Kia ora koutou,
For those who need to book out this space next year for teaching, the booking sheet is located below. This may move in the future or changes made. In the meantime if you do book the space, the set-up, pack down is the same as all other room bookings – the booking person is responsible for this.
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Kia ora koutou, as we start to see less students in and have staff away on annual leave, we have a couple of reminders for H &S. One is that the toastie machine has been left on overnight in the staff room and another is the balcony doors on level 3 were also left open. These doors should always be locked. Also around 1,800 boxes will be on floors level 8, 9 and 11 so mind your step!
Ka kite 2020, haere mai 2021! This is the call out for EOI’s to those who would like to join next year’s Herea tō Waka group. The work we do is focused on Orientation and Induction combined (first 6 weeks) and helps students set up for a great rest of the year with UC Library.
The phase ‘herea tō waka’ means to ‘tie up your waka’ and is a reference to what we do when our waka (sailing vessel) comes into landing – we tie it firmly to the shore.
There is always fun to be had in this group and activities in the past have ranged from manaakitanga packs and study buddie giveaways to silent disco fun!
Please send all EOIs to Rā Steer by 20th November and help give a great start to 2021.
Customer Services is currently advertising for a full time, Team Leader Customer Services to join our team. This is a continuing role working Monday 8am to 4pm, Tuesday and Thursday 1.15pm to 9.15pm and Wednesday and Friday 9am to 5pm
https://jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/ajid/XMIl7/Team-Leader-Customer-Services,3510
For those who might have missed it, this year we had a library stall over at Haere Roa for the Winter Wellness Expo. This expo was aimed at providing students with information around how we can support them in their studies and was a great success with a total of 257 visitors engaging with our stall and asking library specific questions.
The Guess the Chocolates competition was a hit with 191 people entering, this leading to 63 new followers on our Social Media channels.
Feedback received on the day –
Thanks to the team who staffed the stall and provided a friendly face for our students to talk to and to Sue Lloyd for organising this. 
Kia ora koutou,
the CS team will be in a meeting today from 2 – 3pm so won’t be on Asklive during this time.
Ngā mihi,
Rā
Kia ora koutou,
You will have seen that we are running our ‘click and post’ service for all PG students and Staff under level 3. To be able to do this, we need students to send their current contact address before sending any items out to them as most aren’t located at their MyUC address or even in Christchurch.
If you do have someone asking about this service, can you please let them know we need their current address which they can send through to the library email inbox. This will help speed the process up of sending it out to them. Many thanks!
Ngā mihi o te Aranga,
Messaging for Easter has now gone up on our socials and Library News to let everyone know that we will be offline for Easter from 10th – 14th of April. This will be a good chance for staff and students to take a well-deserved break.
The characteristics of this event (high numbers in a confined space, high risk of fluid transfer, exposure to other people, additional pressure on cleaning supplies and services), and being a gathering of more than 25 people makes this a high risk activity and therefore this event is cancelled.
The event cancellation takes a responsible approach to support the social distancing measures being widely adopted across New Zealand. Social distancing measures limit the spread of illness and minimises exposure of illness to community members who have a greater risk of developing severe symptoms. This can be reviewed and evaluated to see if these can be run at a different time, either in Semester 2 or in 2021.
Thank you to all of those who had volunteered to marshal and especially those who had already worked so hard on putting this event together, Project lead Juliet, Beth, Brian and Jane.
Kia ora koutou,
For those of you who wanted to see the full report please see here
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Ngā mihi,
Rā (on behalf of the project group).