Kia ora Koutou,

With Ryan moving into a fixed-term role as Team Leader for the ELS team, Te Rua Makerspace has an opportunity for an Assistant Librarian Learning.

We are now opening expressions of interest for this role from interested members of the library team. It will be a fixed-term, 37.5 hour per week Band 3 role and will go through to October 18, 2024.

If you have always wanted to work in the Makerspace, help students realise their creative potential as well as boost their well-being and contribute to an overall more rounded experience of university, please feel free to talk with Jessica or Ryan for more information on the role. If you wish to submit an EoI please email it to me with your attached CV by 5:00 p.m. Tuesday 14 May.

Attached in the Teams post version of this message (Library All Staff > General), is the Position Description for your reference and a copy of the Makerspace plan for the next two years.

Ngā Mihi, Simon.

The current library discussion room booking system is moving to TimeEdit on Monday 13 May.  Important things to know below.

• Existing bookings between 12-19 May are being migrated onto TimeEdit
• Existing bookings from 20 May onwards, will be cancelled.  Students will need to re-book on TimeEdit
• ALL users with existing bookings will be emailed and notified what the change means for them
• TimeEdit allows users to book up to 15 hours per week in total. Each room can be booked for maximum of 3 hours.
• Some library staff will have admin rights in TimeEdit to cancel bookings or close rooms.
• TimeEdit will go live later this week, so students can start booking on the new system
• Webpage links to the current Room Booking pages will be updated Monday morning
• Information posters will be put in all the Library Discussion rooms

Staff room bookings for library teaching/consultation spaces is being moved to a different system.  Contact Kim Hall for details

Any queries, contact Jenny or Romy

Kia ora koutou

I’m keen to share an update with you all.
Firstly, I want to underscore how wonderful it is to be back with you all onsite for part-time hours this week!  I’ve deeply appreciated your cheery welcomes and smiley kia oras, as I get back into the groove.
I’d also like to express my enormous gratitude to you all for covering my recent absence with total aplomb and tireless effort!  Noting in particular the formal delegations in place with Helen as Acting UL, Sara as Acting AUL, Kim as Acting Manager – L&T and Kathryn providing additional cover for Kim, with additional support by you all and by the management team.

I’m happy to report complete success on my breast cancer surgery, with no further treatments required and my recovery continuing to go well.  Yay!

However, during the operation I had a troublesome mole removed from my left arm, which has turned out to be melanoma.  I’m now therefore starting diagnostics for skin cancer, and have surgery booked next Monday 6 May for excision and biopsy work.  Recovery time is one week, so I will be back Monday 13 May onwards in a fulltime capacity.

To provide ongoing cover, we’ve extended the formal delegations noted above.  These will run through to Monday 13 May.  Thank you Helen, Sara, Kim and Kathryn for this.

Also ngā mihi nui to you all for your ongoing support and well wishes!  I’m looking forward so much to coming back, being back and staying back with you all in due course.
Kat

All the music collection is being moved from Level 6 of PJH up to Level 7.  More details below

• includes miniature scores and the call number ranges starting with M, ML, MT
• Move starts 30/4/2024, but will be done slowly (early in morning until the floors gets busy).  It may take a couple of months.
• We will update locations on the Catalogue as items are moved
• Signage will be put up on both floors on the stack ends as items are moved

Jenny Owens

Do you know any outstanding post-graduate students?

Or any wanting to fine tune and sharpening their communication and presentation skillset?

Then pass this along to them! The UC Library team is once again running the Visualise Your Thesis programme!

What is VYT?

Submit a 60-second audio-visual presentation that explains your research project to a general audience and be in to win cash prizes!

What are the prizes?

• 1^st prize – NZ$1000 (& entry into the international Visualise Your Thesis programme)
• 2^nd prize – NZ$500
• 3^rd prize – NZ$250
• People’s Choice Award – NZ$250

Even further to that…we have an information lunch for them to pop their head in and learn more about the competition – no strings attached!

This lunch is a chance to come and meet the UC Library team and previous VYT competition winners. A free pizza lunch will be provided while we:

• Hear from previous competition winners.
• Present a brief rundown of the programme guidelines.
• And share some tips and tricks for creating your submission.
• Have some time to talk one-on-one with us and ask any questions you want.
• As well as network with your post-graduate peers!

You can register here for the lunch, which will be on Wednesday 8th May 2024, 12.30-1.30pm in Ernest Rutherford 141.

OR

If you’re ready and rearing to go then register and learn more about Visualise Your Thesis here.

We hope to see you there!

Ngā mihi,

The 2024 Visualise Your Thesis Team.

Tēnā Koutou,

After a brief but brave battle with a (possible) fungal gill infection, Swim Shady passed away in the early hours of Sunday Morning.

Swim Shady’s body is now buried in a small pot with a pepperomia growing out of it. This is in the ELS workroom if you wish to pay a visit. The white stones are from his tank.

Kia ora Koutou,

I am very pleased to announce that Ryan will be our new acting team leader while Dale is in the Library Strategy Navigator role.
My thanks to those people who put in an EOI for the secondment, and my congratulations to Ryan on his success.

I know the ELS team is really looking forward to working with you Ryan wearing your new hat over the coming months!

We now of course have a vacancy in Te Rua maker-space! We will be working on an EOI / secondment for this role in the next fortnight or so.

Ngā mihi, Simon.

Following the recent EOI process, I am delighted to welcome Kim Hall into the role of Acting Manager Learning and Teaching. Congratulations Kim, I am looking forward to working with you.