News from the Nelson Public Libraries

More Ebook training

Fri, 11 May 2012 10:39:06 +1200

Find out how to enjoy our ebooks

Learn about Overdrive - the free e-book and e-audio platform provided by Nelson Public Libraries.

Location: Elma Turner Library Activities Room

Monday 28 May, 2.00-3.00 pm
Wednesday 6 June, 12.30-1.30pm

These free sessions will:

Introduce you to the Libraries’ ebook platform and show you how to use it
Talk about the software or applications you need to read or listen to books
Look at compatible devices

Please bring:

Your mobile e-reading device* (optional)
Your library card and pin number

Session is free and open to all library members

* Kindles are currently incompatible with Overdrive in NZ

Genealogy classes

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:30:00 +1200

Research your family history - 3 workshops

New Zealand Society of Genealogists Nelson Branch & Nelson Public Libraries present a series of Researching your Family History workshops with well known Nelson genealogist Judith Fitchett.

If you have been thinking of doing genealogical research but haven’t known where to begin then this is the workshop for you. It will be an exciting journey of discovery as you learn where and how to research and document your family information.

When?

The course consists of three workshops at Elma Turner Library .

May 7th 9.00am to 10.30am
May 14th 9.00am to 10.30am
May 21st 9.00am to 10.30am

What can you expect?

Participants start with themselves and work backward to produce a family tree.
Participants learn where and how to search for information and what the Internet can offer them.
Resources in the library will be a starting point.
Numbers are strictly limited.

Numbers limited to 10 students. Please contact us to register.

Enquiries

Phone 546 0414 between 10am and 5.30pm, or email library.ref@ncc.govt.nz

Come and learn about Overdrive

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:41:29 +1200

Enjoy ebooks from the public library – we will show you how!

Come and learn about Overdrive - the free e-book and e-audio platform provided by Nelson Public Libraries

When

Tuesday 1 May, 6pm at Elma Turner Library Nelson

Thursday 3 May, 6pm at Stoke Library

These free sessions will

Introduce you to the Libraries’ ebook platform and show you how to use it
Talk about the software or applications you need to read or listen to books
Look at compatible devices

If you have a mobile e-reading device, bring it along and practice - you will also need your library card and pin number.

Session is free and open to all library members; refreshments provided.

New online resources

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:21:49 +1200

You now have access to two new online resources from the Nelson Public Libraries website:

Science in Context - designed for college students and those interested in general science, this database provides access to overview articles on a range of topics, journal and magazine articles, experiments, images, video files and more.
Global Issues in Context- resources to support study of international current events and global issues.

Access these resources from here, or from the Gales entry on the Online Resources page

New Zealand Book Month

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:00:00 +1300

March 2012 is New Zealand Book Month

See all local events.

Events at Nelson Public Libraries

Monday 12 March 12pm-1pm, Elma Turner Library

Nelson authors Debra & Dean Bradley talk about The Water Race, its fictional Golden Bay setting, and the process of the book’s creation

Sunday 18 March 1.30pm-2.30pm, Elma Turner Library

Mapua author David Young talks about his novel Coast. Hosted by Friends of the Nelson Library, $2 donation at the door

Thursday 22 March 12pm-1pm, Elma Turner Library

Nelson-based author Sacha De Bazin talks about her novel The day she cradled me, about Minnie Dean, the first NZ woman to be given the death sentence. She was hanged in 1895, convicted of infanticide

Saturday 31 March 11am, Elma Turner Library

Hear from local police photographer Chris Gladstone about his experience of the Christchurch earthquake. Chris is one of the photographers featured in the book Christchurch 22.2: beyond the cordon

Free event but bookings essential

Contact Andrea King on 546-0403 or andrea.king@ncc.govt.nz

Book Chat with a New Zealand flavour

Thursday 1 March 10.30am at Stoke Library

Tuesday 13 March 10.30am at Elma Turner Library

Story Time with a New Zealand flavour, for 2-4 year olds

Children’s Library Thursdays 2pm

Stoke Library, Wednesdays 2pm

Small Time with New Zealand flavour, for 0-2 year olds

Children’s Library, Wednesdays 10.30am

Stoke Library Tuesdays 10.30am

Blind date with a New Zealand book

Take a risk, borrow an anonymous book in plain wrapper, and have a 'blind date' with a New Zealand book

Check out our Book displays throughout March

Waitangi Week Activities

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +1300

Waitangi Week Activities 8-10 Feb 2012 at Elma Turner Library

The Libraries will celebrate Waitangi Day 2012 with a range of displays and activities.

