Kia ora koutou, below are some of the things that have been occupying my time over the last few months and some updates related to my areas of work.

Henry Field Relocation – I have been working with Kaitlyn Moulder (Campus Space Advisor) and Caitlin Mather (Project Manager) from FM on this project, along with Helen  and Fiona T. It has involved a lot of planning, collating information, advising and consultation with others. Work has started on packing some collections into boxes, in preparation for moving.  Glenna is currently supervising a team of casual staff in Henry Field to pack journals into boxes to move to Law Basement. The bulk of the monographs and the Education collections will be packed and moved by external providers into the Otakaro Annex. We have not been informed of dates for this yet but it will probably be around July. Work is still ongoing to find a new location for the Art Collection.

Physical Collections Project – This is still ongoing.  Sue Thompson, Megan Dale and Sandra Gover have been beavering away. The journal withdrawals in Law Basement have been completed, and now items are being shuffled to make room for journals from Henry Field.  After this work is done all journals in storage will be located in Law Basement.  There has also been monograph withdrawals from level 8 to 11 of PJH and this will continue as we plan to make changes to spaces on levels 8 and 11 at the end of the year.

Open Athens – A huge thanks to Romy for leading the implementation of Open Athens over the last few months.  This has been a very complex and challenging project involving collaboration with our Digital Service colleagues, Ebsco and OpenAthens team. My involvement has been very small – attend a few meetings and to assist with some decision making but the team have done all the hard work.  There are still a few outstanding tasks to complete but we will end our Ezyproxy subscription in June.

Digital Services Update – UC Digital Services (formerly ITS) have appointed Jamie Hart as the Research and Library Product Manager. She has worked at LexisNexis as a product manager and has also worked as a lawyer. She will be starting on 9 May.  Margaret Adam will sit within her team. Not sure how much we will have to do with that team yet.

In case you missed this post on Tū ki te tahi, Digital Services have a new intranet site and is a good place to check if a system is not operational.

Service Now – this is the name of the system which will replace Assyst for logging IT issues etc. Go live date for Service Now is 29 June and there will be training provided prior to the implementation so watch this space.

Ngā mihi,
Jenny