Session today at 2pm in Puaka-James Hight (repeated next Thursday in Wheki 204).  Open to everyone.  Run as part of the regular Culture sessions.

The Vice Chancellor (Rod Carr) will be visiting us at 2pm on Thursday 28th June.  We will be hosting him in Undercroft 101.  This is an informal session where you can tell him about what you’ve done or ask questions… see examples above 🙂

I am happy to pose questions for anyone who is absent or would prefer to remain anonymous.

The position of Manager, Learning & Teaching has been advertised and now has just under one week to go until the closing date for applications (27th May).

Details here: https://ucvacancies.canterbury.ac.nz/psp/ps/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_EMP_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&SiteId=1&FOCUS=Employee&JobOpeningId=6000&PostingSeq=1

Thanks to everyone who took part and/or helped out at last week’s sessions.  Karen Mather has sent us the following :

Thanks for the opportunity to come and talk at the two library staff forums/fora!

Here are the links I mentioned – for you to distribute as you see fit:

• UC’s Culture Development Programme website https://intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/ld/human_syn/index.shtml
• HS Interactive circumplex http://www.hsnz.co.nz/files/html5/circumplex/
• Use of the Problem Solving Circles and the I&I Toolset https://intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/ld/ideation-innovation-toolset/index.shtml

Thanks for making her feel welcome.

In this week’s staff fora, we will be looking briefly at the Operational Plan.

For those reading/writing learners or if you would like to read all the details, the full document is available here: https://ucshare.canterbury.ac.nz/management/dep/dep002/Managers/Planning/LR-Library-Operational-Plan-2018-LR-Q1update.docx

As mentioned in my last post, we’ve got two staff fora on next week. Thanks to suggestions from you, we have two special guests. The running order is below

1. Update on Campus Services – Michael Oliver (Campus Services) *Tues only
2. Update on UC’s organisational culture journey – Karen Mather (Human Resources)
3. Library general update – Anne Scott
4. Operational plan update – Anne, Lyndsay and Helen
5. Q&A session

Please feel free to bring posters/photos/leaflets or anything else you’d like to show to the wider Library team.

See you next week!

Staff fora are scheduled for

The session will be informal with tea and coffee on offer. Anne will give a general update including information about the budget challenge. Michael Oliver (Campus Services manager) will attend the Tuesday session to give an update on the changes in his area. We have space for other special guests so if you’d like someone to attend or would like to hear about something, please drop me an email or post below. We’ll do our best to make it happen.

Posters of current work or events are, as always, welcome. There will also be the usual question and answer session and if you would like your question posed anonymously/read out, please email me.

The storage projects, which involved the physical movement of nearly every storage collection item, have come to an end.

As the tidying up of catalogue records and drawing up of new floor plans continues, we thought people might be interested in visiting the storage areas and seeing the changes.

If you’re interested, please add your name and storage area to the comments below, e.g. “Kevin – Henry Field and Law Basement” Once I’ve got an idea of numbers, I will set up visits in April.

A coat was found in Room 210 on Tuesday. It was taken to Security as lost property. Photo is below

We are consolidating the monographs now in storage into the Henry Field Library Store.

Detail of work

• Law Basement emptying of AC-Z monographs (approx. 16,000 items)
• TIMG (off-site storage) emptying of 4,100 cartons of monographs (approx. 63,000 items)

Glenna, Sandra and I are working with Crown and TIMG to manage this work.   Access to both the Law Basement and Henry Field Library Store will continue as normal.  Please contact me if you notice any health and safety or security breaches.