Study space
Study space is here as a resource to help you find the answers and information you need to help with your studies. It is here as a guide to useful resources and websites to help you with your research and study. Please ask the librarian if you would like more suggestions or guidance!!
Websites
Any Questions (www.anyquestions.co.nz) - get help with your homework online from Librarians in a chat room environment from 1-6pm Monday to Friday.
Many Answers - www.manyanswers.co.nz - visit the Many Answers website to get information and links on questions frequently asked for by the Any Questions.
The Prow celebrates, preserves and makes accessible the history, culture and stories of the top of the South Island of New Zealand - Nelson, Marlborough and Tasman.
Te Ara - Te Ara is the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. It is still being developed and offers a comprehensive guide to New Zealand's peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society.
NZ History at www.nzhistory.net.nz - NZ History is an online guide to New Zealand's history, including 40 multimedia exhibitions.
Howstuffworks - How Stuff Works is a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications and is an award-winning source of reliable and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works
Other online resources
Library online resources provide up-to-date, reliable and easy to understand information to help with many different topics. All you need to use them is a library card; these can also be accessed from home via our website (some conditions apply).
BreakOut - search for New Zealand awards, scholarships and grants for individuals.
Useful databases for study
Encyclopaedia Britannica - provides three different levels of information for different ages and is a great site for homework answers.
Biography Resource Center database- a fantastic site for in-depth but easy to read and understand biographies. It provides accounts from a wide range of biographical resources and includes pictures and specific breakdowns of achievements timelines and goals.
Opposing Viewpoints - this is great for debates and for looking at multiple/ different views on different and often controversial subjects
Index New Zealand - describes over half a million articles published in New Zealand over the past 20 years. It covers a range of times and many are available in full text.
Australia/ New Zealand Reference Centre - the Australia/NZ Reference Centre combines Australasian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of full text content available to libraries in Oceania. This database includes leading Australia/NZ periodicals and international periodicals in full text. It includes over 84,000 full text biographies and and Image Collection of over 440 000 photos, maps and flags.
Oxford Reference - brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
For more help or study advice please come and see us in the Children's area or at the information desks.
