Two vacant posts in the Academic Liaison Team have now been advertised (or will be imminently!)

The positions are both in the Learning and Teaching services structure. One will report to Sara as Deputy Manager, Learning and Teaching and will have subject responsibilities in Education.

The other one will report to me as Manager, Learning and Teaching and will have subject responsibilities in Engineering.

For full details or to apply see the UC Careers website

Today marked the beginning of the new management and reporting structure for the Academic Liaison Team. The changes are as follows –

• We welcomed Anton Angelo to the team
• Sara started her new role as Deputy Manager, Learning and Teaching Services
• Liaison Librarians adopted new position descriptions – either Liaison Librarian – Research, or Liaison Librarian – Learning and Teaching
• Alison’s position title changed to Manager, Learning and Teaching Services

Reporting lines in the team are –

Research team: Alison Johnston, Janette Nicolle, Kerry Gilmour, Dave Lane, Anton Angelo. Manager Stuart Broughton

Learning and Teaching: –

Dave Clemens, Max Podstolski, Elizabeth Cooke, Kathryn Andrews, Kim Allan, Nick Scullin. Manager Sara Roberts

Sara Roberts, Theresa Buller, Margaret Paterson, John Arnold, Aurelia Arona. Manager Alison McIntyre

You are warmly invited to attend a farewell gathering for Aurelia.

When: Tuesday 3rd May 2016, from 3.00 pm

Where: Puaka-James Hight Room 210

Please RSVP to Janette Winks by midday on Thursday 28th April for catering purposes.

 I’m delighted to share the news that Sara Roberts has been appointed as the Deputy Manager, Learning and Teaching Services. She will start in her new role on Monday 2^nd May 2016.

Congratulations Sara.

Catch up on the LT&R news in the Poutū-te-rangi (Pānui.

In this issue:

• PhD student quoted – “you guys are amazing!!
• Easter opening popular with students
• Education Library relocation update
• Lively discussion at UC Research Committee re Research Data
• Record breaking info lit

Read it here

Congratulations to Aurelia who has been appointed to the role of Kaiwhakahaere Ratonga Māori at Christchurch City Libraries.

Her new role is a leadership role for which I think she will be very well suited. She will lead the Māori Services Team. 

Of course this means she has resigned her position here at UC. Aurelia’s last day at UC will be Thursday 5^th May. Hers will be big shoes to fill.

Since Learn was selected as UC’s copyright management tool, the Copyright Project team has developed updates to the Learn Course Material tool to meet the standards necessary for our upcoming audit from Copyright Licensing New Zealand. The updates will be rolled out on Thursday 24^th March.

Most of the changes will operate behind the scenes to collect data for the reports that will be run at the end of each semester. However, academic staff might notice some changes when they are uploading material to Learn. You may receive inquiries about the new uploading process. Training material will be available concurrently with the release, in the form of a Help Module in Learn. Academic Staff will be notified via the Learn news forum and Intercom.

The new features include:

• The ability to add online content via the Course Material tool using the URL or digital object identifiers (DOI). DOI’s are unique codes assigned to journal articles, and are more stable than traditional URLs/links.
• Learn will automatically add bibliographic information when given a DOI.
• Students will be able to download all items uploaded to a course as Course Material in a single PDF, with a title page and index.
• When dragging and dropping material into a course, Learn will recognize files that already exist in the system and instantly create a new resource with the appropriate bibliographic details.
• Background tools to ensure metadata quality/accurate citations.

Alison McIntyre
Academic Liaison Manager

This new role in the Academic Liaison Team is now advertised.

Deputy Manager, Learning and Teaching Services – https://ucvacancies.canterbury.ac.nz  job ID 3436.

The closing date is Sunday 20^th March.

The Faculty of Arts are hosting a seminar series on interdisciplinary notions of New Zealand culture.

The series seeks to address questions such as How might we think critically about New Zealand, its culture/s, society, history, identity, languages, beliefs and peoples? What might it mean to be Maori, Pakeha, Pasifika, new migrant?

The first series in the seminar will be presented by our very own Chair of the Library Committee, Mike Grimshaw. His topic is Pakeha prophets in the wilderness: the South Island myth revisited.

Friday 4 March
1pm-2pm
Room 213, Psych-Soci building

This seminar critically re-enages with questions of New Zealand & South Island location and identity via the mid-twentieth century work of Charles Brasch, Allen Curnow & Monte Holcroft. It situates their cultural nationalism in reference to cultural and religious theory, arguing we need to  rethink debates of location and identity for Pakeha regarding both ‘New Zealand’ and the ‘South Island’ as a question of belief in the nihilistic space of modernity.

Saharu Shoji will be working in the Academic Liaison Team for the next 6 weeks to help with second tier enquiry service during the busy start of the academic year.

Saharu will be based in the Central Library. She’ll contribute to the Liaison Librarian drop-in service between 11.00 and 2.00 at the Information Desk and she’ll be available to help out at other busy times. Saharu will be present in AskLive and available to provide extra support or to receive tier 2 enquiries between 10.00 and 4.00. She’ll  help with the implementation of the new Book a Librarian service as well as various support roles within the Academic Liaison Team. She can be contacted on ext. 7804.

So what exactly is a tier  2 enquiry?

Second tier enquiries are those tricky in between ones that require more time or more delving to get to the bottom of the problem than can be managed at first point of contact at Information Desks, while roving or in AskLive. As opposed to third tier enquiries, they don’t necessarily require highly specialized subject knowledge rather a broad understanding of how things work in the Library and a good knowledge of who to go to for specialist enquiries.