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Early Literacy Practices of New Zealand Children’s Librarians in Storytimes

Harbison-Price, Alicia (2017)

Research problem: Programmes such as Every Child Ready to Read (ECRR) in the United States of America provide librarians with training to support and encourage the development of early literacy skills in storytime programming. ...
Electronic records management at the coal face: Testing a behaviour search model for EDRMS

Mackay, Heather (2013)

The main objective of this proposed research is to test the reliability and validity of the information search model presented by Joseph, Debowski & Goldschmidt (2013a) which relates to searching in EDRMS. In order to do ...
Emotional Labour in New Zealand Public Libraries: An exploratory study

Green, Louise Claire (2016)

In order to provide good customer service, library employees need to know the expected standard for emotional display and modify their emotions to meet it, a concept known as emotional labour. Research suggests that, while ...
The employment information needs of people with intellectual disabilities

Henry, Andrew (2012)

Three dimensions of Nick Moore’s (2002) model of social information needs: agents, mechanisms and form, were used to analyse the employment information needs of people with intellectual disabilities in New Zealand. Through ...
Engagement of New Zealand family historians with participatory cultural heritage

Tasker, Gillian (2017)

Research problem: The vision of an online participatory culture involving communities contributing information and engaging with digitized collections has been challenged by the reality of low response rates to many digital ...
Engaging with our crowd: A study of public cultural heritage institutions crowdsourcing websites in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Johnson, Elizabeth (2019)

The purpose of this study is to assess the degree that New Zealand cultural heritage crowdsourcing websites comply with international best practice and design principles. Following a literature review, the researcher ...
“Enter Ophelia distracted”: An annotated bibliography of female experiences of mental illness

O’Malley, Emma Gabrielle (2018)

Personal experiences about any health condition hold special value, but perhaps even more so for those regarding mental illness. Fundamentally, other people cannot comprehend what is going on inside the mind of another, ...
Evaluating Makerspaces: Exploring methods used to assess the outcomes of public library makerspaces

Gahagan, Pia Margaret (2016)

Research Problem: This study explores how public libraries assess the outcomes of makerspaces, and examines whether the approaches taken can be justified as appropriate. An increasing number of public libraries throughout ...
An evaluation of how digitised periodicals serve academic research in a New Zealand Context

Vaughan, Megan Louise (2015)

Research problem This research investigates how researchers from humanities backgrounds research print periodicals that have been digitised. It investigates how New Zealand digitised periodical resources facilitate that ...
An evaluation of the Electronic Purchasing in Consortium database marketing at a New Zealand public library

Armour, Andrew Wreford (2014)

Research problem The Electronic Purchasing in Consortium (EPIC) databases are a useful paid resource that some librarians consider to be underused. Marketing is a key means of increasing awareness and use of library ...
"Evidence of me" becoming "evidence of us": A case study of the policy, processes and responses of selected GLAM institutions to personal donations of collections and artifacts

Day, Alison Suzanne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021-06-22)

Research problem: Donors are important contributors to collection development in GLAM institutions, yet interactions with potential donors and communication of procedures and policies is under researched. To address the ...
An examination into the ways in which museums communicate about and engage audience on climate change and environmental issues on their Facebook platforms

Bikovska, Dragana (2021-06-22)

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges that the world is facing at the moment. The climate change issue has been identified as “one of the most significant and fastest growing threats to people and their heritage ...
An Examination of Home Page Design in New Zealand Tertiary Libraries

Howie, Jessica Elizabeth (2013)

The online presence of tertiary libraries is becoming increasingly important, however, research (OCLC, 2010) suggests that library websites are being shunned in favour of commercial search engines. Some scholars (Reidsma, ...
Exhibition Development in Auckland Libraries

Greenslade, Timothy Mark (2014)

Throughout New Zealand’s public library sector, librarians, particularly those responsible for special collections, maintain and create exhibitions. They aim to reflect the depth and richness of our history, cultural ...
The experienced worker, the student, and the information gap: What are the information needs of vocational trades students while on work experience?

Pitt, Alice (2017)

Research question – What are the information needs of vocational students while on work experience. Research justification – Very little research that has been published on the topic of workplace information literacy, ...
An Exploration of Disciplinary Differences in the Use of Talis at the University of Auckland

Beasley, Rose (2016)

Research problem: Resource list management systems (RLMSs) have recently seen a significant increase in popularity, but previous research has not fully explored the differences in uptake of these systems in different ...
Exploring the landscape of web oral history collections: A content analysis

Baily, Laila (2019)

Research problem: Digital oral history collections are increasingly being disseminated by heritage institutions via the Internet. Though the promises of networked access to oral history are great, they are not without ...
Exploring the Postgraduate Experience of Library eBooks

Turnbull, Madelene Bria (2016)

Research Problem: In 2013 and 2014 surveys of the University of Otago student population, eBooks fell below the mean as a service that was meeting the needs of the above third year student group. The purpose of this study ...
Factors influencing book selection decisions by academic librarians in an Arabic Islamic context

Flanigan, Niall Gerard (2011)

There are many factors to be taken into account when making selection decisions in an academic library including curriculum need, suitability of content, user interest, and academic input. Academic librarians in the Muslim ...
Factors Influencing Lecturers’ Intention to Use Talis Reading List Management System at Auckland University of Technology

Zhu, Yan Iris (2018)

To fulfil the legal obligation to Copyright Licensing New Zealand, AUT (Auckland University of Technology) has adopted the Talis Reading List Management System and required all lecturers to transfer their copyright-protected ...