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.
Use ? to truncate a word or search for part of a word. For example
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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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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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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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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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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]
Mozilla Firefox [based on version 3.0.0.13]
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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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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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Digital New Zealand has published a guide to Digitising family history and whakapapa materials. It covers:
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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:
Slides for the talk are available on Slideshare
Notes from the talk have been posted on the LibraryTechNZ blog.
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