We currently connect our computers to the net using a protocol known as IPv4. IPv6 is an updated protocol which we’ll need to use to enable the multitude of devices we’ll be using to connect to the net in future. I am alerted to the fact that today is World IPv6 by an excellent blog post by my former colleague Jason Cooper. Today is the day that many organisations will be testing their ability to connect using the new protocol.

Peter Lund

Many thanks to all library staff who have given me such a warm welcome. To those I’m yet to meet I’m Peter Lund and have just arrived to take up the post of Academic Liaison Manager. For the last 9 years I’ve been working at Loughborough University Library where I led the Science Faculty team and was responsible for support for researchers across the Library service. Previously I worked in industrial R & D managing an Information Service for Akzo Nobel and as an Information Scientist with Metal Box plc. Whilst at Loughborough I won a Travelling Librarian Award which facilitated a study visit to libraries of research intensive universities in the USA. This certainly fuelled my desire to try working overseas.

I spent 6 weeks in NZ in 2000 spending some happy times tramping the Rees – Dart track, sea kayaking in the Abel Tasman national park and punting on the Avon – coincidentally all adventures fuelled by Bumper Bars as I recall. Now I’ve come back to Christchurch with my family: my wife Heather and our daughters Emma (9) and Freya (7). We all love camping, walking and boogie boarding so we reckon we will love New Zealand. Once our container arrives I hope to be cycling to campus.
I look forward to working with academic, library and other support colleagues to enhance library and information services for the UC community.