Library tutorials

Library tours have finished but Library tutorials, including Finding Journal Articles, APA Referencing, Word, Excel and EndNote, are now available. For the complete list, and to book a place in a tutorial, click here

Welcome everyone

We welcome all new and returning students. Please ask at any information desk if you need help finding Library resources.

Copyright questions

See Copyright Guidelines for Research Students and the University's Copyright Information pages

Library Tours and Tutorials

Tutorials are available throughout the year. To request a tutorial click here

Copyright Guidelines for Research Students

A PDF of the Guidelines is available for downloading from http://www.waikato.ac.nz/copyright/.

Prepare for Summer School

General Library tutorials have finished for the year, but you can request a tutorial.

Featured website - Nobel Prize.org

Nobel Prizes for Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace and Economics announced each day this week. Click on prize name to see the recipient of each prize. Click here to access Nobel website

See also the special issue of Peace and Change: The first century of Nobel Peace Prizes, Who's who of Nobel Prize winners, 1901-2000, Nobel Prize women in science, and the Bulletin of the IAEA, a previous recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

New texts from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has announced the addition of forty-one new texts to their collection.

The new texts released include Jane Stafford and Mark Williams' 2006 literary and cultural history "Maoriland: New Zealand Literature, 1872-1914" and "Recollecting Mansfield" (2001) by Margaret Scott. Volume VII to XIII have also been added from John White's "The Ancient History of the Maori". As with the first six volumes launched in December 2007, this online publication builds on previous work by University of Waikato Library.

The full collection of 19th century New Zealand novels and associated scholarly works is listed in chronological order here.

New Zealand Digital Collections

The New Zealand Collection contains several visual collections, with some available online. The Digital Collection contains a selection of photographs, postcards, maps and posters, usually with an emphasis on the Waikato.

The following collections are available through the New Zealand Collection and Databases:

The Illustrated London News: A Digital Library of the New Zealand content from the Illustrated London News from Volume 1, 1842 to volume 50, 1867. (It is intended to extend coverage through to 1902).

Historical maps of the Waikato Region: A selection of maps of Hamilton and the Waikato.

Historical photos of the Waikato and New Zealand: A selection of photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Historical photos of Waikato Rugby: Photographs associated with the 1956 Springbok rugby team's visit to Hamilton to play Waikato (the Mooloos).

Online Māori language dictionary launched

I-Papakupu is a free electronic interface of the first Māori monolingual dictionary that has been developed by Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori - The Māori Language Commission over several years. Read press release here.
Click here to access I-Papakupu

Library Tutorials in Semester B

See the Library tours and tutorials page for information about helpful Library tutorials

Collection Development Policies

are now available online. Click here for more.

Sign up to receive Library notices via your mobile phone

Click here to register for the free txt service.

New legal database

Westlaw International now available.

Westlaw International is an online legal research service providing quick, easy access to West's vast collection of statutes, case law materials, public records and other legal resources, as well as current news articles and business information. Click here to access Westlaw

Library Group Room Bookings

Group Rooms can now be booked online

Just Returned Books

Books returned to the Library in the last few hours are now available from the Just Returned Books areas.

Level 2: behind the ecafe

Level 3: at the entrance to the collection, opposite the online catalogues

Law Library: in the Quick Reference stacks

NZC: to the left immediately after entering the Collection

Serials: to the right after entering the collection

Library hours for Summer School

 Please check the Library's current opening hours

Survey results and iPod winner

See the LibQUAL+^TM survey results and the winner of the iPod

Christmas trees in the Library

Christmas trees created and decorated by Library staff, TLDU and SJS are now on display on level 2 of the Library. International students, you are invited to add your name and a message to the International Christmas tree

Book of the week

Selling the sea: an inside look at the cruise industry by Bob Dickinson and Andy Vladimir

Summer Break opening hours

Please note the Summer Break opening hours

"Curiosities from the Collection" - now on show

This must-see exhibition of archives, diaries, rare books, manuscripts, maps, ephemera and more is now on in the New Zealand Collection teaching room

One-on-One workshops

Scheduled Library tutorials have finished for the Semester but one on one workshops on Finding journal articles, APA referencing, Excel, and PowerPoint, etc., are available upon request at any time. Please ask at the Level 2 Information Desk or email j.baga@waikato.ac.nz

Book of the week

The high life: everything you need to know about apartment living by Jules Flight

Longer Library hours for exams

We are open for longer hours over the exams period

LIANZA Conference, 2007

Shhh! - if we don't mention maps, they might go away by John Robson; Your library, virtually everywhere by Ruth Ivey and Kay Young

Books of the Week

Heritage Hamilton by Waikato Institute of Technology students
Reinventing Paradise by Rod Oram

Tutorials on Word for Dissertation/Thesis Writing

Word for Dissertation/Thesis Writing tutorials will be offered again later in the year.

