Minutes from the most recent Education Library move meeting are available here: minutes

The Access and Collections team are holding our planning morning on Thursday 20^th July.  As part of our planning it would be great to have feedback from you about our services.

We have created brief questionnaire.  Please have a look and any/all comments would be really appreciated.

If you could return the questionnaire to me by 2pm on Wednesday 19 July, this will allow your feedback to inform our planning.

Work has begun on the Library website migration.

This is the move of the website from old software (Dreamweaver) to the new web content management system (Terminal 4).  The aim of the project is to offer a website which gives a great digital impression of UC as a quality place to study and make sure visitors find what they’re looking for quickly and with ease.

The project team is reviewing our pages now.  The aim is to cut the number and rewrite content.  This will simplify access for users and maintenance for us: the use of plain language will enable users to understand what they’ve found and how to use it.

Migration is at the end of August 2017.  For further info, the inventory of the pages and project documents are available or pop in to chat with me.

May and June minutes are now available.

The minutes from the latest Education Move Project meeting are available here.

Library Access & Collections are having a think about how we work.

Over the last couple of years, we have taken on various new tasks and ways of working.  As a team who support activities across the Library, we want to make sure that we’re doing this in the best possible way. Hence the need for some thought and discussion.

The suggested staffing change document (Staffing-planning-2017) shows one possible way we could support our own development and continue to work well.  We are currently discussing this suggestion as a group and in individual meetings and we welcome feedback from across the rest of the Library.

Our next all Library staff forum will take place in Puaka-James Hight, room 210 on Wednesday 3rd May (repeat session on Tuesday 9th).

These sessions were moved from next week to give everyone a month’s time to create their posters.  Sessions will be similar to last year, i.e.

• food will be provided
• you can come and go throughout the session
• there will be a short Library update from Anne at the start followed by Q&A

Questions can be asked in person OR in advance by email to me helen.thomas@canterbury.ac.nz

Following on from my last update, the work on SharePoint 2013 is continuing.

We’ve decided to focus on a couple of key areas this year.  These are Course Proposals, Projects and meetings.  Theresa Buller has kindly agreed to lead the work.  The rest of the site will be developed gradually.

This mean we will take time to make the right decisions.  The site needs to have a sensible and simple structure which enables you to find what you need, while still fitting with UC Records Management policy on retention of official information. The site’s current state is messy as it replicates the old site so if you wish to use or have any suggestions for how it could be better, please contact Theresa and I.

A project overview is available here.