All week - displays of artefacts, books and information about the Treaty of Waitangi.

Tuesday 7 Feb, 10am:

Mihi Whakatau (Māori welcome) followed by waiata.

Wednesday 8 Feb

10.30am-11.30am. Small time in the children’s library, featuring Māori themed legends and stories (for 0-2’s and their parents).

12.30-1.30pm. John and Hilary Mitchell present a Māori history of Nelson. Activity Room.*

Thursday 9 Feb

2pm-3pm. Story time in the children’s library featuring Māori craft, legends and stories.

3pm-5pm. Ngāti Kuia talk about the history of their iwi in Whakatū (Nelson). Activity Room *

All activities are free and open to all.

* Booking advised - Emai library.ref@ncc.govt.nz or phone 546-0414

Ancestry Library and Press Display training

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +1300

Looking for news or your ancestors?

Come and learn more about two of Nelson Public Libraries’ online resources from an expert trainer.

Claire Bristow from Proquest will be visiting the Elma Turner Library to demonstrate Ancestry Library and Press Display and answer any questions you may have about these resources.

Ancestry Library provides access to a huge library of resources for researching your family history.
Press Display provides access to the digital editions of hundreds of Fairfax newspapers from New Zealand and around the world.

When?

Thursday 16th February 2012

• 10:00 - 11:00am - Ancestry Library Edition (a genealogy database - includes NZ material)

• 11:15 - 12:00 - Newspaper Direct Press Display (newspapers around NZ and the world)

Where?

Activity Room, Elma Turner Library, 27 Halifax Street, Nelson

More Info?

Email nicola.harwood@ncc.govt.nz

Or phone 546 0414

More ebooks on Overdrive

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:49:44 +1300

Nelson Public Libraries have purchased additional ebook titles through Overdrive. Our Advantage collection is only available to Nelson Public Library members and includes a range of non-fiction titles as well as adult fiction and a small selection of children's titles.

To see the new Advantage titles you must sign-in to Overdrive before browsing - using your library barcode and pin number.

Access overdrive here: ebooks.nelsonpubliclibraies.co.nz

Look for this icon when you browse. To browse the full collection of our ebooks, click on "all subjects" under "featured collections". Most of the Non-fiction titles are currently in the travel and cookery area, but also make sure you have a look at Christopher Vine's Nelson Observed, produced in ebook format by the Nelson Institute.

Access to our Overdrive ebook titles is coming soon through the Library catalogue.

E-book Overdrive training sessions

We will be offering training and information sessions on ebooks in the New Year. Contact the library for further information, or check for news on this website.

Library Anywhere - Nelson Public Libraries in your pocket

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:00:00 +1300

Instructions

Download instructions for your device (218KB PDF)

Basic functions

Our library catalogue and other online resources are now available for your cell phone and other mobile devices - in a new and improved version!

Search, check your account online, place reserve requests, see the latest Libraries' news and events, Ask a Librarian, find out about opening hours - and interact with our libraries - anywhere you are.

How to install this free application

Android

1. Visit Android Marketplace on your phone. Surf to http://www.libanywhere.com/la/getandroid.html

2. Download and install the application

3. Load the app and search for 'New Zealand / Nelson to make it your default search page.

iPhone / iPad / iPod

1. Visit App store on your phone and search for 'Lib Anywhere'. More info

2. Download and install the application

3. Load the app and search for 'New Zealand / Nelson to make it your default search page.

Blackberry (and universal version if your phone has a browser):

In addition to the Android and iPhone/iPod/iPad apps, Library Anywhere a Universal mobile web version that works on any phone including a Blackberry.

simply point your cell phone's browser to:

m.nelsonpubliclibraries.co.nz

Be anywhere and surf the catalogue of the Nelson Public Libraries

Search and Discover

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:00:00 +1300

Nelson Public Libraries’ new online catalogue, Discovery Search, is one of the most exciting innovations the libraries have embraced in recent years and gives the public the ability to “Discover” a huge range of resources from right across library collections.

