Kia ora fellow library folks,

If you have made any New Year resolutions and wish to share them with us all, please forward details to a Pānui editor for inclusion in our next issue. Remember, they’ll be easier to keep if everyone else knows about them. And we are a supportive bunch, are we not? My resolution is to grow chilli plants on Level 5, and help Terrence, our LAC asparagus Fern to double in size. For a picture of Terrence please see page 2, bottom right, of the December issue of Pānui. He’s ugly but we love him.

Also, in Pānui we have an Ask Anne section. If you have any questions you would like Pānui to ask her, funny or serious, please email them to us. Anonymity is guaranteed.

Your Pānui editors are Fiona Tyson, Kiera Tauro and Simon Cooke. Please forward any of us content you want to share in future issues (within reason – the eds are sensitive lot and prone to blushing!)

Hi folks,

Just a reminder we will be carving pumpkins from 10-11 today on level 5, hopefully out in the patio. Kiera has a spare pumpkin if anyone wants to join us. Even if you don’t want to carve, come and have a cuppa with us – should be fun (although perhaps not so much for the pumpkins).

Hi folks,

A quick change to the time for your pumpkin carving lesson.

Now: 10-11am, Tuesday, 25^th October. Where: Level 5 staffroom (or outside on the ‘patio’ if the weather is nice).

Remember to bring knives or other carving implements – possibly not chainsaws – and of course, pumpkins. We’ve also agreed to expand it out to various fruit or vegetables that you’d think would be an interesting variation to pumpkins such as melons and marrows. Apparently turnips are an option if you want go all historical on us – give it some thought and any questions just contact me or Kiera.

Hope to see you there for a carve and a laugh (a scary laugh obviously.)

Ngā mihi

Simon

Why not chainsaws? Surely you’d hold it for me Simon?

What’s awesome about October? you ask.

Good question. The answer is that you have an amazing opportunity to learn a new skill and fill countless pages in both your PD&R and CV. Halloween is fast approaching so in its honour there will be a pumpkin carving lesson led by our very own expert carver, Kiera Tauro.

CHANGE OF TIME:

A quick change to the time for your pumpkin carving lesson.

Now: 10-11am, Tuesday, 25^th October. Where: Level 5 staffroom (or outside on the ‘patio’ if the weather is nice).

What to bring:

• 1 or more pumpkin of choice
• 1 or more sharp knives in case the pumpkins put up a fight
• Other things that may or may not make your pumpkin a scary/artistic endeavour

Don’t be afraid, there will be first aid available if the pumpkin wins. And if your carving is a disaster at least you’ll end up having soup.

Please let me or Kiera know if you’re keen to take part. If you can’t make it, how about doing one at home and bringing it in to share. Take a photo of it and email it to us for possible inclusion in the next enthralling and Halloweeny issue of Pānui.

Ngā mihi

Simon

Kia ora,

Today’s the day! Your August Pānui is ready to read! Inside you’ll find a cornucopia of wonderful things, including an insight into our University Librarian, a cartoon by our one and only Hugh Joughin, and greetings from Brian McElwaine. Kia manahau!

Pānui – August 2016
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Looking to the future, we are ready to accept submissions for our September issue. And being Spring, if you have any pictures of spring-type things, such as fields of daffodils, please feel free to send some to us. Anything else happening in your library world over the next month? Just let us know, or better yet, write something and send it to us. Any submission should be no more than 250 words (pics are always welcome) and be sent to any of the Big Eds by email before the end of September.

Mā te wā

Just a reminder that if you have anything you’d like to submit to Pānui, your library newsletter, please can you get it to Fiona Tyson, Kiera Tauro, Max Podstolski or Simon Cooke before the end of August. We hope to have something ready for you to read by the 9^th of September. It can be pretty much anything – things you’ve done, quotes, marginalia, what’s coming up that you’d like people to know about, when things go wrong…

We’ve already got an awesome cartoon drawn by our very own and very talented Hugh Joughin!

Lead Story: Pānui Library newsletter editorial board rescued from Crown storage box! “We’d been eating only spreadsheets for weeks”, one claims!

Hot off the Press! Pānui’s editorial team has been selected: Fiona Tyson, Kiera Tauro, Max Podstolski and Simon Cooke.

