I am putting together a display in the Central Library for Orientation and I need your help, please. The purpose of the display is to highlight interesting items in the Central Library’s print and DVD collection. They need to be items that would interest students who are new to UC.  For example, they can be informative, educational, humorous or zany, or just have an interesting cover! If you know of a specific item, or items, that you think would suit such a display, please send the details to me as soon as possible. If I am inundated with examples, I will select as many as I can fit in the display.

Many thanks in anticipation of your assistance.

Further to my post on 12 January, the next meeting of the TELSIG Journal Discussion Group will be held on Tuesday 24th January at 5:30 pm in Room 210 of the UC Central Library. This is a change of venue. Everyone is welcome.

The following email from Melanie Brebner about journal discussion groups may be of interest.  As Melanie writes, “Everyone is welcome; you do not need to be a tertiary librarian, professionally registered, or a member of TELSIG or LIANZA to join”. It’s a great way to meet other librarians and it is informal and relaxed. To join a group, please email Melanie

Kia ora koutou, ngā mihi o te tau hou,

I hope you have all had a good break and are ready to start working on your New Year’s resolutions. What better way to start on your professional development off on the right foot, than to join a  TELSIG Journal Discussion Group?

It’s a great way to motivate yourself to regularly read LIS literature, communicate ideas with other librarians, and network (the physical groups usually manage to squeeze in a dinner or two throughout the year).

Many group members have also been able to take new ideas back to the workplace. And, it’s a good way to fill in an activity or two in your revalidation journal.

Everyone is welcome; you do not need to be a tertiary librarian, professionally registered, or a member of TELSIG or LIANZA to join.

If you are interested, just send me an email.

Here are the article and questions for January’s journal discussion group meeting:

BoK Cluster 1: Understanding the Information Environment

Greenland, K. (2013). Negotiating self-presentation, identity, ethics, readership and privacy in the LIS blogosphere: a review of the literature. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 44(4), 217-225.

Discussion questions:

• Do you write a blog? If so, why? What about? Is it private or public? Is it personal or for your job?
• Do you read blogs? If so, why? What are they? How do they help you professionally?  If not, why not?
• Can you maintain your privacy if you write publicly?
• Are you, as blog author, accountable for the comments on your blog entries? Should they be mediated by you to ensure you control the content?
• Do you agree that publicly blogging as a librarian, means you potentially are representative of all (or a subset of) librarians as a result of your writing? If so, how might this affect what you write?

Ngā mihi,

Melanie

Melanie Brebner

(TELSIG Journal Discussion Group Co-ordinator)

Library eServices have advised that no recall e-texts were sent between 23/12/2016 and 6/1/2017 inclusive. It appears that this may also have applied to emails regarding recalls. They are looking into the problem.

Caroline

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd have put together a desk calendar using the entries from the Emerald Busy Bee competition held earlier this year. If you would like one, please let me know by 3 pm tomorrow, Thursday 15th December.

Aoraki LIANZA members,

We have extended the date for you to reply to the invitation to the Te Hāpua Halswell Centre Christmas event until Friday 25th November. Please email sarah.fraser@lincoln.ac.nz if you are coming, and let Sarah know if you have any special dietary requirements.

The invitation is extended to all LIANZA members who live in the Aoraki region. If you are not a member and would like to join, here are details about becoming a personal member.

Aoraki LIANZA invites all our members & those interested in LIANZA to an evening of Soup and Stories

We’re bringing together a fantastic collection of speakers from across Canterbury’s library community to tell their stories and showcase what libraries and librarians in our amazing region have been doing over the past year.

A short AGM will take place before the presentations.

Please join us for soup and refreshments.

Tuesday 16th August from 5:30 pm for a 6 pm start.

CORE Education 142 Kilmore Street, Christchurch

RSVP for catering and AGM apologies to paula.eskett@core-ed.ac.nz Tel. 021 622 972

I have just blocked IP user 122.56.90.17 from AskLIVE for 24 hours as they were asking inappropriate questions.

Caroline Anderson