Ruth Miller from the National Library will be facilitating this session on Tuesday 28th April in the Level 5 Training Room, Central Library, with a start time of 2pm.
She will use the two most recent National Library digital products as examples of providing intelligent means of content display, then also talk about the work underway to provide a generic search interface for National Library content, using that functionality.
This session will last approximately 30 minutes.
Please email Maureen if you wish to attend.
Thank you.

Report back on the RDA Workshop

Resource Description and Access (RDA) the new cataloguing standard and successor to AACR, is due for release in late 2009, signalling a new direction for cataloguing rules and catalogue records. Earlier this month a number of Collections staff attended a workshop on RDA run by LIANZA, National Library and the Open Polytechnic. A panel of Collections staff will do a report-back for interested library staff on the main points that were covered.

This session will be held on Thursday 9th April in the Level 4 Seminar Room, with a start time of 11am.

Please email Maureen if you wish to attend.

The Library is about to release its first live public wiki of Endnote. Wikis have lots of potential for creating and managing information in the Library, as anyone with access can easily add or edit information in webpages, without the need for software such as Dreamweaver.

Part 1 – See how the new university Wiki software, Confluence, works and how this has been used for Endnote, which will go live the week beginning 9th February.

Part 2 – Blue skies discussion on how we could use Wiki software for other purposes, including replacing parts of Camelot.

This session will be held on Wednesday 4th February, in the Level 4 Training Room, with a start time of 2pm.

Please email Maureen if you wish to come

Information Librarians have been working hard on converting existing subject guides into the new LibGuides format. This session will introduce you to the interactive features of LibGuides and highlight some of the work that has been done across the various subject areas.

To be held on Tuesday 10th February in the Level 4 Meeting Room, Central Library, with a start time of 2pm.

Please email Maureen if you wish to attend.

On Wednesday 28th January at 11.05am until noon, in the Central Library Staff Room, staff who attended the LIANZA Conference will be reporting on the sessions they attended.

The programme will run as follows:-

1. Helen Kissell on Stephanie Poulopoulus and Denise Clarkson: Better looking than a blog – adventures in zine collecting At Wellington City Libraries and Lawrence Lessig who was a keynote speaker. He has “concentrated his scholarship on the problem of how law should govern the exchange of information and ideas in a digital age” See http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/39/1.

2. Meg Upjohn on Dylan Horrocks: The rise and rise of the graphic novel: Comics as a literary form and Stealing, sharing or borrowing? Art, literature and piracy in the online age.

3. Vicki Clark on Dr Diane Mara: Invisible Knowledge, Virtual Journeys and Real Communities, Professor Mason Durie: Global colonisation, the Kiwi tradition, and the public good, Spencer Lilley: Catching the Next Wave and Judy McFall-McCaffery: Connecting and collaboraring: Collecting materials from the Pacific.

4. Cynthia Bishell on Teri Ta’ala: Te Wero i te Upoko Tukutuku – the challenge of Maori Subject Headings and Mark McCrindle: Changing Times, Emerging Trends – Understanding Today’s Learners.

5. Sandra Gover on Helen Mandl: Far from common – innovative approaches to designing information rich learning and research spaces and Carolyn Robertson and Sally Thompson: Community collaboration and consultation: a recipe for succsss in long term library facilitiy planning.

6. Donna Barber on Fiona Rigby and Lewis Brown: Digital NZ – thinking outside “the book”: Innovations in New Zealand digital content and Chris Todd: Joined up data and dissolving catalogues.

7. Deborah Fitchett summing up the themes – Leadership, Storytelling and Innovation.

8. Questions

Please email Maureen if you wish to attend

Cynthia Bishell will be giving a presentation called “Serials in the UC Library” that will cover such topics as the Tay Formula, General Funds, Cancellations, Packages, Purchasing principles and some of our current strategies.

This session will be held on Friday 21st November in the Central Library Staff Room at 11.05am. If you wish to attend please email Maureen

Thank you.

Monday 24th November at 2pm Terri Elder will lead a tour of the Sculpture Trail. The tour will start at the Help Desk, Central Library.

Come and explore some of the University of Canterbury’s varied collection of sculptures in our newly created Sculpture Trail. The Trail features over 20 sculptures, including works that were created during the time period of 1950’s – 1970’s, which was the focus of Heritage Week 2008. Artists include Russell Clark, Alexander Fraser, Neil Dawson, Bing Dawe, Llew Summers, Ria Bancroft and many more.

We recommend the wearing of comfortable walking shoes.

Tours are limited to 15 individuals.

Please email Maureen if you wish to attend this session.

Thank you.

Robin and Bronwyn will be facilitating two sessions on security in the library. Find out

– what books and other materials are vulnerable to theft

– what the Library has been doing to address collection security
since the major theft case of 2004

– how you can assist with the development of a more secure library environment

The first session is being held on Monday 3rd November in the Level 5 Training Room, Central Library, with a start time
of 11am and the second session is on Thursday 6th November, same venue, with a start time of 2pm.

Please email Maureen Ruki if you wish to attend.

Thank you.