Searching the catalogue and Libraries' online resources

In fact, it can seem a little overwhelming at first. A simple search for a book title might bring up hundreds of results because the Discovery Search will search across physical resources as well as databases, and through journal articles, book reviews and so on.

Searching Libraries' shelves only?

If you’re wanting to search for items just from the library shelves, there are options that can limit your search:

- simply tick “catalogue only” under the Search options on the Discovery Search home page.

Alternatively, once you get to the results page you can limit the search at this stage through the search panel on the left-hand side, for example, by publication date, library branch or “catalogue only”.

Personalised accounts

Creating a personalised account is a great option if you want to:

Save preferences
Organize your research with folders
Share your folders with others
View others' folders
Save and retrieve your search history
Create email alerts and/or RSS feeds
Gain access to your saved research remotely

- simply click on Login for full access and then 'Login to EBSCO' tab at the top right corner.

Requesting an item?

Want to request an item to be put aside for you? It’s easy to do by clicking “Request this item”.

You’ll need to enter your full library card barcode number and PIN to continue if you haven't logged in initially.

Need help with searching?

We hope you’ll enjoy exploring and making Discoveries of your own.

Talk to library staff if you’d like further help, email library.ref@ncc.govt.nz or telephone 546-8100 and ask for extension 8414.

Library catalogue training sessions

catalogue and ebook training sessions

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:32:58 +1300

Get to grips with the new Library catalogue

Elma Turner Library is offering free drop-in sessions for library members who access the library website and materials from home, or like to search for items when in the Library using our in house online catalogue.

Please bring your library card to the sessions to enable you to practise logging in to your own account and placing reserves (holds) and in order to practise.

Next training session

watch this space

Ebook training sessions

We are offering training and information sessions on our ebook platform Overdrive. We now have more ebook titles available through the Advantage and Project Gutenberg collections.

Next training session

watch this space

Please phone or email to book in to the sessions. If you cannot make these times, please contact us and we will organise alternative session times.

546 0414
library.ref@ncc.govt.nz

Library searches faster, easier from anywhere at anytime

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:00:00 +1300

Finding books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, online articles, e-books and everything else held in Nelson Public Libraries has just got easier with the installation of a new library management system that includes leading edge search technology.

“Our customers will now have more information at their finger tips,” says acting Library Manager Nicola Harwood. “Rather than accessing our catalogue and electronic content separately, at the push of a button, they can now search across most of what we purchase and license. This improved searchability will be particularly beneficial to people who need the most up to-date research or findings on a topic or issue. A single search will identify not only the books on our shelves but also the latest information contained in the online journals we subscribe to.”

Our library members can also access this information at anytime by remotely accessing our website using their PC, laptop or cellphone. The new service, Kôtui, went live on Friday 4 November following months of preparation, including the migration of just under 200,000 item and borrower records into the new system.

Kôtui is the result of collaboration between a group of public libraries, the Association of Public Library Managers (APLM), Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) and the National Library that identified the need for an affordable, efficient collection management and access service with excellent functionality.

For more information visit the Kôtui website.

Library searches faster, easier from anywhere at anytime

E-books and downloadable audio

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:59:38 +1300

OverDrive is a free digital media platform which allows you to download e-books and audiobooks. Members of Nelson Public Libraries can access Overdrive through the South Island Downloadable Zone - a consortium of a number of South Island libraries, which includes Nelson, Marlborough and Tasman.

The South Island Downloadable zone currently has a selection of adult fiction e-books and audio titles. This collection will soon expand to include non-fiction, young adults and children's material. New titles are regularly added. Access Overdrive now.

