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An examination into the ways in which museums communicate about and engage audience on climate change and environmental issues on their Facebook platforms

Bikovska, Dragana (2021-06-22)

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges that the world is facing at the moment. The climate change issue has been identified as “one of the most significant and fastest growing threats to people and their heritage ...
"Evidence of me" becoming "evidence of us": A case study of the policy, processes and responses of selected GLAM institutions to personal donations of collections and artifacts

Day, Alison Suzanne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021-06-22)

Research problem: Donors are important contributors to collection development in GLAM institutions, yet interactions with potential donors and communication of procedures and policies is under researched. To address the ...
Chinese Immigrant Academic Librarians' Experiences and Perceptions of Career Advancement in New Zealand

Sang, Hu (2021)

For many professionals, career advancement is an important goal and part of their professional life. Nevertheless, due to the ever-competitive nature of the workplaces, the prosperity of advancement is limited as the ...
"Unveiling the Agatha Christies of Aotearoa." A selective annotated bibliography on crime fiction by New Zealand women writers from 2000 - 2019

Paul, Rachel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Since the early nineteenth century, crime fiction has since become extremely popular and the genre had grown into multiple subgenres. Some of the more common subgenres are – • “whodunit” fiction which is the most common ...
Leisure Information Behaviour of New Zealand Malyalees with Special Reference to Consumption of Malayalam Movies

George, Don (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Research Problem: This study examines the leisure information behaviour [IB] of New Zealand Malayalees, an immigrant group from Kerala, India, with special emphasis on the consumption of Malayalam movies. It examines the ...
Subject Guides and Resource Discovery

Tyson, A. F. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Research problem Subject guides are disciplinary resource discovery maps long created by librarians to assist library users in independently locating resources within the library. While best practices in the design and ...
An Annotated Bibliography on Screenwriting Manuals between 2000-2020 that aid in Character Development

Aiono, Lene (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) is the government organisation that finances films. The NZFC agrees with many screenwriting authors that the most common problems with scripts relate to character development (Batty, ...
Identifying Cultural Authenticity within New Zealand Children’s Literature

Bowler, Tessa (2020)

Research Problem: Within the United States there is a large body of work detailing the importance of cultural authenticity in children’s literature for non white children and how to identify it but no similar work has been ...
“THAT was NOT there before”: how family history researchers use public libraries in New Zealand

Aiken, Laura Ashleigh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

PROBLEM This study examines how family history researchers use libraries in New Zealand. It seeks to understand their relationship with libraries, the information-seeking behaviour and strategies they employ, and how they ...
What are the perspectives of a Ngāti Rākau community towards a potential digital repository for urupā records?

Kauri, Caroline (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Research problem: Little is known about management of urupā records. The objective of this research was to explore the need for a digital repository. This research project explored how Ngāti Rākau urupā records are currently ...
Overdue: The stories of rural Otago & Southland librarians and volunteers

Sanderson, Lara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Research Problem: Rural librarians and library volunteers may be viewed as isolated and almost on the geographical fringes of the knowledge information profession. In New Zealand, rural librarians’ stories have not been ...
Finding wellbeing and lifestyle information: Information seeking in an Urban-rural setting

McElroy, Josephine Michelle (2019)

Research problem: Access to information is crucial to increase and support the wellbeing and lifestyle choices of the population living in this region. The objective of this research is to discover the methods used by, and ...
An annotated bibliography for a City of Literature

Scanlan, Genevieve Kate (2019)

This annotated bibliography lists books published by Dunedin authors or publishers since the city received its UNESCO City of Literature designation in 2014. Due to UNESCO’s deliberately broad and inclusive focus, the ...
Investigating Imposter Phenomenon Among New Zealand Librarians

Patterson, Rosemary (2019)

Research Problem: Imposter phenomenon is also known as imposter syndrome and imposterism. It encompasses internal feelings of fraudulence in achievements, thinking you are fooling others in your skills, that your ...
Losing New Zealand's moving image heritage: Exploring the current state of audio-visual tape preservation strategies in New Zealand

Corlett, Renee (2019)

Research problem: This study aims to address the gap in information regarding how New Zealand organisations housing audio-visual collections of heritage value are approaching the preservation of their aging magnetic tape ...
Using social media for student engagement: A study of two New Zealand academic libraries

Rehman, Rida Noor (2019)

Research Purpose: This research is an exploration of the content created for social media by two New Zealand academic libraries: Auckland University of Technology libraries and Massey University libraries. It analyses the ...
Auckland Urban Libraries and Preschool Storytime Outreach

McDermott, Isabella (2019)

Research Problem: The purpose of this study was to identify the aims of storytime outreach sessions delivered by public library staff at early childhood education and care centres and the challenges staff face when delivering ...
Postcolonial and Asian Gothic Creative Works and the Creation of New Life Through Themes of Death, Destruction, and Decolonization A Descriptive Annotated Bibliography

Paustin, Faustina Chiyama (2019)

This document seeks to compile descriptions of critical analyses exploring written and filmed works that are centred on postcolonial and Asian Gothic themes. Postcolonial and Asian Gothic works emerged as a reaction to the ...
Exploring the landscape of web oral history collections: A content analysis

Baily, Laila (2019)

Research problem: Digital oral history collections are increasingly being disseminated by heritage institutions via the Internet. Though the promises of networked access to oral history are great, they are not without ...
'Traditional metrics, altmetrics and researcher profiles: A survey of faculty perceptions and use’

Ferrier-Watson, Anne (2019)

Research problem This study investigated faculty perceptions and use of traditional and alternative metrics (altmetrics), as well as their perceptions and use of researcher profiles at a medium sized University in New ...