Library Exercise

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Library Exercise

Library Resources Tutorial
Semester One 2005

N.B. Some answers you get may be slightly different from those below because records have been added to databases since this page was checked.

Voyager

1.       There is a book on Voyager entitled IELTS speaking : preparation and practice. What is the author's name? 

2.         The Library subscribes to a journal called Second language research. What is the first LC Subject heading for this journal in the Voyager record? 
From what date does the University of Auckland Library have online access to this journal?

3.        Volume 16 no.2 of Second language research published in 2000 is full-text online. It includes an article about Chinese learning English. What are the first few words of the text (on page 135)?

4.       There is a book written by a man called Paul something about Waiheke. How many pages does it have? [229]

5.       There is a book with a chapter called The Marketing Orientation in Higher Education. The chapter title is listed in a Table of Contents note. What is the title and call number of the book

6.       There's a University of Auckland thesis by somebody called Eagle about marketing polytechnics. Find the Voyager record and write down the call number


Index New Zealand

1.       There is an article in the Otago Daily Times with the headline "Downside to student marketing strategy". Who is the author?

2.       Kim Williams wrote an article in the New Zealand Education Review of 7th September, 2001. What is the title? [N.B. Use the Simple search and search for the author's family name, space first initial.]

3.       How many articles written by Vaughan Yarwood are listed on Index New Zealand? N.B. Use the Simple Search. [N.B. Use the Simple search and search for the author's family name.]  

4.       Find an article about the "corruption of education" by "university advertising". Who is the author?  

 

Newztext Plus

1.       In an article in the National Business Review the marketing strategy of tertiary institutions is said to be "identify your market niche and fight for market share". What are the first few words of this article?

2.       How many NZ Herald articles on Newztext Plus include the phrase twilight golf? Which Polytech offered a twilight golf course? 

3.       According to a New Zealand Herald article "eight universities want you so badly they have spent"….how much in the year 2000? 

4.        Which wananga handed out free mobile phones to enrolling students.  

ProQuest   Make sure you are searching "multiple databases"

1.       Find an article with the title The Commercialization of the University. Who is the author of the first of the three books reviewed?   

2.       Does the University Library have a copy of this book? What is the call number? 

3.       How many records on ProQuest have both the following subject headings commercialization and higher education? How many of these are full text?

4.       "Lessons from Australia" is part of a title of an article published in a journal called Academe in 2002. Who is the author? The article speaks of an " unhealthy dependence on the market". What is required to shift this?