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National geographic virtual library
GALE https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Pages/national-geographic-emagazines.aspx
2 issue embargo; cannot be downloaded and read offline
Ngā Pātaka Kōrero Auckland Libraries PODCAST page
Podcast author talks, events and concerts, and hear more in-depth commentary from the curatorial team behind our taonga treasured collections and exhibitions.
Dragonsource
Magazines and journals from mainland China in traditional and simplified Chinese.
From https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Pages/emagazines.aspx
Catalogue search with all one format type
- in search field, then select format
PressReader
Latest newspapers from around the world
From https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Pages/enewspapers.aspx
NZ Herald
Borrowbox e-press
Australia & New Zealand Newsstream (archive)
Critical issues collection
BWB (Bridget Williams Books)
Short books on big subjects, including contemporary issues, memoirs, history and science, written by great New Zealand writers.
https://criticalissuescollection-bwb-co-nz.aucklandlibraries.idm.oclc.org/
Australia & New Zealand Newsstream
On ProQuest
Access to leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers. Combining content from Fairfax Australia and Fairfax New Zealand, News Limited, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and APP newswires, ANZ Newsstand provides the very latest local, regional and national news.
- in a search thread
The asterisk (*) is a truncation character, used to replace one or more characters at the right or in the middle of a word.
For example, econom* will find economy, economic or economist.
” …….. “
The search engine will automatically look for variant forms of your search terms. These include plurals, different forms of adjectives, and alternative American and British spellings.
Understanding the order of operations is important to determining when parentheses are needed.
wage gap finds documents with both words, but not necessarily together.
With quotes, the whole phrase will be considered as one.
Understanding the order of operations is important to determining when parentheses are needed.
“wage gap” finds documents with wage and gap next to each other in order.
NEAR
You can use the NEAR operator to find documents where the search terms are separated by up to a certain number of words of each other (either before or after).
For example, franklin NEAR roosevelt will find both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well as Franklin Roosevelt.
By default it will find records with the words separated by up to 4 words. To change this you can use the / character and a number, for example diversity NEAR/3 training will find records where the words appear with a maximum of 3 intervening words.
Definition of social science
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within those societies.
The branches of social science include anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology.
The Vogue Archive
In Proquest
Preserves the work of the world’s greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers. Unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day. First issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
GALE
Gale Academic OneFile (science, technology, medicine, law and history)
Gale General OneFile (Health, finance, self improvement)
Gale Health and Wellness
Gale in Context: Elementary (age appropriate content)
Gale in Context: Environmental Studies
Gale in Context: Global Issues
Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand
Gale OneFIle: Environmental Studies and Policies
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture
Gale OneFile: Home Improvement
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The exclamation point stands for one or zero characters.
colo!r finds: color, colour.
Bestie Collection
Bestie is a collection of new and bestselling books. There are no holds or renewals on Bestie books.Two week loan period. Limit of two Besties at a time. Available in all libraries, except mobile libraries We Read Auckland - 16 new local authors.
Staff Recommended Reads
https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Pages/recommended-reads.aspx
Variety of subject lists as well for example: Sci-Fi by NZ Authors, Books coming to screens in 2025, For fans of…, Read-alikes, Top 100 2024,
Heritage et AL
Blog feature Unique collections and resources from Auckland Libraries research centres and heritage collections.
https://heritageetal.blogspot.com/
Auckland Libraries Blog
https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/
General blog has entries about new services, articles encouraging the benefits of collections, what they offer, how to fit reading into lifestyles.
Learn & Research pages
https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Pages/learn-and-research.aspx?
Dive into our wide range of online resources. Browse via alphabetic order, by subject, or even by audience type.
Talking Matters
https://www.talkingmatters.org.nz/
Talk, Read, Sing is part of the Too Small to Fail campaign originally created in the United States.
Auckland Council Libraries have adapted this programme for children and whānau in Tāmaki Makaurau in partnership with Talking Matters.
Te Māpuna / Library Connect
09 377 0209
Library help desk
National Geographic Kids
4-16 year olds
World Book Online
An online database based on the World book encyclopedia.
- early world of learning (Videos, interactive games, stories and downloadable activities for preschoolers and primary school children.)
- kids (Easy-to-read articles, thousands of images and videos as well as engaging games, science projects and activities.)
