Kia ora koutou,
Hopefully the full advert is attached to this post but I’ll paste the basic info below as well.
I thought that it may have some wider library interest.
Dave Clemens
Arts Digital Lab Seminar
‘Digital Humanities approaches to digitising, repatriating and exploring an historical Australian colonial archive’
Associate Professor Rachel Hendery, University of Western Sydney
Congratulations to those who have worked to produce the displays sitting between the public lifts on level 2 of PJH.
Some really interesting drawings, clippings and images in the cabinets and on the display boards.
Well worth a visit, with the added ‘bonus’ of a nice pic of a young’ish Maggie Thatcher inspecting the new 1970s library.
Dave C.
Due to no particular demand I present the Proquest Central ‘most popular’ e-book list. Some ideal Xmas gift ideas for not so close family perhaps?
1. Constitutional & Administrative Law in New Zealand (4600 uses)
2. Criminal Justice : A New Zealand Introduction (3348 uses)
3. Organisational Behaviour (2654 uses)
4. Principles of Legal Method in New Zealand (2294 uses)
5. Financial Accounting (2250 uses)
Some other Proquest e-book trivia.
Pages printed Jan-Nov 2020 : 1 103 103 (2.99% increase on 2019)
Unique users : 13 310 (13.9% increase on 2019)
Books downloaded : 7414 (2.3% increase on 2019)
Pages copied : 60 314 (52.2% increase on 2019!)
Ngā mihi
Dave Clemens
PS Proquest are by no means our only e-book provider but they do provide some accessible stats.
For those interested in the big picture and some financial detail the UC Council’s agenda papers from November 25th meeting are now available here.
Summary financial statement is on page 32 of the PDF.
Ngā mihi
Dave
Thanks for setting up the display Damian. Looks like a lot of work to get it all sorted.
Some good attendance numbers from this conference on Monday.
Ngā mihi
Dave Clemens
Quite a decent dump, in case you’re wondering why the air temp has changed a lot in 24 hrs.
Dave Clemens
Congratulations to Fiona on her new journal article:
Ngā mihi
Dave Clemens
Ever wanted to work for the best uni library service in the country? How about 8th of 212 institutions, as measured across 20 countries in a monster survey?
Wait no longer. The results came in last year.
If that link fails try pasting in https://intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/academicservices/documents/International%20Students/Canterbury%20ISB%20SH2019%2002160819_For%20delivery(corrected%20version).pdf
International Student Barometer, University of Canterbury, 2019. i-graduate.
It’s a long read so skipping to pages 93, 104, & 110 should show the most glorious bits.
The big survey numbers ‘195,930 international students and 123,707 domestic students responded from 212 universities in 20 countries. 7 NZ universities participated, with 6,647 responses.’
The NZ results are largely looking at international student experience, and exclude AUT. I have also highlighted ‘Library service’, because, well, that’s what we scored best on.
Summary info about the survey was also posted up via Intercom last year here, including a slick video overview.
Ngā mihi
Dave Clemens
‘Best Library Service’ Librarian
It’s over there! Photo taken from level 11 of PJH this morning
Perhaps not the ultimate work resource but for any family history/local history enthusiasts City libraries is currently offering remote access to this resource ‘Trace your family history, includes records from United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.’
Requires Chch City library card details for login.
Dave Clemens