Thank you to our library managers for the breakfast this morning.

Here are a few photos.

Tim O’Sullivan

There is Health and Safety training coming up in the next two months.

Thursday 6th November: Risk assessment for H&S reps

Tuesday 3 – Wednesday 4 December: H&S rep training

Friday 22nd November and Thursday 5th December: First Aid revalidation training. Please send me a copy of your First Aid Certificate when you have completed the session so that I can update the training register.

Please discuss your participation with your manager.

Tim O’Sullivan

PS: don’t forget the UC go app which can be downloaded here.

Today there has been cleaning going on in the enclosed exterior area of level 4 and the balcony outside the long corridor on level 5.

The rest of the PJH building exterior is scheduled to have a full clean every 12 months and this includes balconies and windows. The next full clean is early next year.

The balconies on levels 5, 4 and 3 are also quite dirty so after consultation with Paul Cooper I have put BIEMS requests in to have those areas cleaned. Cleaning Services will be able to do those balconies as there is no working at height involved. They will, however,  have to prioritise this work with other demands on their time and resources.

This will not get rid of the pigeon problem but will hopefully ameliorate in the short term some of the mess and smell they leave.

It is breeding season at the moment so the population of pigeons is going up.

Other birds: we sometimes have a sparrow that finds its way into the library. They generally find their way out without too much problem so they can be left to their own devices. Chasing birds around a floor is a waste of time and only panics the bird.

Tim O’Sullivan

Simon White (UC Print team leader) has advised that the Copy Centre will be closed today due to staff sickness.

Please phone Simon on 021 823 349 if you have queries about collecting completed jobs. He will come over and give the jobs out. The Copy Centre will not be able to accept any new jobs today.

On Monday 9am the Copy centre will reopen.

Tim O’Sullivan

An event is:

“Any accident, incident, near miss, injury, illness, harm, notifiable event, mishap, or a feeling of pain and discomfort that occurs in a place of work involving a worker, visitor, student, contractor, volunteer, or person undertaking work experience.”

Events are reported in RMSS.

Further information about events is in the protocol.

Tim O’Sullivan

The UC Emergency Procedures flipchart has been updated to include a lock down tab.

The new flip charts have a publication date of July 2019 on the rear so if you have one with no date or a date of July 2017 these can be thrown out.

I have some on my desk if you would like to come and get one.

Tim O’Sullivan

Has anyone seen the key for the law Basement cage? It is key number 26 from the key cupboard in Room 203 (Customer Services Team)

Thanks

Prior to the advent of subject guides, the UC library published a Reference and Bibliographical Series to help researchers find material.

There is one on the catalogue: New Zealand drama : a bibliographical guide. which was written by former English Department staff member Howard McNaughton. This was number 5 in the series. The rest do not appear to be on the catalogue.

There were two more that I know of no. 2 (left) and no. 6 (right).

Both of these were written by former reference librarian Robert Irwin. The content they describe was held on microcard which has now long been discarded.

Number 2, published in 1980, described the library holdings of British Government Documents. The main item was the House of Commons Sessional Papers on micro-card. These were superseded by the Sessional Papers on microfiche and these in turn were superseded by the Sessional Papers online.

Number 6, published in 1976, described the Evans Collection of Early American Imprints which was a collection of all the books published in the United States in the period 1639-1800. The library did not replace the micro-cards after they were withdrawn.  The collection has now been  digitised by Readex in the United States.

What were numbers 1,  3, 4, and possibly subsequent numbers of the UC Library Reference and Bibliographical Series and where are they?

Tim O’Sullivan