Thank you everyone that came to the session today! You may access the slides that were used during the session here: K:\LIBR-Library\Presentations\Jan_2019_Common_student_questions_about_Learn_and_how_to_answer_them.pdf

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The following online seminar might be of interest to staff that are supporting students. Lynnette Brice will discuss the stages, processes, and challenges of designing and implementing a new student support model for Open Distance and Flexible Learning. Lynnette Brice is Vice-President of FLANZ (Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand) and currently The Professional Practice Leader at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, previously Head of School Foundation & Bridging. For more information see here.

Date: 02 August 2018, 1pm NZT

Format: Webinar, half an hour presentation followed by the opportunity to ask questions and contribute to an online discussion

Link: https://vlnprimary.zoom.us/j/958518941

Registration is not necessary, just join in!

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A collaborative project between e-Learning Support, the School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Teacher Education has just been completed . The project was titled “Assessing the effectiveness of a flipped classroom in foundation engineering”. You might have seen our first poster close to the entrance of room 520 in James Hight, which was one of our early outputs, as we were planning the research. Our final report is now accessible via the Ako Aotearoa website: https://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/projects/flipped-classroom-foundation-engineering

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An EPIC new deal for New Zealand content.

Access to New Zealand material has been a focus of EPIC and its Governance Group (EGG) since inception. The EGG has been in discussions with The Knowledge Basket – a key provider of online New Zealand content
– and we are now delighted to announce the outcome.

We have negotiated all of country access to Knowledge Basket’s New Zealand Index. This is a unique archive of New Zealand content containing over 1.9 million records. It is a composite of five separate indexes of New Zealand newspapers, magazines and journals.

Information about New Zealand Index, and other EPIC resources, is available at: http://www.epic.org.nz/nl/Procurement.html

An information pack has been posted to all current EPIC Member libraries.
Non-EPIC members who wish to consider subscribing to EPIC in order to take advantage of this deal can request and information pack by
visiting:
http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=30o9to6c669m1l7332047

To learn more about EPIC visit: http://www.epic.org.nz

http://www.bananaslug.com

Alerted by my (our) dear friend Kirstie McKinnon to this new searching paradigm, here’s what it has to say aboutitself:

Your search + random word = great results!

With normal Google searching, there are many web pages that you may never have a chance to see. So BananaSlug throws in a random word from a category of your choice. This results in pages you probably overlooked. They all have your search term in them, but the added twist gives you something new every time!

E-mail avalanche drives staff crazy – THE DOMINION POST

WORKERS are being driven to distraction by their inboxes, checking e-mails up to 40 times an hour, in a chronic condition that now has its own name: e-stress. Researchers at Glasgow University have found that e-mails disrupt the workday — and can cause anxiety for a third of employees.

Some people have commented on a trend in some NZ libraries to hire people prior to the completion or even beginning of a qual so as a quick gauge of opinion, there is a new poll on the LIANZA website:

Should ALL reference librarians have a library qualification?

a) Yes – essential/fundamental
b) Yes – or be planning to do/finish one
c) No – you can learn on the job
d) No – everyone should do reference work

Have your say and vote here: http://www.lianza.org.nz/news/
Poll results will be published regularly in Library Life.

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From the Google Librarian blog resources. Sure sounds like a good idea for libraries, now if they could also index subscription databases as well and present the mixture of results from a single search in a useful way, now there’s a time worth living for..