Be in to win an iPod

Take the LibQUAL+ TM survey - available throughout August....

Book of the week

Encyclopedia of statistical sciences QA276.14.E53 2006 Quick Reference Collection). A superb guide to statistics for all disciplines.

Welcome to the Library in Semester B

Get to know the Library by taking a tour - guided tours leave from the entrance level of the Library at 11 am and 2.10 pm in Weeks 1 and 2.

Book of the week

The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology is now available online.

NewspapersDirect Press Display trial

Press Display offers online access to today's newspapers in their original format.

Press Display includes all articles, features, ads, classifieds and comics. View any selected newspaper on the day of issue, regardless of where the newspaper is published. Over 400 newspaper titles from more than 50 countries and over 30 languages are available, with new titles added on a monthly basis.

*update* Press Display trial extended until August 25

ViewsWire database trial

ViewsWire supports business decisions by covering worldwide economic, political and market developments.

Book of the week

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (QL750.3.E53 2004, Quick Reference Collection)

Changes to Library opening hours

Library hours change for the Mid-year Break, 24 June-8 July.

Book of the week

Spy book: The encyclopedia of espionage (JF1525.I6P65 Quick Reference Collection).

Citation Linker

Citation Linker helps you find the full text of articles if you have a known citation or reference. Try it via the Library's new-look Databases page.  

InfoSci-Online trial

InfoSci-Online and InfoSci-Online Premium are now available for trial.

InfoSci-Online and InfoSci-Online Premium, published by IGI Global (IGI), are the most-comprehensive collections of full-text literature available in the fields of information science, technology and management.
Feedback please to Bhadra Chandran. The trial lasts until 16 June.

Trial of Columbia International Affairs Online

The Library has arranged a trial of Columbia International Affairs Online.

The trial ends on June 8th. Feedback please to Jillene j.bydder@waikato.ac.nz.

The Research Commons

The Research Commons is a new service which enables you to browse the University's research and scholarship by Faculty, research centre or department, or by author.

Library tutorials programme

Tutorials on the Catalogue, Databases, Finding Journal Articles, the Internet for Academic Purposes, Beginner Excel, PowerPoint and more are available. Check online for dates and times.

Course textbooks for Semester A

Lists of required textbooks are now available from Course Reserve. The School of Education List is available at the Education Library.

Changes to the Library Catalogue

Keyword anywhere searching, like Google, now looks for all the words in your search. Borrow Direct lets you make direct requests for books from AUT, Victoria and Otago University Libraries. Single Sign On now makes signing on to the Library Catalogue easier.

Single Sign On uses the same mechanism as i.waikato and librarylink so if you login to one of those systems, you won't have to login again to access your details in the library catalogue. If you want to logout of the catalogue you can either click the logout button on any of the catalogue pages, or simply close your web browser.

Summer School students

Welcome to Summer School! Staff at Information Desks are available to help you at any time when the Library is open. You can also look at FAQs about the Library, or ask us questions online, or take a Virtual Tour.

Library Hours

 Check here for Summer School opening hours.

Catalogue Logon

The library is about to update the library catalogue logon system.

The new system uses the same mechanism as i.waikato and librarylink so if you login to one of those systems, you won't have to login again to access your details in the library catalogue. If you want to logout of the catalogue you can either click the logout button on any of the catalogue pages, or simply close your web browser.

E-Cafe upgrade

The Library now offers food for thought with an upgraded and colourful e-cafe, located just beyond our recently modernised entrance foyer.

Summer Recess Library hours

Please note changes to the Library's opening hours .

Take a Virtual Tour of the Education Library

We are delighted to announce that there is now a Virtual Tour of the Education Library.

A trial of the CountryWatch database is now available

Go to CountryWatch.

