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Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>20</strong> <strong>20</strong>23 5<br />
Team leader provides<br />
books with extra life<br />
WITH A background as a<br />
bookbinder and as a trainer on<br />
the construction of commercial<br />
books, each day is different for<br />
the city council’s preservation<br />
and distribution team leader<br />
Jane Hackett.<br />
“Whether I’m organising<br />
my team to deliver books and<br />
exhibition items across the city,<br />
or I’m spending time repairing<br />
books, no day is ever the same,”<br />
said Hackett.<br />
Hackett said her team works<br />
hard to make sure books are<br />
relocated to fill customers’ holds,<br />
and to give books that need to<br />
remain in the collection an extra<br />
life.<br />
“Every library book is examined<br />
on return and will be passed<br />
along to my team if it is in need<br />
of repair. We’ll determine what<br />
needs to be done and then restore<br />
it to the best of our ability.<br />
“When I come home with a<br />
huge smile on my face, my husband<br />
can always tell I’ve been repairing<br />
books. I love this aspect<br />
of my job, it’s my happy place.”<br />
Books that are no longer<br />
needed in the collection skip the<br />
repair process and instead are<br />
kept for the Christchurch City<br />
Libraries Big Bargain Book Sale<br />
– an event planned and managed<br />
by Hackett.<br />
Hackett said the preservation<br />
and distribution team deliver a<br />
selection of books to at least 10<br />
rest homes each fortnight.<br />
“This is a joint effort with our<br />
outreach team who put these selections<br />
together, and we deliver<br />
them.<br />
“To encourage tamariki to engage<br />
with books and reading, we<br />
also deliver a range of children’s<br />
books to low decile preschools<br />
three times a term.”<br />
Hackett said another significant<br />
part of her role is to manage<br />
the distribution of books<br />
between the libraries, using two<br />
trucks to visit <strong>20</strong> sites a day,<br />
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Monday to Friday.<br />
The collaboration list continues<br />
as Hackett works together<br />
with the archivists at CCL and<br />
the city council.<br />
“This is an important aspect<br />
as I can provide advice on how<br />
material can be preserved for the<br />
future – whether this is by creating<br />
specialised archival boxes for<br />
loose-leaf material, or mending<br />
books with fragile bindings.<br />
“We work hard each day to<br />
keep the collections looking at<br />
their best, and to move books<br />
around the city to refresh<br />
collections on a regular basis<br />
and to meet customer demand.”<br />
Release of first<br />
track ‘has been<br />
a big process’<br />
• From page 1<br />
Guitarist Reuben Anderson, 17,<br />
bassist Scarlett Robson, 17, and<br />
drummer Mya Cawood, 18, have<br />
been friends since they were 13.<br />
Vocalist Cleo Cavell, 17, joined<br />
the band after being approached<br />
by Robson to be their singer.<br />
Anderson said it is quite<br />
exciting to be releasing their<br />
debut song.<br />
“It has been a big process but<br />
very happy it’s happening,” he<br />
said.<br />
He said it has taken awhile<br />
because they have been learning<br />
about the process and what goes<br />
on behind the scenes of recording<br />
a song.<br />
“We want to thank Chris<br />
van de Geer from the band<br />
Stellar* for helping us with the<br />
distribution and everyone at<br />
Big Pop Records and Regan<br />
Barker for helping us with the<br />
recording.”<br />
Cavell said the biggest obstacle<br />
was deciding on the cover art for<br />
the single.<br />
“When you have four people<br />
with all different visions and<br />
styles it can take a while to agree<br />
on something,” she said.<br />
Originally the band was called<br />
The Jhets but they changed the<br />
name as people kept thinking<br />
they were like Bennie and<br />
the Jets. “We didn’t like the<br />
association and we didn’t like<br />
how it wasn’t original, so from<br />
the beginning of this year we<br />
have been Zephyr, which Mya<br />
came up with and we all liked,”<br />
she said.<br />
The single follows the story<br />
of a young female waltzing her<br />
way through life in a groupie<br />
fashion with attacking guitar<br />
riffs, a pounding bass, powerful<br />
drumming and a stunning vocal<br />
range.<br />
With three of the musicians<br />
still at school, Anderson and<br />
Cavell said they hope to continue<br />
the band for a while.<br />
“The goal is to write as much<br />
music as we can and get it<br />
recorded and released,” he said.<br />
• (She Ain’t Got No) Shame<br />
will be available on Spotify,<br />
iTunes and Apple Music and<br />
can be pre-saved on their<br />
Facebook and Instagram<br />
pages, or you can catch the<br />
band live at The Bower in<br />
the beer garden from 1pm<br />
on Sunday.<br />
Christchurch<br />
Civic Awards <strong>20</strong>23<br />
Who will you nominate?<br />
Each year our city benefits from the service of volunteers<br />
and others who go above and beyond the call of duty<br />
for Christchurch and its people.<br />
We recognise these valued contributions with<br />
our annual Civic Awards.<br />
Complete our online form at<br />
ccc.govt.nz/CivicAwards<br />
or pick one up from any of our<br />
service centres or libraries.<br />
Send your nominations to us by<br />
5pm, Monday 31 <strong>July</strong> <strong>20</strong>23.
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