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Mygateway subscription databases update

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July is the time of year when Wellington City Libraries welcomes a new year of access to our subscription resources, which include research databases, language learning, Bridget Williams eBooks and the Naxos streaming music products.

Last year, for lovers of science and nature, we added the Smithsonian Collection, as well as the latest magazines and archived editions of National Geographic and National Geographic Kids. These are all available just by entering your library card details.

The business world was also represented with new access to The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2020.  For current digital editions of The Economist,  access became available earlier this year via PressReader in our libraries.

The availability of all these resources (and more) will continue for the coming year, and family historians will enjoy an expanded archive of British Historical Newspapers, with the addition of a new Irish newspaper archive from 1 July.

Sadly July 2023 will  see the end of access to one of our current databases.  With some regret, we are saying good-bye to the New Zealand Geographic Archive online.  Although digital access will no longer be available, library members will still be able to borrow current and past issues of New Zealand Geographic magazine from our libraries and reserve for free for pickup at any branch.

 

Jacqueline (Jacquie) Baxter (J.C. Sturm)

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He maimai aroha : a lament for Jacquie Baxter

We were saddened to hear of the recent death of our colleague, and rangatira.

Although Jacquie was a groundbreaking Māori academic student, and the first Māori woman to attain a Master’s degree from the University of New Zealand (at Victoria University) and her poetry also won national and international acclaim, yet library users will remember her as the librarian who managed the NZ collection at Wellington City Libraries for well over twenty years until 1992. We remember her quiet advocacy for Māori customers, extensive knowledge of NZ published works, and passion for excellence in librarianship.

Read more information :

Oxford companion to New Zealand literature article

Pioneering Maori writer, by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman (Use your library card to log in)

Kapiti Independent News article

Opunake Thrush

Auckland University – New Zealand Literature file – J C Sturm

New Zealand national character as exemplified by three New Zealand novelists : thesis presented in partial requirement for the degree of M.A., University of New Zealand, by Jacqueline Cecilia Baxter. (1952)