Simon has been appointed to our fixed term position of Library Assistant (22.5 hour per week) until the end of the year. Simon will continue in his existing job for the balance of his full time hours.

Kerry Lyford

Isabel Milward will be our assistant manager until December, filling in for Elizabeth Cooke who is on parental leave. Isabel will continue to be our contact for high use collection matters, and will be focusing on working with academics to enhance our presence on LEARN.

Kerry Lyford

We are hosting the launch of the Hei Tauira ,Teaching and Learning Excellence for Maori in Tertiary Settings, on Friday 19 February. The launch involves a mihi whakatau/powhiri for the Minster of Maori affairs and we are expecting 150 people.

Because of the formal ceremony we have had to close the Library for the 2 hour period. We have notified students through lecturers and notices. Library staff will be available to take calls and emails.

Kerry Lyford

The water is being cut to the Library and other buildings at Dovedale while systems are being upgraded. We will be closing at 5 pm instead of 9pm.

Kerry Lyford

We are delighted that Susan Julian has been appointed to a fixed term .8 Library Assistant position, working in Macmillan Brown on Thursday , Friday, Saturday, and in Education on Sunday and Monday. Susan will be starting at the end of January.

Jill and Kerry

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the forums on the Subject Guides. Notes from the forums are available on Camelot, Libguides Implementation Project.

The draft template and guidelines are also on Camelot for discussion. Because the feedback could be complex please channel ideas and suggestions on these drafts through your “local” representative on the project group (listed on Camelot) before December 11.

Kerry Lyford
LibGuides Implementation Project

The Libguides Implementation Project Team (Deidre Congdon/Tim Stedman, Caroline Syddall, John Arnold, Deborah Fitchett, Donna Barber/Catherine Jane, Erin Kimber, Kerry Gilmore, Kerry Lyford) has met and we have started work to:
• identify current issues with the subject guides, and produce guidelines
• get processes underway to review the Subject Guides service by March 2010 – about one year from their introduction.

Full information on the project is on the wiki

To kick off we need your help in identifying the current issues with management of Subject Guides. To get you started, this “issues” list includes those identified by Janette Nicolle’s paper in April
• Quality of content
• Quality of interactivity
• When to create a LibGuide or Topic guide.
• Meebo chat and how it relates to AskLIVE
• Tags
• Moving more content to LibGuides
• Authentication issues
• Statistics – monitoring usage and interactivity
• How subject guides relate to the LEARN project.
• Navigation issues
• Maori language content
• Copyright / creative commons
• Monitoring of new developments in LibGuides and their application

Could every Information Librarian, and all others interested in this service please:
1. Copy the list above into an email
2. If you want an issue to be discussed further, add specific details
3. Add any other issues
4. If an issue isn’t important to you, remove it
5. Email the new list to kerry.lyford@canterbury.ac.nz before August 7

Project Team members will then pair up to research/discuss/negotiate guidelines to cover an a set of issues.
We have tentatively scheduled a forum on Tuesday 29 September to discuss the draft guidelines
Thanks
Kerry Lyford

Power will be cut to the Education Library at 5pm Monday 20 April. We will reopen at 8am on Tuesday 21 April.

We are delighted that Margaret Paterson has accepted an Education Library information librarian position, and Paul Dennington a Education Library library assistant position. Both have been working with us on fixed term contracts.

Kerry Lyford