It’s the start of term and you are all crazy busy, perhaps feeling the stress build up a little more than usual. Fear not for we are always thinking about you and realise you might be in need of a little cheer-me-up. For that reason we have, just for you, the latest offering of Pānui.

You can find the finished PDF copy here at K:\Management\Communications\LTR-Newsletters\Pānui 2.0\2023\2023-02-LTR-Pānui.pdf

If you have any questions you would like us to ask Kat on your behalf in future issues, please let us know. Or if you’ve anything you’d like to share with us, text and/or pictures, please do. All submissions welcome.

Kathryn, Hugh and Simon

For authors interested in publishing via UC library’s OA agreement, (see eligible titles here)

20 March 2023, 1-2pm AEDT

https://www.caul.edu.au/events/author-workshop-%E2%80%93-publishing-open-access-wiley-and-hindawi-journals-under-wiley-and-caul%E2%80%99s

5 July 2023, 1-2pm AEDT

https://www.caul.edu.au/events/author-workshop-%E2%80%93-publishing-open-access-wiley-and-hindawi-journals-under-wiley-and-caul%E2%80%99s-0

Registration is required for each event, and a link to Wiley’s registration page is provide on the CAUL event site.

These sessions are open to anyone, so please feel free to promote them however you see fit.

Kia ora koutou

After the cyclone guys flitted through offices updating Monitor docks for staff with laptops we noticed some staff getting repeated DB process dead/SQL errors with Horizon throughout the day when trying to CKO/CKI or save record changes.  There were also some issues with people unable to remote into their laptops from home.

We think we have tracked this down to the monitor dock’s power mode/sleep settings.  The docks were going to sleep when laptops had idled for a while and when asleep so were their LAN network connections  which upset Horizon’s connection.  Also means your computer is not findable on the network so remote desktop also failed for people.

If you have a laptop with monitor docking station (the dock will be the screen with the camera pull out at the top and speaker if you have the standard 2 new monitor + laptop set up) – check its power mode (if you haven’t had any errors from Horizon you probably don’t need to check).  There are some small buttons just in from the power button on the right bottom of the monitor – the one closest to the middle will launch the on-screen display menu as in the pic below.  You can navigate around the menu with the other buttons. I pinched this pic from the service now knowledge bask so ignore the red boxes around things and instead look at the highlighted bits to point you in the right direction for the power mode setting – it should be on Performance rather than Power Saver.

Ngā mihi,

Romy (on behalf of Library Systems)

Kia ora koutou

LLB students in LAWS and BCJ students in CRJU202 have both being set a number of online Library and legal research skills lessons to complete over the next few weeks.

Each of these lessons are designed for these 400+ students to learn how to find legal material within the Library and legal databases.

The students also need to complete a one-change time-limited quiz for the course they are enrolled in:

LAWS205 students – 50 questions in 90 minutes

CRJU202 students – 30 questions in 75 minutes

I have set everything up so that it works on the UC computers but sometimes there are issues due to the multiple moving parts + live databases students do sometimes encounter problems. If you get any questions about either of these courses please refer them to John or me.

If a student is having issues while trying to finish one of the quizzes please tell them to do what they can and then email me once their time has finished with details and ideally screenshots.

Any questions please let John or me know.

Theresa

Kia ora koutou

A week of two halves weather-wise, catapulting from +30 degrees on Tuesday to rainy chill on Wednesday!

Quite a busy week too (understatement?!) as students began cascading back onto campus in their droves. I’m thrilled to see our ongoing commitment to welcoming all people back for the year, be that in classes, in passing, through our service channels and desks, and as part of our floating “meet and greet” presence!

On a similar theme, I’ve spent a bit of time meeting many of you for one-on-one kōrero this week, and deeply appreciate the chance to get to know each other better, hear what’s on top, and share thoughts on the year ahead.  Thank you also to those continuing – with great forbearance – to be “bumped” for later days/times, as I wait for my calendar to settle into a more predictable rhythm (this may never happen, I realise!!).

