You might remember that periodically I post in Counterculture the completed tasks from the LTR visualisation board, so you can see that we do actually get stuff done… I haven’t done this for a long time and the completed tasks have been building up, so apologies for this being a super-long post. In fact, the previous report was on 1 October 2021. This isn’t everything we’ve done, just the projects and one-off (even if they repeat each year) activities.

If you’d like further details about any of these let me know and I can put you on to the person or team who did the work.

1. SciVal metrics report: Ian Wright requested a report that looked at how UC has been performing against the other New Zealand universities, within each of the All Science Journal Classification codes, and between each Faculty/Department. This data was gathered from SciVal and many, many graphs were made.
2. THE impact rankings – policies: As part of the THE impact rankings, we look at how UC is performing against each UN Sustainable Development Goal, and we get points based on a number of categories. One of these categories is whether we have policies on a range of topics (e.g. equal pay, discrimination, food waste etc.). Created a document that matched the SDG requirement with the related UC policy.
3. SciVal rollout: Marketed SciVal as new research metrics tool available at UC, created a subject guide to answer some of the more common SciVal questions, facilitated training sessions, met with academics, created the UC structure within SciVal, and generally made sure it was working, and the people who wanted to use SciVal, could.
4. Research Centre review: Created groups within SciVal for each UC Research Centre, and pulled out key research performance metrics to add to a larger report that R&I were creating.
5. SDG data gathering: Downloading rankings data from Times Higher Education so that we could benchmark UC against other institutions to find areas where we could improve our own scores.
6. Provide research and literature for Ngā Hau e Whā o Tāwhirimātea: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning for the Tertiary Sector publication, as well as co-authoring a chapter and part of editing team for the overall publication.
7. Induction for new students – Creation of a LEARN page with 10 useful things for new students to know about the Library.
8. Review EndNote at UC. Comprehensive review of Bibliographic services including EndNote. Recommendation to keep EndNote, but to also expand into Zotero.
9. ENGR101- Helping new Engineering students to succeed in an early assignment. The size of the cohort makes this a significant task.
10. Online Module Creation- Creating bite-sized learning modules and videos that can be incorporated into any Learn page.
11. Catapult Courses Project- Identifying where library support can help with successful outcomes in key early courses, and developing content to support students to achieve.
12. PSYC105 – Working with Fleur Pawsey (course coordinator), Donna Thompson (Learning Design and Technology Team) and Jessica from Te Rua Makerspace, a library lab was developed which students could complete in-person or online. It was a big undertaking – over 1000 students and 30 lab groups.
13. APA guide: improve navigation with accordions. Longer pages are now divided into digestible sections for easy reading and linking.
14. There is now an embedded legal research component in CRJU202. A similar component is taught in LAWS205 which now means that LLB and BCJ both encounter the same legal research skill instruction within their degree. This should have flow-on effects for the legal research skills of all students. We are the only law school in NZ teaching legal research skills in this way.