What you will need

An internet (or wifi) connected computer or mobile device [note you cannot use computers in the library to download Overdrive titles, but you can use our wifi to download to your mobile device]
Your library card
Free software for PC or Mac: Adobe Digital Editions (eBooks) and/or OverDrive Media Console (audiobooks) - available from the Overdrive downloadable media homepage.
Free software for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or Android - available from the Apple App Store or Android market . Overdrive's Audiobook app is also linked from Overdrive's homepage.

What you can do

Download e-book or audio titles from home at any time
Transfer e-book titles to your computer or portable devices such e-book readers and smartphones. E-books are compatible with most e-book readers and mobile devices except Kindles.
Transfer audio titles to your computer or portable devices such as an MP3 player or iPod
Burn some audio book titles to disc
Avoid extended loan charges — the items self expire or you can check in e-books early if you have finished with them

More information

Quick Start Guide - checklist of what you need to do, with links to more information and resources you need
Information about devices which are compatible with Overdrive titles
Guided tour - a tutorial on how to use Overdrive

How to... Sony E-book reader

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3. Internet Explorer 5.0+ or Firefox 1.1+ or Safari 1.0+

New Library Management System on its way

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:00:00 +1200

Project background

Nelson Public Libraries are joining New Zealand’s most ambitious shared library computer system, “Kōtui”, on 4 November 2011.

Kōtui aims to provide customers with enhanced searching and browsing facilities and the libraries with the advantages of working co-operatively in a consortium which includes eight other New Zealand libraries, including Tasman and Marlborough.

Opening time

All three libraries (Elma Turner Library, Stoke Library and Tahunanui/Nightingale Library Memorial) will be closed from Tuesday 1 November to Thursday 3 November, inclusive, for installation of the new software.

What it means for you

No items will be due back during the closed days.
Customers will not be able to place holds on items from 24 October - 3 November inclusive, to allow the transfer of catalogue data.
Customers are also advised to save “My lists” from the catalogue by printing or emailing them.
New books lists temporarily will not be produced.

During the transition time, the Library website will undergo some major web links maintenance. Thanks for your patience. We hope you’ll enjoy our new virtual look!

Prow Quiz

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:00:00 +1200

Prow Quiz 2011

Online now @ http://www.theprow.org.nz/2011-prow-quiz from August 8- September 2.

Test your local knowledge, and your Prow navigation skills, and be in to win a $50 book token.

The Quiz runs from August 8 to September 2 and is open to all Top of the South residents. Enter online or pick up a print quiz at your local Top of the South Library.

Stoke Library Make-over

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:12:01 +1200

Stoke Library is being re-vamped and will be closed!

When?

Monday 15 August - Saturday 20 August

Returning items

While we are closed we would appreciate it if you returned your books to either:

Elma Turner Library in Nelson or

Nightingale Library in Tahunanui

Reserved items

These items may be collected from Stoke Library either before 15 August or from 22 August.

2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:19:10 +1200

Nelson Public Libraries congratulates the winners of the 2011 New Zealand Post Book of the Year Awards.

The overall winner

Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964 by Chris Bourke.

The other winners

Fiction Award winner

The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley (Penguin Group (NZ).

Poetry Award winner

The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate Camp (Victoria University Press).

Illustrated Non-fiction Award winner

The Passing World: The Passage of Life: John Hovell and the Art of Kowhaiwhai by Damian Skinner (Rim Books).

National Poetry Day

In association with the New Zealand Post Book of the Year Awards National Poetry Day was celebrated at the Elma Turner Library on 22nd July. Local poets brought their own poems to this event. Some of these poems follow:

HAIKU

Locked beneath the ice

Ghostly orange rippling

Carp dreaming of spring

MACLEAN

NOT JUST BEADS

It knows how to rain in Golden Bay

not poncy beads that lie on glass

to glisten in the morning

but with a hundred hooves

that pound above my head

filling the night with wild drumming

I smile into the dark

wrapped in a quilt

of remembered childhood

CAROL DON ERCOLANO

New Service Hub at Elma Turner Library

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:11:16 +1200

Elma Turner Library customers will have noticed a big change in the main service desk area in the past month. The central city library has installed three self-service machines and moved the Information Services desk next to the main desk area to create a ‘Service Hub’. The idea is that customers can come to one central area in the library to have all of their information, reference, computer booking, library account and membership enquiries answered. And the move has created more space.

