Hi all. it is that time of year again. For those who are going down to the wire, remember the annual deeply traditional last day picnic on Level 4.  BYO everything edible. Come with your own lunch and/or bring food to share. Mid-day start time.
Kathryn

Nick and Kathryn are doing a rerun of their Lianza conference presentation for any interested staff. The link to sign up is below.

https://canterbury.libcal.com/event/5628236

Keep Tuesday the 11th of July free for eating fudge.  Keep the weekend prior free for making fudge.  Those of us who have been around the traps for a while will remember exchanging homemade fudge between the branch libraries in a semi-competitive attempt to see who made the best fudge. Was this Fiona T’s brain child? Kiera and I are reinstating this library fudge creation/eating extravaganza in an effort to ward off the winter blues.

We are getting a few questions asking how to reference  a set of newly published brochures on the Ako Aotearoa website. RESOURCE SET | Te reo Māori rerenga kōrero and waiata » Ako Aotearoa

John created an exemplar for this and it can now be found on the Education subject guide ‘Frequently cited’ page. Thanks John, it is appreciated.

Citing with APA – Education – Subject Guides at University of Canterbury (libguides.com)

We have been getting lots of requests to check the referencing for Ministry of Education document: Tapasā: Cultural competencies framework for teachers of Pacific learners.

After John A checked ( and corrected) my draft, I have uploaded the exemplar for this to the ‘Frequently cited’ box on the Education subject guide.

https://canterbury.libguides.com/c.php?g=243206&p=1618499

The Education Subject Librarians and Jess are getting back into the habit of going to karakia on Tuesday mornings. It is lead by Te Hurinui Clarke, with guitar in hand. There is a song booklet that can be accessed on your phone ( well not on mine, sigh) via a QR code that we can give you. If anyone is interested in joining us, it kicks off at 9am in the foyer of Rehua.  A couple of songs, a karakia and you are good to go for the rest of the day.

The Children’s book giveaway starts today and runs for the week. It is in Room 224. Please be aware that there are a couple of times when the room will be closed off for teaching. Signage will be in place at these times.  Punters will have to wait until the teaching has finished to access the room.

Fingers crossed that the books will fly off the tables…..because the left-overs will be flying into the skip.

I have been weeding the classroom collection (non-fiction children’s books) over the summer. The withdrawn titles are progressively being plonked on the floor on L5. Thanks to all the folk in ELS who are doing much of the mahi. Also in the fray are some CD’s,  DVD’s and posters. This is a reminder to everyone that you are free to come and fossick.

For those of us who will be here on the 22nd of December, we will be having the deeply extremely traditional picnic on Level 4 amongst the picture book collection.

Bring your lunch and join us at 12 midday on the 22nd of December.

I have weeded the large school readers. There is a crate of them on L5 right now. if you want to give any of them a good home, pop on up and take a look.