I’m delighted to announce that we have now made appointments to the full and part time Library Assistant roles in MB.
Hannah Stevenson has accepted the role of full time Library Assistant. She is currently studying toward the Bachelor of Arts in Library and Information Studies with the Open Polytechnic and has a customer service background.
Annie O’Brien has accepted the role of part time temporary Library Assistant, covering Gabrielle’s parental leave. She currently works in the UC library Casual Team and has has studied Social Anthropology at UC.
Hannah will start on Monday 30 March and Annie will start on Monday 13 April.
We look forward to welcoming Hannah and Annie to the MB team.
Thank you to all those who expressed interest in the Te Reo practice sessions for library staff. These will be fun and informal sessions. For anyone else who is still considering this, you are still able to come along:
Rāmere 27 Māehe (Friday 27 March) 10.00 – 11.00am in PS208 (Pasifika Lali Room, near MB Library)
All welcome!
I’ll try and book sessions at all the libraries across campus throughout the year so we all get to have a good walk across campus at some stage.
So bring along any Te Reo resources that you find useful – remember we are running these sessions ourselves so maybe have a think beforehand about what you would like to work on.
The library managers are very keen to give support to those of you who would like to develop and maintain your skills in Te Reo Māori. Learning Te Reo helps us to support Māori students and staff, to help UC be a good Treaty partner and to treasure this beautiful and unique language of Aotearoa.
Many of you will now have attended courses and learned some Te Reo so we would like to offer sessions for you to practice what you have learned with your colleagues. These sessions will be open to all learners of Te Reo, from those who are proficient to those like myself who are just at the beginning of their journey. They will be informal, casual sessions that are run by the participants. This is recommended for those who have at least some very basic Te Reo skills (formal or self taught) but the only real requirement is a willingness to participate, give it a go and support your colleagues. Ideally we will have a mix of language levels. The sessions will be for one hour per month.
I would like to get an indication of how many people might be interested in participating in these sessions so I can book an appropriate sized venue and time (and chocolate biscuits!).
Please contact me at the following if you’re interested in participating then I will provide session details in another counterculture post.
joanna.condon@canterbury.ac.nz
ext 8660
Please keep an eye on the recruitment website as we will be advertising for parental cover for Gabrielle’s role in the next day or so. This is 16 hours per week, Academic Year Only so will be temporary from April – November 2015.
I’m very pleased to announce that Jamie Hanton has been appointed to the role of temporary 0.5 Art Curator, job sharing with Lydia Baxendell on her return from parental leave later this month.
I’m sure you’ll all agree that we are lucky to be able to welcome Lydia back to the team while also keeping Jamie with us for another year. I’m sure Lydia and Jamie will be a great team!
There is a small display of Christmas books from the rare books collection in the display case on L5 (outside Alex Hanlon’s old office/near Kauri meeting room).
For those working in Central, a good excuse to stretch your legs and go and have a peek?
I would like to make you all aware that a 0.5, temporary role has been advertised for an Art Curator. This is to job share with Lydia Baxendell who will be returning from parental leave in January 2015.
Apology for the lateness of this message, the role closes Friday 28 November.
UC Library will be participating in the Canterbury Stories event at the Airforce Museum, Wigram this Sunday October 12. This is an opportunity for Canterbury people to find out more about their WW1 past, talk to experts and bring in their family treasures to discuss. There is also an opportunity to visit the Canterbury Stories WW1 centenary exhibition.
Erin and I will be participating in the event and are looking forward to chatting with people about their WW1 stories and maybe getting to see some cool treasures. If you have an interest in WW1 history this will be an interesting day and you also can catch the exhibition over the coming months.
I’m very pleased to announce that Damian Cairns has been appointed to the role of Special Collections Librarian in the Macmillan Brown Library. Damian is currently contracted to work in MB temporarily and has previously had a one year contract in the Liaison team so will be familiar to many of you. It is great to have him on board in a continuing role.
Damian will officially start his new role on Monday 29 September.