Username: cwnov Password: cwnov

Feedback please to Jillene (j.bydder@waikato.ac.nz).

Changes to Library opening hours

The Central Library will be open 10 am - 10 pm on Sunday 5 November.

Trials of the Geobase and Georef databases are now available

Geobase is available via the Engineering Village2 platform. Georef is hosted on the  Geoscience World platform.

 Geobase is a multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography. The database covers approximately 2,000 international journals, including both peer-reviewed titles and trade publications.

The material covered includes refereed scientific papers; trade journal and magazine articles, product reviews, directories and any other relevant material. GEOBASE has a unique coverage of non-English language and less readily available publications including books, conference proceedings and reports, making this the best resource available for multidisciplinary searches of international literature.

Changes to Interloan services and Interloan renewals

All Interloan services are now operating from the Issue Desk on Level 2. Renewals may now be requested through My Details.

Please collect, renew and return interloaned items at the Issue Desk. The Interloans Cabinet for photocopied journal articles and the post box for completed paper forms are also near the Issue Desk.

If the Green Slip in your Interloan book indicates you can request a renewal you can now do this through My Details in the Library Catalogue. All interloans are subject to recall by the lending Library at any time.

Change of locations for the DVD, Videotape and Recreational Reading Collections

DVDs and the Recreational Reading Collection are now shelved on Level 2 to the left of the New Books display.

The videotape collection is now shelved on Level 2 opposite Recreational Reading and the DVDs. New Zealand videotapes are now shelved in the New Zealand Collection.

Trial of Web of Science backfiles

A trial of the Web of Science backfiles is available until 30 September.

The trial includes Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index 1975-.

Go to Web of Science and then the Web of Science link.

Trial of WorldCat Dissertations and Theses

The WorldCat Dissertations and Theses database is now available for trial until 6 September.

Authorisation: 100 310 775
Password: SXXW7HEAX
Feedback please to Ross Hallett (r.hallett@waikato.ac.nz).

MultiSearch trial ends

The Library's trial of MultiSearch has ended, as the software is no longer being produced.

MultiSearch allowed us to search multiple databases using a single search screen.  We are hoping to have a new federated search engine in place by March 2007.

Waka Week 31-4 August

This year we celebrate the iwi of Te Whanau a Apanui. There is a display of Library resources relating to Te Whanau a Apanui on Level 2 of the Central Library.

Speaker presentations are on Wednesday 2nd August in the Central Library, Level 2 Tutorial Room, 10:30am-12pm. All are welcome.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards

The winners for 2006 have been announced. Copies of the winning books are held in the New Zealand Collection on Level 3 of the Central Library.

Trial of the Newsbank database

The Newsbank database is available for trial until July 28.

username: waikato
password: waikato
Put the username and password into the grey pop-up box that looks like a proxy server box.
Feedback please to Ross Hallett (r.hallett@waikato.ac.nz).

Welcome to the Library

New students are invited to join the Library tours which are running at 11.00 am and 2.10 pm each weekday for the first two weeks of Semester B. Meet near the Information Desk on Level 2 (the entrance level) of the Library.

Trial of the International Security and Counter-Terrorism Reference Center database

The International Security and Counter-Terrorism Reference Center database is now available for trial.

Global Business Browser: Asia Pacific edition

The Global Business Browser: Asia Pacific edition is now available on trial.

Global Business Browser: Asia Pacific edition

OneSource Information Services are providing free trial access from now until 31st December 2006 to access the Global Business Browser: Asia Pacific edition product. This database contains information on some 260,000 companies and can be searched by industry etc.

The ISI Web Citation Index is now available on trial

The database is available from the Web of Knowledge portal or from this direct link.

ISI Web Citation Index

This is a six month trial of the beta version of the database. Because this is beta version the look and feel of it may change during the trial.

Data in Web Citation Index dates from 2004 and it aims to be a multidisciplinary citation index of scholarly content from Web-based institutional repositories. Within these repositories you will find technical reports, preprints, theses, white papers, and more. Immediate access to the full text of these documents is available.

This tool, which will be fully launched later this year, uses cited reference searching as well as technology developed by NEC to bridge the traditional world of scholarly publication and the evolving world of research being published on the Internet.

