Reminder: the next seminar in the Meet the Researchers Series will take place at 2.00 on Tuesday 10 December.

Go here for details: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.nz/counterculture/2019/11/05/meet-the-researchers-series-all-welcome/

Go here to register: https://canterbury.libcal.com/event/5222261

The Project Board held its third meeting on 14 October. Notes from that meeting are available in a document called ‘Report on Project Board meeting 14 October 2019’ in the _Project-Administration folder in Projects in the K drive.

The Board next meets on 3 December. Reports and Charters should be submitted to Stuart by 27 November.

I’m excited to be able to inform you that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Project has produced a report.

The report is a thing of rare beauty, and is the result of many many hours of work. It contains a wealth of wisdom, a feast of findings and a raft of recommendations.

You can view the report and a Powerpoint presentation on it on the Library Intranet, under the heading ‘Researchers and the Library’ here: https://intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/library/

The research team (Janette, Kerry, Dave C, Nick and Anton) have proved themselves to be excellent researchers, and have learnt a lot about the research process. They will be talking about their process, findings and recommendations in Room 210 on Thursday 24 October at 10.00. Please do come if you are interested in this research, or if you work with social sciences and humanities researchers. Register here: https://canterbury.libcal.com/event/5220493

The Project Board held its second meeting on 23 August. Notes from that meeting are available in a document called ‘Report on Project Board meeting 23-August’ in the _Project-Administration folder in Projects in the K drive. Apologies for the long delay in posting this.

The Project Board is charged with overseeing Library projects and making decisions about their viability. They

• approve project charters (which effectively gives a new project a ‘green light’),
• monitor the progress of projects,
• approve project closure reports, supporting or rejecting the final recommendations and releasing the project team from their project obligations

Anne, Helen and Lyndsay are the members of this group.

The Board next meets on 14 October. Reports should be submitted to Stuart by 7 October.

Foundational to the new Library project framework is a Project Board (the name may change!). This group is charged with overseeing Library projects and making decisions about their viability. They

• approve the project charter (which effectively gives a new project a ‘green light’),
• monitor the progress of projects,
• approve the project closure report, supporting or rejecting the final recommendations and releasing the project team from their project obligations

Anne, Helen and Lyndsay are the members of this group.

Project Board meeting minutes provide an interesting overview of projects that are underway, so, starting now, there’ll be a link to them on Counterculture when they are approved. The board currently meets monthly but will eventually move to a two- or three-monthly meeting.

The 17 July meeting minutes are in the K:\LIBR-Library\Projects\2019-2024 Project Administration\ folder. The document is called ‘Report on Project Board meeting 17th July.docx’

The Research Futures Symposium website and programme are live at https://canterbury.libguides.com/research-futures. Thank you Romy for putting this together.

Check out the programme…

UC is running a “Research Futures” symposium on campus on 29th and 30th August. The symposium will include talks from a range of speakers (including several from the Library) on the changing nature of research and the tools available to support research. Researchers will also be invited to discuss their changing research support needs.

It is being organised by a team from the Library, R&I, and ITS.

Keynote speakers include Professor Ginny Barbour, Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group, and Dr Daniel Hook, CEO Digital Science, co-founder of Symplectic and theoretical physicist.

You should be aware of this because:

1. The Library is helping organise the event, and Library Marketing are doing their usual excellent job promoting it
2. The event will be using Room 210 as one of the venues. The plenary sessions will be in Undercroft 101 but one Stream’s sessions will be in 210, and Poutama will also be used as an informal breakout space
3. You are welcome to attend. The programme will be posted very soon. You can register for the event at https://canterbury.libcal.com/event/5212982.
4. We are looking for volunteers to help out! The main work for volunteers will be helping attendees (e.g. welcoming people, explaining where each session is being held), supporting presenters, general coordination (e.g. checking catering has arrived and been put in the correct location), and supplying hot drinks at morning and afternoon tea and lunch. Please contact me (Stuart) or Helen if you’d like to volunteer.

The new name for Bob is…

The top scorers in the Bob Name survey were:
1. Mahi tahi – 12 votes
2. Haerenga Mahi (work journey) – 11 votes
3. Catch up! OR Catch up – 9 votes
4. Frank – 6 votes

60 staff voted – thanks. And thank you to the person who came up with Mahi tahi!

Winter GradFest has begun, and runs all week!

Check out the programme and timetable on the Academic Skills Centre webpage (http://www.lps.canterbury.ac.nz/lsc/lsc-course-LSCC.php/).

The library marketing team have done a great job publicising the event and are tweeting the best bits! Check out #GradFestUC for updates.