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Reminder: Kaupapa Māori Research seminar

This is a friendly reminder for everyone to sign up for the Māori rangahou session on Monday 5 November.

If you haven’t attended one of Angus’ sessions in the past it is recommended you do so as he has tailored his presentation on Māori research specifically for library staff. For those of you who have attended it would be beneficial for a refresher due to the increased focus and commitment to the bicultural competences of the UC graduate profile.

Please click here (https://bit.ly/2EMujIa) for further information, and here (https://canterbury.libcal.com/event/4717010) to register.

Kaupapa Māori Research seminar

Library staff are invited to a Māori rangahau session on November the 5th. The session will be presented by Professor Angus Macfarlane and UC PhD student Grace Walker who will be discussing concepts of Māori knowledge, research methods, mātauranga Māori and Kaupapa Māori.

Please register at https://canterbury.libcal.com/event/4717010.

See below for details on the section Grace will be presenting. Further details on Angus’ presentation will follow.

Maori research using the Christchurch Health and Development Study data.

Brief: Grace will be discussing three of her research projects using the Christchurch Health and Development Study Maori cohort data as well as the importance of applying a braided rivers approach to Maori research.

Grace is a PhD student with the University of Canterbury with the school of psychology / department of science. She also works part time as an Assistant Research Fellow with the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) at the University of Otago, Christchurch.

Day:               November 5th 2018

Time:             12 – 2 pm

Venue:          John Britten building conference foyer (Corner of Creyke and Engineering Rd)

Drinks and nibbles will be provided following the presentations.

If you have any queries or special dietary requirements please get in touch with Damian Cairns (damian.cairns@canterbury.ac.nz).

LTR team

Tēnā koutou,

Today is the first day of the rest of your life!
Or, as I saw on a poster, Today is the first day of complaining about the rest of your life!
Or, Today is the first day of the rest of my life! Unless it’s cold outside, in which case I’m going back to bed!
Or even, Today is the first day of the rest of your life, so don’t screw it up like you did yesterday!

Anyway, today the LTR team starts a new chapter with the realignment of some subjects.

See the Subject Librarian page for the definitive list of who is associated with which department. Also, the Subject Guides are up to date (thanks to eServices).

LTR restructure

Following Sara Roberts’ recruitment to the Learning & Teaching Manager role, and the loss of her previous roles, the LTR team has redistributed some subject librarians’ responsibilities in order to ensure an equitable and dependable service across UC’s academic departments. This redistribution is described below.

It is important to note that SLs do support each other across disciplines, specialisations, Colleges and libraries, assisting each other with teaching and consultations, and referring students and staff appropriately.

This structure will commence at the beginning of Term 4: Monday 10 September (except for the European Union change which will start at semester 1 2019), following a series of communications with our academic community (including updated subject guides).

College of Arts changes

  • Dave L takes Chinese (in addition to his Engineering work)

College of Business and Law changes

  • Kerry takes a share of Criminal Justice (in addition to her social sciences work)
  • Kim becomes a general Business and Law librarian and takes on European Union studies (in addition to her work in languages)
  • John becomes a general Law and Business librarian (in addition to his arts and science work)

College of Education, Health and Human Development changes

  • Kim relinquishes Education (and picks up Business & Law and retains her languages work)

College of Engineering changes

  • John relinquishes Mathematics and Statistics (and picks up Business & Law and retains his arts and science work)
  • Alison is now wholly working in Engineering
  • Brian is now mainly in Engineering (He retains his Japanese work)

College of Science changes

  • Alison relinquishes Environmental Sciences, Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management
  • Brian relinquishes Physics & Astronomy, which John, who already has Chemistry, picks it up (in line with the College’s combining these into one school: Physical and Chemical Sciences)

Research Services Team
Also in this restructure, Dave Clemens will move over to the Research Services team.

From Lyndsay

My surgeon was pleased with the operation and although I have a bit of pain, everything seems to be going as it should. Thanks for all your good thoughts and prayers.

I have a lovely room with sun shining in the window – and the food comes according to a menu so can choose all sorts of options 🙂

GradFest!

GradFest, a joint initiative of Academic Skills Centre (ASC), Postgraduate Office and the Library, ran last week (11-15 June). 36 workshops were held, along with a poster competition (organised by the UC PGSA). 9 workshops were led by Library staff; 9 by ASC staff; with the rest led by academic staff organised by the Postgraduate Office. They were attended by 180 students (more than the 154 attendees at last November’s GradFest).

Our Twitter stats and engagement were very good.

Thanks to staff who took sessions, who tweeted, who promoted, and who directed students to their workshops.

Feedback from students has been excellent, and collaborating with ASC, the PG Office, and the UC PGSA feels good and is beneficial to our students.

Ithaka S+R survey

The Ithaka S+R (http://www.sr.ithaka.org/services/surveys/) survey (check here for background) was sent to 718 academic staff on 1 May. It closed on 1 June.

Final response rate:

  • 342 respondents clicked on the link to the survey (about 48% of total invitees)
    • Of those, 285 have completed the survey (about 40%)

Our contact at Ithaka is extremely happy with this response rate. Thanks to those of you who encouraged academic staff to participate!

We receive the summary report, along with our full dataset, in mid July.

Library Carpentry with Belinda Weaver

You might remember that the Library Carpentry workshop scheduled for last November fell through.

Good news: Belinda Weaver will be running a Library Carpentry workshop at UC on 9 July.

Details and registration are here: https://canterbury.libcal.com/event/4240908

This workshop is limited to 20 participants. We’ve invited LU staff (and held placed for them), so that means a maximum of about 16 UC staff.