Mum and baby are doing well. Two nights at Chch Women’s and now at home.

This year the Library-run Open Access Fund has completed four rounds, with the committee meeting three times physically and one time virtually. 80% of applications were from researchers in the Colleges of Science and Engineering.

Summary

The New Zealand Medical Journal released a paper today which is “a review of recent research into the effects of workplace design, comparing individual with shared workspaces, on the health of employees”.

One of the paper’s authors is Margaret Paterson. Congratulations Margaret!

Ann Richardson, a co-author, was interviewed by Kim Hill on RNZ this morning.

Find the article here.

Nick writes:
Our son was born last night at 8:23pm on his due date. We have named him Euan Lee-Scullin (no middle name – Koreans don’t have middle names and a double barrelled surname is plenty of names). He was big at 4.52kg and 57cm long. Mum and baby are at Chch Women’s being monitored as it was a difficult birth at the end although fast at only three and a half hours labour. He’s feeding really well which is great!

Congratulations Nick and Jihyun!

We’re fortunate to have Belinda Weaver, a Library Carpentry expert, coming to UC in November.

Library Carpentry is made by librarians, for librarians to help you:

• automate repetitive, boring, error-prone tasks
• create, maintain and analyse sustainable and reusable data
• work effectively with IT and systems colleagues
• better understand the use of software in research

“I think training should be viewed as two-fold – helping people do their own jobs better but also thinking about which bits might be good for researchers to learn too. People should come along with the idea that they are helping themselves develop new skills that will help them stay employed in a highly disruptive technological environment, and that will also help researchers do more efficient, reproducible science (and thus help demonstrate the value librarians can bring to those researchers).”
– Belinda Weaver

Check out the schedule and setup from this workshop Belinda taught previously https://weaverbel.github.io/2017-08-21-nsla-nla/ to get an idea of what you’ll be in for… The Library can supply laptops, already setup, for this workshop.

Read the NSLA profile of Belinda Weaver and Library Carpentry for further information: http://www.nsla.org.au/news/profile-belinda-weaver

When: Monday 20 November, 9-5
Where: Poutama
Register here

Kia ora koutou,

LTRS have been making posters that illustrate the Library values. We’ll be revealing them in Poutama next Tuesday 19th.

If you’d like to see them, come along – they’ll be available for public viewing between 11.30 and 12.