Ashburton Courier: May 07, 2020
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Page 2, <strong>Ashburton</strong>'s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>May</strong> 7, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Librarians check out old books<br />
By Linda Clarke<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Library manager Jill<br />
Watson has been comfort<br />
reading during lockdown.<br />
Her author of choice is<br />
historical romance writer<br />
Georgette Heyer and Ms<br />
Watson has been rereading<br />
those books in her personal<br />
collection at home.<br />
Heyer’s prose is like acomfort<br />
blanket in these stressful covid<br />
times, she says.<br />
The public library, like other<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council<br />
facilities, is still closed to walkin<br />
customers during Alert Level 3.<br />
At work, Ms Watson and<br />
other staff have taken the<br />
opportunity to weed out about<br />
1500 books from the library’s<br />
collection of around 77,690.<br />
Nonfiction books that are<br />
outdated, like those on<br />
technology, and books that have<br />
literally been read to bits or not<br />
checked out for avery long time<br />
have been deselected. Some<br />
could be sold, she said.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> library staff work their way through books that face<br />
de-selection.<br />
New books that arrived before<br />
lockdown are also being<br />
catalogued.<br />
In the several hours before the<br />
library temporarily closed in<br />
March, readers rushed to stock<br />
up on books to read while they<br />
stayed at home to help stop the<br />
spread of Covid19.<br />
It was ashame there had not<br />
Kerrin’s digital goal<br />
Allenton Primary School<br />
associate principal and head of<br />
ICT and elearning Kerrin<br />
Corcoran has been awarded a<br />
$10,000 leader’s scholarship by<br />
the Advance <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Community Foundation.<br />
Kerrin wants educators and<br />
students in our district to<br />
become digitally fluent.<br />
She says that fluency is vital<br />
to meet education needs now,<br />
as shown during the current<br />
covid crisis, and in the future.<br />
“I strongly believe that<br />
digital tools offer great<br />
opportunities to enhance<br />
learning and improve<br />
educational outcomes for all.”<br />
Kerrin says the focus needs<br />
to be on digital capability for<br />
educators and students.<br />
“We are all learners, as the<br />
digital landscape is forever<br />
changing and evolving.<br />
‘‘The challenge is not to<br />
know how everything works <br />
the challenge is to become<br />
digitally fluent, so we are<br />
capable of choosing the right<br />
digital tool to meet our needs<br />
or desired outcome.”<br />
Kerrin Corcoran wants to<br />
help Mid Canterbury<br />
become digitally fluent.<br />
The charitable foundation<br />
was impressed by Kerrin’s<br />
passion to build digital<br />
capacity not only of students<br />
and teachers, but also of the<br />
wider Mid Canterbury<br />
community.<br />
been more notice, she said, so<br />
more readers could get some<br />
books under their belt.<br />
Aspinoff has been the<br />
greater number of borrowers<br />
signing up to the library’s digital<br />
service, which includes<br />
electronic books and audio<br />
books.<br />
Ms Watson said library staff<br />
Kerrin’s plan is to establish<br />
the Mid Canterbury<br />
eLearning Network which<br />
will provide an opportunity for<br />
educators to network and<br />
learn from each other how to<br />
develop their and their<br />
students’ digital capabilities.<br />
She says Mid Canterbury<br />
has ahistory of being<br />
innovative in its approach to<br />
new initiatives involving digital<br />
technologies.<br />
The development of an<br />
eLearning Network will allow<br />
these innovations to be shared<br />
with colleagues to develop the<br />
capabilities within the wider<br />
community.<br />
The scholarship will allow<br />
Kerrin to undertake further<br />
study and become aGoogle<br />
Certified Teacher and<br />
Certified Trainer using the<br />
Google Suite.<br />
Units will include digital<br />
safety, tools for diverse<br />
learners and supporting<br />
English language learners.<br />
She plans to spread the<br />
benefit of her professional<br />
development widely.<br />
GREAT<br />
RATES<br />
had been helping customers sign<br />
up and had bought more online<br />
books to support the greater<br />
numbers using it.<br />
Digital issues in April during<br />
lockdown were 1122, compared<br />
to 563 in April last year.<br />
The library also has adigital<br />
storytelling service that<br />
borrowers can access through its<br />
webpage.<br />
Ms Watson said borrowers<br />
with no access to paper books,<br />
had been encouraged to become<br />
digital users. Many had taken the<br />
opportunity.<br />
‘‘Some people have just joined<br />
us to use the ebooks in this time.<br />
‘‘Hopefully they will continue<br />
to use us later on for other<br />
things.‘‘<br />
She said afew conventional<br />
readers had found they enjoyed<br />
listening to audiobooks while<br />
they were gardening or driving.<br />
Don’t panic if you have a<br />
library book you can’t return.<br />
All books have been extended<br />
to June 30 and no fines will be<br />
incurred during lockdown.<br />
Police<br />
focus on<br />
speedsters<br />
Mid Canterbury police will be<br />
concentrating on speedsters as<br />
more traffic returns to the<br />
district’s roads.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> senior sergeant<br />
Leigh Jenkins said officers had<br />
noticed people were driving faster<br />
during Alert Level 4and there had<br />
also been an increase in<br />
pedestrians and cyclists.<br />
‘‘Now we have progressed to<br />
level 3, Iamconcerned with the<br />
combination of increased speed,<br />
additional road users back in the<br />
flow of traffic and recreational<br />
activity on or near the roadsides.<br />
‘‘I have asked my staff to<br />
concentrate efforts on road speed<br />
and in particular the transition<br />
from open road to diminished<br />
posted speed signs on the entry to<br />
our various town entry points.’’<br />
Police are also reminding<br />
everyone that the Alert Level 3<br />
restrictions mean any outdoor<br />
activity should be low risk. Aman<br />
rescued from the Waimakariri<br />
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