Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff.
The word this week is: Ōtautahi (ore-toe-tah-he) or Christchurch
Ōtautahi is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand...Read more
The software that provides the Library Catalogue will now be updated on Thursday 5 December 2013. The following will be unavailable from 5:00 a.m. until 11 a.m. or until further notice:
Library Catalogue
Some Library forms (e.g. inter-library loan...Read more
The MU Library Mobile App will be discontinued on Tuesday 3 December. A week or so later, the Library Catalogue will have a mobile-friendly interface, which your device should detect automatically – there’s no need to download any app...Read more
Wellington Library has re-opened after some major construction work in the weekend...Read more
2013 Census products and services will be released progressively over an 18-month period from 15 October 2013 to June 2015. Stats NZ will update the release schedule quarterly, with more detailed information provided closer to a product’s release...Read more
NZ Social Indicators Portal Launch
NZ Social Indicators is a new web-based tool launched on Nov 26th
The New Zealand social indicators give you useful social statistics from across New Zealand government in one place, so it’s easier to...Read more
Google Scholar has introduced a new feature, My library, which allows you to save items to return to later. It works much the same as the folders do when you sign in to Discover and many of our other databases. You can read more about it in the...Read more
Wellington Library will be closed from 5pm, Thursday the 28th of November for some very loud, very dusty construction. We’re sorry for the inconvenience; if you need a place to study, 5E22 has 38 quiet spaces and the computer labs 5C14 and 5C15...Read more
Discover adds new providers each month, and the most recent one of note is HathiTrust. This is a major research collection which some academic staff and researchers may already be familiar with. It includes the digitized collections of more than 50...Read more
Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff.
The word this week is: Hokomaha (haw-core-mah-ha) or supermarket
Don’t go to the hokomaha when you’re hungry, you’ll buy junk food...Read more