With Gabrielle Faith’s resignation last year and Caroline Syddall moving to the Pacific Library Liaison role , there were two vacant positions at MB. Following feedback from the MB tīma, research into consultation/teaching statistics, discussion with library managers, and consultation with the TEU, the Research Services Librarian role will reduce to 0.5 (from 0.8) and the Library Assistant role will be reconfigured as a 0.8 Co-ordinator role.

The Research Services Librarian role is decreasing because the Pasifika support and line management components have been removed. The co-ordinator role will pick up the line management aspect.

The Research Services Librarian role has been merged with Damian Cairns’s Special Collections Librarian role, creating a role entitled Research Services Librarian, Macmillan Brown Library. This effectively changes Damian’s subject specialty from Science to New Zealand history. This change allows the Pasifika support component of the original Research Services Librarian role to be reallocated to the Learning, Teaching and Research Team to better support the Library’s and the University’s strategic goals to improve support of Pasifika students and Pasifika research.

Damian’s reporting line changes to reporting solely to the Manager, Cultural Heritage and Macmillan Brown Library and he will be based full time in the Macmillan Brown Library from Monday 16 February.