FASS - English - Graduate and Postgraduate Resources and Facilities

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English - Graduate and Postgraduate Resources and Facilities

Study Space

There is a Graduate Studies Room (I3.08A) for your use. You may sit in there to study and store books in the bookshelves overhead. You can be issued with a key to this room by the English Administrator (room I3.16). For students enrolled in a PhD programme there is a Faculty room available (I4.22A).

Photocopying

A photocopy TRAC card is available for your convenience; reimbursement must be made to English periodically.

Computers

A small number of Mac computers and a draft printer are available for your use in I3.08. During periods of heavy demand a roster may be necessary.

Later model Macs and PCs are available in the Faculty computing labs in JB.01, JB.02 & JB.03. Computer Support can be found in KG.04 if you have any problems with the labs. After hours access to the labs are by swipe card which you can obtain on application from the Faculty Information Centre (J Block, Ground floor).

Library Resources for Graduate Study

Library resources are indispensable to the researcher; make yourself familiar with the University Library series of Library Guides and Library Resources. These are available on the ground floor of the library, and on-line http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library. These provide information about many library services and resources. Microfiche, microfilm and computer on-line facilities exist to help you make searches of collections and catalogues.

Dissertations and theses: work completed for MA degrees provides both a source of information and guide to the style and presentation conventions adopted when writing research material. The Programme retains copies of dissertations and theses completed by students which may normally be consulted in the programme's library (I3.22).

Information about British theses and dissertations is recorded in Index to Theses Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for Academic Awards (London: British Library, with computer access).

Information about North American dissertations is available through University Microfilms International (UMI) who publish: Comprehensive Dissertation Index, Dissertation Abstracts International, Abstract of Dissertations and Monographs in Microform and also Books on Demand through which a xerox hardcopy of the original can be obtained.

A comprehensive list of theses completed at New Zealand Universities and New Zealand holdings of higher degree theses relating to New Zealand and the Pacific presented to overseas universities can be found in the Union list of higher degree theses in New Zealand libraries. (Z5055.N5U5, Quick Reference, New Zealand Collection and Education Library)

Finally, in deciding what to read bear these points in mind: decide which texts are essential; establish which books or texts are substitutes for others; decide which references fill out your basic understanding and which cater for your special interests; be rigorously selective, particularly when study-time is short, and don't allow researching and making notes to become an end in itself.

Reference Library

Graduate students may use the English Reference Library on the third floor of I block (room I3.22) between 8.30am-5pm Monday to Friday. Books may be consulted, but not borrowed.