We Big Ed’s need your help, yes you over there with suitable vim and vigour and passion for all things library. Pānui is your monthly newsletter. It’s your chance to let others know what’s been going on in your Library world. The more irreverent the better, adds one member of the team (who goes under the cunning alias of Pax Modstolski)

Email or phone any of us with your news by the end of this month – sooner the better. It could be about anything: weirdest questions you’ve been asked, what’s coming up that you think others should know about, things you do outside of work (only PG material accepted), celebrations, commiserations, something you’re proud off, tips for the rest of us… Remember, this is your newsletter, your story, so please share a little of your world with us.

Every issue will include Ask Anne, your chance to send in questions you’d like Anne to answer, and hard hitting journos that we are, we’ll get you answers. So send a question to us for this month please and let loose the newshounds!

Wicked good, obviously, not wicked bad…

And what is coming, you ask? Quite simply the single most awesome opportunity in Library World – the chance to be part of the editorial team for Pānui, our monthly library newsletter. I am looking for another couple of keen and inspired people to work with myself and Kiera in putting this together.

If you are driven to seek a career in hard hitting journalism then, okay, maybe this isn’t for you, but if you have an interest in helping to tell the story of us and our library world, then you’ll be perfect. Email me simon.cooke@canterbury.ac.nz by this Friday – I look forward to hearing from you!

Kia ora folks,

If you’re keen for a relaxing massage here in the comfort of your own workplace, we have Debbie from Bodyworkz coming to visit us again.

When? Tuesday, November 3rd, between 9.30 and 12.30.

Where? James Hight 524A (Meeting Room 9).

Cost? A 15 minute session is $10 (after subsidy from the Health and Safety Award last year).

Contact myself or Felicity Watson if you’re keen. Be in quick as there are only 12 spaces. Prepayment essential.

Book then relax!

Simon Cooke

www.bodyworkz.co.nz

Hi Library folks,

A big thank you to all who entered our Mid-Winter Fun caption competition. And a big thank you to the portrait of James Hight who allowed us to create captions that would sit well below him. A true gent!

Our well-educated, charismatic, and extremely awesome judging panel have through a complicated system of analysis and deep meditation and selected winners for our three categories:

Winner of Category 1: Library Loveliness (library-related captions) is Fiona Tyson with…

“I’ve been internalizing a really complicated situation in my head and I’ve come to the conclusion there really is just no way to reference Yik Yak using APA.”

Winner of Category 2: Te Reo Mâori (captions in Te Reo Mâori) is Caroline Anderson with…

“Whaowhia te kete mātauranga.” (Fill the basket of knowledge)

Winner of Category 3: Realms of Randomness (captions containing any content whatsoever) is Swee Hoon Goh with…

“My dear students, tomorrow starts today. ”

Congratulations to all three, their prizes will be flying their way by library courier!

All entries are listed below – thanks very much to everyone who participated. Hope you had fun!

Category 1: Library Loveliness

1. Owing to an extensive withdrawl and relegation project, the library now held only two books. They were shelved on a small coffee table and jealously guarded by Reginald Stubbins, pigeon fancier and academic-robe aficionado
2. I’ve been internalizing a really complicated situation in my head and I’ve come to the conclusion there really is just no way to reference Yik Yak using APA.
3. In the 1890s, when I was a student here, the entire Library was housed in one gloomy room, and the annual book budget was less than $30!!! How times have changed! I’m glad they took me out of storage and put me here, where I can see all the lovely students and librarians enjoying this wonderful Library.

Category 2: Te Reo Mâori

1. Nā wai ēnei pukapuka? (Where are the books?)
2. Kei a koe tō pukapuka? (Do you have any books?)
3. Whaowhia te kete mātauranga. (Fill the basket of knowledge)
4. Whāia te mātauranga hei oranga mō koutou! (Seek after learning for the sake of your wellbeing!)

Category 3: Realms of Randomness

1. Well, this is no better than the bloody basement! I still can’t see the cranes.
2. If only I could grow a more imposing moustache people would truly fear me!
3. James’ colleagues thought him rather over-dressed for his first day at work as an apprentice chair tester.
4. Clothes maketh the man
5. “No, that idea for an NZ flag won’t fly…” / / “I hope no one noticed the lipstick” / / “If they name a building after me, I hope it’s not a bike stand” / / “I really think pink looks good on me.”
6. I wonder if any of the students look me up in the Library catalogue. We didn’t even have a catalogue in my day……………
7. My dear students, tomorrow starts today.