Kia ora koutou,

BIOL 275 students have a report due today. They have to use the NZ Journal of Ecology referencing style.

The basics of the style are listed on the ‘Author Instructions‘ section of the journal’s website along with an EndNote style they can download and add to their styles folder. It’s a minimal punctuation, author date style with no italics except for species names.

NOTE: There is a somewhat worse NZ J Ecology style to download on the EndNote website. The style from the journal’s website is a better option.

Author Instructions: https://newzealandecology.org/nzje/notice-contributors

Direct questions to me.

Nick

Happy International Workers’ Day / May Day!

2013 International Workers’ Day demonstration in Austria

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Maypole dancing at Bishopstone Church, East Sussex, in England, UK.

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Kia ora koutou,

The Library TEU delegates/reps (Dave Lane, Tim O’Sullivan and myself) are having our next regular meeting with Library managers on Thursday. If you have anything you would like us to raise on your behalf please let us know ASAP. Tim is on leave returning on Thursday and I am on leave on Tuesday so best to contact to me or Dave. The Agenda will be finalised on Wednesday at 12 noon.

Also, please consider becoming a TEU Library delegate. We used to have a larger more diverse group of Library reps but it has shrunk over time. Please have a chat to any of us if you are interested in joining us.

Ngā mihi,

Nick

Below is the text of the email invite. Hopefully, all of you who are affected by the claim (broadly speaking Library and administration staff at UC in bands 1 – 4 (currently)) should have received the invite but it’s quite possible some of you may not have if the TEU’s records are not up-to-date.

Caroline Anderson and I (Nick Scullin) are the two UC Library reps on the TEU’s national Gender Pay Equity reference group if you have any questions about the event or the claim.

Tēnā koe,

In late September TEU raised two pay equity claims for low paid library and clerical and administration staff in our 8 universities.

We think that your role may be covered by one of these claims.

You can go to our gender equity toolkit website for more information about the claims.

Members and TEU staff of the Pay Equity Reference Group are holding a series of face-2-face events for people who might be covered by the claims so we can talk through the detail, answer questions, and share the next steps of the claim process. Food and light refreshments will be provided.

The event for your university will be:

Date: 29 November 2022                            Time: 3:30pm                           Room: Undercroft 101

A meeting invite will be sent out. If you can get to this event, please do.

Looking forward to seeing you,

I roto i te kotahitanga – In solidarity

Kia ora koutou,

BIOL112 Students have their big guppy lab report due 11.55pm Fri 26 Aug. All Biology students and Forestry students have to take this course and pass this assignment so it’s quite important. Having said that, I don’t usually see many students struggling with it. Mostly they just want to check they are doing the APA referencing correctly.

The instructions for the report are in their Lab manual as an appendix on page 31. The Lab manual is here on their LEARN page: https://learn.canterbury.ac.nz/mod/resource/view.php?id=2222338

If you get questions on AskLIVE or at the desk here’s a few things to note but also refer them to make a Zoom appointment with me if needed or talk to another subject librarian if urgent and I’m not available.

• APA 7th referencing
• They MUST have 10 peer reviewed articles
• They are given 4 peer reviewed papers on LEARN already so only need to find 6 more
• Additional scholarly sources like books, conference papers etc encouraged on top of the 10 peer reviewed articles
• If they haven’t watched the lecture I gave they should as it is all about how to find sources for the report
• Scopus database is the recommended first place to search. There are plenty of articles about guppies and sexual selection
• I have provided them with a handout that shows them how to search Scopus with examples searches: K:\Academic-Support\Teaching\Subject-specific\Science\BIOL112-handout-2022-08.pdf

Any questions, feel free to contact me.

Nick

Kia ora koutou,

Environmental Science ENVR101 students have a relatively challenging assignment due this week if you see them in the Library or take questions on AskLIVE. Here’s a few points that might help.

• APA referencing
• They have to have 15 sources or more in their reference list
• About half the sources should be peer-reviewed journal articles.
• They are encouraged to use grey literature but also critically assess it. So reports, websites, news etc can be cited.
• The reference list AND the in-text citations do not count towards the word count.

Please refer students on to me if needed or another subject librarian if I’m not available.

Nick

Kia ora koutou,

The TEU is working with other unions to put forward a Gender Pay Equity Claim for “Library Assistant” (read those at a library assistant level band regardless of job title I believe) and also Clerical Workers for all the universities. The Public Libraries have already but through such a claim and it has been accepted that it has merit meaning discussions are ongoing with employers. There is the potential for pay rates to be increased if it can be successfully argued that they are too low because those areas have traditionally had a high proportion of women. The TEU needs staff from each university to be part of a reference group. Currently, it’s just me from UC but ideally we would have one or two staff at Library Assistant band level representing us (I could step down if needed). The TEU will seek to get two UC clerical workers to join as well. The reference group will meet once a month to advise the TEU staff progressing the claim via Zoom. I don’t anticipate it would be a huge amount of work.

Let me know if you’re interesting in joining the reference group.

The TEU has a new a new Gender Equity Toolkit – a resource developed by the National Women’s Committee as a practical guide to support TEU members in their union mahi for gender equity.

새해 복 많이 받으세요! (saehae bok mani badeuseyo)

Koreans say this to each other for the Lunar New Year.

Happy Year of the Tiger!

– Nick