Maori Studies
The Library now has trial access to a number of modules from Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a fully searchable archive of rare and important primary sources chosen by experts and sourced from the world’s leading libraries.
The Anglican newspaper Church and People is available to browse digitally through the John Kinder Theological Library’s Church Papers Online. Church and People was a monthly newspaper from 1946 to 1976 and covered church reports, editorials and articles.
Politics and the Media is a new publication edited by four New Zealand-based researchers, including the University of Auckland's own Dr. Geoff Kemp from the Department of Political Studies. The book examines a wide range of theoretical issues associated with the spheres of media, politics and democracy.
Emeritus Professor of English Albert Wendt was appointed a member of the Order of New Zealand in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Celebrated writer Anita Desai was recently in New Zealand for the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. During her stay she visited the University of Auckland to spend time with the Master of Creative Writing students from the Department of English.
The Chinese Studies module is now available from Oxford Bibliographies Online, providing an authoritative guide to key works in the study of China across all disciplines.
Looking for a fun and simple guide to statistics? This is the book for you!
Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, New York: Norton, 2013.
This new online tutorial will help you identify and locate books, book chapters, and journal articles. You can test yourself to check your knowledge.
Ben Yagoda says that teaching students to write well may be too ambitious a goal. Instead he aims to improve your writing by eliminating those common errors such as spelling mistakes, poorly chosen words, and train-wreck punctuation. In his book How to Not Write Bad you’ll find lots of helpful advice.
Motivational books are not usually found in university libraries, but one that seems appropriate is How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Academic Writing. Psychologist Paul Silvia discusses specious barriers to writing (can't find the time... need to do more research first... need a better computer... or just waiting for inspiration), and offers motivational tools and practical suggestions for overcoming them.
Do you need to access films and other audiovisual material from the Library collections? Come to the Audiovisual Library and join a 10 minutes tour!
Lost? It does not have to be this way. We are offering tours through the General Library during the first two weeks of Semester 1.
The UNESCO Memory of the World National Committee of New Zealand announced two new inscriptions to the New Zealand documentary heritage register.
The merger of Penguin Books and German-owned Random House has received much media attention in October. In a recent Guardian article, Oliver Wainwright muses about the beauty of Penguin Books.
Come and hear from Associate Professor Alex Holcombe, from the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney, about Open Access and the academic community. His seminar is entitled “Our Scholarship System is Broken. Can Open Access Fix It?”
Would you like some support with your first essay assignments?
"What is wrong with New Zealand novels" is the core question of a research paper written by Pia White, Client Services Librarian at the Architecture Library.
Papers Past contains more than two million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. Latest additions to Papers Past include the New Zealand Herald (1863-1884).
Hika Lite is a te reo Māori learning application for mobile phones, released in partnership with Vodafone NZ for Māori Language Week. It is available as free download for both iPhone and Android mobile.
The Documentary Edge Festival presents 72 films from New Zealand and around the world from 26 April until 13 May 2012. The special section Arab Spring is in the spotlight of this year's festival.
In less than two weeks New Zealand's largest literary festival will turn Auckland again into a vibrant meeting point for acclaimed writers, readers and thinkers.
Reading ejournals instead of print journals certainly saves a lot of trees, but what about other environmental effects?
From 16th March 2012 the monthly student Internet data allowance will double to 400MBs for undergraduates and to 800MBs for postgrad students.
The Chicago Manual of Style Online is a tremendously useful guide to citations and writing style. An interesting, amusing, and occasionally helpful feature is the monthly Q&A section.
The Arts Information Services team is offering 10 sessions of the undergraduate research skills workshop to Arts students. Book on the Library website under Library workshops, or ask a librarian at the Enquiry Desk in the Genral Library for assistance.
The 19th Century Masterfile now includes more than 6,000 links to the Royal Society Journals.
In July 2011 Google Scholar introduced with Google Scholar Citations a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time. This service has now been made available to everyone.
Three new collections on Elsdon Best, student media and Antarctic research are now available at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre. The Library provides access to the website through this database connect page.
The following tips may be useful to all researchers interested in Open Access publishing.
