Turitea Library is currently displaying a selection of capping magazines, from the earliest 1903 example through to the 1990s, when the mags disappeared. Auckland, Canterbury, Lincoln, Massey, Otago, Victoria and Waikato are all represented.

Find out more, from the comic to the indecent...

View the ceremonies on Graduation Live.

Once you get into Discover, you'll see a link to Advanced Search just below the single-box Basic Search:

The Advanced Search is useful for searching on synonyms of keywords at the same time, and selecting different fields to search in, such as the title or abstract:

If you're confused about single and multiple search boxes and what to put in them, view this demonstration on search techniques.

Please contact us if you need help with searching.

For the moment, the workarounds are:
• Use Firefox. Brookers does not support Chrome or Safari.
• Clear your cache (select Firefox – History – Clear Recent History – Time range to clear: Everything – Clear Now)
• Be selective with your databases, e.g. if you are searching NZ Law Partner Legislation and Cases, click it to open it up and tick only the sub-databases that you need.

Please contact us if you have any queries about this.

Check whether you have outstanding university fees. These can result in Library access being suspended.

Financial statements and fee payments by credit card are available on MyMassey. If you have queries about fees, please get in touch with Massey Contact on contact@massey.ac.nz or phone 0800 MASSEY (+64 6 350 5701).

Once you have paid outstanding fees, your login can take up to 72 hours to be fully reinstated. However, if you need Library access sooner, please contact us for an interim login.

Please contact us if you have any other questions.

The new Sport subject guide has just been launched. It brings together all the key resources, including articles, books, definitions, background information, organisations and more.

This is the latest in the Library's ongoing redevelopment of the Subject Guides.

Students
If you wish to add the new Library block to your 'Overview of my courses' Stream page, click on 'Edit this page' in the top right corner. If you already have the old Library block (with a library catalogue search box) in the left hand column, delete it. Then at the bottom of the column, you can add the 'Massey Library' block:

Staff
The process is similar for adding the block to paper sites. Full instructions are in the latest Stream News. Note that this block is not intended to replace any Library blocks that have been specifically tailored for the paper.

Please contact us if you need help with this.

Professor Harper spoke to university and Library staff on the joint project to produce a comprehensive picture of New Zealand’s involvement in the First World War, involving Massey University, the New Zealand Defence Force and the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services’ Association.

He gave the audience fascinating glimpses of little-known stories of the First World War, that the project hopes to bring to the general public.

Professor Harper has begun writing the first volume on the New Zealand Soldier at War 1914-1918, which is expected to be published in 2015, with another ten or so volumes to follow.

New Zealand & Pacific Librarian Noelene White and Kaihautū Māori Sheeanda Field organised the lecture and display (and ANZAC biscuits) to celebrate ANZAC Day.

This is different from Log In in the pale yellow box above your results. Log In just recognizes you as a Massey student with the right to access articles.

If you need scholarly articles, tick that box too, and refine by date while you're about it. Now you should be able to get to the full text of all the results. No more chasing items we don't have!

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Kupu o te wiki, or word of the week, is brought to you by the Library's Māori Servicesstaff.

10/05/2012: The kupu o te wiki for this week is: kōkā (core-car) or whaea (fire) or ūkaipō (oo-kye-pore) or māmā (mar-mar) Mother, Mum
My māmā is going to be so pleased with my kōkā gift for Ūkaipō Day!

Hokowhitu: closed
Albany, Turitea & Wellington: 12.00 pm - 8.00 pm

Please save your work and logoff before 11 pm.

Have you heard about BONUS+, which gives you free access to over 6 million books from Australian university libraries? View the new BONUS+ demonstration to see how it works.

This joins our growing list of short demonstrations which appear throughout the Library website.

The Nelson Mandela Archive has recently been launched - and is described as a "work in progress.

Since 1893, New Zealand’s Official Yearbooks have captured the stories of New Zealand in words and in numbers. The Yearbooks are an incredibly rich one-stop-shop for data and information from across government. Information is included on diverse topics from fisheries to friendly societies and prices to poetry.

Each yearbook is fully searchable and text and tables can be copied and pasted into other programmes, including Word and Excel.
2010 will be available shortly, with the same searchability as earlier years. Tables in the 2010 yearbook can pasted into Word, but not Excel.

A media release from The Minister of Statistics, Hon Maurice Williamson can found here. http://beehive.govt.nz/release/statistics-nz-unlocks-past.

The Digital Yearbooks can be found at www.stats.govt.nz/yearbooks.