Central Library will be closed on Sunday 9 July (this Sunday) due to the campus-wide heating outage, therefore all UC Libraries will be closed on Sunday (MB will be routinely closed over the weekend, and EPS is closed on the weekend over the mid-semester break).

The boilers will be off from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday to allow for the work that is being carried out to convert from a coal-fired boiler system to one running on renewables.  The consequent difficulty of heating the building, our inability to use mobile electric heaters, the time for the building to reheat, the forecast external temperature and the lack of sun, would mean a pretty  unpleasant experience for our students and staff. Both People & Culture and UCSA support this approach and student numbers are low, so this should not inconvenience a large number of people.

Thanks to the marketing team, Dale and our eResources team for the rapid messaging that has gone out on our social media, digital screens, posters etc. Simon will come in to be around for an hour at 10:00 a.m. to manage communications with any disappointed users who have not seen the messaging.

Ngā mihi,

Isabella

Kia ora koutou,

Children’s University are coming into Central Library next week for tours and activities.

Tours will be coming through on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 – we are hosting the activities on Thursday only.  Activities will be in Te Rua Makerspace – which will be closed to other visitors while we have the children, and a scavenger hunt/bingo on the 4^th floor.

Ngā mihi,

Isabella

Kia ora koutou,

Thanks to everyone who came down for a photo on Friday for #pinkshirtday23

Please enjoy these candid snaps in front of our positivity wall 🙂

Ngā mihi,

Isabella

Mōrena!

For those who are keen, we will be following tradition and posing for a lovely pink-themed photo on level 2, PJH at 12pm TODAY to celebrate Pink Shirt Day 2023!

Where: PJH level 2, in front of the positivity wall

When: 12pm

Please wear/bring something pink! See you there!

Ngā mihi,

Isabella

Tēnā koutou,

The Library Marketing Group have been kept busy over the past few months with various requests, events, promotions, and more! You can read all about it in our latest marketing report here! (as well as all previous reports).  K:\Operations\Marketing\Reporting\2023

As always,  if you have an idea for a potential marketing request we would love to hear about it! Flick us an email to librarymarketing@canterbury.ac.nz or fill in the request form here. 

Ngā mihi,

Isabella (on behalf of the Library Marketing Group).

Kia ora koutou,

We would like to warmly invite you to a shared Pink Ribbon Morning Tea, which will be held for library staff and Te Pātaka staff on Tuesday 11 October, 10-11:30am in room 210, in acknowledgement of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Please bring something to share (pink foods encouraged!), and we look forward to seeing you there 🙂

Some inspo for pink treats…

Ngā mihi,

Isabella and Tracey

Kia ora koutou!

Please enjoy the 2022 Rā Tōmene/Open Day event summary below, but first, I just wanted to extend a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who contributed to Rā Tōmene/Open Day this year, we really couldn’t have done it without your Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga, and Tiakitanga.

A huge amount of planning went into this event, as it is one of our largest events of the year. It is also one of our most important events, as we are appealing to prospective students. Furthermore, this year was particularly special because it was the first year that Rā Tōmene was able to run as-normal in three years, due to covid-19.

Puna Stall

The Puna Stall was part of the UC Info Hub located down on the Beatrice Tinsley quad and was a great success! The team engaged with approximately 323 people while promoting our two O’Day competitions (Puna Passport and Insta choc giveaway), giving away freebies (postcards, badges, and stickers), and answering questions about the library’s services. Mini info tables were also set up at each library and included handy resources for prospective students to browse and collect as they ventured into our libraries. The resources included printed Puna Passports and stickers, 2022 library brochures, postcards, and self-guided tour guides.

In addition to the Info Hub stall, the team also set up a display in PJH which represented all three libraries (and included 3D printed models of each library thanks to Zina and Ryan!). In PJH, floor stickers were strategically used to direct people into the makerspace, through to the Puna Lounge, and to our self-guided tour station. The self-guided tour guides were highly successful and an estimated 1500 O’Day visitors were engaged by library staff, as they entered PJH.

Puna Passport

The Puna Passport challenge was also a success, with 37 entries from across our libraries. Our three winners have been drawn and will each receive a bespoke UC Puna library tourism tee, designed by Ryan!

