The National Business Review have launched a new publication: “The national business review magazine.” The first issue contains the Rich List for 2007.
We have put the new magazine on the Central Library’s periodical display stand today.
The Horizon bib# is 1054229
(From Dawn’s email to Engineering LLOs late last week)
The Library has subscribed to the Standards NZ Online Library. This will replace our standing order for print Standards and includes all New Zealand Standards as well as combined NZ and Australian Standards. It does not include Australian Standards subsequently adopted by New Zealand.
The Standards NZ Online Library is now accessible via the Library’s Databases page.
Continue reading Standards New Zealand online
Rang security to see if there were extras delivered over there as had happened last year. They had an extra one which we got.
We would be interested to know your thoughts in regards to the following questions in particular:
1) Do you have any views on what directions the Library should be taking?
2) What are the infrastructural, setup and maintenance considerations?
3) What do you see as the benefits and disadvantages of federated searching? Do you like or dislike the concept?
4) How would users like it? How well would federated searching meet user needs?
5) How does federated searching fit in with information literacy objectives and principles?
6) What other issues would you see in teaching and supporting users with a federated search product? How might you use a federated search product in your teaching?
7) What does the Library want to achieve with federated searching?
8) What else do we need to consider?
The Federated Search Project Team is interested in comments, suggestions, feedback and views from all Library Staff about directions the Library should be taking in regards to the topic of Federated Searching. Please check out our web page which contains our meeting notes and related documents. We will also be posting ideas for you to comment on on this blog.
Flyers offering students the chance to earn a $25 bookshop voucher if they take part in web usability testing should be appearing on service desks in all libraries in the next day or two. The flyers should give the students enough information, but any questions about this should be directed to Catherine Jane – contact details are on the flyer.
I’m going to get some more flyers copied – please let me know if you run out.
has been shaken. I will get a spare one in the morning.
Just a reminder that the most complete collection of NZ government publications is kept in the Law Library. Paper copies of the NZ Parliamentary debates (Hansard) are available at Law, but can also be searched online on from 1987 on the LegislationNZ database Hansard (available from A_Z database pages)
or on the NZ Parliament website
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The Blackboard fault has now been fixed.
Same problem reported by both MB and PSL. IT Callout have replied saying they will reboot the server. Access to Blackboard should be available sometime between 12:30 and 1pm.