December Pānui is going to be all about ‘best of’ lists, the 5 flash fiction pieces with the most votes, summer holidays, and silliness.

It seems like everyone has been going on awesome holiday jaunts- whether keeping it local, national or international.

So send us (Kiera, Hugh, Simon or myself) your best holiday pic of 2017 – you have right up until the 31st December 2017 to take the pic – as well be publishing this issue in the first week back in the New Year.

Aren’t the flash fiction stories amazeballs? You’ve got until 12pm on Wednesday December 13 to vote for your favourite story.

In case those links aren’t working for you, you can find the stories here: K:\LIBR-Library\Management\Communications\LTR-Newsletters\Panui 2.0\Flash-fiction.docx

and the voting page here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CN3ZRN3

The winning story will be announced on Counterculture on Thursday December 14 and the winning author must contact either Simon, Kiera, Hugh or myself to claim their prize (some entries were very anonymous!!). The winning author may or may not want us to announce their identity,  but if you see someone wearing a sash and stuffing their face with Russian fudge, that might be a clue.

Btw, some editors have submitted stories but we have not voted in order to keep things fair:)

Ngāi Tahu launched an online atlas of Ngāi Tahu place names over the weekend, called Kā Huru Manu.

(Takerei Norton talked about the hard work of creating this amazing resource at the LIANZA conference.)

You can check it out here:  http://kahurumanu.co.nz/atlas

Such an amazing resource!

Brian M, Anton, Kiera and I have been working on a project this year trialling delivering information literacy content via social media, choosing Facebook as our platform.

We have now completed the project, finding that the most successful way to distribute information literacy content is by targeting posts to specific, large, 100-level papers and tag relevant clubs. Targeting posts in this way resulted in approximately double the reach and engagement than the average post on the UC Facebook page, suggesting this content was valued by our followers.

We have made the following recommendations:

1. Delivering information literacy via Facebook be established as business as usual.
2. That it be targeted to align with particular large 100-level courses
3. Content needs to be developed by LT&R team; can be scheduled by marketing team

If you would like to read the full, unabridged project closure report, it is here:  K:\LIBR-Library\Projects\SocialMedia – Info Lit\Project-closure-report-SocialMedia-InfoLit-2017.docx

I’ve created a folder on the K drive to save photos of the shindig yesterday to farewell Te Puna Ako/Education Library:

K:\LIBR-Library\Operations\Photos\EducationLibraryFarewell

Feel free to take a gander, and of course, save your own pics there:)

Interesting article on Slate in the last week about the rise of streaming only shows, and the uncertainty about how/if they are being preserved:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/11/will_streaming_only_shows_always_be_available.html

Just a headup about a student we’ve had at Education from Open Polytechnic wanting electronic articles on early childhood education. He has been advised that we can’t provide copies, pdf or hardcopy of articles, as we’d be breaking our licensing agreements and that he needs to use Open Polytechnic resources. He has been back two days in a row, asking different staff members. This morning he was very pushy and had to be asked to leave. It seems likely he might try other libraries so just be wary if you get a request for PDFs of articles on early childhood and check the requester is UC student/staff.

This visual representation of LC Collection holdings by Matt Miller is oddly mesmerising (the dots do stop moving!).

You can view each class and then hover over the dots to see more detail about each category. PR is not as big as I thought it’d be.

https://medium.com/@thisismattmiller/library-of-congress-holdings-by-lcc-51fb5eb868f2

https://medium.com/@thisismattmiller/library-of-congress-holdings-by-lcc-51fb5eb868f2

The September issue of Pānui is published and available for your perusal:

K:/LIBR-Library/Management/Communications/LTR-Newsletters/Panui 2.0/2017-09-LTR-Panui.pdf

(the link won’t work with Firefox and Chrome, but should with IE ).

Anton, Brian, Kiera and I are presenting a paper at the LIANZA conference on delivering information literacy content via Facebook and we’d like to practice our presentation with a real live audience:)

If you have time/are interested in our presentation, please come along to our practice session in Room 210 on Wednesday 20 September from 2-3pm.  We welcome feedback.

You can book here or just rock up.