved the provision of a compilation of literature to tautoko the development of the new Batchelor of Teaching and Learning with an endorsement in Mātauranga Māori. The focus was on Māori and Indigenous pedagogies/ways of teaching & learning, with the idea that the research could help inform how the endorsement might be taught by lecturers, as well as content for the students of the course.
• Video introductions: Filming Introductions for MB subject specialists
• Omeka S for teaching and research support: The creation of an Omeka S homepage for UC. Guidelines and policy for users detailed on this page. Other library teams collaborating.
• SCIE 101 support: Creating a new online searching module that includes finding Māori, Pacific and Indigenous material. Also, library tip videos, Librarian introductions videos. Tutorial activity review. Caroline Syddall and Jemma Wiki also contributing.