Our project to upload these decisions to NZLII continues.

Sue has just uploaded the 6,000th Employment Tribunal decision to http://www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZEmpT/

At the NZLLA Conference in September Judi Eathorne-Gould (NZLII’s data manager) expressed her thanks to our team for this work. In doing this project we’re demonstrating how we can digitise and share our collection for the benefit of the wider New Zealand legal community. We know they’re been used as the Employment Tribunal decisions are constantly counting for approximately 1% of all NZLII access each month.

Beth, Sue, Wendy and now Juliet are working to scan and upload these decisions and are doing an amazing job! We’re hoping to complete this work over the summer… (maybe!)

Theresa

Apologies but Sara and I need to change the time of this session from Thursday to Friday 27th October.

We will now run this session on Friday 27th October at 11am in 210. 

Original post below:

Sign up here: http://canterbury.libcal.com/event/3594817

Sara and Theresa recently attended and presented at the NZLLA (New Zealand Librarians Association) Conference in Wellington.

In this session they will report back on the highlights of the conference as well as repeating two presentations from the conference.

The first is a joint presentation entitled: “Are you the Law Librarian?” – How we teach enough students to be recognised at our local supermarkets : Legal Research Teaching at the University of Canterbury in 2017

Abstract: Sara and Theresa are the two Subject Librarians for Law (as well as Criminal Justice) at the University of Canterbury. Each year they teach LLB students legal research skills in a mix of embedded and extracurricular classes. In 2017 they made major changes to how they deliver introductory legal research skills to the first-year cohort of 400 students. They will share how they were challenged, encouraged and implored to move away from traditional tutorials and face-to-face delivery of legal research skills. Their teaching now includes lectures and online modules to teach legal research skills to students in a way that ensures a scaffolded introduction and reinforcement of skills in a way that best supports students learning. They will share the lessons learnt, the skills they taught and how this all fits into the plan to ensure UC LLB graduates are graduating as competent and confident legal researchers.

In the second Theresa will share findings from the designing and running the NZLLA member survey in 2016 – what was the process, what worked and what did not work so well, what could be done differently next time. This will also profile who a “typical law librarian” is according to the data that was gathered.

Thursday 26th October – 11am, Puaka-James Hight 210

Sign up here: http://canterbury.libcal.com/event/3594817

Sara and Theresa recently attended and presented at the NZLLA (New Zealand Librarians Association) Conference in Wellington.

In this session they will report back on the highlights of the conference as well as repeating two presentations from the conference.

The first is a joint presentation entitled: “Are you the Law Librarian?” – How we teach enough students to be recognised at our local supermarkets : Legal Research Teaching at the University of Canterbury in 2017

Abstract: Sara and Theresa are the two Subject Librarians for Law (as well as Criminal Justice) at the University of Canterbury. Each year they teach LLB students legal research skills in a mix of embedded and extracurricular classes. In 2017 they made major changes to how they deliver introductory legal research skills to the first-year cohort of 400 students. They will share how they were challenged, encouraged and implored to move away from traditional tutorials and face-to-face delivery of legal research skills. Their teaching now includes lectures and online modules to teach legal research skills to students in a way that ensures a scaffolded introduction and reinforcement of skills in a way that best supports students learning. They will share the lessons learnt, the skills they taught and how this all fits into the plan to ensure UC LLB graduates are graduating as competent and confident legal researchers.

In the second Theresa will share findings from the designing and running the NZLLA member survey in 2016 – what was the process, what worked and what did not work so well, what could be done differently next time. This will also profile who a “typical law librarian” is according to the data that was gathered.

Sara and I are both off to the NZLLA (NZ Law Librarians Association) Conference in Wellington today.

Neither of us will be here on Thursday or Friday this week.

Please refer any student questions to Janette.

We will be back on Monday and will answer our emails then.

Thanks

Theresa

Over the last month Sue has uploaded another 1000 decisions of the Employment Tribunal to NZLII. We’ve now uploaded 4000 Employment Tribunal decisions of the approximately 20,000 we think we’ll need to upload.

We can tell these are being used as NZLII’s stats are showing that they are accounting for around 1% of the usage stats for 2017 so far (some of this will be our checking but not all of it).

It’s a big commitment from UC to digitise these and get them on NZLII so thank-you to everyone who is supporting the team in this work. Once we’ve finished we will share this work to encourage other libraries to follow a similar collaborative model with NZLII to make more Court and Tribunal decisions available to the NZ legal community.

Theresa

Morena,

This year Sara and I are piloting making ourselves available for dropin sessions during the week each of the LAWS200 research essays are due [there are 5 throughout the year]. We’re keen to see if making ourselves available for drop in sessions in the lead up to assessment encourages more students to ask for help than those who normally visit us at our desks or contact us via email.

This week we will be in Ātea Ako each day this week between 10.30 am and 12.30 pm as the Contract (LAWS203) essay is due on Friday.

Any questions let us know

Thanks

Theresa

This project continues.

Sue, Wendy and Beth are doing an amazing job scanning, preparing and uploading decisions from the former Employment Tribunal (now the Employment Relations Authority) to NZLII.

We have just uploaded our 3000th decision here: http://www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZEmpT/

We have also started to receive some usage stats from NZLII on how often the Employment Tribunal decisions are being accessed. To the end of June. The Employment Tribunal decisions account for 0.08% of the decisions accessed so far in 2017. It looks like a small amount. But 11 million decisions have been accessed so this means that the Employment Tribunal’s have been accessed 8800 times.

For those who are keeping track we started with 588 volumes on Level 7 and now only have 118 volumes to go!

Nobody wants DPI (Discomfort, Pain or Injury) while at work.

We all have a story to tell…

the pain in our wrist…

the numbness is your finger…

the things you can’t do at work because it aggravates an old injury...

The DPI Awareness team are running their annual DPI refresher sessions for Library Staff on the following dates:

Tue 6 June 11am

Wed 7 June 11am

Tues 13 June  2pm

Thurs 15 June 2pm

All will be held in Poutama (Level 3, Central Library, Puaka – James Hight). Come along and hear how you can prevent DPI while at work.

Staff must attend a refresher every two years so please attend if you are due for a refresher. You can find out if you are due for a refresher – there’s a register here: K:\LIBR-Library\Health-Safety\Staff_induction _training_and_duties\LIBRARY_TRAINING_REGISTER

Register for sessions here: http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/staff-development

From your friendly DPI Awareness team 🙂