Knowledge Basket Lawhawk
21 December 2006
We will no longer be subscribing to this database, but try our other Knowledge Basket databases for New Zealand law, business and political information.
Oxford English Dictionary Online update
14 December 2006
EXPLORE OVER 2600 NEW AND REVISED WORDS...
The latest alphabetical range to be revised is POMANDER-PRAJNAPARAMITA (the latter a group of ancient Mahayana Buddhist texts on the perfection of wisdom). It includes 2658 new and revised entries, and is released alongside almost 300 new words and senses from across the alphabet.
New entries have also been added across the alphabet—from EEOYORISH (deeply pessimistic, gloomy) to DARTITIS (a state of nervousness which prevents a player from releasing a dart at the right moment when throwing) to MURYAN (an ant or a type of fairy). Visit the site for a full list of new entries from across the alphabet.
New database - Rock's Backpages
23 November 2006
Rock’s Backpages is the largest database of rock writing, that boasts a diverse range of text interviews and reviews from well-known music journalists, as well as many MP3 audio files of the original resource interviews. It’s also great for record reviews – find out what they thought at the time! Read more in our eResource guide.
New database - Armed Constabulary of New Zealand 1867-1877
23 November 2006
This resource contains further information about constables in the Armed Constabulary. It covers the period from 1867 to 1877, and lists 3,281 names, including members of the Native Constabulary.
World Book Kids
26 October 2006
World Book has launched World Book Kids, a revolutionary online environment for younger students that infuses creativity and wonder in learning. Thousands of colourful illustrations, diagrams, and maps enrich thousands of articles selected for appeal and curricular relevance. Dozens of activities, with teacher guides, provide instructive and stimulating ways to use the content in the classroom setting.
Access through eResources A-Z, Student resources and Quick reference and encylopedias.
Auckland City Archives' databases
3 July 2006
These databases can now be found on their own page in the Digital Library.
See Auckland City Archives: Digital Library
What's new in the Oxford English Dictionary?
July 2006
The latest alphabetical range to be revised is pi-mesic to pleating. Find out the latest definitions and quotations for everything from pizza face to pinko-liberal (a person of liberal left-wing views), from pixie dust (an imaginary magical substance used by pixies) to plat-eye (in African-American folklore, a malevolent nocturnal spirit), and from plasma TV to plasma expander (a solution used in cases of blood loss to increase the volume of blood plasma during transfusion).
Plus - have you heard of the OED word of the day? Sign up to get a different random word emailed to you.
Access to the Oxford English Dictionary is through eResources A-Z and Quick reference and encyclopedias.
What's new in Oxford Reference Online?
June 2006
New titles in June include:
- The Oxford Companion to the Garden
- The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- The Oxford Dictionary of Animal Behaviour
Access to Oxford Reference Online is through eResources A-Z and Quick reference and encyclopedias.
New addition! Dragonsource Chinese magazines
June 2006
Dragonsource is a Chinese eResource that provides access to popular magazines on a wide variety of topics. The magazine content is fulltext, and is available in both simplified and traditional Chinese characters.
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New addition! Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
May 2006
The OED gives the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. OED Online provides access to the 20-volume second edition and the three Additions Series volumes, plus at least 1800 new and revised entries each quarter.
Access through eResources A-Z and Encyclopedias and dictionaries in the Digital Library.
Ancestry Library: new content
7 April 2006
Approximately 23.8 million names released in March.
Highlights include:
- England and Wales, Free Birth Marriage and Death Index: 1837-1983 - new 21,521,639 million names
- Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1945 - 1,624,153 new names
- Vital Records Books - five new titles from New York and New Jersey adding 26,781 new names
New! Oxford Reference Online
24 March 2006
Another new eResource in the Digital Library, Oxford Reference Online contains a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, articles, translations and quotations from Oxford’s encyclopedias, dictionaries, Companions series and quick reference titles. Find out more, in our eResource guide.
Access through eResources A-Z and Encyclopedias and dictionaries in the Digital Library.
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New! Māori Land Court Minute Books Index
23 March 2006
This resource is new to the Digital Library, and indexes over 1100 minute books between 1865 and 1910, from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu, and Waipounamu Māori Land Court Districts.
For more information about the minute books, contact Te Rōpu Rātonga Māori, the Māori services team.
The index is only available in the library, and can be found in the Digital Library under eResources A-Z and New Zealand.
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Grove music: new content
8 March 2006
Recent additions to Grove music include articles on 85 women composers from all music genres, taken from the New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers.
Grove Art: new content
23 February 2006
Recent additions to Grove Art include over 400 new images, updates to many articles, and a major new thematic essay Spirituality and art. This essay traces the spiritual role of art throughout the world, exploring subjects as various as the pyramids, still-life painting and contemporary installation art.
Read the essay: Spirituality and art
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Scoop archive added to Knowledge Basket Newztext!
23 February 2006
Scoop is an Internet news agency that collects and publishes a variety of unedited press releases and opinion pieces, as well as Scoop editorial content. Stories come from New Zealand and international sources, and are credited to the originating agency or author rather than being rewritten.
The Scoop Media Archive is now available as part of Knowledge Basket Newztext, and can be searched independently or together with other Newztext content. The archive goes back to July 1997 and is updated daily with the previous days releases.
Try Scoop on Knowledge Basket Newztext: Search
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Or, check out the Scoop website.
New additions to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
January 2006
Biographies of 202 British men and women who died in 2002 were added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) this month.
New articles include those on:
- the Queen Mother
- comedian and author, Spike Milligan
- the actor best known for his role as Inspector Morse, John Thaw
- musician, Joe Strummer of The Clash
- chief executive of Vodafone, Gerald Whent.
In addition, 10,000 links to images in the National Portrait Gallery’s online catalogue have been added.
Find out more, in our eResource guide.
New Ancestry membership deals
23 December 2005
Ancestry Library is offering several new membership types for individual home subscribers. See what the US Deluxe and World Deluxe memberships have to offer.
New resources in the Digital Library
15 December 2005
Christmas has come early to the Digital Library, in the form of several new eResources.
- We've added a new collection of Ebsco databases, with fulltext content on topics like health, business, computing and more. Read about the new resources on the eResources A-Z page.
- We're also trialling Naxos Music Library, which lets you stream music online. Find out more, in our eResource guide.
Ancestry news
May 2005
Auckland City Libraries provides access to AncestryPlus as one of our subscription databases. Recently Ancestry.com, the provider of AncestryPlus, switched exclusive global rights for public libraries from Gale to ProQuest.
The key change for Auckland City Libraries members is that from 1 May the licence agreement does not allow us to provide access to AncestryPlus from outside of the library. This means that customers wishing to use Ancestry.com must visit one of Auckland City Libraries to access the database.
More information on access to Ancestry Library.
For customers who are unable to visit an Auckland City library please make use of the Auckland Research Centre & research services.
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