So apparently earwigs cannot actually eat your brain as your brain is protected by bone that it can’t get through, actually it won’t even get past your eardrum. This cheers me up no end as I have a hysterical reaction when things with wings go anywhere near my ears. Earwigs actually get their name from…
Ways to think about the bottom line
There are people with money, who know what to do with money and think about money. I am not one of them. My foolishness started early. "I will go to university and get a degree in history not accounting", I said at 18. My student loan will have 9% interest from the minute I borrow…
Literature, culture, economics, and history anyone?
Who doesn’t like something new? These four wee beauties are online portals to authoritative information about a huge range of subjects. They were on trial and were popular enough to be made permanent residents of our collection. So from now on, you can access: The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2012 - The Economist has been highly…
Read all about it – The Independent comes to eResources!
Online newspapers are popular at the library and come in a variety of forms. There is the instant appeal of today’s news with PressDisplay or there are newspaper archives, such as our latest arrival to eResources - The Independent Digital Archive 1986-2012. We have a number of these newspaper archives. Our customers like their historical…
Welcome Access Video!
If you are like me and only have poor person’s TV (not SKY) then you are constantly channel surfing and finding yourself stuck with cooking, renovation and dating shows. Well, surf no more - the library can now connect you to a new eResource - Access Video. It has over 10,000 world-class documentaries, award-winning educational…
American Sniper is our Big Library Read – 17 to 31 March
OverDrive has made the title American Sniper its Big Library Read and it is available in both eBook and eAudiobook format until 31 March 2016. You can borrow the eBook or eAudiobook now. American Sniper was one of the bestselling books of 2015. The New York Times bestselling memoir of a U.S. Navy Seal was…
OverDrive has gone all multilingual!
One of our busiest and most popular eResources is OverDrive, an eBook and eAudiobook service that lets you download your favourite titles for free. Recently in recognition of the variety of people we have in our fair city of Christchurch we have added a number of titles in other languages. So far there are a…
A tool you need: Publications Finder
Are you a student? Researcher? A curious lifetime learner? Then you need to know about this. Imagine you were looking for an article in a particular journal or you want to know if we have online access to a certain magazine? Where do you go? The best place to start is with Publications Finder where…
eResources for those facing the return to school!
No tween or teen wants to think about how quickly the new school term will be upon them. Well too bad. As someone who gets four weeks holiday a year I am struggling to feel sorry for you. Despite this I believe those who say your school years are the best years of your life…
eResources Discovery Search – all you need to know
The library has a massive array of eResources. Some are for pleasure like OverDrive with its eBooks and eAudiobooks while some target your information gathering needs such as Academic OneFile and Student Resources in Context. There can be no doubt that the information supplied in these eResources are useful, but they are so very well…
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