Research Problem: Digital collections are a now a core offering in the collections of most New Zealand public libraries and the management of these collections presents libraries with new and unique challenges. One specific ...

As libraries strive and stride with new electronic resources and online services, providing at point of need and demonstrating value, it is necessary to build more comprehensive understanding of how changes might be impacting ...

Aotearoa New Zealand lacks the provision of education in the areas of cultural heritage conservation and preventive conservation. Aotearoa’s cultural heritage is unique, priceless, and incomparable in the sense of budgets ...

Research problem: Libraries face many challenges as they strive to provide e-books to their members, often caused by less-than-ideal licensing conditions, or publishers who will not yet license their titles to libraries ...

Research problem: Despite a significant amount of research on archival users, only a small number of studies have focused solely on the non-user. This study investigated non-user understandings of archives in Aotearoa New ...

While more Pacific students are participating in tertiary education, there is little research on the information behaviour of this group in the academic library. As the primary function of the academic library is to support ...

The catalogue entries for much of the items housed within Auckland Libraries special collections of children’s literature contain many gaps and limitations. In order to illustrate these limitations this project has focused ...

Research Problem: Rhetoric relating to the concept of community engagement (CE) is well established internationally within the public libraries sector and has become common-place within New Zealand public libraries. ...

Research problem: This study does not consider the strategic planning process, but looks at the end product of the process – the strategic plan itself. A review of previous international studies suggest that library strategic ...

This document seeks to compile descriptions of critical analyses exploring written and filmed works that are centred on postcolonial and Asian Gothic themes. Postcolonial and Asian Gothic works emerged as a reaction to the ...