Cuiying has lost her UC staff card. If anyone happens to see it, please contact her. Thanks
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Japanese Language Proficiency Test Application Forms
Japanese Language Proficiency Test will on held on Sunday 2 December 2012. Applications are open from Wednesday 1 August until Friday 14 September. Application forms are kept in the cabinet behind the Central Lending Desk. If they are running out, the students can ask for it at Consular Office of Japan located in 12 Peterborough Street, Christchurch.
Phone: 03 3710222; Email: cultural.info.sec@jpncon.org.nz
Japanese Language Proficiency Test
Copnsular Office of Japan sent Libray an infomation pack on this test and are held in Central Help Desk. Please ask the Help Desk staff for this.
The story of the Digital Book (video)
A new 10-minute video, ‘The Story of the Digital Book’ by University of California, takes you behind the scenes, following the journey of one book from the shelf to the screen. It shows how the UC Libraries work with partner organisations to scan books and make them findable online. It also demonstrates several ways you can use these newly digital books, and explains how they are preserved for the long term.
The Last Library Is Greater than Google | Peer to Peer Review
The other day a short news item about a conference held at Berkeley on the Google Book Search settlement included a phrase that caught my eye. Geoffrey Nunberg, an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Information and a specialist on language and new technologies, said of the Google project, “this is the last library.” [See “Google, ‘The Last Library,’ and Millions of Metadata Mistakes” for more on Nunberg’s comments and the response from Google Book Search engineers.]
The terms of the settlement raise all kinds of issues. Will the Google orphanage unfairly require payments for books that are actually in the public domain? Read more…
ECON 213 Assignments
ECON 213 students are looking time series data for their assignments. I have put up a page on ECON 213 Data Sources in Economics & Finance subject guide, which should help students with this assignments. If those students need help searching these databases, you can ask them to go through my PowerPoint Slides available in the Economics & Finance subject guide as well.
Cuiying
DataStream V 4
DataStream Advance is installed on the PC in the AV area. A staff, Peter Cammock from Management is coming today to use DataStream in the Library. Please log him on to the PC using librc39 account so that he can use Datastream.
Cuiying
Management 212 assignments
Management 212 students are working on an assignment about New Zealand fast-food industry. I have done a lecture on this and the PowerPoint is available in both Blackboard and Management LibGuides. In addition, I have created a topic guide web page to help them with their assignments.
Thanks,
Cuiying
Members’handbook /New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants
Members’handbook by New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants is a recommended reading material for ACIS346. Unfortunately our Library copy has been missing-tracing. If any student asks for this handbook, please send the student to the Library in ACIS department, which holds this handbook as well.
EndNote & Library databases
Please note that when you choose to export citations directly to your EndNote Library from a library database and the automatic export does not happen, you need to choose “open with EndNote” option so that the citation(s) can go to your EndNote Library.
Besides, the url exported from a database,e.g. ProQuest to an EndNote Library does not function on off-campus computers.