One of our long time and faithful suppliers of New Zealand material, the Arts Centre Bookshop, is now sadly out of business following the earthquake. I spoke to Darryl this morning and he is currently looking for a new job and does not expect to be back in business for possibly 1-2 years but it also depends on whether/if he can get back into his business. From page 1 of today’s Press it does not sound good. They have also regularly supplied the Central and Education libraries with titles on approval. Darryl will keep us posted but in the meantime we will need to look at alternative suppliers. Tim Stedman

I will organize the following to be added to Library news today:
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The Library is keen to increase buying e-books particularly during this time that the physical libraries are closed after the earthquake.

We are doing this in several ways by:
• Systematically working through everything in the High Demand collections (essential and recommended core texts) and ordering what we can as e-books
• Identifying other titles useful for UC learning, teaching and research that we can buy as e-books
• Looking at “packages” of e-books from different publishers e.g. SAGE, Springer, ScienceDirect and identifying candidates for possible purchase

University staff and students are continuing to recommend titles for purchase and we are working our way through these as well.

Another model for e-book selection and purchasing that we are implementing is what is known as a “patron-driven” model. This model works by the Library loading records of e-books into the Library Catalogue. Library customers can request access to these titles using the link in the catalogue record. These records will have a note “Available for purchase”. If you request access to a “patron-driven” title the Library will purchase the e-book (providing the title meets our collection development criteria for being relevant to UC learning, teaching and research and within budgetary constraints).

When you click a link to a “patron-driven” e-book you can browse the title for 5 minutes. At this point, the Library does not yet own this e-book.

After 5 minutes browsing, you will get a message advising “Your time browsing this book has elapsed”. If you would like the Library to purchase a copy of this e-book, please click “Yes (place a request)”.

In the “Request this book” screen:
– Type in your name and email address as requested
– It doesn’t matter if you pick 1 or 7 days for the Loan Period
– Leave the Barcode box blank
– In the comments field please indicate how useful this title would be for UC learning, teaching or research. If the title relates to a specific course please state the course code

You will receive a reply from a librarian advising if your request has been approved for purchase.

Acquisitions and Discovery staff are helping with orders and e-book cataloguing on a roster basis as space in NZi3 allows. Please assist us by sending orders to acquisitions@libr.canterbury.ac.nz (rather than to individuals) and rostered staff will attend to these as they are able. Thanks Tim Stedman

Access is currently down – asking people to login. Have contacted IOP urgently. Tim Stedman

Library Support Services are systematically going through the titles on Reserve and ordering electronic copies where possible. We will forward the details of these onto the Academic Liaison group as we accession them. A spreadsheet is available detailing the course codes for reserve titles Liaison Librarians can cross check against. We will try and improve on this method next week to make it easier for the Liaison Librarians to check what course codes the new acquisitions relate to. Tim Stedman

We have now opened the 2011 budgets and the Resource Acquisitions team are busily working through these. We would like to make sure we get onto any outstanding semester 1 orders as quickly as possible to ensure timely supply. So if you are holding onto any orders please send them to acquisitions@libr.canterbury.ac.nz as soon as possible, marking any as urgent if necessary. (FYI acquisitions@libr is just another alias for the collections@libr email account but we will be promoting acquisitions@libr for orders and acquisitions).

I am also starting to work through outstanding datasets requests and you will see these coming through, most recently a subscription for GeoScience World (see Deirdre’s posting yesterday). Some of these requests will need to go to the Datasets group (when that is established) for further discussion and once we have a feel for the budget.

More information to come when we get more of an handle on things.

Thanks, Tim Stedman

Hi all,

From now on, please send any serials related queries and requests for action to collections@libr.canterbury.ac.nz. This includes anything you would have normally emailed an individual about in the past, e.g Peter, e.g. Vicki. Examples of things that should be sent to collections@libr.canterbury.ac.nz from now on include: title changes, amending of holdings, requests to catalogue the e-versions of serials, storage changes, serials weeding, deleting serials holdings and serials bibs.

Thanks
Tim Stedman

Dear everyone

Thank you so much for all your good wishes and the gifts I received when I left the Library. 30 years is a long time to have spent working in one place but all the great people I have worked with over the years have made it, for the most part, a pleasure. Apart from a long break over the summer I have no definite plans for the future but I feel very optimistic about it and the thought of new challenges. The last few months have been difficult for everyone and I wish you all the best for the future.

Margaret

Dear all, please can you send any routine Resource Acquisitions and Resource Discovery queries (orders, serials, cataloguing, routine collection maintenance requests, lost and missing problems etc, etc) to collections@libr.canterbury.ac.nz for now. This advice may change again once routines for Library Support Services generally are established. Thanks, Tim Stedman

I would like to account for where all our Cancelled stamps have got to. So far I have only been able to account for one and there is none left in Library Support Services. There should be at least six around somewhere. Could you please look around your work areas and let me know where these are so we know who has access to these and where they are. Thanks, Tim Stedman