Use ? to truncate a word or search for part of a word. For example
- child? searches for child, children, childhood…
- wom?n searches for woman and women.
You can truncate search terms in the NBD using ?
February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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You can email titles to yourself from INNZ
February 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
At the list of titles, mark the title/s you want to email by ticking the checkbox to the left of the title.
Scroll to the bottom of the screen and type your email address into space provided.
Click the Email button.
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You can limit your INNZ search to articles published since 2000
January 26, 2010 · 2 Comments
Use the Quick Limits dropdown menu to select “2000-“.
The Quick Limits dropdown menu appears on right-hand side of the search page and on the right-hand side above your search results.
Red arrow showing the location of the Quick Limits menu
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You can find recent updates to libraries’ detail
January 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Aggregated monthly changes to library details in the Directory of NZ Libraries are available on this page of teh National Library website http://www.natlib.govt.nz/catalogues/directory-of-libraries
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You can search for several library symbols at once
January 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Search for more than one library symbols at a time by typing them into the Directory of NZ Libraries search box with a space between each e.g. CU CP CM
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You can change the settings on your browser to refresh screens in VDX
January 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
UPDATED for new version of Firefox
By changing your browser settings, you can ensure VDX continually displays refreshed screens of information (proxy bypass).
Internet Explorer [based on version 7.0]
- From the menu select Tools, Internet Options.
- On the ‘Connections’ tab select ‘LAN settings’.
- Under ‘Proxy server’, if the value ‘Bypass proxy server …’ is greyed out you will need to select the value above, ‘Use a proxy server for your LAN’.
- Now you may select the ‘Advanced’ box. Under ‘Exceptions’ where there is the value ‘Do not use proxy server …’ enter *.natlib.govt.nz and click OK three times.
Mozilla Firefox [based on version 3.0.0.13]
- From the menu select Tools, Options, Advanced.
- Select the ‘Network’ tab and the ‘Settings’ box. This displays Connection Settings.
- In the box ‘Configure proxies to access the Internet’, select ‘Manual proxy configuration’, if it is not already.
- In the box ‘No proxy for’, enter *.natlib.govt.nz and click OK twice.
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You can get copyright guidance from DigitalNZ
December 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Digital New Zealand has three guides available relating to enabling the use and re-use of digital objects:
Copyright Status Flowchart for photographs
Copyright Terms and the Public Domain
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You can get $10,000 towards a digitisation project
December 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Digital New Zealand has two awards of up to $10,000 on offer for organisations who have NZ content they want to digitise and make easier to find, share and use.
Check out the details, how you can enter, and the terms & conditions on the Make it Digital website.
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You can get useful advice on digitising family history & whakapapa materials
December 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Digital New Zealand has published a guide to Digitising family history and whakapapa materials. It covers:
- choosing what to make digital
- creating long-lasting digital copies
- links to other useful resources
- links to searchable family history sources
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You can learn from the National Library’s Web 2 adventures
December 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
At the 2009 LIANZA conference staff from the National Library’s Customer Engagement Team took to the stage to share the story of our voyage into the deep dark world of social media.
The key thing we’ve learnt from more than two years of blogging, Flickring and tweeting is that before we launch a new social media presence, we need to ask ourselves:
- Why do we want to do this?
- What are we offering?
- Who is this for?
- Who will be running this?
Slides for the talk are available on Slideshare
Notes from the talk have been posted on the LibraryTechNZ blog.
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Tagged: social networking, web 2.0
