Remember Christmas lunch 2015? Look closely and you’ll be back in the Foundry, having eaten 3 puddings, waiting for the Hugh and Dave comedy double act to begin…
In this year’s Christmas lunch, to save us from tears (to paraphrase that Christmas song), we’d like celebrate the special (a.k.a. unusual) occurrences from 2016.
Please send your anecdotes to our own special Christmas Elf… Hugh: hugh.joughin@canterbury.ac.nz
Thanks to some heavy lifting by everyone across the Library, our Operational Plan 2017-2019 is nearly ready.
Recent changes:
The plan will be sent to Alex Hanlon and Andy Keiller on Monday 14th November.
For next year’s planning cycle, we will be starting in June 2017 to give ourselves more time for review and consultation.
We will continue to use SharePoint as the ability to change ‘views’ has been beneficial: https://share.canterbury.ac.nz/support/Library/resources/datasets/Lists/Ops%20planning%20test/AllItems.aspx
We are moving from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
What is SharePoint? It’s a document management and storage system. This Wikipedia entry gives a fairly good overview.
Why should I care? Old SharePoint sites will be moved across to new SharePoint. This means you’ll need to update bookmarks e.g. the LR training form will move. Also mean that pages you visit will look different. But functionality will remain essentially the same.
When is it happening? The new sites are being created now and we aim to move over the vacation period, i.e. Dec 2016-Feb 2017.
Why???? Because SharePoint 2010 will no longer be supported. And Information & Records Management want all units and colleges to use SP2013 to improve document management across UC.
The latest minutes from Education Library move meetings are available here: K:\LIBR-Library\Projects\Education-Library-move-2016\Meetings
Headlines:
To cut a long story short, we’re retaining Web of Science.
For those of you interested in the longer story, the Library consulted on the cancellation of JCR and WoS with departments through Library Liaison Officers (LLOs), Library Committee, Research Committee, Academic Board and SMT in September 2016. The Library then informed all LLOs, Heads of Department and Faculty of the decision to cancel JCR and WoS.
This resulted in a series of concerns from new respondents who had missed all the previous communication, and/or provided more new information. To check these concerns, a meeting was held in October with 20 academics. This was a useful meeting, where the following ‘tipping factors’ were identified:
So, as the point of the consultation was to consider and act on it, the Library deferred the decision to cancel WoS. We now have three more years to allow more time to work through the issues raised, provide training and support to transition to other products and for PBRF to be completed.
We had a look at High Demand during 2016. This involved talking with people involved in the current work and assessing technology options with ITS.
High Demand involves a range of Library staff, from Customer Services, Access & Collections and Subject Librarians. It touches many Library areas, including acquisition (especially of reading list items), and has the potential to affect other areas, including scanning/copyright and distance services.
Given the complexity of the processes and the fact that new technology (upgrade of Assyst) is due at the end of 2016, no major changes will be made this year. We will wait for the new academic year to look at this again, as the discussions this year showed options for simplifying the High Demand process.
Thanks for your patience.
Interested in talking about what you do to CCL colleagues? See message below… drop me an email by Friday, if you’d like to speak.
“The CCL Neighbourly Library Liaison will take place on Wednesday 26 October 2016, 2:00-3:00pm. This session is intended to introduce colleagues to the work libraries are doing in our neighbourhood. We are planning to invite colleagues from the CCL Offsite Delivery team, Māori Services and Waimakariri Libraries to speak as well.
We are currently running sessions at which four speakers talk about their area of expertise. Each speaks for 10 minutes and we hold a 20 minute question and answer session at the end. We envisage that the Neighbourly Liaison will run to this format.
Would you, or a member of your team, like the opportunity to come and share your experience with us.”
Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
The most recent minutes of the Digitisation Steering Group are available: http://share.canterbury.ac.nz/support/Library/digitisation/Shared%20Documents/Minutes-2016-09-19.docx
This post is brought to you in the spirit of spring and things that take a little time, like digitisation.
The Library is cancelling Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and Web of Science (WoS). Access will end on 31st December 2016.
Academic staff be informed over the next few days. An FAQ is available to help you field any queries:
K:\LIBR-Library\Info-Resources\Continuing-Resources\WoS-FAQs
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) reasons for cancellation:
Web of Science (WoS) reasons for cancellation:
Full details on the consultation which was undertaken with academic staff plus statistics and costs are also available on the K drive.
K:\LIBR-Library\Info-Resources\Continuing-Resources\
Subject collection statements are held on the Library website here: http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/about/coll_statements.shtml
The page now includes Law.
