The Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at UC, Lawrence Patchett, will be giving a reading tomorrow from his new book The Burning River. The blurb for this novel is:
“In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van’s life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau and Matewai, he mines plastic and trades to survive. When a young visitor summons him to the fenced settlement on the hill, he is offered a new and frightening responsibility—a perilous inland journey that leads to a tense confrontation and the prospect of a rebuilt world.”
I am currently reading his collection of stories, I got his blood on me: frontier tales, and really enjoying it so am looking forward to this reading. Please join us to hear him read and then join in the follow-up Q&A.
*The reading will take place in the area on Level 2 behind The Den.
During Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, approximately 70 new entrants from Ilam Primary School visited the Central Library for story time. It was a team effort reading to so many children – we split into three groups and read on Levels 2, 3 and 4 (does that count as a library take-over!).
It was lovely this week to receive the following from Ilam Primary:) Good work team!
Big thanks to Lydia for liaising with Ilam Primary to arrange the story times.
We are very fortunate to be hosting an event in UC Puna as part of a series of lectures, seminars and readings being organised by the Pacific Development Team around the Education to Liberate: Dawn Raids exhibition (find out more here: http://bit.ly/2lONLer).
It will be a public event hosted on Level 4 of Central Library ; library staff are also encouraged to attend and can book here: https://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development/DawnRaid (so you can get it in your calendars:) This is a great opportunity for us to learn about a period of New Zealand history that impacted greatly on Pacific people, with ramifications that continue into the present day.
UC Library has developed an open access strategy, with one of the specific goals being to get 80% of all UC research outputs being lodged in the UC Research Repository.
Next week there a workshop is being run covering the following:
Understand UC Library’s open access strategy, and specific objectives.
Identify our individual roles in helping achieve these objectives
Identify support (e.g. resources) required.
If you would like to attend a workshop they are on at the following times (both workshops are the same):
Tuesday 10 September 10:30-12pm Engineering Core 129 (Meeting Room 1)
Thursday 12 September 2-3:30pm, Rehua 529
All welcome.
(It would be helpful if you could let me know if you plan to attend so I can make sure I have booked a big enough room!)
Over the next few weeks it is likely there will be questions at the front desk, via email and on ASKLive regarding finding School Journal stories in our collection. This is for an assignment for TECP212 that is due on Monday 19 August.
Students have received instruction in locating school journal stories using the Journal Surf database, and there is a handout detailing these instructions on the TECP212 Learn site (the Assessment section in particular). This handout is saved here: K:\LIBR-Library\Academic-Support\Teaching\Subject-specific\Education\TECP212 Journal Surf instructions (1).docx
On campus students have been advised they can find the relevant article using the database, then find the relevant volume of School Journal using the library catalogue. At this point, they can either request the item to go on the hold shelf or go and locate the item on Level 4.
Distance students have been advised to email library@canterbury.ac.nz with the item details requesting a scanned copy of the particular story they need.
The other query that is likely is how to reference a School Journal story. There are exemplars on the Education Subject Guide.
It can be hard for the teams maintaining our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram platforms to keep coming up with content day after day.
But we know that you’ll all be coming across lots of cool stuff around campus, Christchurch and online that our followers would love to see.
Facebook: Interesting/funny news articles and memes about libraries/studying/university/student life
Twitter: Links to interesting research happening at UC/Developments in scholarly publishing/New research tools/Funny research/UC Library collections being used in research
Instagram: Interesting/Funny/Beautiful photos of things around campus
Please send social media content suggestions to librarymarketing@canterbury.ac.nz
We’re also plotting ways to build upon our usual platforms in 2019, including
Instagram: including pinned stories highlighting how the library supports students in each college, and promoting UC Library events, publicising the subject librarians.
Facebook: the information literacy posts this year will be hashtagged #UCLibraryStudyBuddy with a little octopus mascot called Wheke (will also be featuring in Lib101 modules being developed for LEARN) and we’re focussing on LAWS110; CRJU101; MKTG230, ENGR101 and GEOG109.
Twitter: Romy has added a twitter feed to the library website, where the latest tweet is featured.
But we still want to hear from you! Ideas, events that need marketing, pictures of your displays, changes to services that need promoting – send ’em our way: librarymarketing@canterbury.ac.nz
I suggest checking out this post on the UC Library Facebook page, chock full of compliments from the students about different aspects of the library that we all contribute to.
True, we did fish for compliments (they had to tell us something they liked about the library in the comments to go in the draw to win an exam kai pack) – but it still makes for great reading:)
Come along to this staff development session to learn more about how UC Library staff support Pasifika students and staff, and share ideas for offering support in the future.
We will
recap services we’ve offered in the past
share examples of embedded Pasifika support
discuss the new UC Pasifika Strategy 2019-2023 and how the library can support it
look at specific goals with the UC Library strategy and operational plan
