Students and teachers: when you’re looking for quality information to support your teaching and learning, we invite you to explore the links here. Here you’ll find a wide range of resource types from New Zealand and overseas, along with tips on how to make best use of them.
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Topic explorerAny question, Many answersNew Zealand History online A New Zealand history website produced by professional historians for a general audience. Includes a broad range of topics, audio clips and videos. EpicThis website has a plethora of data bases including The Encyclopedia of Britanica. It contains thousands of international and NZ magazines, newspaper, substantial reference works and biographies. It is funded by the Ministry of Education. If you don't know the username and password please contact the library or ask your teacher
logon: qmargaret queen25. National LibraryPhysical and online content from Alexander Turnbull and National Library published collections, including books, music, journals, maps, audio and videos, music scores, and websites. here
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Digital NZDigitalNZ - is where you can search for great New Zealand content. The site has more that 25 million digital items- including audio.
Login to make your own set: username: qmc password: qmargaret BibMeBibMe.
A great tool to use when you need to make a bibliography. You can use it to cite websites, books, journals, film - pretty much anything you want to cite. Archives New ZealandArchives New Zealand, Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga is the official guardian of New Zealand’s public archives. It gathers, stores and protects an extremely wide range of material. Examples of their holdings include the originals of the Treaty of Waitangi, government documents, maps, paintings, photographs and film.
NZ Bio'steara.govt.nz/en/biographies
Life stories of over 3,000 people that shaped our culture and history. NZ on screen
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Te AraTe Ara - The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand is the best online encyclopedia for New Zealand. In Māori, Te Ara means ‘the pathway’. Through interlinking text and image trails, the Encyclopedia takes you on a journey of discovery. Beginning with the theme of Peoples, it will eventually present a comprehensive guide to New Zealand – its natural environment, history, culture, economics and government. Index NZMygateway data base
Mygateway.infoSearch across thousands of articles on a range of topics, or browse online
magazines and newspapers. This is mygateway.info - a collection of online "premium" databases you can access for free with your WCC library card. Wellington City LibraryIf you are looking for recreational reading 'hot off the press' , please check out the new books from Wellington City Library here
Free e-books
"Project Gutenberg" is the first producer of free e books - almost 50,000 are available to read and download in many languages. Click here
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