Te Ara- The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

‘Te ara’ in Māori means ‘the pathway’. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand offers many pathways to understanding New Zealand. When complete, it will be a comprehensive guide to the country’s peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society.

Te Ara consists of a series of themes, appearing progressively between 2005 and 2013:

• Māori New Zealanders and
• New Zealand Peoples – the arrival and settlement of the people.
• Earth, Sea and Sky – marine life, people and the sea, natural resources, and shaping forces such as geology and climate.
• The Bush – New Zealand’s landforms, fauna and flora.
• The Settled Landscape – farming, rural life, and people’s impact on the land.

To view more click here

library electronic resources

Using the library catalogue and clicking on resources students are able to access a comprehensive database called EPIC (see below).

EPIC [electronic purchasing in collaboration] is a venture between the NZ libraries and the ministry of education to purchase access to NZ and international databases : EBSCO, Gale cengage, Oxford online, Pro-Quest and Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Students should use this resource to help find researched base information; they are able to access up-to-date full text articles covering a huge range of subjects. Thousands of international magazines, newspapers and biographies can also be searched on this site.
Another excellent area within EPIC is BOOKS & AUTHORS. Through this you can search and brouse by genre, author, age group, period or theme. This section covers adult and children's fiction, and some non-fiction books. To access EPIC click here.

When prompted for a password please use your library card number.

National Library resources

Its been a while since the last post, so it is time to add another .... um... post.

National Library is providing all of us (the world) with some amazing resources online including Publications New Zealand , NZ Research , Papers Past and Digital NZ.

Digital NZ is a collaborative site which accesses New Zealand digital content. This content is relevant, exciting and useful. I did a search for Matamata and came up with 237 results including 126 images. Impressive.

Try looking up the 1981 Springbok tour in Hamilton and you get video footage from TVNZ through Our Space. This footage is at a very high standard.

Check it out. I dare you

Nick