I remember the Law Library producing a magnificent disply for the Melbourne Cup last year. This year anyone visiting Central on Tuesday, NZ Trotting Cup Day, is invited to hat themselves up in an appropriate manner.

Body painting optional.

as requested – here is photographic evidence of the new creature – Bulldog Clip Transformer

Recent excavations on the site of the now extinct Restricted Loans office have unearthed a treasure trove of bulldog clips..

While a binder clip or two is common in the average office environment, this discovery is significant due to the sheer number and variety of fasteners unearthed. How and why so many bulldogs, of such a mongrel variety of sizes and shapes, came to aggregate in the darker recesses of Restricted Loans remains a mystery. Perhaps there was a fetish involved. Perhaps breeding conditions just chanced to be optimum in this area. Who knows?

The result is a Significant Resource which I now offer for tender. I have made no attempt to sort or count the clips. Disposing of them by weight, or volume, seems most appropriate. Accordingly, offers will be entertained per cubic metre, or part thereof, or by the kilo. Smaller amounts will be available on a pick-your-own basis. Bring the whole family, and a picnic.

Any clips remaining unclaimed after a reasonable period will be either sold for scrap and the proceeds offered to the Vice Chancellor to save the university, or donated to Maritime New Zealand for use on the Rena. There could well be enough bulldog clips here to clamp the cracks in the ship together, stabalizing it against breaking apart, and allowing it to be safely towed “beyond the environment” as recommended by John Clark after a similar situation back in 1991.

Jack

Hi all

Central’s Multimedia Kits have arrived home after a long vacation in various library basements. I have changed them all back to Central location, tagged them, and shelved them in the Central Library AV area – on the bottom shelves, underneath the videos.

Romy

First in first served: there is a box of Cadbury’s in the Central workroom. They turned up in the mail, courtesy of John Wort, Course Reserve (High Demand) Collection, Waikato.

Decent bloke!

The problem is me. If you have new books on display (not serials – they are OK) could you contact me before you come to take them off. The table that controls this was also used for Earthquake information and was badly corrupted.

In cleaning up the bad data I also deleted some current display data. I have a copy of the information, but the normal processes you use to remove new books off display will not work so I’ll need to do this for you.

My apologies.

Peter K

Let me know if you get reports of people unable to access Econdata. I have installed a new licence but there is some old software we need to remove – but it is locked at the moment.

Regards, Peter

This memo from ICT ServiceDesk:

The database used by CSGold, which holds student Canterbury card balances, needs to be upgraded before CSGold itself is upgraded. The database upgrade will take about 2 hours, and will occur between 5pm and 7pm on Tuesday 23rd August.

EFTPOS stations, photocopier card-readers, and StudentWeb online fees payments and Canterbury card topups will be out-of-order/offline during the upgrade.

As you may remember, there was a bit of an earthquake just as they kicked off, so many mid-year exams were postponed / re-configured / replaced by tests and other forms of assessment. The result is, we have recieved 109 papers this time around, rather than the 326 of 2010.

So if students come asking about “missing” exams, they aren’t missing: they either didn’t happen or happened another way. What you can see on the web is what we’ve got.

Jack