Hello everyone

Barbara Garriock has started today in the fixed term Branch Manager Libraries and Learning Hubs position and will be temporarily located in Philip’s old office on Level 3 of the James Hight Building.

Barbara and I have walked around all of the libraries to meet and greet staff, and we have also been able to meet a number of the Support Services staff as well. If we missed you, please make yourself known to Barbara over the next few days.

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I am very pleased to be able to announce that Alison McIntyre has accepted the position of Academic Liaison Manager – her interest is in the e-learning portfolio. Alison will join us on 31st January 2011.

Many of you will remember Alison as she used to work for the University of Canterbury Library prior to taking up her present position as a Knowledge Navigator at the New Zealand Institute of Plant and Food Research.

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I am relieved to be able to announce that Barbara Garriock will be joining the Library on the 6th December 2010 in a fixed term role through to March 2011 as the Acting Branch Manager Libraries and Learnning Hubs. Many of you will know or have heard about Barbara as she is the immediate past President of LIANZA.

I am delighted to welcome Tim Stedman who has accepted the role as Resource Acquisition Team Leader.

Heather

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The verbal offer I wrote about in my last CounterCulture message has now been accpeted in writing and I am pleased to announce that Coral Black will be taking up the position of Branch Manager Libraries and Learning Hubs on the 7th March 2011. In the interim, a fixed term appointment will be made to this position, and once this is finalised I advise you of the person taking up the fixed term position and their starting date.

A verbal offer has been made and accepted for one of the Academic Liaison Manager postions and another verbal offer will be made tomorrow. I will let you know as soon as the offers are confirmed in writing who these people are and when their starting dates will be.

The Band 5 position for the Team Supervisor (Branch Libraries & Learning Hubs) is now being advertised.

Heather

I am pleased to announce that I have been able to make verbal offers to candidates for some of the Library positions and I am finishing up the reference phase for the Academic Liaison Manager positions.

A verbal offer has gone out and been accepted for the position of Branch Manager – Libraries and Learning Hubs, once the formal offer document has been accepted I will let you know the persons name and their proposed start date.

The Band 5, Team Supervisor (Branch Libraries and Learning Hubs), position will be advertised next week.

I will update you all again early next week as other positions are are agreed to.

Heather

Many thanks to Joan for organising a dinner on Thursday night to farewell Helen and Victoria, those who were able to attend enjoyed an evening of conviviality and good company.
Staff have had a variety of morning and afternoon teas today to say their farewells to these two staff members who have given so much to the Library. We will miss them.
Our very best wishes go with you both.

Heather

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This project has stalled a little as it is not a major capital works project now, as there will be no structural work carried out on the Law Library.
Both Joan and Margaret have amassed their respective stock figures and Philip has arranged for Crown to come in and pack up the Horrie Brown collection which is stored in the Law Basement.

I will work with David Lang from FM to see if we can get back on track with this project and update you all when I have some progress to report.

Heather

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There is a meeting with the Architects working on the James Hight Building refurbishment on Friday 19h November, after which Joan will be able to share more information.
I am able to share with you all that it has been decided that level 4 will remain a Library stock floor and that Levels 5 and 7 will house Learning Resources staff.

Heather

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I have been asked to let you all know that the libraries will be shut for the duration of this lunch.
Education staff have already alerted me to the fact that their term does not finish until the 26th November, as Gail is away I can give out anymore information than that which is in the line above, so at this point in time, we are closing all of the libraries in order for everyone to join in the festivities.

Watch this space.
Heather

On Tuesday afternoon this week the EPS Library Project Group (PCG) was reinstated. Nick Courtney, David Lang, Gail Pattie, Peter Steel, Bruce White, Christine McKee and myself were in attendance. The tender process has been completed and Image Projects are the successful company. The contractors will start working on site on Monday 15th November.
The 1st week in February is when the commissioning work is scheduled to start in order for the project to be completed and the Library able to be open for the start of Semester 1, 2011. The contractors have been in meetings with the Architect and FM and are already working off-site on various projects that can be partially completed off campus.

However, to an already full refurbishment programme, remediation work for damage caused by the earthquake has also had to be built into the programme making a tight timeframe even tighter. There will also be some additional work carried out which includes having toilet doors fitted to help eliminate the noise problems that are being encountered.

Other meetings will be called from time to time by the Architects to work through furniture and colour scheme issues.

It is hoped that the EPS Library will remain open throughout the entire refurbishment, offering limited study spaces and limited library services from Level 1. There is a small possibility that the Library may need to close completely for a short period of time to allow the contractors full access to the site and to get some noisy work completed. Watch for further information about this as the project progresses.

Decisions about RFID, the type of furnture required, the type of gates, whether the RFID project work will be completed in time for the Semester 1 reopening will be made over the next few weeks. I will update you all as the decisions are made.

Heather