A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been entered into between UC and Antarctic New Zealand regarding the management of the Antarctic Collection.

Since 1999, the Library has administered the Antarctic Collection on behalf of Antarctica New Zealand. The MoU had not been revised since its original drafting in 1999. It was out-of-date and included restrictive clauses, which hindered the effective management of collection by UC. The Library also has two separate collections on this area, one belonging to UC and the other Antarctica New Zealand.

An impending movement of the collection to the EPS Library (in 2017) as part of the Education Library preparation, provided an opportunity to review how we managed the collection and the MoU. The Library particularly wished to integrate the two collections to make them easier to use.

To help the review, various meetings took place between the Library and

* Dean of College of Science
* Gateway Antarctica
* Antarctic New Zealand

The result of these discussions were

* An exhibition in EPS Library of Antarctic material (joint venture with Gateway Antarctica – proposed to continue annually) to coincide with Antarctic Week
* A revised MoU, which allows the integration of the Antarctica NZ collection into the main collection

Greeting All,  It’s that time of the year again when the ENGR 101 Students get their very first assignment.  Currently there are 898 students in the course.

Engineering Process for Aircraft Overweight Issues.

There is no one solution to this question! Their assignment requires them to write a technical report that contains, a figure, excel chart and bibliography in APA format.  They are required to cite material in APA style.

In first instant please send them to our subject guide help.

http://canterbury.libguides.com/engr/aircraft-seat-design

We have added some interesting Journal articles, Ebooks, Links to Reports, Aircraft design companies and Aircraft seat standards all already cited in APA format.

The second journal article (Kokorikou, et al)  has been posted up on learn as access problems and copyright means that this is only available to students inside the course.  The students themselves will have to log in.

Multi search is a very good database to start with, depending on their keywords.

As an engineering solution they might need to consult the SAE Aircraft Seat Standards ARP5526D and AS8049C.  These are ONLY available in the EPS library as they cannot be scanned or available electronically.

Students should not cite wikipedia, but can use it as a starting point.

If more help is needed please sent the students to the subject librarians based in EPS…

Dave.