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A Final Event For Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori
Mōrena,
on Rāmere (Friday) we will have a roundup of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori with prizes awarded, some quiz questions and games, an opportunity to review the week’s activities and share some kai together, while practicing our reo. All are welcome!
Time 11am – noon.
Place PS 208
Reminder – Absence/Leave requests
Just a quick reminder that if you are planning leave in the next few weeks, then next week (4-8 Sept) is a very good time to put that information into the leave system (Peoplesoft). The following week, you won’t be able to enter leave applications while the system is being upgraded. (You will still be able to add to the spreadsheet in sharepoint though).
thanks, Lyndsay.
Exponential Technologies, Universities, Social Change
Kia ora koutou,
Assoc. Prof Amy Fletcher will be talking to all interested Library staff about the above matters next Wednesday 6 September at 9am in KH08 – in the flat floored teaching spaces of Kirkwood. All Library staff are welcome to attend to give us more background when considering our future directions as a Library aligning with the University goals and to consider implications for the way our students will be learning. Amy is an interesting and engaging member of our academic staff and well worth listening to. After Amy’s presentation there will be discussion time on the implications of her presentation for our work practice. You do not have to register for this, just turn up next Wednesday morning.
Programme for LU Staff visiting us on Friday
Kia ora koutou,
I hope that many of us can be involved with the programme during the visit of the Lincoln University LTL staff on Friday morning. 26 of us enjoyed visiting Lincoln on Monday afternoon, and now we can all return their hospitality. In particular, it would be good if people from each team can be around for the welcome, the small group discussion and morning tea, and the final questions and next steps in working together conversation. Here is the full programme. Times are indicative only 🙂
| Welcome mihi | Anne | 9.00 – 9.05 | Central Library, Rm. 210 |
| Waiata – E Tū Kahikatea | All | 9.05 – 9.07 | Central Library, Rm. 210 |
| Instruction re qu.s for small group discussion | Alison Mc | 9.07- 9.10 | Central Library, Rm. 210 |
| Organisation structure | Anne | 9.10 – 9.30 | Central Library, Rm. 210 |
| Central library tour | All | 9.30 – 10.00 | Central Library, Level 2, 4, 5, 11 |
| Small group discussion | All | 10.00 -10.30 | Central Library, Rm. 210 |
| Morning Tea | All | 10.30 -10.50 | Central Library, Rm. 210 |
| Walk to Macmillan Brown | All | 10.50-11.00 | Outside |
| Macmillan Brown library tour | All | 11.00 – 11.30 | Macmillan Brown Library |
| Questions and next steps | All | 11.30 -12.30 | Macmillan Brown Library PS 208 |
Meet for LU visit in foyer level 2 Central Library
Kia ora koutou,
if you are visiting Lincoln University Library this afternoon and will be traveling in the UC vans, we are meeting at 12.30 as above. If you are going using your own car, we will see you there at 1pm.
Update re Staff Devt Lincoln University visit
Kia ora koutou,
On the morning of Friday 1 September, Lincoln University Library Teaching and Learning staff will be visiting us as a reciprocal visit after we visit them earlier in the week. Please put this date in your calendars so that you have some time available to assist in hosting our visitors. If anyone would like to help work on the programme for this visit to UC Library, please let me know as soon as possible.
There are still a couple of spaces left for our visit to LU on Monday afternoon 28 August. (Book now on the staff development calendar). We aim to arrive at Lincoln around 1pm, leaving here at 12.30 in UC vans, having already had lunch, and leave Lincoln by 4.30pm to be back at the University at 5pm. The programme will include plenty of time to talk to our counterparts and there will be afternoon tea with cake!
Lyndsay.
Reporting Health and Safety events
Kia ora koutou,
Remember the Health and Safety Toolkit on the intranet? If not, you may want to glance here and remind yourself of its full glory.
Anyway, part of that kete is the method for reporting events. Overall, for the Library we are very good at reporting, but we should be doing better at using the online form (RMSS) rather than the Word document. If we use the RMSS, we get enhanced reporting, ability to analyse and reflect on our incidents, etc. From now on, your H&S team would like to see all events logged using RMSS rather than the form. If this causes issues, please discuss that with a member of the Library H&S team.
OCI and OEI – culture survey
Kia ora koutou,
I hope that you are planning a time this week or next to fill out your response to the Learning Resources OCI/OEI culture survey. For some of us this is a retest as Alex had indicated that we would survey every two years to see if we were progressing towards our desired culture.
I’ve just filled out my survey for the first time and although it took a little time and effort (!), I appreciated the chance to reflect on how we work together and what I’ve learned in the past 5 months or so about the culture that we have here in the Library and more generally at UC. I think it is worthwhile for us to participate and create data that we can use in future planning and development. I encourage everyone to input your observations and opinions.
Lyndsay.
VC’s visit to the Library today
Kia ora koutou,
don’t forget that the VC will be with us today at 2pm in Central Library Room 210. If anyone still has posters they want to show, please get them to me asap 🙂
nga mihi, Lyndsay.