Kia ora Koutou,

From now until April 14th there will be a display in Room 224 of the work from the Architect in Residence at UC’s Department of Civil & Natural Resources Engineering, Matthew Dudzik.

This display is across the back of the teaching space, and will be set up over today and tomorrow. There is a small celebration on Wednesday evening after 5 for the department to celebrate the end of the Residency and showcase Dudzik’s work.

In the meantime, the space is still bookable, and feel free to close the doors as you see fit when using the space. We have not removed any seating form the space – and it will remain a study space throughout the time that the display is up.

Any questions, please see/ask Dale.

Ngā Mihi,

Dale

There’s an autumnal feel in the air, the leaves slowly changing to reds and yellow, and the clocks celebrate by confusing us once more (this coming weekend, apparently) but reward us with longer in bed. You could sleep in, or you could re-read your latest Pānui offering, savouring the tasty offerings. Or not.

You can find the finished PDF copy here at K:\Management\Communications\LTR-Newsletters\Pānui 2.0\2023\2023-03-LTR-Pānui.pdf

Let us know any questions you would like us to ask Kat, and send us stories and pics you’d like to share in the next issue.

Kathryn, Hugh and Simon

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We have had a couple of staff members incur fines recently when renewing over-due items via the catalogue.  Margaret thinks she had identified and fixed the problem but we still need to test thoroughly in our test catalogue before making the changes live.  Until we go live with the fix please waive any recent fines (since March 22nd) you spot on any staff member’s accounts (I have cleaned up the ones  identified this morning and will check for others throughout the day).

Ngā mihi,

Romy (on behalf of Library Systems)

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This morning I have added all Library staff to a new Teams site “Modern Library Management”.

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Over the last few weeks we have identified some issues with the new catalogue around requesting and renewing actions – it wasn’t quite performing how the old catalogue/Horizon PAC was in relation to enforcing some requesting rules (e.g. maximum requests on particular itypes, preventing requests from ineligible borrowers, e.g. external borrowers and high demand items) and borrowers were unable to renew overdue items.  In addition, if borrowers cancelled holds/requests Horizon wasn’t doing all the right things so we had a few stuck hold blocks and some blank request deleted notices go out.  It was also allowing borrowers with expired library accounts to log in and request/renew items.
Margaret has done a lot of work on these over the past few weeks and we have done a lot of testing so have now made the changes live.

Key new things:

• borrowers can now renew overdue items – if eligible for fines they will get a fine block with the previous overdue accrued amount.
• borrowers should now only be able to only request items that are eligible for requests and at the pick-up locations that are allowed for those items/borrowers.
• Expired borrower accounts:
  we cannot stop borrowers with expired library accounts that are still able to log in to UC systems (alas can be quite common) from accessing their accounts (as the old catalogue did) but they are now unable to request items or renew items if their account has expired.  There is only one “request failed” error message we can present to users, currently set to “Item cannot be requested” so they will not get an account expired message for those, but the renewals are more flexible so they will get “This item could not be renewed: Account has expired – please contact library staff”.
• Cancelling requests/holds should now happen cleanly – with blocks moving where they are supposed to and request deleted notices will have item details (if a copy/item-level request).

If you spot anything not quite working as you would expect, please let us know.

Ngā mihi,

Romy (on behalf of library systems)

I’m very pleased to share that Claire Brocklehurst has accepted the role of Library Systems Coordinator, to replace Bronwyn.

Claire will start in the role on 8 May 2023.  Claire is currently working at Ara Institute of Canterbury as the Systems Support Librarian, and has worked in the Library at Ara for the last 14 years.

We look forward to welcoming Claire to the Systems team in May.

Jenny

The Education Subject Librarians and Jess are getting back into the habit of going to karakia on Tuesday mornings. It is lead by Te Hurinui Clarke, with guitar in hand. There is a song booklet that can be accessed on your phone ( well not on mine, sigh) via a QR code that we can give you. If anyone is interested in joining us, it kicks off at 9am in the foyer of Rehua.  A couple of songs, a karakia and you are good to go for the rest of the day.

The Children’s book giveaway starts today and runs for the week. It is in Room 224. Please be aware that there are a couple of times when the room will be closed off for teaching. Signage will be in place at these times.  Punters will have to wait until the teaching has finished to access the room.

Fingers crossed that the books will fly off the tables…..because the left-overs will be flying into the skip.

We start the following Read & Publish Agreements for 2023:

• Elsevier Read and Publish
• Taylor & Francis Read and Publish
• Sage Read and Publish
• Institute of Physics (IOP) Read and Publish
• American Institute of Physics (AIP) Read and Publish
• Portland Press Read and Publish
• Brill’s Read and Publish

Lists of journals covered by these new Read & Publish Agreements are available in LibGuide. Here is the link.

We also purchased 2 eBook packages recently:

1. Springer Access and Select

We could access to over 11,000 Springer eBooks published between 2020-2023 in 5 subject eBook collections for 12 months, including:

• Biomedical and Life Science,
• Computer Science
• Education
• Earth & Environmental Science
• Intelligent Technologies and Robotics

2. Taylor & Francis Evidence Based Acquisition (T&F EBA) Program

It offers us access to all T&F eBooks published in 2023 across all subjects, plus some backlist contents we selected.

All eBooks in Springer Access and Select and T&F EBA are DRM free, unlimited user access. Moreover, at the end of this program, we will then pick the most relevant titles with perpetual access rights up to the amount we prepay.

Kia ora koutou

Sharepoint 2013 (not the new intranet sharepoint, the older one with the Operations, Management, Projects sites etc.) will be unavailable from 5pm tonight (Friday 17 March) until 5pm Sunday 19 March for maintenance.

Ngā mihi,

Romy (on behalf of Library Systems)