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Further to our update 21 October, there are now restrictions affecting off campus access to Stuff Ltd content on PressReader.  Here is the latest update from EPIC. 
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7 November 2019

This email is an update to the EPIC Update that I sent out on 14 October notifying EPIC member libraries that Stuff Ltd will be limiting access to a range of titles delivered to New Zealand libraries through PressReader.

The initial communication from PressReader was that access to the Stuff content would only be removed from the PressReader app. Unfortunately, this was a miscommunication.

Stuff Ltd are in fact limiting all “offsite” access to this content. This means that library patrons will no longer be able to access Stuff titles using the library website remotely or logging into PressReader using their library card credentials outside of the library.

Stuff Ltd titles will still however, be available for access by patrons “on-site” via the PressReader website at www.pressreader.com either via the library network or when connected to the libraries HotSpot via the public WiFi .

As with the previous update I provided about this, I am sending this update email out to ensure that this information gets to as many people that need to know as possible.

In addition, LIANZA are in the process of putting together a statement on behalf of New Zealand libraries about the impact of this situation for New Zealand libraries and their patrons. If you have feedback that you would like to contribute to this, please either email it to me and I will forward it on to LIANZA or email LIANZA directly at officeadmin@lianza.org.nz.

Paula Banks, EPIC Manager

Kia ora koutou, just to let everyone know that the vacancy for this post is now live on Jobs at UC, with closing date for applications being 17th November.

Library managers are progressively going through our SOPs and most recently there has been a review of our Donations SOP.  This has now been updated and is available here: K:\LIBR-Library\Management\Procedures-Workflow\SOPs/Donations-August-2019.docx.

There is also a web page which we’ve reinstated under “Contact Us” called “Donating material to the Library” to help in situations such as where donors present at front desks asking about our process for donating material. I ask donors to read this web page and to fill in this form to bring in with their donation, or to ring us up and discuss first if the size of the donation would be significant.

Please also note the criteria considered for donating material to the MB Library is different to material offered for general collections, so we’ve linked to MB’s web page on this for reference.

A group of LAC and LT+R staff has been reviewing the firm order acquisitions standard operating procedure to a) check that our processes are still fit for purpose and b) to consider any opportunities for efficiency gains.  My thanks to John, Dave L, Wendy W, Sara and Simon for their involvement in this work.

The draft updated SOP is available to read here:
K:\LIBR-Library\Management\Procedures-Workflow\SOPs/Firm-order-acquisitions-2019-09-13.docx

You are welcome to send me any comments or questions before this SOP goes to Library Managers Meeting on 25 September.

There is also a summary of the changes wiki page.

The group identified that clarification/explaining of some of the relevant LAC processes would be beneficial for subject librarians.  We will follow up on this later in 2019.

Further to my post in August, we are looking to reschedule this training for this coming Monday 2-3 pm if you can make it.  Venue TBA probably Poutama.  Will be in touch with more details later today.

It has been a while since our last update … To cut to the chase … Sara and I set ourselves the challenge of writing an Information Management Strategy* (this was recommendation 5 of the File Management Project Team).  We didn’t have a heap of time to work on this so we gave ourselves a couple of hours (in the spirit of “done is better than perfect”!)  And so we’re calling it an 8 out of 10 strategy.  The strategy has been discussed at Project Board and Library Managers Meetings and we have agreement from these groups to proceed with this.  In the spirit of “bite size chunks” (one of the earlier principles for progressing our file management) the plan is to put the Health and Safety information that is currently on the K drive onto SharePoint, as a pilot.  Sara and Tim will meet with members of the Health and Safety team to understand how we are using K:/LIBR-Library/Health-Safety at the moment as this will shape the next steps we take to move this information onto SharePoint.

*K:/LIBR-Library/Management/Planning/2019/Information-Management-Strategic-Direction-2019.docx

From eTV:

“We have now completed migration of all subscribing schools and institutions to ETV V.5. Because signing in via V.4 is causing a range of login problems, we are closing down login access to and via V.4 by 20 September 2019.

Could you please download your final Viewing and Download reports from Admin – Reports in V.4 before that date?  If you have any difficulty with this, please contact us – [eTV are] happy to help.

Access to embed codes in V.4 will continue until February next year, by which time these will need to have been replaced with embed codes from V.5.”

Due to presenter sickness unfortunately we are going to have to cancel the session today.  We will advertise a replacement session at a future date.  Apologies for the inconvenience.