It is early days and things were relatively quiet yesterday the first day in the Red traffic lights.

Yesterday Library Managers reviewed our Library Services under COVID-19 Protection Framework to ensure our services aligned with the government and UC guidelines.    We have reduced the distancing in Libraries on our website from 2M to 1M to be consistent with university messaging however at this time the limits on total numbers in each library remains based on 2M.  We are not currently reaching these limits.   We have also changed who can access the Library.   PJH is open to the community, including external borrowers, and will remain so during enrolment.   MB is open to external borrowers on request.  We have taken the pragmatic decision to restrict EPS to staff and students with swipe card access as the cost of security guards is not justified at this point.   We will review access before the start of the semester or earlier if required.

Library managers are looking at how services will run when Omicron starts to spread more widely.   More on this later.

The university has had a number of questions from staff about working from home and mask wearing as there are some inconsistencies in practice across campus.   Updated advice should be available soon.

The Auditors are working in the space between the Staff Room and my office.   They are working closely with Finance and are normally on campus for around 4 weeks.

Take care of yourself and others.

Ngā mihi nui
Anne