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Elsevier being a bit dodgy again?

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“The publishing giant Elsevier has acquired the Social Science Research Network, an online open-access repository for research. Elsevier said in the announcement that it plans to develop SSRN alongside Mendeley, the company’s own academic social network. Neither SSRN’s user policies nor its leadership will change, Elsevier said. It will still be free for users to submit their papers and download others. Elsevier did not disclose how much it paid to acquire SSRN.”

Further info here: http://www.nature.com/news/social-sciences-preprint-server-snapped-up-by-publishing-giant-elsevier-1.19932

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Te Puna

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Go live is tomorrow (12th May 2016).

From this date you will be able to use:

  • Te Puna Search (WorldCat Discovery) for discovery (including a view of PublicationsNZ and New Zealand Music Hire Service collections) https://tepuna.on.worldcat.org/discovery
  • Te Puna Interloan as before (but now searching over WorldCat Discovery)
  • Connexion as before
  • Te Puna support as before at tepuna@dia.govt.nz
  • Your library’s instance of WorldShare Metadata Services for adding/deleting holdings, getting records, creating records. You can start using your instance when you feel ready any time after 12 May 2016
  • Z39.50 connection to WorldCat.

From this date you will not be able to use:

  • Voyager CatClient
  • WebCat
  • New Holdings Report
  • Te Puna Search http://nbd.natlib.govt.nz/
  • New Zealand Libraries’ Catalogue
  • Z39.50 connection to the National Union Catalogue

Training materials on the new products are available at http://natlib.govt.nz/librarians/te-puna/te-puna-replacement-project  and include:

  • Using Record Manager in your WorldShare instance
  • Te Puna Search (WorldCat Discovery)
  • Te Puna Interloan changes
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The Apprentice

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Are you hungry, ruthless, driven?  Do you want to experience life in the fast-lane of the Library’s Senior Management team? Do you think you’ve got what it takes to organize the most successful staff forum ever?

If you can say yes to those questions, email Helen with why you should be this year’s Library Apprentice.

Help on your ‘why me’ statement available here.

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Digitisation work

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Digitisation has happened in the background like a stealthy hunter using a stalking horse to sneak up on oblivious printed materials.

To find out more, the latest minutes from the Digitisation Steering Group are available on SharePoint.

Recent bullseyes… Funding obtained for work on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East materials and for further retrospective thesis digitization.
livre-de-chasse1http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1499/unknown-gaston-phebus-livre-de-la-chasse-french-about-1430-1440/

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Information Resources Policy

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The Information Resources Policy provides the rationale for decision-making about Library resources.  It sits in the UC Policy Library and is due for review in May 2016.

A group of Library staff have re-drafted the policy ready for the review.  The aim was to remove procedural information and to lift the document so it focuses on principles.  The aim is to give the Library the flexibility to respond to the differing demands of our users and to the changing information environment.

This draft is now available for comment.  Please add your opinion to the comments or email directly to me.  Deadline for comment is Wednesday 4th May (the document will then go to Library Committee).  If longer is needed or you’d like a chat/overview… just let me know!

Draft held at: K:\LIBR-Library\Management\Policy\Information-Resources-Policy.doc

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Academy Books

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Academy Books has been appointed as University of Canterbury’s supplier for New Zealand and Pacific material.

Thank you to everyone who has been involved in the tender process.

We are now working together with the Academy team to set-up a purchasing profile.  The profile should help us to buy the latest publications for our collections.  A summary of the work so far is available on the K drive:
K:\LIBR-Library\Projects\New-Zealand-Purchasing\ABC-set-up-04-2016.doc

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OEI / OCI culture update

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Work on the OEI/OCI cultural change is continuing.  You may have attended the latest Learning Resources Town Hall meeting, where Alex explained the next steps.

In brief, all staff across Learning Resources are asked to name their top causal factors before the end of April.

This work is valuable in helping us move towards our ideal culture.

This marks a move from the Understand phase of the Cultural Change process to that of Enlist and Envisage.  The latter involve identifying the causal factors which affect all of Learning Resources and then building teams to ‘envisage’ a way forward.

If you would like to join those external teams and this improvement to our workplace, please give your name to your manager.

Specific culture change initiatives already being worked on by Library teams will continue in addition to this LR-wide scheme.

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Staff Forum

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Our next all staff forum will take place on Thursday 14th April (repeat session on Wednesday 20th).

Please send us

  • suggestions for topics and/or
  • questions you’d like answered and/or
  • let us know if you would like to present on work you’re doing

Please send through by Friday 8th April.  Email to Janette Winks janette.winks@canterbury.ac.nz

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Office space on Dovedale Campus

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As part of the ongoing space discussions with the College of Education there will be an audit of office space used at the Dovedale Campus over the next 4-6 weeks.   This audit will include the Education Library as Library staff are included in the CoEHHD Relocation Project matrix.

The audit is driven by the feedback on proposal to reduce the number of offices for academic staff.

Please keep this information confidential until the official email is released, which should occur later today (24th March).