The self-service machines provide an option for customers who prefer not to wait in a queue for staff to check out their items. They’re also helping staff cope with increased numbers of customers. For the year to 30 June 2011, 413,490 people came through Elma Turner Library’s doors as opposed to 346,840 for the year to 30 June 2008. That’s an increase of 66,650 customer visits, or more than a 16% rise in three years. With that many customers, the machines are also helping cut down on staff book-handling injuries.

The Service Hub is the first phase of a rearrangement of the library that it is hoped will accommodate more people and provide for quiet reading spaces as well as technology zones and public meeting spaces.

Truly, the library is the community’s living room.

Māori Language Week

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:00:00 +1200

Whakanuia Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

Celebrate Māori Language Week 04 July - 10 July

at Nelson Public Libraries - ngā whare mātauranga o whakatū

Monday 4th July

Seed and Plant exchange

Elma Turner Library from 10am to 4pm

Tuesday 5th July

Making and Playing Taonga Pūoro (traditional Māori instruments)

Make your own flute and porotiti (spinning disc)

Elma Turner Library - Activity Room from 12 -1.30pm.

Please book at Information Desk or phone 546-0414.

Wednesday 6th July

Te Reo Māori and waiata lessons

Elma Turner Library - Activity room from 12.30 - 1.45pm

Flax Weaving

Elma Turner Library - Activity room from 1 - 2pm

Thursday 7th July

Rongoa Māori - tradional tonics, cures and preventative medicines

Elma Turner Library - Activity room from 10am-11.30am

Children’s Storytime - Maori legends

Elma Turner Library - Activity room from 2pm

Friday 8th July

Celestial Navigation

See a presentation by Manihera Forbes who recently took part in a waka voyage using this traditional method of Polynesian navigation

Elma Turner Library - Activity Room from 3-4.30pm

Please book at Information Desk or phone 546-0414

Nelson Photo News launched online

Tue, 17 May 2011 14:27:22 +1200

The Nelson Photo News (1960-1972) is now available online at www.photonews.org.nz/nelson.

The first run of the Nelson Photo News is a rare and unique photographic record of life in Nelson in the early 1960’s and 1970’s – a time of rapid social and cultural change. The serial captures personal and community events through photographs and lively commentary. Featuring photos by well known Nelson photographers, including Barry Simpson, Geoffrey C. Wood, Peter Cooper and Kingsford Studios, the Nelson Photo News is a comprehensive snapshot of Nelson life from the 1960s and 70s.

As the editor Barry Simpson stated in the first issue: “Our experience …. indicates that many people allow the first issue or two to be destroyed, which is regretted later…subscribers grow to value the pictorial record of community life.”

Unfortunately most early issues have been discarded, and over the run only a handful of complete sets are believed to exist in private collections. Currently there are no full sets held in the public domain.

The Friends of the Nelson Library Microfilm Committee responded to community pressure to do something about preserving and making accessible this valuable resource. With funds left over from other microfilming and digitisation projects a decision was made to digitise the first 12 years of the Nelson Photo News from 1960 to 1972, which covered the period of editorship under Barry Simpson and later, Peter Skinner.

To complete a shortfall in funding for the project the committee applied to be part of a Digital NZ poll, where projects throughout New Zealand competed for votes. The two highest polling projects were each awarded a $10,000 grant.

The Nelson Photo News - proved a popular choice in the Digital NZ poll, with many comments being posted on the site, including the following which will ring true with many Nelsonians. "The Photo News magazines are part of my history. Oh the excitement on the day they went on sale each month, and the competition in our house to be first to read it. I fully support this publication being digitised. On a personal level it would be great to be able to revisit these magazines. On a wider aspect, there is huge content of historical value to the Nelson region and its people."

