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OCLC and the National Library are sponsoring a series of Web Seminars (webinars) for Connexion and Cataloguing, FirstSearch and Reference.

A schedule and registration information is available on the NZNUC cataloguing wiki – go to the homepage http://nznuc-cataloguing.pbworks.com/FrontPage and look under ‘Latest News’.

Visit http://makeit.digitalnz.org/voting to vote, or sign up to nominate content.

A new quick guide to VDX has recently been released. It has information about:

• Known issues in VDX 3.2.1
• Basic troubleshooting assistance
• Hints for quick keys and short cuts

Download the guide from the National Library website

The document is also linked to from the Interloaning Quicklinks page

Update, 3pm 28 July: The email backlog has now been cleared. If you have not received reports or any other material you were expecting, please email us on tepuna@natlib.govt.nz

Update, 1pm 28 July: We are now able to send and receive external email. The backlog of delayed emails is being processed.

The National Library is currently experiencing delays with incoming and outgoing messages to external email addresses. The problem started on Saturday 25 July and we hoped to have it fixed by midday Tuesday 28 July.

Libraries expecting Te Puna reports via email are advised that delivery of these reports has been delayed. We do not expect to lose any emails, but it may take some time for our servers to clear the backlog.

If you have any questions about Te Puna services, need urgent assistance or would like to report a problem, please call our Helpdesk on 0508 837 862.

A recent update to the Papers Past website has increased the number of papers available, made every page full-text searchable, and made the site run faster.

Some vital stats:

• The publications available now span the period 1839 to 1932
• The site holds 52 titles, 238,105 newspaper issues and 14,478,214 articles.
• The 7 new titles are: the Ellesmere Guardian, Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Oxford Observer and Canterbury Democrat, Victoria Times, NZ Truth, Kai Tiaki: the Journal of the Nurses of NZ and more issues of the Poverty Bay Herald.
• To date, the site has been visited 2.8 million times by more than 450,000 visitors, generating 35,000,000 million page views.

If you’re a regular user of Papers Past, you might want to consider our Papers Past Open Search plug-in. Check it out on this post on the LibraryTechNZ blog.