I can’t believe it is February already! I would like to book in some of our monthly Te Reo practice sessions for 2016. It can be hard to make time in our busy schedules so I will try and book them ahead of time to make it easier for people to attend.
I would like to know how you have found these and what you would like from future sessions. I’m aware that we have mostly catered for beginners but we have some more advanced speakers. It is such a beautiful language to hear spoken in the flow of conversation!
Please comment here for your ideas for future sessions or what you’ve liked about the sessions so far so we can make this a group conversation 🙂
I’m really pleased to say that the Pacific Artist in Residence programme will be reinstated in 2016 after a few years hiatus. The Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies were recently awarded funding from Creative New Zealand to reinstate the programme. The MB Library team, in particular Lydia, will be supporting the Centre in running the residency and it will likely be advertised some time in January. Information about the Residency can be found here on the MBC website and we’re looking forward to a new artist being chosen. This has great benefits for the artists and our students at UC.
It is nice to be reminded by our customers that we really do have some wonderful resources and collections here at UC library. I recently received a lovely comment on the De Jong collection from Bruno Shirley, an external researcher who had attended the De Jong exhibition in central and a panel talk that was part of the NZ Asia conference here at UC.
“I mentioned that I was particularly taken by the palm leaf manuscript on display, and if that’s representative of the material in the collection then I can’t help but feel that Canterbury now decisively has the edge in material for the study of Buddhism in New Zealand, if not of Asia more generally! Congratulations to you and to all involved for acquiring and beginning to categorise such an excellent resource.”
There are 12 000 De Jong books in UC library’s collection which have all been catalogued and Matt Oram created a first level finding aid for the archival material before he joined the team at central. Some of the manuscripts and rare books are on display in level 2 of central and are well worth a look.
If you have the chance, come over to the Pasifika Lali Room at 3.00 pm today. Historian Margaret Pointer will be talking about Niuean soldiers’ involvement in the First World War as part of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies seminar series.
TV 3 have also picked it up so great publicity for UC and the library. It is on display in the Matariki Gallery so have a look while you have the chance.
As per an earlier counterculture post there is a staff Te Reo practice session scheduled at Education Library from 10.00 – 11.00 today (in the upstairs seminar room). It would be good to have some indication of who is able to attend today if possible.
This is an opportunity to practice Te Reo in a supportive environment.
If you would like an excuse to listen to the radio in work time our very own Art Curator Jamie will be appearing on the RDU breakfast show at 9.15 am tomorrow as visual arts correspondent.
We’ll all be listening Jamie – no pressure or anything 🙂
You are all welcome to come along to a Te Reo practice session today at EPS library meeting room 1. This is a chance for people will all levels of Te Reo to practice conversing with colleagues.
Ko te manu e kai ana i te miro, nōna te ngahere.
Ko te manu e kai ana i te matauranga, nōna te ao.
Wednesday 21 October 3.00 – 4.00 pm, PS208, Macmillan Brown.
Tuesday 24 November 1.00 – 11.00 am Education Library
These sessions are for staff with all levels of ability of Te Reo to come and korero with colleagues in a supportive environment. A good chance to get tips on pronunciation, practice some greetings, waiata and mihi.
