Previous exam papers
Exam papers for the past 3 years are accessible to UC students from the Library's Exam papers web page. Searchable by course code, and year, the exam papers are in PDF format. Not every course will...
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Friday Free Stuff: Te Karaka and dictionary of te Reo
Te Karaka Magazine, "recording Ngāi Tahu stories for more than 16 years", has digitised and put online all their past issues. A mobile (Android) version of Williams' Dictionary of the Maori Language...
View ArticleCanterbury earthquakes feature in geology publications
If you have heard on the news on the 2 Nov, or read in the Christchurch Press about the research into the Canterbury earthquakes, and would like to read more, you can read the scientific papers online...
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Friday Free Stuff: Open Fonts
Open Font Library currently has over 90 fonts. These are mostly licensed with the Open Font License which means you can freely download, use, modify, and share the fonts. A feature that all by itself...
View ArticleProQuest databases unavailable: 4pm to 4am Sunday/Monday 6/7 November 2011.
Access will be available via the old ProQuest platform during this time
View ArticleFire Evacuation 9 am Monday 7 November, James Hight Building
The fire alarms were activated by a smoke detector on level 1 this morning which triggered an evacuation of the James Hight building. Contractors were working on level 1 and it would appear that they...
View ArticleEnd of Academic Year - Library hours.
All Libraries, except Education, will close at 6 pm on Thursday 10 November 2011. Education will close at 9 pm on Thursday 10 November. For all libraries except Education, the hours of opening will...
View ArticleFantastical Shoe Exhibition
From the 10th-18th November the Fantastical Shoe Exhibition is being held at the Education Library. Come along and see amazing shoe transformations created by 2nd year Primary teacher trainees
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Friday Free Stuff: Copyright-expired journal articles
Some publishers and database vendors are starting to make their out-of-copyright content freely accessible without users having to log in through their subscription databases. Length of copyright...
View ArticleCentral Library Remediation Work 2011-2013
Further remediation work on the Central Library and Learning Hub will commence from 21 November when the Hawkins Construction team plan to start removing windows and frames from the north side of...
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Friday Free Stuff: Playing for science
A lot of science is at a point where getting vast quantities of data is far easier than analysing it. Enter crowdsourcing - put the data online so volunteers worldwide can help you out and have fun at...
View ArticleUpdate to Central Library Remediation Work 2011-2013
The following is an update to an earlier posting (21 Nov) in order to give clarification on the timeframe for the remediation work. Most of the remediation work on Levels 2-4 will be carried out...
View ArticleSlides from Summer Scholarship library workshops
Thank you to all the Summer Scholarship students who attended the library workshops on Monday and Tuesday - we really enjoyed working with you and hope we'll see more of your as you work on your...
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Friday Free Stuff: audiobooks on LibriVox
LibriVox provides public domain audio books in mp3 and the open ogg vorbis format. Its ambitious goal is "to make all public domain books available as free audio books", and it's recently reached 5000...
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Select 2011 Student Art Award and Exhibition
The February earthquake may have forced the long term closure of the School of Fine Arts SOFA Gallery but it hasnt hindered its revered end of year showcase of selected works by graduating and...
View ArticleSome disruption to interloan requesting service possible
On Sunday 11 December, from 8.00pm until midnight, there may be some times when it is not possible to login to the interloan search and requesting system. This is due to some necessary maintenance...
View ArticleTe Puna Toi (Performance Research Project) DVDs
A number of new Library DVDs are on long term loan to Te Puna Toi, the Performance Research Project hosted by and currently located at Theatre and Film Studies (following the quake devastation and...
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Friday Free Stuff: Open Source Software
If you're looking for open source software, or code snippets you can use in your own work, the largest repository is GitHub - currently hosting well over 3 million projects using the Git version...
View ArticleLibrary workshop: Have you been cited? Impact factors for PBRF
Thursday 15 December or Friday 16th December from 11am-12noon, Dojo Law Library (level 2, School of Law) The Library is offering a workshop on using citation databases, such as Web of Science, Scopus...
View ArticleSome libraries closing early
On Thursday 15th December the Macmillan Brown and Law libaries will close at 2pm. Central and Education will remain open. On Thursday 22 December all libraries will close at 4pm. We apologise for any...
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