Puna Lounge

The refreshments in the Puna Lounge were gratefully received by weary students, visitors and whānau. The citrus-infused water was especially favoured by all!

Overall, Rā Tōmene 2022 was a successful day, thanks to everyone getting involved! We look forward to next year!

Ngā mihi,

Isabella (on behalf of the Rā Tōmene Library events team)

Kia ora koutou,

Please enjoy the marketing team’s August highlights!

Recent Events & Promotions

There were some great events and promotions this month, and plenty more to come!

• Cook Islands Language Week (31 July-6 August)
• Postgrad Options Week (15-17 August)
• Keenious Promotion (15-19 August)

What’s on?

• Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e lea faka-Tonga | Tonga Language Week (4-10 September)
• Conservation week (5-11 September)
• Editor’s Symposium (8 September) (Anton and Stuart)
• Children’s University visit (8 September)
• Rā Tōmene | Open Day (9 September)
• Library Engagement Survey (12 September – 15 October)
• Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (12-18 September)
• Vaiaso o te Gana Tuvalu | Tuvalu Language Week (25 September – 1 October)
• Mental Health Awareness Week (26 Sept-2 October)

Displays: 2022 Children’s Book Awards, & August Curious Cabinet Crowded House edition!

Community engagement: Collaboration for UCSA Elections and Postgrad Options Week

The displays team worked alongside the UCSA and Postgrad advisors to bring election candidate information and postgrad advice in to Central Library this month!

Riccarton High School Pacific Studies Class Visit MB

Highlighted on Library news, was another successful visit to Macmillan Brown Library by the year 10-13 Pacific studies class from Riccarton High School. In collaboration with Riccarton High School, Macmillan Brown Library staff (led by Caroline Syddall) helped students find resources on assignment topics relating to Pacific cultures.

Te Rua: Sustainability, 3D-printed Catan & more!

The Te Rua team hosted a casual gaming afternoon this month, with a big range on offer: from quick and easy card games to a 3D-printed version of Catan! The team also had a stall at the sustainability expo at the beginning of the month where students were shown how the makerspace holds a multitude of resources to reuse, upcycle and be creative in sustainable ways.

Notable Canta mention

This month PJH was lucky enough to get a mention in a recent edition of Canta, quoted as the “beloved Puaka-James library”. It’s always great to be reminded that the students do think fondly of our libraries!

Have a marketing request? Contact us!

If you have a marketing request, please fill out this form. If you have a general marketing enquiry, please send an email to librarymarketing@canterbury.ac.nz and we will get in touch as soon as we can!

Ngā mihi nui,

Isabella

(on behalf of the UC Library Marketing Group).

Kia ora koutou!

The 2022 Library Survey is now officially LIVE! The survey is open today and will continue for 4 weeks until the 15^th of October (unless extended for sample size). The Library survey aims to collect information from UC staff, students (distance and on campus), and visitors about the library services we offer, how they use the library and what is most important to them. This survey will also help to promote some of the services they don’t know about yet and might like to use.

We’re trying to get as much engagement as possible this year, so please encourage all students, staff, and visitors to fill in the survey, if you can! (Please also see Juliet’s recent email re: our survey email signature, which you can incorporate into your own work signature, or a shared inbox signature). We also have stations set up at each library for people to use if they don’t have access to their own device.

Below is the blurb students will see and the prizes they can win for participating – please feel free to share with your networks!

“SPEAK UP and WIN! UC Library want to TUNE IN to your library-related needs! Fill in our 2022 Survey here https://bit.ly/LibrarySurvey22 and BE HEARD! Tell us what you love, what you don’t love, and what you want to see in the future – we want to HEAR YOUR VOICE! Fill in the survey and go in the draw to win 1 of 2 UE Booms! We also have weekly spot prizes up for grabs including Sony Bluetooth headphones, JBL Bluetooth earbuds, and more!”

Also, just a reminder that LIBRARY STAFF ARE ELIGIBLE TO ENTER THE PRIZE DRAW TOO!

If you receive any Survey enquiries, please feel free to forward these to library@canterbury.ac.nz and/or contact the Survey project team (Isabella Stainthorpe, Juliet Lackersteen, Margaret Paterson, Sarah Johnston), or our project lead (Dale Wang).

Ngā mihi,

Isabella