I asked Harley Couper, Learning Centre Tutor and Reference Librarian, from Tauranga City Libraries how they used their school holiday programme to create a movie-style soundtrack of a local history story. In the April school holidays one of the ways Tauranga City Libraries commemorated the Battle of Gate Pa by creating a Booktrack ebook. Can you…
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Live-Tweets Of The LIANZA Waikato/BOP Weekend School 25-27 May 2012
The LIANZA Waikato/BOP Weekend School celebrated it’s 10th anniversary this year in Whakatane. Below is a brief summary of selected presentations and how they were represented on Twitter at the time (live-tweets). LIANZA update Jane Hill, LIANZA President Jane outlined where LIANZA is going in 2012 and beyond; and asked the audience to discuss future…
Ebook Providers in New Zealand: OverDrive and Wheelers
This article began life as a story about Tauranga City Libraries soon-to-be launched ebook service and upon doing some background research I realised that there was a larger story to tell. Hopefully you will find it as fascinating as I have. With ebook sales surging and library ebook lending becoming increasingly competitive around the globe,…
FINDING HEROES 