Catalogue & Databases

Library Catalogue

The Library has an electronic catalogue which lists all the Librarys resources and collections. This catalogue is currently only available by visiting the Library at Jellicoe Court, Kawerau.

Library Databases

The Library hosts a number of databases which are available only to Kawerau Library members. These include: Epic Databases, Fundview, Breakout, National Bibliographic Database, Index New Zealand, Ask a Librarian

Epic Databases

EPIC - short for Electronic Purchasing In Collaboration - is a shared initiative of New Zealand Libraries. In a move that is the first of its kind in New Zealand, public, education, research and special libraries have joined together to buy collective access to tens of thousands of electronic resources that can be used by people from all parts of the country. The advantage of electronic databases is they have been chosen because of their ease of use, usefulness and the quality of the content. In most cases the resources contain information that has been professionally evaluated and selected from respected and established publications. Many of these publications are not available on the Internet and can only be accessed through paid subscription services. Currently, the following databases are only available for use by visiting the Library at Jellicoe Court, Kawerau.

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO

The Reference Centre database gives you access to abstracts and full text articles from international, Australian, and New Zealand magazines and newspapers. It is an excellent resource for those requiring up-to-date world, Australian and New Zealand current events information.

Biography Resource Centre - Gale

This database contains an extensive range of contemporary and historical biographies of notable people including some New Zealanders. It is searchable by name, nationality and occupation.

Business Reference Suite - Gale

This collection allows for searching across three related business databases: Business and Industry; Business and Management Practices; and TableBase. Updated daily, topics include business planning and management, products, brands, and markets. TableBase covers current international market share and rankings forecasts and production statistics.

Contemporary Women's Issues - Gale

This contains a huge range of articles and reports on women's issues from professional and popular journals, and newspapers. It can be also searched by subject, for example, gender equity.

Discovering Collection - Gale

This comprehensive database allows for searching under a range of subjects including history, literature, geography, and biographies. There is also a multimedia gallery containing photographs, graphs, maps, and sound and video clips.

Health and Wellness Resource Centre And Alternative Health Module - Gale

This database provides authoritative answers to health and medical questions from a huge range of over 700 health/medical journals and pamphlets. It covers topics like mainstream and alternative medicines, nutrition, diet, fitness, and disease. It also includes an online medical encyclopedia.

History Resource Centre: Modern World - Gale

Search this database for 20th century history topics history relating to America. It features full text articles from over 100 history journals, and includes primary documents, maps and images.

InfoTrac OneFile - Gale

Containing 35 million articles and updated daily, InfoTrac is an ideal general research tool with huge topic coverage from contemporary art to science.

Literature Resource Centre - Gale

This database contains critical essays and biographical information on over 100,000 authors, both historical and contemporary. It also includes information on major New Zealand authors.

MasterFILE Premier - EBSCO

This collection provides full text access to articles from over 2000 major international publications. It also includes reference and travel works, image collection, biographies and book reviews. Covering virtually every subject area, MasterFILE is ideal for general research enquiries.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Centre - Gale

This database for explores popular social issues. Opposing Viewpoints is ideal for those wanting information covering both sides of contemporary issues like the GE debate. Includes topical overviews and point-of-view articles. An excellent resource for those wishing to do in-depth investigations about major contentious topics.

Student Resource Centre College Edition Expanded - Gale

The Student Resource centre provides cross-curricular information suitable for senior secondary school students. Students can search topics including history, literature, geography, and biographies. Also available is a multimedia gallery containing photographs, graphs, maps, and sound and video clips.

What Do I Read Next? - Gale

This excellent database helps you identify new books to read. Covers adult and young adult as well as children's fiction and nonfiction. Searching is by author, title, subject, genre, character, and topic. What Do I Read Next? It also contains an extensive selection of award winning books, over 50,000 plot summaries and promotions for upcoming titles.

Fundview

Fundview details over 600 sources of funding available to community groups. The types of funding schemes include government, philanthropic, local government, statutory trusts, local trusts and service organisations. FundView can be easily searched by district where your group is based, kaupapa/purpose of your organisation, characteristics of the people that your organisation works with, and the activity that you're seeking funding for. FundView shows you what will and won't be considered by a funder, what the fund was set up to achieve, maximum grants, application closing dates, application requirements and process, and contact details. This database is only available for use by visiting the Library at Jellicoe Court, Kawerau.

Breakout

Breakout is New Zealand's biggest collection of information about awards, scholarships and grants for individual development. BreakOut is the primary source of information about funding for study and professional development in New Zealand. BreakOut contains details of over 2,350 funding schemes for individuals in New Zealand. BreakOut is used by all the universities as well as hundreds of other information organisations. BreakOut enables you to find out about types of study/activity/grant funded, where you can study, preferred subjects, how to apply, value and tenure of the fund, candidate selection criteria, and application closing dates. This database is only available for use by visiting the Library at Jellicoe Court, Kawerau.

National Bibliographic Database

The National Bibliographic Database (NBD) is a National Library of New Zealand subscriber service provided for the non-commercial, private and personal use of Kawerau Library members. It contains published items that may be held by a New Zealand library such as books, journals, sound recordings, CD-Roms or videos. We need to validate your access before using. To sign-in visit the link provided (http://nbd.natlib.govt.nz/) and on the prompt enter the follow details in the field provided: username: KADP9FE9 and password: DAMPNUT87 This link also allows connection to other library databases including Index New Zealand below.

Index New Zealand

Index New Zealand (INNZ) describes over half a million articles published in New Zealand over the past 20 years. The titles indexed range from popular magazines such as North and South and Consumer to more specialised journals such as New Zealand Law Review and Art New Zealand. Index New Zealand is updated daily and approximately 2,000 documents are added monthly. Subjects covered include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities. Some articles are full text but most are a description of the article. Some articles may be available through the EPIC databases or library staff can interloan an article for $1.50 per article. To search for articles visit Index New Zealand at http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/

Ask A Librarian

Remember, the only dumb question is the question you don't ask! Librarians are professionally trained and have skills to help you find the best source of information, whether its online or in print. Kawerau Library staff can be contacted for reference queries by visiting the Library or phoning (07) 306 9041. We will also do e-mail queries (Library@kaweraudc.govt.nz) for Library members who need to quote their Library membership number with the query.