Kupu o te wiki, or word of the week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Services staff. 19/07/2012: The kupu o te wiki this week is: wero (where-raw) or challenge Children can sometimes be your wero in life. (more…)...Read more
Most Massey doctoral theses as far back as the first in 1948 are now available online, as the Library nears completion of a two year project to digitise all 1400 of them. In 2010, the Library initiated a project to retrospectively digitise all of...Read more
Do you need any Stream resources printed, rather than reading them online? There is now a block on the right hand side of the ‘Overview of my courses’ page (the first page you see when you login to Stream) which tells you how to request...Read more
Are you having trouble opening, saving or printing PDF documents, such as journal articles or theses? Try these trouble-shooting tips: 1. Ensure you have Adobe Reader installed and at least version 9 2. Which web browser are you using? Instead of...Read more
We’ve been discussing APA 6th in our office this week and have come to a rather interesting conclusion – that the recommended reference style for electronic versions of print books should simply be ignored and that they should simply be...Read more
From discussions with students over the past couple of weeks, it appears there’s confusion about how the folder in Discover is supposed to work. Students add items to a folder, but are finding the folder empty when they next go in to...Read more
Are you having trouble getting to the full text of some articles in Discover results? Massey Library doesn’t hold everything that Discover finds. If you’d like to see just the ones that we do have, then tick one of the full text boxes in...Read more
A few Library databases may not work well in some browsers – particularly Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). If you are having problems with databases displaying incorrectly, you may need to use an alternative browser, such as Firefox or Chrome, or...Read more
You may have heard of a diploma mill but until yesterday I didn’t know what an author mill was although they have been impacting on us for the past few months. What generally happens is that a student with a PhD or Masters thesis receives...Read more
Some years ago a senior Massey academic explained to me why students were reading less than they had in his day. The blame, it seemed, lay squarely with libraries. He had fond memories of long tables, squeaky linoleum floors and librarians who could...Read more
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