The resulting win gave the project sufficient funds to complete the digitisation work, which will see searchable copies of each issue from the chosen years available online.

The project is of significance not only for Nelson but also nationally. The Photo News was published under a franchise type arrangement by Logan Print Ltd in Gisborne with several regions throughout New Zealand having their own local Photo News. It is hoped that other areas may also digitise their respective issues as part of a wider Photo News project.

John Logan, eldest son of Logan Print founder Bob Logan remembers the Nelson Photo News with fondness. "I became very familiar with the comings and goings of community life in Nelson as we assembled and printed the pages of the magazines. My father held photographer/editor Barry Simpson in very high regard and we regarded him as the best of the eight other editors from around the country who belonged to the Photo News stable.
So it is perhaps fitting that Barry’s magazine is the first to have been digitized and published online. I know that my local library has similar plans for Gisborne Photo News but the project is not yet completed."

The digitisation component of the Nelson Photo News project has taken around a year to complete and has been very much a collaborative effort, with the Nelson Library Microfilm Sub-committee composed of members from Nelson Public Libraries: nga whare matauranga o whakatu, the Nelson Provincial Museum: Pupuri Taonga o Te Tai Ao, the Nelson Historical Society, the Nelson Branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists and The Nelson Institute.

To date the committee has been responsible for several microfilming and digitisation projects, including the microfilming of the Nelson Mail and more recently, the digitisation of the journals of the Nelson Historical Society.

Website: www.photonews.org.nz/nelson

News from the Nelson Public Libraries

More Ebook training

Find out how to enjoy our ebooks

Genealogy classes

Research your family history - 3 workshops

When?

May 7th 9.00am to 10.30am

May 14th 9.00am to 10.30am

May 21st 9.00am to 10.30am

What can you expect?

Enquiries

Come and learn about Overdrive

Enjoy ebooks from the public library – we will show you how!

Come and learn about Overdrive - the free e-book and e-audio platform provided by Nelson Public Libraries

When

These free sessions will

Session is free and open to all library members; refreshments provided.

New online resources

New Zealand Book Month

March 2012 is New Zealand Book Month

Events at Nelson Public Libraries

Monday 12 March 12pm-1pm, Elma Turner Library

Sunday 18 March 1.30pm-2.30pm, Elma Turner Library

Thursday 22 March 12pm-1pm, Elma Turner Library

Saturday 31 March 11am, Elma Turner Library

Free event but bookings essential

Book Chat with a New Zealand flavour

Story Time with a New Zealand flavour, for 2-4 year olds

Small Time with New Zealand flavour, for 0-2 year olds

Blind date with a New Zealand book

Check out our Book displays throughout March

Waitangi Week Activities

Waitangi Week Activities 8-10 Feb 2012 at Elma Turner Library

Tuesday 7 Feb, 10am:

Wednesday 8 Feb

Thursday 9 Feb

Ancestry Library and Press Display training

Looking for news or your ancestors?

Come and learn more about two of Nelson Public Libraries’ online resources from an expert trainer.

When?

Thursday 16th February 2012

Where?

More Info?

More ebooks on Overdrive

E-book Overdrive training sessions

Library Anywhere - Nelson Public Libraries in your pocket

Instructions

Basic functions

How to install this free application

Android

iPhone / iPad / iPod

Blackberry (and universal version if your phone has a browser):

m.nelsonpubliclibraries.co.nz

Search and Discover

Searching the catalogue and Libraries' online resources

Searching Libraries' shelves only?

Personalised accounts

Requesting an item?

Need help with searching?

catalogue and ebook training sessions

Get to grips with the new Library catalogue

Next training session

watch this space

Ebook training sessions

Next training session

watch this space

Library searches faster, easier from anywhere at anytime

E-books and downloadable audio

What you will need

What you can do

More information

How to... Sony E-book reader

New Library Management System on its way

Project background

Opening time

What it means for you

Prow Quiz

Prow Quiz 2011

Stoke Library Make-over

Stoke Library is being re-vamped and will be closed!