A few of us were thinking of having a board games night in the Central library tea room after work on Friday. Starting about 5:30, and going on till people need to leave.
I can bring a few ‘classics’ (Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne and one or two others).
If you’re interested, drop me a line. Don’t worry if you haven’t played these games before, they are easy to pick up and fun. (And nerdy. But hey, Library!) Partners and friends welcome!
Anton
I’ve just heard about a new set of web tools that will take text, and rewrite it, using different words. I can imagine this would be an excellent way to beat plagiarism detectors…
This is the article that drew my attention to it…
This is the text above, run through a paraphrasing tool:
I’ve quite recently caught wind of another arrangement of web instruments that will take content, and revamp it, utilizing diverse words. I can envision this would be an incredible approach to beat literary theft identifiers…
This is the article that attracted my consideration regarding it…
This is the content above, go through a summarizing instrument:
kia ora koutou,
Here are my notes from the first Library Committee meeting I’ve attended. If there are specific things you’d like me to raise there, or would like more information on, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Nekerangi presented on the Ngā Awa e Rua work he has been involved with, and it made me regret I hadn’t been able to attend the full session. reaction to it was very positive, and most academic committee members though it was a model for their colleges to emulate.
Te Paea couldn’t attend so her and Lyndsay’s presentation on community engagement was postponed until the next meeting.
My favourite part of Anne’s Librarian’s report was the Week of the Geek stuff, but there is a tonne of interesting stuff in there. As ever, it’s here:K:\Management\Reporting\UC-meetings\Library-Committee\2017
The draft Macmillan Brown collection plans were also presented, and they should be coming out of draft once they have gone through SMT. I’m sure Jo has no problem talking to anyone who is interested about them.
Nā,
Anton
I have no idea how this works (yet), but when you hit a paywalled journal article, it indicates if it can find a repository version for you.
“Get full-text of research papers as you browse, using Unpaywall’s index of ten million legal, open-access articles.”
http://unpaywall.org/
Anton.
http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Oceania/New%20Zealand%20
As usual the annual worldwide ranking for repositories has put the UC Research Repository at the top in NZ, and 132nd in the world. (119th for institutional repositories) This is because we have a lot of items, and we hold documents for those items, rather than just metadata records. Like (cough)Auckland(cough).
Anton.
Special screening of “Hidden Figures”, a movie about the women engineers at NASA during the Apollo programme, to raise funds for an NZ postgraduate scholarship for a woman in STEM.
We’re holding a fundraising special screening of Hidden Figures.132 seats are up for grabs.
When? Mon 13th Feb at 6pm
Where? Hoyts Riccarton Christchurch
Tickets cost $20 (+ a small booking fee).
Our friends up in Auckland also recently held a special screening of Hidden Figures, to contribute to their idea of a one-off postgraduate scholarship. The scholarship will cover the fees for a woman based anywhere in New Zealand to study the physical or mathematical sciences or engineering at the NZ tertiary education institution of their choice from 2018. With additional sponsorship support they have now raised enough for the first two years of the scholarship.
We’d like to help them fundraise for the third year of the scholarship, as we think this is a worthy cause.
We believe that diversity and inclusivity are key to creating better ideas, and enhancing science and innovation. In turn, this is how we create both a brighter future for New Zealand and the rest of the world.
The scholarship will be administered by the Association for Women in the Sciences (AWIS).The criteria for the scholarship will be developed by them in consultation with representatives of groups that are underrepresented in science in New Zealand, including Māori, Pasifika, and the transgender communities.
As Siouxsie Wiles and her Auckland team wrote, this fundraising effort provides an opportunity to address the
“the intersections of racism and sexism, and their ongoing impact on access to education and employment – by supporting the educational aspirations of people from communities currently underrepresented in science and technology”.
Sure, there are three options. For those that are able to give a little more, we encourage you to do so. If we fill all the theatre seats we’ll still be well short of all the funds AWIS need to create a full one-off three-year undergraduate scholarship. So we’d love people to dig a little deeper if they can. Your three options to do this are:
Sure, there are two options:
This is the incredible previously little-known story of three African-American women and their contribution to the success of the US space programme during the ‘Space Race’. Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) were working at NASA as mathematicians, and served as the ‘brains’ behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The trio “crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big“.
Watch the preview here.
Listen to an RNZ interview about the Auckland screening and fundraiser here.
We’d like to thanks 20th Century Fox and Hoyts Riccarton for their generous support towards this event.
How not to do customer service.
For those of us staying till the bitter end – let’s have a picnic on the lawn in front of the central lecture theaters tomorrow (22nd).
Here’s Philomena Cunk on mince pies:
“Grannies at Christmas still have dates and walnuts and all that acoustic Mumford And Sons sort of food. And mince pies, made of mincemeat that’s not mince or meat; so they’re not cakes, they’re liars”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/dec/20/philomena-cunk-guide-to-christmas-food
A consortium of German universities are dropping their Elsevier subscriptions in order to negotiate a better deal, including better Open Access provisions.
A laptop gets stolen, and the only copy of deeply significant data gets lost. Then the journal has to say the data isn’t available. All very embarassing.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1242.1
