Merry Christmas

Christmas holidays are almost here, so this is the last post for the year.
Things to look forward to in the New Year are:

• revamped subject guide - cosmetic changes mostly
• WestlawNZ - and the phasing out of the Brookers platform
• more 'how to' guides and mindmaps to help your immediate research needs

Plus a few surprises planned for later, much later in 2014.

Happy holidays.
See you next year .
Best wishes, the Law Librarian.

Back to blogging

We're blogging again! With roughly equal parts of optimism, shame and irony - most of our blogging seems to happen when most of the students aren't here.

We're also working on the Law Subject Guide, mongst other things. The Books and articles page now has section on e-books and articles and a section on dictionaries and reference.

I'll elaborate on these, and the specific tools they link to, in future posts.
Carolyn

Welcome, welcome back!

So the new academic year has started, ready or not.
There are a few changes, most notably the new law subject guide. It has had a bit of a makeover, thanks to the libguides software we are now using. So we've taken the opportunity to change a few other things as well. What that amounts to is that each page has a column of quicklinks down the left-hand side, so if you know what you want, you should find it pretty quickly. The main column of each page puts it all in context, so if you're not sure what you want, we'll talk you through it. At least, that's the aim.
It's a work in progress. Some bits are simply copied from the old subject guide; some bits are still in note-to-self form; all of it needs checking - so expect a few glitches.
The old subject guide is still there and still available via a link from the home page of the new guide.
Let us know what you think, and what we can do to make it work for you.

fun with mindmaps

I've been experimenting with mindmapping as a way of presenting an overview of NZ legal literature - the link to the mind map is currently sitting on the Law Subject Guide under Research Aids.
I like the big picture approach, the Notes option for further detail or advice, and the online links. I'm hoping it will be helpful to non-Law students. I'm also a bit worried that it might be unhelpful to Law students - it's a very basic guide and doesn't integrate well with the richer content of the Law Subject Guide. Simple? Simplistic?
Let me know what you think.
Cheers, Carolyn