EzProxy access and Find at Waikato links for Google Scholar

Use Google Scholar from a computer on campus and the links to Find at Waikato (the full text of articles held by the Library) will show up automatically.

Off-campus users need to go into their Preferences and manually select The University of Waikato.
Use Google Scholar from the Library's Internet Search page and go through EzProxy for free oncampus access.

Finding your way around the Library

Take a Virtual Tour, or use WISE, our online tutorials. Hands-on Library and Computing tutorials are also available.

Library Bibliographies and Indexes

Library Bibliographies, like the Waikato Bibliography, are no longer part of the Library Catalogue. They are now available as separate databases or as a collection.

Orientation tours

Orientation Tours of the Library have now finished for the semester, but you can take a Virtual Tour. We also offer online tutorials and hands-on Library and Computing tutorials.

New for Semester A

Subject Portals, and revised Tours and Tutorials pages. The Australasian Digital Thesis Program now includes Waikato theses.

Displays in the Central Library

Harakeke (New Zealand flax) on Level 2: Go the Chiefs! on Level 3.

The Australasian Digital Thesis Program

now includes theses from the University of Waikato.

Library staff

welcome Annette McNicol, the new University Librarian.

On Waitangi Day, Monday 6 February

the Central Library will be open from 1 pm to 5 pm.

Welcome to Summer School students

If you need help in the Library just ask at any Information Desk, use Ask Me for FAQs, or send us an email through the Virtual Reference Desk.

Full-Text Electronic Journals

A list of Full-Text Electronic Journals held by the Library is now available.

Digital theses

If you are handing your thesis in soon would you like to deposit your thesis in digital format to the Australasian Digital Theses Programme at the same time? We need your help to test the complete process. Anyone interested please contact Jillene (j.bydder@waikato.ac.nz).

The Map Library

has moved to the south end of Level 3.

Other changes include:

(1) The readers' seats and and carrels in the seating area at the north-west corner of Level 3 have been moved to Level 4.

(2) A patch of shelving at the south end of Level 3 has been dismantled and moved to this seating area.

(3) To enable this to happen, books with call-numbers A to CB245 have been temporarily removed from the stacks and put into cartons.

(4) A few extra bays of shelving will also be put up on Level 3 (for example, at the entry to the floor from the Central Stairs)..

(5) A very small number of books on Level 3 which have been assessed for relegation will be moved to Storage or discarded.

(6) All books on Level 3 will be moved northwards, utilising the re-located and new shelving. When this move is completed, the books temporarily stored in cartons will be put back onto the shelves.

At the same time that all this is happening, the electrical engineering firm Ward Chandler will be installing new sensor-controlled stack and seating lighting on Level 3. This lighting, which is similar to the trial lighting that has been in the Level 3 stacks near the Admin offices for some while, is designed to make substantial power savings for the University. The work will involve construction of scaffolding above the shelving stacks, and installation of the new lighting is expected to take at least four weeks.

Please note that none of the above affects the New Zealand Collection. However, when the building alterations currently taking place in Acquisitions / Collection Management are completed, alterations will be undertaken in the New Zealand Collection. These alterations will require temporary move of the Glass Case (rare books) collection, and re-location of the NZC Librarian, EDA PCs and the Ballantrae Collection, etc. The alterations are intended to provide extra space for NZC Library staff, to double the space of the Glass Case collection, and to provide for a small seminar/teaching room.

If there are any queries about any of this work, please contact Tony Millett.

Library hours

Summer Recess hours started on 19 November. Summer School hours start on 9 January.

A-CD245

Books at these classification numbers in the Central Library will be unavailable from approximately 21 November till mid-December,

because of the changes being made to Level 3.

Changes on Level 3 in the Central Library

The Map Library will be re-located from Level 4 to the south end of Level 3 early in the New Year.

To prepare for this, there will be a number of moves taking place on Level 3 between 21 November and Christmas:

(1) The readers' seats and and carrels in the seating area at the north-west corner of Level 3 will be moved to Level 4.

(2) A patch of shelving at the south end of Level 3 will be dismantled and moved to this seating area.

(3) To enable this to happen, books with call-numbers A to CB245 will be temporarily removed from the stacks and put into cartons.

(4) A few extra bays of shelving will also be put up on Level 3 (for example, at the entry to the floor from the Central Stairs)..

