Library journal have a great list of places to find library themed masks.  Not cheap, but maybe a bulk order could cut down on shipping costs.

https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=put-your-nose-in-a-book-masks-library-style-covid-19

The Australasian Research Management Society have set up a zoom session for three Librarians to talk about how libraries help researchers achieve more impact for their work.  Jess Howie from Waikato and Eleanor Colla from UNE in Australia and I will be talking.

You’ll need to get a free membership with ARMs to register.

https://www.researchmanagement.org.au/events/pd-sessions-zoom-connecting-library-impact

This webinar brings together a panel of three librarians to discuss what librarians are doing to support research impact within the Australian and New Zealand contexts and what additional skills, and help they can provide to the impact endeavour. We invite participants to send questions in advance of the discussion should they like to. The session will begin with an overview and be followed by a valuable discussion providing insights into the many linkages between the library and research management.

A great suggestion for a workshop came through just before Easter: a workshop on practical copyright issues for Librarians (and their friends).

Date:Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm

We’ve put together a few presenters who will talk about some of those arcane things people mention, but play a bog part in what information we are legally allowed to give access to.

Interloans, the act and licences beyond the act – Sue Thompson
What is the CLNZ, and how does it work? – Rachael McGregor
Who owns what – theses and ownership – Anton Angelo

Then there will be a lot of time for questions.  In fact, if you have questions, pass them on to me and I’ll make sure they get raised first.

Register:

https://canterbury.libcal.com/event/5275760

Join:

Topic: Practical Copyright
Time: Apr 21, 2020 02:00 PM Auckland, Wellington

Join Zoom Meeting
https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/91221872225

Some of us have created a chat space in Slack.  Its not an official works space, more like a tearoom thing.

There are a couple of ‘channels’ or rooms – one for general chit chat (general) and one for just playing in (random).  If this is useful for you, you can create your own team rooms as well.

If you want to join in:

https://join.slack.com/t/uclibrary/shared_invite/zt-cxt1u4qp-c2OOgzPHv1iz4cH4lT1Crg 

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Creative Commons have released a browser plugin to search for stuff you can reuse, and an easy way to attribute it properly.

https://creativecommons.org/2020/01/06/cc-search-browser-extension/ 

This will be really useful for students who want to find images or other media to put in the work without worrying about transgressing copyright.

“Grading-woe” by Trent G Hill is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Megan in Finance has been collecting ugly mugs to donate to the cup library downstairs in Puaka-James Hight.  Got any at home that you could Marie Kondo into a bag, bring to work and we can put to work saving single use cups from being buried alive in landfill?  Who thinks of the disposable cups!?!

Drop them off to me, or to the people in the caf’

Anton

Dilemmas of our time: Unconscious (implicit) bias and race relations

By Dr Benjamin Reese Jr

Vice President, Institutional Equity and Duke Hospital System, Duke University

US race relations expert and internationally-renown speaker 

In spite of our best efforts to treat others in an equitable and fair manner, as humans, we are prone to unconscious racial bias.  Life experiences, the media, the influence of peers, etc. can contribute to the development of unconscious and unintended bias.  We are often surprised when we exhibit behaviors reflective of negative biases … behaviors that can differ from our conscious, or explicit attitudes.  Focused and deliberate strategies hold promise for managing the expression of negative implicit racial biases.

What are some critical lessons for us in the aftermath of Christchurch 15/3?

About Dr Benjamin Reese Jr

Clinical psychologist and Vice President for Institutional Equity at Duke University and Head of Duke Hospital System.  Immediate past president of the US National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE).  Represented both International Council of Psychologists and the World Federation for Mental Health at the United Nations. In 2016, the North Carolina Business Journal awarded him their Lifetime Diversity Achievement Award in recognition of almost 50 years of leadership of issues of race relations and diversity. Specialize in implicit bias, race relations, diversity/inclusion training, and conflict resolution. More than 45 years experience in race relations and diversity and is a highly sought after national and international speaker, workshop facilitator and consultant to higher education, not-for-profit organizations, and the corporate environment.

Venue: A3 Lecture theatre, University of Canterbury

Time: 6-8pm, Thurs 25 July 2019

Refreshments will be served

ALL WELCOME

Kia ora koutou,

Next week’s salon, on the merger with Lincoln, has been postponed until next season.

Thank for all the help with this season’s events, I think the Salon is going from strength to strength!

Anton.