There have been reports recently of people hearing ghosts on the Dovedale campus. In the Henry Field library store the movers who were there packing books kept hearing someone saying “Shhh” and then two finger clicks. In the Waimairi building they said there was a girl in the toilet, a young man in the lift (who spoke) and a young person (they couldn’t tell the gender) who paces up and down continually. (I don’t know if they saw or just heard these!)
Does anyone remember any other ghosts on Dovedale campus? Has anyone met any on Ilam? I’m just hoping the dead birds found in Henry Field don’t come back!
(Not counting Dave Lane’s ghost stories told under a convenient air conditioning vent in EPS!)
I went for a tour of the Rehua building on 4th September. I took photos on my way round.
For a sneak peek of what the CoEHHD and the Executive Development programme will be moving into later this year, I’ve saved the photos here: K:\LIBR-Library\Projects\Education-Library-move-2016\Photos\Photos of Rehua-2018-09-04
Due to health and safety considerations there will be no hamper runs on Orientation Day, Friday 17th February 2017. The mail and courier runs will be moved to the afternoon and interloan materials will actioned at this time.
If there are any urgent requests requiring an item to moved between libraries this will need to be completed by library staff.
I’ve been wanting to play with the data ICTS collects on wireless connections in the library for a while. Dave Lane kindly gathered all the logs for Tuesday the 11th of October from ICTS. We got 7 million lines of logs, and I wrote some code to extract this:
This is pretty rough: it indicates unique wireless devices connecting to library based access points every hour. that means if someone was sitting in level 4 of James Hight, their laptop or phone would be counted once an hour. If they moved up to level 5 at 10:30, it would be counted once on level 4, and then once on level 5. It includes staff and students.
Tuesday the 11th of October was the last week of term, so there was a lot of studying and assignment writing going on!
There is a lot more that could be done with this data, but I think this provides an interesting ‘proof of concept’ of data we already collect, and can question for all sorts of purposes.
I’m moving the Māori language picture books into the Māori classroom collection. So far I’ve moved just a few- those that are only available in te reo Māori (or at least, only available in the Education Library in te reo Māori). They are at the very front of the Māori classroom collection. Their collection code is now tclm. I will move the rest there sometime after the 14th Nov. Caroline S
The box of unbound issues of the Playcentre Journal seems to have wandered away from LB 1140 .A1 .N532. There should be around 11 issues in it. If anyone sees it, could they please put it on the right shelf? Thanks!
Kia ora koutou There have been a couple of enquiries about this. In case there are more, here is the correct reference (thank you John for your corrections):
Bartle, C., & Duncan, J. (2009). Ten steps for the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in early childhood. Consultation document distributed to the early childhood sector before submission to the Ministry of Health. Retrieved from http://www.learn.canterbury.ac.nz/
