Did anyone order two Belkin surge protectors from Ingram Micro New Zealand Ltd? They are for 6 plugs & 2 USBs. Currently in the level 2 workroom.

Kia ora koutou

At the end of last week Digital Services IAM team processed a batch of more than 5000 expired student accounts that they realised had been missed out of their regular deprovisioning tasks due to a glitch.  This process removes them from the access group for Open Athens.   Affected students will see error messages like:

The signed in user ‘xxx123@uclive.ac.nz’ is blocked because they are not a direct member of a group with access, nor had access directly assigned by an administrator

There is the possibility that some of these students re-enrolled and are still entitled to access to library resources – the IAM team are running reports to try and pick these up and re-add but always some who slip through the cracks.
If you get reports from students with the error message above and they are still an active student (expiry date of Horizon record is current) please refer them to Library Systems and we will log tickets to get their access reinstated.

NB: the affected students will still likely be able to access other UC systems – the process IAM runs only removes them from Open Athens access.

Ngā mihi,

Romy (on behalf of Library Systems)

Dorian Ghosh is starting work as a Research Assistant on the NZLPP-funded project on Monday 3 July 2023 and will be sitting next to Jess in the LTR area of Level 5. Please do welcome Dorian when they arrive and make them feel at home here.

Dorian will be working with the project’s participant data. They currently work as an Archivist/Content Expert at UC Arts Digital Lab, have been a Peer Tutor on the WRIT101/ENGL117 course, and an intern in 2021’s WORD Christchurch event.

Aptly for the NZLPP role, Dorian was a research assistant for the QuakeCORE project, taking responsibility for managing the master spreadsheet, communicating with participants, raw data analysis, transcribing interviews as well as sorting records.

An update on what is happening next week as part of the Physical Collections Project.

Next week 3-7 July, there will be activity happening in both PJH and Law Basement.  Some Law journals are being moved from Level 7 into the Law Basement.  You will see movers shifting boxes.  They will be using the lifts closest to the loading bay, so may be best to use the West lifts for next week.

Later in the week, there are 2 empty stacks being removed from Level 4 of PJH and taken to the Law Basement as well.

Ngā mihi,

Jenny

Kia ora koutou

It’s been a massive week!
As mentioned in my Library All Staff Teams post on Wednesday, I’d like to thank everyone for taking time to welcome, meet, guide and kōrero with the external review panel during their visit here.

Margie, Paula and Andy invite our ongoing feedback, as well.  Sometimes ideas percolate with time, and sometimes writing things down can be a really effective way of collating thoughts and perspectives.

There are quite a few options available for you to share any thoughts and feedback you may like to offer to the panel:

• The Challenges, Opportunities and Ideas board is still on the wall in the project room on Level 5 PJH
• You may like to hold a wānanga/talanoa, meet together with colleagues, and share a write-up of the discussion
• And/or you could do your own individual write-up and send this through to the panel directly (they are happy for this). Or share with your/a manager to on-share
• And/or we have also set up a Library Feedback Padlet, which the panel have access to as well
  This updates dynamically and is entirely anonymous.
  It’s a great tool for gathering and sharing user feedback too.

On which note, thank you to all who participated with such energy and enthusiasm in the UX (user experience) workshop Andy ran with us, and guests from Christchurch City Libraries and Lincoln University, this week.  We have a wealth of rich user feedback and some cool prototypes to take forwards, keep in place, and iterate on further!  Ka pai!

For now, a period of well-deserved rest for us all I hope!  Stay well, and enjoy the weekend 😊
Kat

Kia ora team

We are now in full swing with the Archival Shelving Project to replace the old, well passed the ‘used by date’, wooden shelving in the Warehouse where MB archives are stored. As the new shelving will be installed in phases, we needed to clear the first block of shelves in preparation. So, last week we moved 300LM (that’s about 650+ boxes) over two days to Archives NZ for storage for the duration of the project. This was a significant piece of work as great care was needed to handle and keep track of the 40 odd different collections being moved.

These off-site collections will still be accessible and can be requested on Kā Kohika. A location note has been added to say these are off site and require 3-4 working days for retrieval.

Wonderful work by the team; Erin, Cherilyn and the rest of the MB team with casuals in support. Thanks also to Leah and Library Systems for the superb work updating those many thousands of records in Minisis. Archives NZ have provided a great and safe space for our collections, we will enjoy retrieving from there and knowing our shelves will one day be as lavish as theirs!!

Ngā mihi

Hannah

ELS has four fixed-term AYO vacancies – that is they will go through until Sunday 12 November.

These mainly cover hours in the evenings, weekends and afternoons but two positions do have significant portions of their hours during the day. This will allow us to become fully staffed once more and augment our evening and weekend staffing to four people.

We are going to fill these using expressions of interest from existing library staff (including our existing Late Team and Casual Team) to allow as quick a recruitment as possible. If you are interested, please send me your expression of interest with a brief CV attached. If you have a preference for a particular one of the roles, please indicate that in your email.

We will assess EoIs that we receive and move to an interview to make the final selection.

Please feel free to ask me about the roles if you are interested.

Closing date will be 5.00 p.m., Friday 7 July.

The roles are as follows:

Ngā mihi,
Simon

To improve your well-being here’s another issue of Pānui, providing you with solace during an otherwise dismal and damp end of June! Be aware that there will be some considerable sparks of jealousy as you read about Glenna and Mariko’s travels. Feel free to compensate by going on your own travels and send pics and stories to us.

You can find the finished PDF copy here at K:\Management\Communications\LTR-Newsletters\Pānui 2.0\2023\2023-06-LTR-Pānui.pdf

To those facing school hols – deep breath followed by mantra “IlovemykidsIlovemykidsIlovemykids” during any moments of sibling bickering on a loooong car ride.

Kathryn, Hugh and Simon

The BWB Collections combine some of New Zealand’s finest non-fiction narratives to provide a powerful new platform for reading, research and education.

UC staff and students have now access to all six authoritative digital collections from Bridget Williams Books (BWB) with newly published content continuously added.

• Treaty of Waitangi – comprehensive scholarship and commentary on this foundational document, all conveniently gathered in one location.
• New Zealand History – a rich array of history and biography ebooks, now including the journal Te Pouhere Kōrero: Māori History, Māori people
• BWB Texts – the popular series of ‘short books on big subjects’, encompassing over 100 Texts on a rich range of topics.
• Critical Issues – a curated assortment of ebooks offering in-depth analysis of pressing issues facing New Zealand.
• Women’s Studies – trailblazing examinations of women’s issues, experiences and histories.
• NZ Sign Language – Aotearoa’s key reference works on New Zealand Sign Language, enriched with vivid multimedia and visuals.

Also we could get the most out of eBooks in the BWB Collections by pairing them with their expanding range of BWB Talks and Trailers videos. Listen to BWB authors discuss the finer points of their writing and research in the latest videos via Youtube channel.

All those BWB eBooks are unlimited user access. Individual eBooks are available in both MultiSearch and Library Catalogue. The link of video has been added to related eBook too.

Ngā mihi nui

Wendy Wu

Keep Tuesday the 11th of July free for eating fudge.  Keep the weekend prior free for making fudge.  Those of us who have been around the traps for a while will remember exchanging homemade fudge between the branch libraries in a semi-competitive attempt to see who made the best fudge. Was this Fiona T’s brain child? Kiera and I are reinstating this library fudge creation/eating extravaganza in an effort to ward off the winter blues.