I would like to encourage you to attend the Aoraki LIANZA event on Thursday 18 April at the Rangiora Library, 141 Percival St, Rangiora; time 6.30 for 7 pm start, a light supper will be available.
Programme – a look a the plans for the new Kaiapoi Library and an update from Phillippa Ashbey and her team on projects at the Waimakariri District Libraries. The supper will be provided among the art works in the Library’s Chamber Gallery. Please rsvp to leonie.miller@ccc.govt.nz by Tuesday 16 April.
I will be heading to Rangiora from work and I have two spare seats if that is helpful to anyone wanting to attend.
Joan Simpson
Anton started work with the Library Support Services Team yesterday. Over the coming weeks he will be visiting UC Libraries and getting to know as many of you as he can. He has previously been employed by the Otago University with the ICT team so the Library world is relatively new to him. We are really pleased to welcome Anton and to have a him begin work on the management of the Research Repository.
Anton has provided a brief summary. If there was one word that would sum me up, that would be ‘eclectic’. I know that’s a bit of semantic cheating, but it’s about as good as it gets. I’m a Dunedin boy (though born in Gore) who has spent 10 years working in London during the dot.com boom and accidentally fell into working with computers. I have undergrad degrees in Neuropsychology and Social Anthropology, and I’m finishing off my MIS through Victoria – I only have my research project left. I’ve done a lot of IT project management and account management, and I moved into libraries because that’s where all the interesting stuff is happening. I love playing euro-style board games (especially co-operative ones), going to the roller derby, cats, the national programme and reading trashy space opera. I’ve done a lot of work with community radio in the past, and at some point I’ll look at getting a slot on Plains FM, if they’ll have me.
My partner, Maria, is staying down in Dunedin for the time being, so we’ll be flying up and down a lot.
Anton
With the move of the Special Collections room on level 1 of James Hight it has been necessary to update the collection codes to reflect the location changes Updated codes for Special Collections. Please familiarise yourself with the new changes. E-Services staff have moved all items to the new codes.
Joan Simpson
The Library has been advised that the Law Basement is to be cleared of books and shelving so that crack injecting can be completed. The Project Office are organising for a contract to be signed for a company to come in and pack the library items and then for the items to be available for retrieval offsite. This is a similar project to packing up level 4 of the Central Library We have one and maybe two weeks to get the records for the Law Basement as up to date as possible.
LSS staff are concentrating on the titles which are in Horizon as ZLJ2 (unbarcoded journals). They are be checking if the titles are barcoded and changing the status to ZLJ. The team are barcoding items only if by barcoding a few titles a run is completed. We are not going to attempt to barcode all items in the Law Basement.
There should be little change from a customer point of view as they will still request for retrieval. If an item is not barcoded we will interloaning it as we will have no way of identifying it until it is returned.
When final details are known a news item will be placed on library news.
We are pleased to announce that:
Romy Forrer has been appointed to the full time permanent position of E-Services Co-ordinator. Congratulations Romy
Also Anton Angelo has been appointed to the full time permanent position of Research Data Co-ordinator. Anton currently works at the Otago University with the IT team and he will join the team on Monday 25 March.
The LSS team are farwelling Ali Beken, Julie Beaulieu and Nicola Hanlon at a team lunch as their fixed term contracts end today. We are aiming to be back in the office by 1.30 pm and we will respond to any queries at this time. I would like to thank these 3 staff for the wide range of tasks they have completed in their short time with the team and for their positive and enthuisastic attitude towards their roles. Please accept our apologies if our team lunch causes any inconvenience to library services. Joan Simpson
The Library Support Services team will be out of the level 5 workroom all day on Thursday 31 January. We are meeting in DA 02 for a team planning day. Julie Beaulieu will be working in the workroom until 2.30 pm and will take messages to any phone calls if necessary. Anne will be available by cell phone for anything urgent 027 450 4216. We will have wireless devices with us in DA02 so we will be checking work emails and the LSS inbox for anthing urgent. Joan
The LSS team will start their move on Monday afternoon 14 Jan and all should be working in their new spaces by the afternoon of 15 January. The phone extension numbers remain the same and the phones should be operational in the new building by Monday. Please address any internal mail for the team to xxx LSS team, S519 Level 5, James Hight. The central team and LSS will be sharing some of the space for the processing of material until Central reopens. We look forward to catching up with you all in the near future. Joan Simpson
We are pleased to advise that we are currently advertising for an E-Services Co-ordinator and a Research Data Co-ordinator. Both are full time positions with the Library Support Services Team. Applications close on Sunday 3 February. Please see the Job vacancy link join us. Joan Simpson
By the end of today the theses collection will be in the Library Warehouse. It is now shelved in alphabetical order within each year. There is no longer a separation by subject. The collection will be made available to place a hold on the catalogue today. There is still some work to do in the warehouse as the annual reports and Horrie Brown collection are not yet in their final spaces. There are also a number of thesis which have been separated out from a CD or floppy disk so there is some additional work to finish the project required in 2013. In the new year the spare cartons and pellets will be moved out of the warehouse. The warehouse layout map has been updated. Warehouse layout 2013. Joan Simpson
