that we have more students, but they are not all registered yet! Therefore a reduced team will continue to offer International Enrolment in the Central Library on Saturday 10am -1pm  (though no course advice will be available) and then on Monday and Tuesday on the north side of level 3 only i.e. where we do the book giveaways.  The queue (if there still is one) will run past Academic Support as it did in 2017.

i would like to express my gratitude to Sue L and Dinga who are volunteering to open the Library at 10am on Saturday to assist.

Its great that we can partner with Student Services to settle these new students in to UC.

Kia ora koutou,

the Student First Project presenters passed on to me that they noted the passion Library staff have about making a difference to our students. They felt that this was a good match with the desires of the project team.

I have saved  their powerpoint presentation in the K drive at K:\LIBR-Library\Presentations – its title is Student First Programme Library Presentation.

Jenny C is happy to set up another presentation to us later on in the year.

Liz Keneti and the Student Services team would like to draw our attention to the competition that will be running from 16 – 23 February helping students understand the Code of Conduct and related behaviours.

“Kia ora koutou,

Tied in with the campus tours on orientation day this year will be a competition aiming to promote 5 key messages we would like to reinforce to students. There will be campus activation points on the tour and groups will be required to do an activation game at each stop to help them complete their boarding pass requirements. The tours will be led by our student leaders and assisted by staff at each activation point.

To help incentivise their engagement with the answers, the UCSA is kindly putting forward some prizes that students who enter the correct answers go into the draw to win (at this stage, events and food and beverage vouchers). The entry forms will be available on the campus tours themselves and at pick up points elsewhere, and will be dropped off in a visible drop box in Puaka-James Hight. The competition itself will run Feb 16 –23, and has been themed to align with events being run by the UCSA at the same time. Extending the time of the competition will allow us to promote these key messages to students we didn’t capture at O-Day and our returning students.

Students are encouraged to keep an eye out for clues around campus (e.g. Insider’s guide, learn, around the physical spaces) and to ask staff. The correct answers to the questions so that you can help point students towards clues for the answers (should any come to asking about it) are as follows:

• Take care of your mates
• Consent is as simple as a cup of tea  (refers to this, if you haven’t seen the Cup of Tea video)
• Understand your Student Code of Conduct
• Make sure to check your emails
• Remember that you can ask [Student Care, Security, MDT, PDT, UCSA Advocacy and Welfare, etc] for help. “

The Library’s involvement is in two areas – A drop box for students to return their competition form will be located on level 2 of Central Library, and LEARN will be one of the places where the clues/answers can be found. Of course we can also encourage our students to answer Library as one of the places they can ask for help!

Kia ora koutou,

you may have been wondering how the recommendations for supporting new student success in the first 6 weeks at UC are going.

We definitely have progress – particularly in terms of the recommendations around partnerships with other areas. Being able to build on previous relationships is really helping and we are seeing delight from our colleagues at the chances to work more closely together with the Library. This is aiding  teams working on the 2018 Objectives e.g. Induction Project, Week of the Geek etc. in meeting their outcomes too.

• We have a link to Learn in the email sent to students on completion of enrollment, and some pre-arrival active skills content is underway.
• The Salon conversation series for academic staff (and the rest of us) will begin on Wednesday 14 February. This is part of students seeing that the libraries are a place for everyone, and for academic staff to see students using Library face to face services.
• LEARN and the Library website and its links are looking good.
• We are in the process of discussing MFD prompt provisioning.
• Furnishings have been updated in both MB and Central libraries.

Still working to get more movement in the other suggested areas, but its a really good start and thanks very much to all of you who are working hard to keep up our 2018 active support for students in that really crucial time from start of lectures through to Easter break. The work we are doing now to prepare, and what we will be busy with soon are such clear examples of our Library values at work.

Kia ora koutou,

this message is to notify the first of what will likely be a number of changes across the Library this year as we work to implement the required financial savings for the 2018 staffing budget.

As a result of two vacancies in Customer Services, (Aaron’s and Jean’s) we have taken the opportunity to look at staffing there.

Reluctantly we have agreed to  remove the Team Leader, Environment Band 5 position and replace it with a Band 2 position, which is to be split into a 0.8 position ( being advertised) and 0.2 offered to someone in an existing part-time position. This is required to have enough bodies to cover extended hours and peak times in the libraries for our existing opening hours. Jean’s position will not be replaced. The reporting lines in Customer Services will change as a result of this change to the Pou.

Library managers would like to acknowledge the impact of these changes on Te Paea, Jenny, Rā and the Customer Services Team.  It is not easy to be suddenly confronted with these changes  when your vision for the team was just about to come to fruition, you have just merged two libraries, and other unexpected issues are impacting on the team all at the same time.

As we all work together to achieve the best possible outcomes for Library staff and for our user groups, lets all keep communicating and giving each other the information that’s needed to make good decisions.

Kia ora koutou,

the level four room formerly known as the Antarctic Room is being repurposed this year as a place for BYOD teaching, group consultation and study space, alongside Poutama and Ātea Ako on levels three and two respectively. We are crowdsourcing a name for the room that will fit into the learning theme of the other two rooms. Does anyone have a suggestion or two? If so, please post them here. Deadline for suggestions is end of day Monday 29th, as we need to get onto getting signs made and setting up room bookings.

Of course this new use will not begin until the current art work repair has concluded at start of term.

Kia ora koutou,

next week we will begin this trial series of slightly provocative conversations that are part of bringing staff (particularly academic staff) back into the Library spaces.  Co-produced by the Library and the Library Committee, these will be lunchtime gatherings where people bring their lunch and come together to talk about an idea or a topic. Running from 12.15 to 1pm, each will begin with a 5-7 minute “provocation”  and then moderated discussion will occur. Anton has agreed to be the facilitator for this first series. The Summer Series will run once a week until the start of Semester One and then the project will be reviewed to determine next steps. See K:\LIBR-Library\Projects\The Salon for more information around the project.

The series will most likely begin on Friday 19th with a provocation by Darryn Russell. Watch this space early next week for the title.

Your contribution please:

if you wish to attend the talks yourself, please bring a non-library colleague/friend and also could you

talk about these sessions as you attend meetings, staff the service points or have other conversations around the university as we want people to know that they are happening and that they will be an enjoyable way to catch up with people from all round the University .

thanks,

Lyndsay on behalf of the project team.

Mōrena

here is a note I received yesterday from Simon White giving us the latest news on the Copy Centre.

“Happy new year 🙂

I thought I’d provide a quick update to keep you and the team “in the loop”.

The Copy Centre has now moved into the new location but you probably already gathered that by now!

Today I had a meeting with Gary Busch regarding some minor capital works to the room to make the location operationally effective and improve customer access of services.

We plan to remove the glass only from front of the room, and then the carpenters will be able to reuse the old Copy Centre service counter from the undercroft to make this into a new serving counter-hatch from current materials on hand. This will be fairly simple to do and make the front student friendly without incurring too much cost and time. Gary hopes this can be done before start of semester one.

Stage two will include and simple security screen inside the service hatch later in the semester.

The above minor works also includes updated signage around and towards the Copy Centre plus we will aim to reuse old signage from downstairs.”

Kia ora koutou,

As we wish to thank Aaron for all that he has contributed in the life of UC Library, there will be a farewell morning tea for Aaron on Thursday 18th at 10am on Level 2 of Central Library in the Customer Services office area.  All welcome – feel free to bring some baking to contribute – we’ve all enjoyed baking from Aaron in the past 🙂