Libraries and Learning Services
On Tuesday 6 February, Waitangi Day, opening hours for the information commons on the City Campus are as follows:
All other libraries and information commons will be closed on Waitangi Day.Read more…
All libraries and information commons will be closed on Monday 29 January for Auckland Anniversary Day.
Google Scholar usually gives easy access to full-text material to which the University Library subscribes. However, Google Scholar’s anti-robot system sometimes blocks access. Here’s what to do if that happens.Read more…
On Sunday 14 May University of Auckland students were subject to a phishing attack. An email “Library Access Renewal” was sent pretending to be from Libraries and Learning Services. It included a link for users to ‘sign in’, to preventRead more…
100 years/100 books : School of Architecture Centenary, 1917-2017 Library Exhibition Series #2 THE CIVIC Welcome to the second instalment in this series celebrating ‘the architecture book’. Curated by Michael Milojevic, School of Architecture and Planning Professional Teaching Fellow; SarahRead more…
The University of Auckland is now a supporting member of arXiv, an open-access archive of research articles covering physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics. We are the first New Zealand supporting institution. Thanks toRead more…
Over the summer library staff assessed the student architectural models in the Architecture and Planning Library. This has meant lots of cleaning (dust!) and the removal of those models that had lost material stability and integrity. The remaining survivors ofRead more…
A selection of books exploring the themes of housing and real estate are on display at the Fine Arts Library from our Main and Special Collections. The selection includes Wanted: Home, an artist book by Meiling Lee documenting house exteriorsRead more…
Architecture Week begins next week with keynote speaker Stuart Harrison opening with a free talk on Monday 19 September (6pm, AUT University, Sir Paul Reeves Building, Lecture Theatre WG403). An Australian architect, Stuart Harrison writes with local concerns in mindRead more…
We are delighted to introduce our new look Libraries and Learning Services news site. We will be sharing our news and events, and spotlighting services and resources of interest to our staff and students at the University of Auckland.
While checking the inventory of the papers of New Zealand children’s book author Isabel Maud Peacocke, I saw that one box contained a number of framed prints of ‘unidentified subjects’. Thinking that I could provide researchers with more detail than this,Read more…