Kia ora,

I came in this week to find a Service Request for Visitors form on my desk for someone from Ao Tawhiti which has left me rather baffled. If you put this on my desk/sent it via the hampers, could you please contact me and explain what it’s about?

Thanks,
Fiona T

Demonstrate your knowledge of te reo (or, ahem, your google skills) and win a chocolate fish!

The theme of Te Wiki o Te Reo M&#257ori in 2015 is Wh&#257ngaihia te reo M&#257ori ki ng&#257 M&#257tua’ (developing te reo of parents who can then pass te reo onto their children).

Each day next week a question loosely based on this theme will be posted on Counterculture to get you thinking, and possibly researching.

Send the correct answer by the end of the day to Sue Thompson and be in to win a chocolate fish (and not one of those minnows either).

If you have an oversupply of satchels or Central hamper labels, can you please send some satchels to the Warehouse and Central hamper labels to the Law Basement.
Thanks, Fiona

He aha? Team Quiz Challenge
&#256 hea? Wednesday 29 July, 11-12
Kei hea? Room 210, Te Puna M&#257tauraka o Waitaha

Don’t be shy! Get your team of 4 together and come along to the team quiz on Wednesday 29 July.

There’ll be questions about M&#257ori authors, Canterbury place names, native bird calls, colours, numbers and family relations – just in case you’re planning a quick cram session before the quiz.

There’s prizes, both serious and frivolous, and bragging rights to be won.

Book here and see you there.

Kia ora koutou,

I am taking two upcoming training sessions on ULANZ/CTA borrower registration at the Information Desk and have sent invites to new(ish) staff who haven’t had training before. If I’ve missed anyone, or you would like to attend refresher training, please come along.

Times as follows:

Monday 20 July 11-12pm – Room L207 @ Education Library
Tuesday 28 July 1-2pm – Room 230 @ Macmillan Brown Library

Please let me know if you intend to attend, particularly the MB session as the room currently booked only seats 4-5 people.

Cheers,
Fiona

Kia ora everyone,

Hugh and I have decided to organize library after-work drinks for this Friday 10 July at the Shilling Club from 4:30pm onwards. Not for any particular reason other than we can!

Hope to see you there:)

Fiona

We found something interesting this week on the shelves at Central:

The question is, who’s William?

The Reset Pin programme has been reconfigured to fix the current problem of people who have their pin reset to the barcode not being able to subsequently change their pin via My Library Account (basically, the barcode was too long as a pin has a maximum length of 7 digits/letters).

The pin will now be reset to the last 4 digits of a borrowers phone number and their initials (ie. the same configuration as currently used for ULANZ/CTA borrowers). In addition, new subscription and special agreement members will now automatically have their library account pin set to the same configuration.

This means now there are only two possible formats for My Library Account Logins:

UC Staff, Students, Academic Visitors
Login: IT Username (eg. mmb23)
Pin: IT Password

ULANZ/CTA/Subscription/Special Agreement Borrowers
Login: Barcode (e.g. CUB5555D)
Pin: ####XX (where ####= last four digits of borrowers phone number and XX= borrower’s initials)

(e.g. Borrower Michael Burrows (CUB5555D) with the phone number 338 0960 uses the following login (CUB555D) and
pin: 0960MB)

The latter group can change their pin – which is usually when the need to reset a borrower’s pin arises.

Details about changing a borrower’s My Library Account pin can be found on the wiki.

Finance Invoices are generated for lost book charges and fines balances of $50 or more, and incur an additional $20 non-refundable administration fee. In the past, the advice was a for a person to pay in person. Please note that Finance Invoices can now be paid in cash, cheque, credit card or via online banking. More details can be found here or on the bottom of the Finance Invoice.

I have updated the wiki page about encoding and re-encoding tags with info about new and improved ways of disabling tags (that don’t involve ripping tags out of precious books or taking to tag antennae with a penknife), and other fun tips and tricks. You can find it here.