Kia ora Library whanau,

There are yoyo’s in the tearooms.

Thank you for your friendship, your professional support and for the good times at UC Library.

Alison Mc

A campaign is being run in lecture theatres this week as a follow-on to the Online Library Induction. Our hunch is that students are more likely to ask for help from Library staff when they know specifically how Library staff can help them with aspects of their academic assignments and when they are reminded at the time when they are most likely to need help. Brian has made a PowerPoint presentation featuring the three billboards below referencing the very current hit movie “Three billboards outside Ebbing Missouri”. It has been installed on all PC’s in lecture theatres. We’ve asked academic staff to click on the icon on the desktop every time they finish lecturing this week so that it runs during the transition period between lectures. UCSA are also getting on board so fingers crossed we’ll have some student reps starting the presentation if academic staff forget to.

Thank you to Joan and Bob for fixing the Dinosaur over the weekend.

Now – who’d like to have a go at wearing the costume?
Volunteers wanted this Week of the Geek. You know you want to!

The dinosaur suit for Week of the Geek is not operating as expected. It’s in Lyndsay’s office. If you think you can fix it I’d be very grateful. It involves batteries.

The UC Library Salon will be launched this Wednesday 14th February 12.00 -1.00 in Central Library.

We’ve got –
*A theme: Graduate profile: Cynical tick box or preparing for the real world?
*Provocateurs: Darryn Russell and Catherina Moran
*A Facilitator: Anton Angelo
*The Location: The comfortable seating area, Level 3 Central Library
*The Time: Wednesday 14th February 12.00 – 1.00
*The cups of tea

Now we need academic staff to join the conversation. Please use your networks to personally invite as many academic staff as you can to come along. If you knw them well send them an email or share the UC Salon Facebook

There will also be posters. If you’ve got good ideas for places where academic staff hang out please add in a comment and we’ll try to get a poster there.

Next week is going to be busy!

* Library teaching starts next week with teacher education students in for onsite intensives
* Mana Reo – Kia puāwai (Reo Power Hour) will be soft launched on Monday in the Central Library, Level 4 Kōrero Zone
* International enrolments will take place in Central Library, level 3 all week
* The Get Fresh Pasifika orientation campus tours might pop in on Thursday and Library staff will be involved in their Generate Challenge
* Customer Services folk will be meeting and greeting all week
* Library staff will be present at the UC International Welcome lunchtime expo on Monday and at O’Day on Friday
* IT Services will have additional Help Desk staff in Central Library from Monday for password resets, wifi set up etc
* The first Library Salon event will be on Wednesday 14th 12.00 – 1.00 in Central Library – Graduate Profile: Cynical tick box or preparing for the real world?
* Kōrero sessions for Education cohorts will be led by Waitangi in Te Ao Marama

As well as all of this we’ll have “Love your Library” themed messaging and displays. There will be messaging promoting AskLive and UC Library Facebook on UC screens and social media.

Phew! Is there anything else? Comment or post to share

A Library Induction module will be sent to all new students before they arrive at UC. The UC International Welcome package will be emailed on Thursday 1st Feb to all new International students and the UC Orientation, one week to go, what you need to know package on Friday 9th Feb to all new-to-UC students (excluding International students)

Have a play in the sandbox version of the Library Induction module to familiarise yourself with the content and get the badge for your Learn profile!

Thanks to the Induction to the Library project group for their work to make this real. This is the first milestone for the project and achieves our operational goal 2.13 to Design and deliver targeted library inductions for all international students and all new to UC students.

Now we’ll keep an eye on Learn, Facebook and AskLive to see how students engage with the induction.

The Summer Salon series project group met on Monday and agreed to change the timeframes for the pilot for this joint initiative of the Library Committee and the Library.

It was decided:
• The first Salon will be hosted in February and not on Friday 19th January
It was agree to stretch the series out over the first semester hosting one salon event each month rather than running with the originally conceived summer series.
• Friday may not be the best day to host the Salon.
It was agreed to survey staff to discover preferred times and days of the week in order to maximise the likelihood of getting good attendance

We think that taking the time to engage with staff and waiting until more people are back on campus will lead to a better outcome for the pilot.

We’ll continue the work of identifying suitably provocative topics for discussion and thought leaders to introduce them. If you’ve got suggestions please send them to a member of the project group – Lyndsay Ainsworth, Alison McIntyre, Rā Steer, Anton Angelo, Ray Kirk and Mike Grimshaw

Kia ora koutou,

LT&RS and MB Specialists will be at a professional development workshop on Thursday and Friday mornings. Please use usual referral methods if enquirers call while they are out – Booking an appointment is best.

Dr Li Wang will be visiting UC next week. She is the Learning Support Services Manager at University of Auckland, Libraries and Learning Services. She will give a lecture on Thursday 30th November 2.00 – 3.00 in E14 on Librarians and learning advisors: New roles in university teaching and learning. Interested library staff are encouraged to attend. Please spread the work and encourage folk in your UC networks to come along too. There’s an Intercom post and the event will be listed in the UCStaff e-newsletter on Friday.

She will also deliver two half day workshops with subject librarians and Macmillan Brown Library specialists on curriculum integration of academic and information literacy.