This week I attended my first CONZUL (Council of Aotearoa New Zealand University Libraries) hui. Aurelia, joined by Judith Waaka and Bron Austin from Auckland City Council, attended part of the meeting to provide an update on the journey to date with our NZLPP-funded mahi (New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme), and next steps.  The presentation and kōrero that followed was powerful and illuminating, particularly around what meaningful engagement with our ākonga Māori, communities and kaimahi can and will look like.  CONZUL are committed to considering what contribution we can make (collectively, and at each member library), to ensure the research findings effect positive changes on our service offer and to ensure we are accountable in this mahi.

Also discussed at this meeting was a desire to share with staff in CONZUL member libraries what CONZUL is all about, how/if it has impact for us, and how to learn more and get involved.  I’ve volunteered, along with Michelle Blake (UL at Waikato) to co-lead this presentation, as a newcomer learning about all this myself!

This week I also attended my first Research Committee meeting, where Open Access was discussed (yay!) as well as a stated desire to uplift the volume of research outputs deposited in our institutional repositories (across all 8 universities in Aotearoa). Our institutional repositories are freely accessible for all, and the more research deposited there, the more on-flow benefits for increased research impact and long-term positive social outcomes.

The Committee also learned about EEARN (Early and Emerging Academic Researcher Network) which has formed somewhat organically in response to a need for ongoing support and cross-disciplinary sharing amongst anyone identifying as an early or emerging academic researcher here at UC.  The Network has evolved and grown in spades and they’re ready now to reach out for more formalised support. I’ve had a few quick discussions already with some of you, about how we can play a role here and get involved. Stay tuned!

Have a great weekend all.  I’m heading to the Kāpiti Coast to catch up with whānau and friends.  Safe travels if you’re venturing about as well.  Mā te wā!

The 2023 OER Collective Community Day will be held next Wednesday 1 March and the program is now available.

The focus of this year’s event is on the successes and challenges that book teams have experienced while developing open textbooks over the last year – including grant funded books, books that aren’t funded but are on the Collective platform, and books that are published on institutional Pressbooks platforms. This will be a great opportunity to hear from authors and library staff and learn from the community about what worked for them, and what they might do differently next time.

There will also be two extended Q&A sessions: one focused on the Collective, including our processes, guidelines, and operating model; and one focused on open textbook publishing.

All sessions will be recorded, and you are welcome to dip in and out during the day, or to join in for the whole day.

Head to the CAUL website to view the program, then check with your manager and register if you are interested.

Ngā mihi nui,
Rachel

Mōrena

The annotator will be based on Level 7 today again. She is back to finish our bi-annual legislation updates.

Lynne has a red office chair and a trolley. I will pop these away once Lynne has finished this afternoon

Any questions please let Sara or I know.

Theresa

From my message last week about the annotating…

Lynne comes in a couple of times a year to update our NZ statute books. She will cross out anything that is no longer law in red pencil and paste inserts into the books with the new law. It might look like she is defacing the books but it is absolutely ok and ensures that our print collection is up to date!

While we now have access to legislation online in multiple places (WestlawNZ, Lexis Advance and www.legislation.govt.nz) John and I  do still sometimes use the print books to trace currently in-force legislation back in time to before the databases existed.

Next week PSYC105 students have a lab which includes an activity to introduce them to key services and spaces on levels 2 and 3 in Central Library. There are three versions of the lab: one for on-campus students doing the lab in-person, another for on-campus students doing the lab online and the final version is for distance students. There are 30 lab groups with the first starting at 9am on Monday. A TA will come with each group and will run the activity.

Margaret

Kia ora koutou

Digital Services are looking into some problems we are having with Payment Plus timing out while looking up Canterbury Card balances for processing fine payments etc.  There have been some problems with the RAS server we use to connect to Equitrac this morning so likely to be related to that.
No E.T.A. on a fix yet.

Ngā mihi,

Romy (on behalf of Library Systems)