I am seeking Expressions of Interest (EoI) for Manager, Macmillan Brown Library and Heritage Collections. This a full-time role (1 FTE). The position is fixed term for a minimum of 4 months and could be a secondment. It will report to Helen Thomas. The position will be filled internally.
The role requires someone who can lead and manage the Macmillan Brown Library and Heritage Collections team and service for Semester 1 2021. This role is multi-faceted and involves building relationships with academics and service units and managing heritage collections in line with UC’s strategic focus.
Further details about the role are available in the position description: K:\Operations\HR\PD-Manager-MMB-2020-11.docx
If you would like to discuss this opportunity, please contact Helen Thomas or Anne Scott.
Expressions of Interest should be submitted to helen.thomas@canterbury.ac.nz by 5pm on Friday 8 January 2021.
Your EoI should outline:
Why you are interested in this position
What skills and experience you will bring to the position
What technical or professional knowledge you will bring to the position
The recruitment process comprises the EoI and an interview.
Thank you for participating in last week’s staff fora. As mentioned during those sessions, we are looking for your ideas to support these aims. This could be a specific task or a general area of improvement. E.g. for “Just-for-me information services supporting flexible education delivery” you might suggest “Drone delivery of holds items” 🙂
The roadmap will going to be made available on the K drive next week. In the meantime, if you’d like to view the Trello board, just drop me an email.
The Library has a subscription to Piktochart. Piktochart can be used to create infographics and social media graphics. The site also has nifty templates for presentation and reports.
Piktochart is free to use but we bought a Pro subscription. This removes the Piktochart watermark, allows PDF export and the use of higher quality images.
If you’d find it useful for your work, please contact Anton who has the account details.
* the use of the words “snazzy” and “nifty” in this post have been authorised by the style police
The 10,000 steps a day challenge ended on Sunday. Thank you to everyone who took part in staying active and walking a little more than usual.
For those with a competitive streak, the two Library teams came 7th out of the 11 teams taking part at UC. And UC came 7th in the international competition
Rank
University Name
Participants
Total Steps
Average Steps
1
MCRI
18
10,184,695
565,816
2
University of Sydney
28
14,956,582
534,163
3
University of Newcastle
115
43,339,256
376,863
4
University of Adelaide
134
48,247,528
360,056
5
Bond University
55
19,182,601
348,774
6
University of Western Australia
53
17,882,414
337,404
7
University of Canterbury
201
64,506,988
320,930
8
University of Waikato
130
41,522,923
319,407
9
UNSW
130
41,094,414
316,110
10
Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington
This is our chance to talk to these departmental representatives and tell them about changes to support. We often use this meeting to talk about projects or service improvements.
If you have been been working on something of interest to our academic colleagues, please let your manager know by 7 October.
The conference runs from 19 – 23 October. It covers a wide range of topics, which would be of interest to librarians such as “The Value of eResearch Services: Harmonising Key Performance and Key Value Indicators”… or maybe that one just appeals to me 🙂
Whether or not you’re participating in the 10,000 step challenge or just fancy a lunchtime stroll, join us at 12pm today. Walk leaves from the Book Return box on Level 1 Puaka-James-Hight and lasts 30 minutes.
Moira Fraser will be taking up a new role on 5 October 2020.
Moira has been working with the Library since February 2019. She helped us progress our Open Access plans during her role as Project Lead and has worked with Jenny to support the From Physical Collections to Learning Spaces project. I would like to thank Moira for her work and congratulate her on her new role…
Which is a very short hop over the office divider as Moira will be remaining on Level 5 PJH and reporting to Nick Ford as the Digital Learning Project Manager. Wishing you the best of luck with your new project!
It may be a little damp on the ground. But it’s not raining. So I am confirming that today’s walk will go ahead at 12pm as planned. Hoped to see you there!
