The UC3 climbing club have been given permission by secuirty to abseil down the building this morning.

Only members will be given persmission to the top of the building.

Joan Simpson

Some minor changes are going to be made to the Central Library Help Desk on Friday 16 July and possibly Monday 19 July. As Christine works at this desk full time the height has needed to be changed so that she is now working in pain.
ICT and Library Help will be operating from the Lending Desk.
Joan Simpson

During the week of 19-22 July staff in the Education and Central Libraries will be providing assistance at the self check machines. They will also be noting responses from library users regarding their preference to use or not use the self check machines. Pens have been printed with the library web address. These will be given out to library users who use the self check machine or who provide responses to our survey.
Joan and Kerry

The LIANZA AGM is on 21 July at the South Library Committee Room on Colombo Street.
6 pm start with the AGM and Carolyn to give her speech around 6.45 pm. Carolyn is now the President of LIANZA and it would be wonderful to support her with a good turn out of members. Carolyn will be speaking on her recent trip to America. Following the meeting you are invited to a Filadelfio’s Restaurant. We hope to see you there. Joan and Erin

The black matting at the entrance to the Central Library will be replaced on Saturday morning.

Access to the main doors will cease from 4 pm on Friday 4 December. Customers and staff will access and leave the library via the undercroft doors by security. Preparation for the matting will be carried out on Friday evening and the work will be completed on Saturday morning before the library opens at 1 pm.
Joan Simpson

The Crown staff have completed moving the stock which was barcoded and ready. TR-Z has moved from Level 2 to level 4. Casual staff are moving stock from level 2 to the warehouse and are then moving the remaining stock back to fill the gaps. Shelving between the lifts will start to be dismantled towards the end of the week.
Joan Simpson

Crown staff are working on Level 2 – scanning serials and packing them. These are serials which are available online. Crown staff are likely to be in the Central Library for the next 6-8 days. The information on the stock taken from the building each day is electronically sent back to Library IT the following day and our records are then updated. Most of the records are transferring as planned however there have been a few records to date which have needed additional work from the Collections and or Library IT team.

Staff have also started to move the Z’s up to level 4. Over the next 3 days U, V and Z classifications will be moved to level 4. Our casaul staff will then start to move some of the serials, which are not available online and which have low issue stats, to the warehouse. Again the records will be updated as soon as they possible can be after the stock has been moved.

If you are unable to find the location of any stock please get in touch with Janette Nicole, Tim O’Sullivan or Joan Simpson.

Joan Simpson

Work has started in the Library warehouse by staff from Crown to move stock into offsite storage. We also have some casual employees who are working with Tim O’Sullivan and Janette Nicole to barcode serials.

If these staff are working in an area that you need to access or if you need them to move out from the stacks then please politely let them know your needs. These staff are not aware of our normal routines to get bookstock out of the warehouse.

It is likely that staff will be working in the warehouse over the next three weeks as stock is moved out to Crown and moved in from Central.

If you have any concerns regarding the staff working in the warehouse then please let me know.

Joan Simpson

Funding has been provided to replace the smoke detectors in the James Hight Library Building, this involves replacing every smoke detector in the Library and up grading the fire alarm panel, this work will now start on Monday 23 November and take until December 20 to complete.

During this work the fire sprinkler will remain fully operational. One of the many advantages of the new system will be the monitoring of the dirt levels in the smoke detectors allowing them to be cleaned before they false alarm. The contactor carrying out this work will be FFP Fire Systems apart from the physical replacement of the smoke detectors most of the work will be around the riser ducts in the lift foyers and the piped services riser duct behind the west tower stair.

Please give any assistance required to these conctractors.

Joan Simpson