OAIster is a union catalogue of millions of digital resources. The freely available and easy to search database can be accessed from this WorldCat web page.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is the port of call for all researchers, authors, publishers, librarians, and readers interested in free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Open Access stands for toll-free online access to scientific and scholarly literature with the aim of ensuring maximum dissemination and rapid availability of research.
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fifth year, is taking place from 24 to 30 October 2011. The Library is hosting three events for University of Auckland staff and postgraduates.
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fifth year, is taking place from 24 to 30 October 2011. The Library is hosting three events for University of Auckland staff and postgraduates.
Users of Index New Zealand are asked to provide feedback on additional search limit options.
Participate in the survey - and go in the draw to win a $50 voucher by submitting your feedback!
Alexander Street Press produces academic collections of video and primary source materials in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Please register for a free trial.
The Library currently has trial access to Bridgeman Education, a searchable database of over 300,000 images from the Bridgeman Art Library.
Arts Information Services has a NEW Facebook Page!
Congratulations to Dame Judith Binney, Professor Emeritus of History.
Her book Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921 has been named 2010 Book of the Year in the New Zealand Post Book Awards.
The award winners were announced on Friday 27th August at an evening ceremony in Auckland.
The time is now to celebrate the potential of our young Pacific people. If you have a creative streak, leadership attributes and are an inspiration to your community, apply for these awards.
New Zealand Post Book Awards finalists are on display in the General Library until September 10, 2010.
Many of the books are by members of the University faculty, including Prof. Dame Anne Salmond, Prof. Dame Judith Binney, Dr Francis Pound, Associate Prof. Len Bell, Alan Wright, Dr. Edward Hanfling, Dr. Deidre Brown and Dr. Selina Tusitala.
A joint venture between news website Scoop and AUT's Pacific Media Centre will see more Pacific news stories available online.
During Māori Expo 2009, Te Tumu Herenga o Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau (University of Auckland Library) participated ...
After seven years' work the first 100 years of the Journal of the Polynesian Society has now been been completely digitised.
The University of Auckland Library has launched LibrarySearch, the pilot version of a new search environment that simplifies and enhances access to the Library's resources, and which more closely matches current user expectations of web searching. University staff and students are invited to try out the new environment and give us feedback.
Over 100,000 pages of diaries, correspondence, letterbooks, telegrams and other papers from Sir Donald McLean are now accessible online through the Alexander Turnbull Library’s new website Manuscripts & Pictorial
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga initiated and developed the National Māori and Indigenous (MAI) post-graduate programme which has succeeded in achieving its target of over 500 new enrolled or completed Māori doctorate graduates within a five-year period. Nga Pae o te Māramatanga is now offering a similar programme focusing on developing indigenous scholarship at honours and masters level.
E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā karangatanga maha o ngā hau e whā, malo e lelei, fakalofa lahi atu, talofa lava, ni sa bula, kia orana, tēnā koutou. Ki a rātou kua rūpeke atu ki tua, kua ea, hoki ki a tātou o te ora, tēnā koutou katoa.
To those currently undertaking the task of research pertaining to Māori or Pasifika perceptions, then please do not hesitate to come and visit our services on Ground Floor, General Library | Te Herenga Mātauranga Whānui, Far corner by the computers.
There will be Library tutorials for ANTHRO 100 on 17th and 19th September. This is to help you with the essay Assignment Two. The tutorial will cover keyword searching in Voyager and an introduction to databases.
Please book online for your regular tutorial time.
There is no 9 o'clock session (as the essay workshop is on at that time). If you would normally attend a 9 o'clock tutorial please book for one of the later ses
The FTV Collection of videos and DVDs is now all catalogued on Voyager. This is the place you should go to search for all videos and DVDs held at the Audiovisual Library. Please do not rely on information found in the FTV database anymore as it is not being updated.
This is a searchable online encyclopedia published by Wiley-Blackwell in association with the International Communication Association. It comprises over 1,330 newley-commissioned A-Z entries, divided into 29 editorial areas representing major fields of inquiry, each of which is headed by a leading expert in the field.
Click here to access trial.