As part of NZ Sign Language Week, two Taster Classes will be held, one in the Seminar Room, Education Library on 5th May, at 1.30 pm and the second in the Library Committee Room, Level 3, Central Library on 7th May, at 12 noon.
Learning New Zealand sign language is a lot of fun and it is hoped that these classes will help foster better communication and personal development for participants.
If you wish to attend please click on the location of course, below.
Thank you.
Maureen
On Thursday 22nd April at 11am, in the Level 4 Discussion Room, Bronwyn Matthews will give a report back on the ‘Relics, Ethics & Addicts’ course she attended recently in Auckland.
The session includes book selling and collecting, how the market works, what determines value, restoration and conservation, book descriptions and how to read them and ethics of the book trade.
If you would like to attend this session, please enrol yourself here The Rare Book market.
Thank you.
Maureen
On Wednesday 14th April, at 11am, in the Level 4 Discussion Room, Alison Johnston, Erin Kimber, Nicole Moffat and Gerald Whitla will facilitate a session on the recent VALA (Victorian Association for Library Automation) Conference that they attended.
Come and hear a discussion on “repositories and digitising university calendars”, “the one box to rule us all”, “cloud computing” and deep linking”.
Please book yourself online, at
VALA Conference
Thank you.
Maureen
A couple of instances have occurred lately, where lost books that are covered by a Registry invoice, have been returned to the Library, but no notification has been sent to myself to effect cancellation of this invoice, with the result that the borrower is still receiving monthly statements for a debt that is no longer owing.
Can all Lending staff please remember to send me authorisation to cancel the Registry invoice, when the books are returned.
Please view this link Cancel Invoice for detailed instructions on this process. If there are any questions or queries, perhaps we could hold an information session for clarification.
Thank you.
Maureen Ruki
On Wednesday 27th January at 11am, Anne Milligan will lead a tour of interested people on a visit to the Law Library Basement, to see where it is and how it is set up.
If you would like to be part of this group, please book yourself in via the following link:- Law Library Basement visit.
Please meet outside the lifts on Level 1 of the Law Building at 11am.
Thank you.
Maureen
A small sum of money has been found on Level 3 this morning, Wednesday. Please see Maureen if this is yours.
On Tuesday 24th of November, RFID Specialist, Frank Giampetrone from FE Technologies, will be visiting the University.
All staff who are interested in this technology are invited to attend this session, which will be held in the Den at 2pm, but Branch Manager or Team Leader approval should be obtain before enrolling.
If you wish to attend this session please enrol following this link:- FE Technologies
Thank you.
Maureen
Terri Elder will be facilitating this session on Tuesday 17th November, at 2pm, in the Council Chambers, 6th floor, Registry.
During the first 100 years of its existence, it would appear that the University of Canterbury concentrated on commissioning official portraits as its primary means of collecting art. As a result, our ‘rogues gallery’ in the council room on level 6 of the Registry, includes portraits of 12 former vice chancellors, many painted by the top Canterbury portrait artists of the time, including Petrus van der Velden, Archibald Nicoll, Elizabeth Kelly, William Sutton, and Martin Ball.
The subjects of those portraits have without a doubt shaped the development of the university. The likes of Bickerton, Macmillan Brown, Hight, and Hulme are well known names both in terms of the history of our institution and of the local community too, although not always for the best of reasons!
Despite a certain stiffness about them, what the portraits show is that however unwittingly, the University has managed to capture the essence of an institutional memory in the art collection. The collection can tell us about our great teachers, our great students, our buildings, our environment, our triumphs and our failures. In addition, one of the lovely ways we are now able to consider that institutional memory is through our growing collection of applied art objects, such as the University Mace, and numerous mementos of our Coat of arms.
This talk will consider some of the hidden treasures of our Registry, and give participants the opportunity to get up close and personal with a variety of artworks and objects that relate to our institutional memory.
If you wish to attend this session please click here
An Institutional Memory – the treasures of Registry.
Please meet at the Central Library Information Desk just before 2pm.
Thank you.
Maureen
There are some fundamental changes happening to the way library resources can be searched, accessed, harvested and reused. Come and have your say on the way forward, as choices made now will impact on everything that the Library does. This session will start with a 15 minute presentation on the Library IT views for the future. The rest of the session will be open group discussions on what you think is the best way forward for the Library and our users.
Some of the questions are:
– Should we purchase Summon, replacing 360 Search?
– What is the role of our local catalogue? We still need it for accessing print and managing our collection.
– Should enriched content come from elsewhere, TOC, reviews, recommendations etc.
– Do we need a next generation catalogue? The options previously identified were Aquabrowser and VuFind. Library IT like VuFind, but see it as a secondary search to Summon.
– How do we integrate other collections such as the IR, archives, photos etc.
This session will be held on Wednesday 21st October at 2pm, in the Level 4 Training Room, Central Library.
Please click here if you wish to attend. Access to Library Resources – the way forward
A second session will now be held on Thursday 22nd October at 11am. If you wish to attend, please click here Access to Library Resourcees – the way forward
Thank you.
Maureen
The Libguides Implementation Group is organising 2 forums for all staff interested in, or involved with, Subject Guides.
Each forum will cover the same ground and will be an opportunity to discuss:
* Findings from the Subject Guides usability testing,
* Guidelines for creating and maintaining good Subject Guides,
* Quality processes – the role of branch managers and the use of the guidelines as quality checks,
* Subject Guides – What next?
We invite you to attend either forum:
Tuesday 27th October 2-3.45 (with afternoon tea) Level 4 Training Room, Central Library
Friday 6th November 2-3.45 (with afternoon tea) Level 4 Training Room, Central Library
If you wish to attend the Tuesday session, please click here Subject Guides Forum
If you wish to attend the Friday session, please click here Subject Guides forum
Thank you.
Maureen