(5) A very small number of books on Level 3 which have been assessed for relegation will be moved to Storage or discarded.

(6) All books on Level 3 will be moved northwards, utilising the re-located and new shelving. When this move is completed, the books temporarily stored in cartons will be put back onto the shelves.

At the same time that all this is happening, the electrical engineering firm Ward Chandler will be installing new sensor-controlled stack and seating lighting on Level 3. This lighting, which is similar to the trial lighting that has been in the Level 3 stacks near the Admin offices for some while, is designed to make substantial power savings for the University. The work will involve construction of scaffolding above the shelving stacks, and installation of the new lighting is expected to take at least four weeks.

Please note that none of the above affects the New Zealand Collection. However, when the building alterations currently taking place in Acquisitions / Collection Management are completed, alterations will be undertaken in the New Zealand Collection. These alterations will require temporary move of the Glass Case (rare books) collection, and re-location of the NZC Librarian, EDA PCs and the Ballantrae Collection, etc. The alterations are intended to provide extra space for NZC Library staff, to double the space of the Glass Case collection, and to provide for a small seminar/teaching room.

If there are any queries about any of this work, please contact Tony Millett.

Summer Recess Hours

start on Saturday 19 November. Please note shorter hours of opening.

The Google Print controversy

This bibliography presents selected electronic works about Google Print that are freely available on the Internet.

It has a special focus on the legal issues associated with this project. Page numbers for print/electronic publications are not included unless they are mentioned in the electronic version.

Sunday late nights during exams

the Library is open extra hours on Sunday 6 November and Sunday 13 November.

Important new website

Early New Zealand Books Online. Many books are from the early 19th Century and they are keyword searchable.

Database trial

The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 is available until 11 November.

Labour Day (Monday 24 October) hours

The Central Library will be open from 10 am - 6 pm, the Education Library will be closed.

Previous examination papers

are available from iWaikato. Log on, click on My Tools, and then Exam Paper Library.

Examination timetables

are available from the stand near the Level 2 Information Desk.

Website of the week

Blackmask Online is a collection of freely available online books.

Te Ao Hou

is now available online. The Index was compiled by New Zealand Collection staff.

The Index was initiated by a former New Zealand Collection staff member Marie Ward who did most of the indexing of the Te Ao Hou volumes. In 1990 Marie resigned and handed the work on to a then new staff member, Kay Young (currently Acting Information Access Manager). Kay then completed the indexing of Te Ao Hou and then added Te Maori and Te Kaunihera Maori: New Zealand Maori Council journal. She then spent a considerable amount of time rearranging the subject and section headings. Over its long gestation period, there have been many changes. Original subject headings were changed e.g. Myths and legends became Traditions and legends. Kay changed the scope and went back and completed the indexing of minor obituaries and smaller articles/ pieces.

Library tutorials

Tutorials on the Library Catalogue, Finding Journal Articles, Excel Essentials, Excel Statistics, Word Advanced, Powerpoint Introduction and Powerpoint Advanced are scheduled for September. Book for these online.

Database trials

Emerald Management Xtra and Global Business Browser: Asia Pacific
(GBB: A) are both available for trialling now.

Emerald Management Xtra is the largest, most comprehensive collection of peer reviewed management journals and online support for librarians, students, faculty, researchers and deans. It features 110 full text journals and reviews from the world's top 300 management journals. The trial lasts until mid October. Feedback please to Bhadra Chandran.

Global Business Browser includes information on 340,000 companies comprising of the top 90,000 global companies, 230,000 Asian companies and top 20,000 Australasian companies and is now available for trialling.

Displays in the Central Library

On Level 2: Exam timetable.

Excel Essentials

is a new Library tutorial initiative. A new tutorial schedule will be available after Semester break.

Displays in the Central Library

on Level 2 : Waka Week and historical Maori documents. Also on Level 2: S-Block changes.

MULTIsearch

Have you tried MULTIsearch yet? It's new and available from the LibraryLink pages.

Library Tutorials

The Library tutorial programme is now available. Please check the list of tutorials and times. Tutorials include Word and Powerpoint as well as the Catalogue and Finding Journal Articles.

Library tours

There is one tour a day in Week 2. See the online booking page for times.

MULTIsearch

(one search, many databases) is now available to use via LibraryLink.