Please read the screen carefully when you are checking items in and the item is to go into transit to one of the library store facilities.

On the transit slip the collection code is printed at the top right
zwj or zwb = Store A – Library Warehouse
zlb or zlj = Store B – Law Basement
zccl, zcar and many more Store C- Macmillan Brown Library (previously special collections at Central) New codes are being considered to change the c to an m. I will advise again if the change takes place.
zoj or zob = Store D – Crown offsite store
z26b or z26j = Store E – Bay 26, UC warehouse (send to Central Library until further notice)

If you put the item into the correct crate then less time is wasted tracking items and moving them around the storage spaces.

Joan Simpson

Hi all

With all the library stock moves required by the University over the previous and coming months, additional shelving space was required (in the short term). Bay 26 in the UC Warehouse was allocated to the Library and some of the compactus shelving from level 1 of James Hight, special collections room, has been set up in Bay 26.

The collections which have been shelved into Bay 26 were low use items. However, in the last week there were several requests.

Collections which are in Bay 26 are:
Some serial runs which were at Crown and have been brought back. They should be available electronically but as was proved by several of the request this is not an accurate assessment.
The majority of the de Jong collection which was low use and previously held in Central
Abstracts and Indexes which UC has contracted to keep and were previously in the Library warehouse. These are titles we have electronically.
Parts of the Royal Society collection which is on permanent loan to UC. These vols are available electronically or they are monographs which the Liaison Librarians
have considered out of scope.

Coral and Jill are meeting next week to confirm the process for requests for 2013 as the Law Basement and Bay 26 will require new processes.

Until final decisions are made please send any item which has been on loan and is to go back to Bay 26 to the Central Library. Please clearly add a note with the item that it is to be returned in 2013 to Bay 2. Please sign and date the message.

Please get in touch if I can be of any assistance. The LSS team are working on updating all of the records for relegation and withdrawal. As has been mentioned before the requirement to prepare data for the depreciation of the book stock has slowed down the updating of the horizon records.

Joan Simpson

The LSS team will be moving back to S519 in the Central Library on Tuesday 15 January. The team would appreciate it, if colleagues would hold all non-urgent work until we are back in Central. A number of staff will be packing up their work areas at the end of this week, and some next week as they plan for their annual leave. Those team members working through January will be doing all they can to reduce the number of items currently in Otakaro 117. The last delivery of Library mail to Otakaro 117 will be on Friday 11 January. All Library mail and carton deliveries will be going to the Central Library from Monday 14 January. The new process for Library mail has yet to be confirmed.
Thanks for your co-operation, Joan Simipson

LIANZA Aoraki would like to invite you to celebrate end of the working year with your library colleagues from around the region.
Wednesday 19 December from 5 pm onwards. It is a buy your own food and drink evening.
I hope to see you there

St Asaph St Kitchen & Mad Dog Bar is at 263 St Asaph St
Joan Simpson

The shelvingfor the thesis collection in the Library warehouse has not been achieved yet. As the gap between the stock to move and where it is going increases it takes longer to move the items. I am hopeful that by 10 December the Thesis collection will be available for requests. The way the thesis collection will be shelved is chaning. It will be alphabetical by year. Regardless of the subject of the thesis. The reordering of the collection is also taking some time but in the long run will be beneficial to finding and shelving. Please contact me if you have urgent requests. If we can easily locate the required thesis we will.
Joan Simpson

The Library has been advised that the appropriate equipment is available for UC to go ahead with the refrigerant evacuation from the law ice plant next week.

This will mean that the Law Basement (including loading ramp) will be totally out of bounds to all persons except the contractors doing the work, as from 8:00 next Monday morning (3/12/12) until the end of the week. The access ban will be a continuous period (24/7) until the work is completed.

Please arrange for any equipment/materials etc you may need from this area during this period to be relocated before the work begins.

The nature of the work presents no risk to books etc stored in the area.

It is extremely important for your own safety that you adhere to all signage and do not enter the Law Basement until you have been advised it is safe to do so.

Decisions are being made regarding requests from this area. Nothing will be able to be retrieved.

Joan Simpson

The team will finish packing up the thesis collection today. It has been packed onto pellets and placed in onsite store until we have created the space in the Library Warehouse. (this should be by the end of November). If a thesis is returned to your library please put it in transit to the Library Warehouse. We will collect them there and shelve them when we unpack the cartons. Thanks Joan Simpson

LIANZA Events

A reminder that there is a LIANZA meeting on tonight at the new National Library work space, Cavendish Room, Unit 7, 150 Cavendish.

Jessica McVicar-Hobbs will be reporting back on her attendance at the LIANZA conference;

Carol Brandenberg (Lincoln University) and Carolyn Robertson (Christchurch City Libraries) will talk about their presentation ‘Expecting the unexpected: libraries respond to profound change’ given at the 2012 American Library Association (ALA) conference in Anaheim, USA.

Joan Simpson

Crown has carried out a major technology upgrade to their system over the weekend. Some customers have advised that this has affected their internet to RMWeb link.

Please check your link and if necessary change it to this one.
https://www04.rminteract.com/

Joan Simpson

As an update to my post on 26 October. I have now asked E-services to remove the request option on the entire theses collection. The print collection should be available again by Monday 3 December once it has been shelved in the library warehouse. I have organised for a message to be placed on the Theses info page of the website. Joan