Digitisation at UC Library

This workshop is designed for anyone who would like to upskill in the area of digitisation best practice, and is suitable for people with any level of knowledge in this area.  Helen chairs the library’s Digitisation Steering Group and will give an overview of the group’s work to improve practices in collaboration with our academic community. Jo has worked on a whole range digitisation projects over the years and will share the steps that are needed to make a project of any size successful.

Helen Thomas and Jo Condon will be running the sessions

Booking calendar:

http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development

Staff development session

4th July 11-12

Ever wondered what’s involved in protecting over $50M of treasured heritage collections? Always wanted to see what’s behind the scenes at MB? Threats from earthquakes, floods, fires, pests, human interference and something called ‘inherent vice’ must all be protected against so that we can pass our treasures on to the next generation. This means we need some pretty robust storage infrastructure, and we have been embarking on a long term programme of upgrades to our storage areas. If you haven’t been to the library warehouse for a while you may not recognise it!

For this session you’ll be taken on a behind the scenes tour to have a peek at some of the storage areas at MB, then over to the warehouse to admire our improved storage areas and hear about our future plans for improvement

Booking calendar: http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development

Library staff training session…… Learn classes

21st February 9.30-10am in the Den

“A session covering some of the common questions students have about Learn and how to answer them.”

Booking calendar:

http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development

Learn classes

“A session covering some of the common questions students have about Learn and how to answer them.”

Booking calendar:

http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development

International Network of Library   Innovators – INELI Oceania Summit Fiji 2018

When: Thursday 6^th Sept, 11am – 12pm

Where: PHJ 210

Details –

Time to show that libraries can be key partners in

helping to achieve national and regional goals

Time for libraries to be more visible and tell the

stories about the difference they make to the lives

of individuals and communities every day

These are some of the key messages that emerged from the Pacific Libraries Summit which was held in Fiji on Friday, 1 June 2018.

The vision for the Pacific Libraries Summit was to bring together library practitioners,

INELI-Oceania innovators, and representatives from NGOs and Governments across the Pacific to advocate for the role of public libraries and librarians in society and to inspire a vision and agreement for collaborative and sustainable development of public library services in the Pacific. This was the first such meeting ever held in the Pacific.

Come along and hear more about this initiative.

Who: Presenting Rā Steer, Kate Ogden, Yung Song, Rosie Levi

Booking calendar:

https://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development

Book Mending Workshop

Learn how to do simple book repairs.  Bring any books you would like to know how to mend, and have a go

September 5th 3-4.30pm  Room 210

http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development

Feedback on Vala Conference

Joan will be sharing some of the highlights from presentations attended and discussions held during the VALA conference.  Check out the website for abstracts and some of the full papers   https://www.vala.org.au/vala2018-proceedings

Website for EPosters – vala2018.paperlessevents.com.au

Friday 13th April 2-3pm

Calendar: http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development

Thursday 8^th February 2018, 3.30 – 4.00 room 210 Puaka-James Hight

A Library staff briefing on the Student First programme of work

• What is likely to change as a result of UC Student First?
• Why has this work been prioritised by the University Council?
• What might be the impacts of UC Student First on our work in the Library?

Sorry for the short notice, booking calendar link below

http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development

Several members of the LTR team are working on the Social Sciences & Humanities Research (SSHR) Project. The SSHR Project is based on a University of Minnesota Libraries (2006) study into the research behaviours of academic staff and postgraduate students in the social sciences and humanities. For us this translates to our College of Arts. The findings from the study will be used to develop our support for academics and postgraduate students.

The first project milestones have been met and the team is now ready to launch into the data collection phase of the project.  

This session will outline what the project is about, will look at what we’ve learned, and will look at what comes next.

 Booking calendar:  Thursday 8 February  https://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development

Tour of UC Arts City Location

20 places are available for a tour of UC’s city site on Tuesday 16^th of January, 2-4pm. Naomi van den Broek will take staff around the Music and Classics Departments and one of the curators will lead a tour of the Teece Museum. We’ll need to leave the Ilam campus by around 1:30pm.

 If you’d like to go please check with your manager and add your name to the list here by Thursday afternooon. If the link doesn’t work (e.g. using Firefox) it can be found at K:\LIBR-Library\Projects\Tour of UC city site.docx.  Please save and close the document after adding your name so that other people can use it.

 Please indicate if you need a ride or are able to provide a ride to other staff, we’ll book a van if we need to.

 If you can’t make that date and would still like to go, you can add your name to the bottom of the booking form and we’ll look at running another tour later in the year.

Margaret