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Here over summer? Tell us what you really think (and be in to win!)

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If you’re sticking around over summer and have time to participate in a student focus group, we want to hear from you… 

We’re seeking feedback about how UC communicates with students. We’d like to get an understanding of things like whether our messages are reaching you and grabbing your attention.   

If you’d like to take part in the focus group please email Hannah Seeley – hannah.seeley@canterbury.ac.nz outlining when you will be available over summer and what details we can contact you on. 

The focus group is expected to take around two hours and is open to all current UC students. All participants will go in the draw to win one of four $50 University Bookshop vouchers.

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Education Library moving to the Central Library

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The Education Library on the Dovedale campus will be closing on Thursday 16 November and from Tuesday 21 November, you’ll see the familiar faces of the library assistants behind the desk on Level 2 of the Central Library and the subject librarians will be based on Level 5. Kathryn, Kim, Fiona, Waitangi, and Margaret can meet with you wherever is most convenient – on the Dovedale campus, at the Ātea Ako consultation space on Level 2 of the Central Library, via email or phone. Just make an appointment, email, or give us a call.

The classroom, Māori classroom, Māori and fiction collections are moving to Level 4 of the Central Library and the academic education collections will mostly be shelved on Level 7. While the collections will be inaccessible to the public for approximately a week, you can still place requests on materials and retrievals will take place daily as usual. These requests can be collected from the Central Library. The existing returns box will be available 24/7 (and emptied daily) until the College moves into Rēhua.

A pop-up library service is planned for the Dovedale campus in Semester One, 2018 and more details will be released once finalised.

We look forward to showing you around the new collection, study and service spaces in the Central Library.

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Lonely Cup Memoirs: please don’t forget me

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Hello. It’s me, your favourite coffee cup. Where am I? Hidden at the bottom of your bag? Making annoying noises rolling across the backseat of your car? Growing mould in your damp kitchen?

I used to hang out at Nuts n Bolts Café. My friends were there. I was nestled, snug with all the other coffee cups – oh the stories we shared! The laughs, the tears, I miss it there, I miss my mates. We had fun… and oh the adventures we went on! A human would grab me, and off we would go… I gave them a 50c discount you know, and in return, I went to the library, on lunch dates, to lectures, to flat parties, and everywhere in between! My life was full of exciting experiences. Every day was a new adventure, and I always ended up back where I started at the Cup Library at Nuts n Bolts.

But now… I am alone. Did you forget about me?

Perhaps if you took me back to the Cup Library at the Engineering Core, we could have adventures again. I could see my cup buddies, I could give you that discount again, I could come along to your lecture, and we could do the whole cycle again and again! What do you think?

Let me know.

Yours sincerely,
Lonely Cup

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Poor Lonely Cup. The situation is all too real. At the beginning of October, we launched the Cup Library at Nuts n Bolts Café with 60 coffee cups for everyone to use. Today, there are two left! We are delighted the Cup Library is being used and loved as it should – and all you eco warriors out there are saving single use takeaway cups from going to landfill, one weird looking Cup Library cup at a time. But now, we fear you’ve forgotten to return the cups to the Cup Library and the Lonely Cups are calling for action.

The Cup Library has gone on a well-earned break for the summer holiday, but you can still return your Lonely Cup to the superstar staff at Nuts n Bolts who will wash them (without judgement, we promise!) and return them to the Cup Library.

Never fear – the Cup Library will make a comeback in Semester One next year!  Making it easy for you to continue saving single use coffee cups from landfill and helping Lonely Cups live fulfilling lives, watch this space.

Brought to you by the Sustainability Office.