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Lay litigants' access to legal information in libraries

Blake, Angela Ann (2006)

This study examines the availability and accessibility of legal information for lay litigants - those people who have chosen to represent themselves in legal proceedings. It looks specifically at the information held in ...
Librarian myths and legends for Maori : he kupu, he whakaaro, he waiata

Warren, Geraldine T. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

Library Management in libraries that profess commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi principles and biculturalism strive to acknowledge the uniqueness of both Maori and Pakeha, and their individual and group identities. This ...
Library instruction services for international students in New Zealand's tertiary libraries : a survey

Ward, Heather M. (1998)

This research project examines the issue of library instruction services for international students studying at New Zealand tertiary institutions. The aim of the project was to ascertain the measures that New Zealand ...
Library requirements of Masters of Art (Creative Writing) students : is the class library of the International Institute of Modern Letters meeting their information needs?

Callaghan, Samantha April (2006)

To investigate whether the Class Library of the International Institute of Modern Letters was meeting the information needs of the students in the Master of Arts (Creative Writing) an exploratory research approach was used. ...
LibraryThing Tags and Library of Congress Subject Headings: a Comparison of Science Fiction and Fantasy Works

Carman, Nicholas (2009)

This study examines the extent to which LibraryThing tags match their equivalent Library of Congress subject headings and looks at whether they offer any additional information about the subject matter of the books to which ...
Literature and Practice in the Creation of Online Information Literacy Tutorials in New Zealand and Australian University Libraries: Results of Content Analysis of Online Tutorials

Cordes, Margaret Jane (2011)

Introduction: This research users inferential statistical tests to explore the statistical significance of observed relationships between the frequencies of elements of online tutorials found within the academic literature, ...
Magazines for youth? : a comparative content analysis of two New Zealand juvenile periodicals

Buckingham, Anoushka (Victoria University of Wellington, 2002)

This research project investigated the readership of two New Zealand youth magazines during the period 1945-1947. The magazines, Conquest: the magazine for youth, and Junior Digest: the magazine for girls and boys, were ...
Manga Readers in Auckland's Graphic Novel Cafe

Thomson, Kylie Maree (2008)

Japanese graphic novels, known as manga, are now filtering into library collections. However, librarians know very little about adults who read manga and their reasons for choosing this type of reading material. By learning ...
Maori and education : an annotated list of New Zealand university theses 1977-1999

Whitlock, Simon J. L. (2000)

This annotated list provides references to New Zealand university theses written within the timeframe, 1977-1999, that relate to the topic of Maori and education. The purpose of this work is to provide a comprehensive list ...
Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman : bibliography of a controversy

Laurie, John (1998)

Derek Freeman's 1983 attack on Margaret Mead's classic Samoan ethnography, Coming of age in Samoa, aroused an unprecedented level of interest in the world of anthropology and among the educated public. That interest ...
Masculinity, reading and the school library : smoothing the abrasive rub

McLean, Anne Virginia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

During the 1990s, governments and the education profession noticed that boys were lagging behind girls academically. Reading, or the lack or it was pinpointed as a major cause and it was observed in an Auckland high school ...
New Zealand's award winning children's books 1982-1992 : is there any correlation between adult choice and children's preferences

Beckingsale, Helen (1999)

This is a study of New Zealand children's book awards from 1982-1992. It compares the popularity of award winning and shortlisted titles for the Esther Glen and Russell Clark Awards, administered by the New Zealand Library ...
On-campus students' remote use of Internet-based library services and resources : is there an impact on students' use of the library in-house

Schonhagen-Broring, Angela (2001)

With the increase of Internet access available to on-campus students and a growing number of Internet-based library services and resources available by remote access, ongoing research is necessary to monitor who the remote ...
The Opportunities for Specialist Academic Libraries to Integrate Information Literacy into Faculty Curricula

Coates, Simon James (2008)

This research project sought to determine the opportunities for librarians in specialist academic libraries to integrate information literacy into faculty curricula. Information literacy is becoming recognized as increasingly ...
Passive Environmental Control: The Use of Insulated Archival Boxes to Control Fluctuations in Relative Humidity and Temperature

Woods, Andrea Jane (2009)

Four archival boxes made from different materials, were tested to see how effective they were at stabilizing fluctuations in temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH) and if this method of passive environmental control ...
Perceptions and usage of library instructional podcasts by staff and students at Universal College of Learning (UCOL)

Perry, Angela Lee (2007)

As podcasting is such a new phenomenon, little is known about its usage and perceived benefits especially in New Zealand. In addition to gathering statistics on the demographics of who uses library instructional podcasts ...
The Perceptions of Liaison Librarians, at a New Zealand Academic Institution, on the Role of Researchers in the Electronic Journal Environment

Partner, Brent Richard (2009)

The objective of this project was to examine how liaison librarians perceive the role of the academic researcher in the electronic journal environment. An interview process was undertaken with twelve liaison librarians ...
A Portrait of the Library: A Fine History

Passau, Victoria Catherine (2011)

The Elam School of Fine Arts amalgamated with Auckland University College in 1950, bringing with it a small collection of art books. From these beginnings the Fine Arts Library has developed into the well-funded and ...
Preparations for Implementation of RDA in New Zealand Public Libraries

Turner, Chloe Samantha (2010)

This study examines how New Zealand public libraries will implement the new cataloguing standard of RDA by investigating what preparations for implementation they are making. This study uses a qualitative methodology. The ...
Public Libraries Marketing to Teens: a Study of Two New Zealand Libraries

Biggs, Helen Frances (2010)

Marketing in libraries has been widely discussed in literature, but is often limited to either prescriptive writing on the application of marketing theory to libraries, or descriptions of marketing at individual libraries ...