A 30 hour per week fixed term Library assistant position is available in the Macmillan Brown Library. Hours 10am – 5pm daily. Start date: 3 September through to 29 March 2013

The position has just gone up on the UC vacancies website, so check it out if you are interested.

Jill

Kia ora

The fixed term parental leave vacancy coming up in the Macmillan Brown Library has just gone up on the UC vacancies site, so check it out if you are interested.

The position is full time for a six month period from 20 August 2012 to provide parental leave cover for Bridgit Foley.

Jill

Hi all – unfortunately the MBL sessions for next week have been trumped by the arrival of Janine Schmidt. It is important that we all get to hear Janine speak and so we have postponed our sessions until the mid term break.

Jill

Due to rearrangements in the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, we no longer have a tea room to share with staff coming across to work in the Library Warehouse. The former tearoom is being converted into the office of the AVC Maori. I will let you know when we have alternative tea facilities available.

Thanks

Jill

If you find yourselves responding to a student or researcher’s enquiry about an archives collection (including photographs, architectural drawings and art works) held in MB, please ensure that they are told that we have a 24 hour turnaround on archival retrievals – before sending them off to see us. Most collections are stored in the warehouse and we cannot retrieve them on demand. There is a process for registering archives users and requesting and retrieving items just as there is for requesting items from any of the storage areas.

Many thanks

Jill

UC CEISMIC, the Digital Earthquake Archive (a University of Canterbury project), is looking to put together collections of photographs relating to the Canterbury Earthquakes. If you have taken photographs or video that relate to the earthquakes and would like to see them both preserved and made available to the wider community, please get in touch with Andrew Dean at the UC CEISMIC Project Office (andrew.dean@canterbury.ac.nz).

While at this stage CEISMIC is looking for larger collections, individual photographs can be uploaded at http://www.quakestories.govt.nz/photos , which is also part of the CEISMIC consortium.

(Jill on behalf of the CEISMIC Project Team)

I am very pleased to announce that Bridgit Foley has been appointed to the permanent, continuing library assistant position in the Macmillan Brown Library. Bridgit has been working in MB on a fixed term contract since April and will be familiar to many of you. She starts her new role on 21 November.

All staff are welcome to attend Ariana’s presentation tomorrow at 1pm in Rm 208, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies

Jill

Last year, as part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of John Macmillan Brown’s endowment to the University, Ariana Tikao and Nekerangi Paul received a one-off scholarship from the JMB Estate to travel to Norway to attend the seventh International Forum for Indigenous Librarians. The theme of the forum was Indigenous Wisdom and Communication. This Thursday, 22 September, at 1pm in Rm 208 of the MB Centre for Pacific Studies (up the corridor from the Library), Ariana will deliver an adaptation of her paper which explores the reawakening of whanau (extended family) knowledge through waiata (songs), performance, gatherings, and kapa haka.

This is a wonderful opportunity to hear Ariana’s conference paper and listen to her beautiful voice as she performs some of these waiata, the last we as a workplace will have before she leave us at the end of the month to work for the Turnbull Library.

Jill

Gwen has decided to resign from her position in the Macmillan Brown Library to focus on her academic career and complete work on the book which has grown out of her PhD thesis. Gwen has worked with us for three and half years now and will be sorely missed by her team mates. Fortunately we will still be seeing her on campus in her capacity as tutor in the History Dept. We are planning a farewell afternoon tea at 3pm on Friday 22 July in Rm 210 by the MB Library(the Staff Common Room). Please drop by if you get the chance.
Jill