Emerald problem

The "Email this page" function in the Emerald database is currently not functioning properly. If you try to use it an error message appears.

You can still email a page by copying the URL of the page you want from the address bar and sending it in an email message.

Emerald expects the problem to be fixed early in the New Year.

Library summer hours

From Saturday 22 November, Unitec Library will be open for reduced hours over Summer. Except for Waitakere Joint Library we will not be open for evenings and weekends.

New Library computer system

The library is upgrading its current library management computer system to the Voyager library management system. This means we will have a new system to issue books and the Catalogue will have a new look from 5th December.

Voyager will go live on Friday 5th December. In preparation for that, we regret that there will be some inconvenience to users:

From 1st to 5th December we will be unable to issue books and other material, place holds or renew material. We will, however, be able to issue any urgent material manually.

We will still be able to accept books for return.

On Friday 5th December the Mt Albert Campus Libraries (Main and Building One) will be closed.

Why are there no new books and journals?

We are changing our library computer system to Voyager. As a result, we regret that there are currently no new books or journal issues being added to the catalogue or display shelves in the library. From 5 December our catalogue will have a whole new look to it.

Goodbye INFOS

INFOS, the programme giving access to the New Zealand statistical series, is being phased out and replaced by Infoshare, a new web-based interface for the information. Infoshare should provide a more user-friendly experience for researchers. Links to INFOS will remain on the Library website as long as Statistics New Zealand continues to support it.

Tour the Waitakere campus library and learning commons

We have created a virtual tour of the Waitakere campus Library and Learning Commons on our Flickr photostream here.

SciQuest Trial

Unitec Library is trialling the SciQuest database until 1 November 2008. SciQuest offers full text access to New Zealand and Australian veterinary and animal science and veterinary continuing education publications. These include the New Zealand Veterinary Journal, New Zealand Veterinary Association Special Interest Branch Proceedings and New Zealand Society of Animal Production Proceedings.