What's New on The Knowledge Basket?

Latest News from New Zealand Index

Happy New Year to you all from The Knowledge Basket.

24 November 2011

New to The Knowledge Basket - Bibliography on Homosexuality in New Zealand and Bibliography of NZ Bibliographies. Also, Bibliography of NZ Family Histories has been updated. Many thanks to Tony Millett for his extensive work on getting all three bibliographies ready for searching on The Knowledge Basket.

14 November 2011

Major update to Manakau's Journey on New Zealand Index! 440 new records added. Thanks to Bruce Ringer and the team.

Latest News from Newztext

New magazines from Rural News Group
18 May 2011

NZ Winegrower and Dairy News from April 2011 are now included in Newztext. Rural News used to include Dairying Today but is now a new and separate product called Dairy News.

8 March 2011
Old favourites back from new publishers MediaWeb....

and new to The Knowledge Basket, FMCG...
Onfilm, Fastline, FoodService/Grill, The Director, Admedia, Management are back including their archive, and FMCG from 2009 on are all in Newztext.
E-clip clients will find those titles have been automatically added to their list of sources covered.

LINX database retired from The Knowledge Basket
1 March 2011

Unfortunately, due to cost and reduced income from the database, the New Zealand Law Society Library has decided to discontinue access to LINX on The Knowledge Basket. If you wish to have access to LINX in the future, contact Bronwyn McGee the Law Society library. Bronwyn.McGee@lawsociety.org.nz ph (09) 304 1020.

Our best wishes and condolences to colleagues in Christchurch
28 February 2011

The Knowledge Basket team send deepest sympathies to those who have suffered from this awful disaster in Christchurch City and the Canterbury region. We send our heartfelt hopes for your recovery and safety.

Maintenance
24 September 2010

We have scheduled some hardware maintenance work for 7:30pm 28th September 2010. This work is going to require our primary server to be shut down for a short period of time. We're aiming to be back up and running as quickly as possible, but we apologise in advance for being unavailable at this time.

Letter of Recognition
16 August 2010

LIANZA Letter of Recognition

Dave Keet and Lindy Winterburn are delighted to have been awarded a Letter of Recognition from the National Council of the Library & Information Association of New Zealand (LIANZA). See more in News

Bibliography of Published New Zealand Family Histories
14 July 2010

Waikato University and Tony Millett have contributed the bibliography to form part of New Zealand Index. See more in News

Paul Reynolds
26 May 2010

It was with great sadness that we received the news of the passing of Paul Reynolds. Together with his partner and wife Helen Smith, McGovern and Associates provided the inspiration and design for our Knowledge Basket websites over the years, and a long-time exchange of ideas, books and dinners that were always a delight. Our very best wishes to Paul's family and arohanui to Helen.

Indian Weekender
6 April 2010

We are pleased to announce that the Indian Weekender newspaper has been added to Newztext Magazines as a collection. More than 2000 articles starting from January 2009 have been loaded into the archive. We welcome the inclusion of this new publication from the Indian community. Read more

New Zealand Card Index
1 March 2010

We are pleased to announce that the New Zealand Card Index from Auckland City Libraries has been added to New Zealand Index as a collection. The addition of 416,544 new records in the collection brings the total in New Zealand Index to nearly 3.5 million records. Many thanks to the team at Auckland City Libraries. Read more

Happy New Year from us all at The Knowledge Basket
26 January 2010

Those of you familiar with our South Pacific website will see that we liked it so much that we have adopted that style, structure and look for our New Zealand Knowledge Basket. Read more

Video Tutorials

New to the Knowledge Basket under our Support pages are training videos to help you with your searches.

BusinessDesk
11 November 2009

BusinessDesk: the new voice in New Zealand business news coverage has been added to the Newztext database. Read more

Manukau's Journey
9 November 2009

Manukau's Journey: a chronology of significant events in the history of South Auckland or the Counties Manukau region has been added to the New Zealand Index database.Read more

Shattering Statutes
30 June 2009

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Shattering Statutes for free browse. Read more

The Knowledge Basket - Pacific Islands - launched 8 June 2009

Free searching of the Niustext database available now. Read more