Your Aoraki library visiting scheme committee met recently at a cafe not far from here.
Both of the proposed staff visits were given the initial green light; one from Ara to Lincoln and the other from City Libraries to us here at UC.
This made me wonder whether our somewhat constrained travel budget might encourage any staff to look into using the visiting scheme (also know as PURR) to see what’s going on in other libraries?
Well tear my jeans and put a safety pin through Santa’s nose – for those not already in the know here’s the link to a short film ‘doco’ with one of our own starring as writer, director and producer.
This ain’t Spinal Tap.
Well most of them are. Some are hopefully still to be loaded here.
Kiera, Romy, Fiona and myself all attended NDF this year.
My favourite session isn’t up as yet so I’ll hold off writing about that here. If you’re curious about whizzy toys and data visualisation (something of a 2016 NDF theme) then Dave Brown’s keynote talk, including a demo of the HoloLens, may be of some interest.
A course quiz (Introduction to Political Science, aka POLS102) with library reference and research content has just gone live on Learn.
If you are staffing Asklive and get asked quiz like questions with a Politics flavour please feel free to refer to me or to ask politely if it’s likely to be for POLS 102 assessment.
Many of you may remember Matt who worked here until a couple of months back or so.
Curious as to how he was getting on with his post-doc appointment I emailed him and recently heard back. He wanted me to pass on his regards and promises to send an update soon.
I’ll paste some of his general news below but hopefully more from him soon.
Ngā mihi
Dave Clemens
‘My ‘new’ article finally came out (it was submitted last summer and accepted about a year ago) http://hpy.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/0957154X16648822v1.pdf?ijkey=z4m7WEShNn8b0T0&keytype=finite I’ve had some interesting people contact me about it since, which is great—more rewarding ‘impact’ than metrics.
Otherwise, things are fairly good. Elias turned one a few weeks ago and is now walking, keeping us very busy. Summer is nice, though a lot more thunderstorms than I imagined (a somewhat unusual amount this summer I think). Calgary is a nice city, though very suburban and not too easy to get around without a car.’
Back in January Alison McIntyre provided some background about a new UC library collaboration with Waimea College in the Tasman area.
To support the launch of the initiative to that school community a short video (2 mins 30 secs) has been planned by small library team including Dave Lane, Richard Davies and Dave Clemens.
Rob Stowell (UC Video Production Co-ordinator) has worked quickly to complete this video on very tight time frame and his expertise is very much appreciated. Thanks Rob!
UC library is piloting a small transition to Uni project with Waimea College and we are racing to compile a short video to help launch the project with that community.
If anyone on library staff has both some video production and/or editing skills AND is available in the next week to help out I’d be very interested to hear from you.
While the date is not of our choosing the eTV Account exec., Ngaire Cooper, will be in town visiting and promoting eTV. Anyone interested can roll up to room 210 in Puaka-James Hight.
