Evans, Matthew(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024)
Research Problem: The research sought to address the lack of studies investigating New Zealand’s public librarians’ attitudes towards environmental sustainability in libraries.
Methodology: A survey developed using the ...
Williamson, Madeleine(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2023)
This research project aimed to develop our understanding of what actions sporting organisations (SOs) are taking to preserve their published social media content, in order to establish what steps might be required to promote ...
Gruschow, Samuel(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2023)
Research Problem. There is little recent analysis of press articles specifically focusing on archives, especially those in New Zealand, and archives are underrepresented in news media analysis in comparison to libraries ...
Moobs, Kimberley(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2023)
Family archives are unique collections that can be both personally and culturally relevant. However, most past academic research has focused only on the family archives of already prominent individuals and families. ...
Ardell, Samuel Joseph(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Research Problem
There is an increasing amount of data generated and held by cultural heritage institutions. As national libraries are making this data available through open data platforms, this research explores how ...
Ratana, Tiana(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Bridget Underhill’s original Bibliography was published in 1998, entitled A Bibliography of Writing by Māori in English with partial annotation. The preface provides the cultural background and motivation behind the ...
Grodecki, Yaktrina(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Research problem: The motivations of public libraries in New Zealand (NZ) to adopt and offer virtual reality (VR) programmes to their users; the ways in which the libraries offer VR; and the prospects of future VR ...
Banks, Ethan Anthony Melbye(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
There is trauma in how Indigenous knowledge collections in libraries are managed. This paper seeks to understand the Māori context of Indigenous knowledges management in library collections. A review of selected library ...
Templeton, Lisette(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Research problem – The average age of video game players is above 30 in many parts of the world, but the literature surrounding video games in public libraries often focuses on engaging children and teenagers. This suggests ...
Focamp, Paul(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)
Covid-19 and the resulting nationwide lockdown of 2020 has had a considerable impact on the lives of New Zealanders. This study investigates the impact the pandemic has had on the demand central Christchurch residents have ...
McLachlan, Kate(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)
Research statement: This study investigates and analyses the perspective of Children and Young Adult (CYA), librarians on their experiences and opinions of STEAM learning incorporated within CYA services and programmes, ...
Bell, Rachel Ann(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)
PROBLEM: The purpose of this study is to investigate the contribution mobile libraries are making to digital inclusion in non-urban areas of Aotearoa New Zealand, the challenges mobile librarians face in providing digital ...
Yuen, Krista Amber(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)
Problem
Makerspaces are gaining prevalence in school environments, but teachers are often overwhelmed with new digital technologies, often describing themselves as “self-confessed technophobes” (Ministry of Education, ...
Bikovska, Dragana(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)
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 ...
Paul, Rachel(Te Herenga Waka—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 ...
Aiken, Laura Ashleigh(Te Herenga Waka—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 ...
George, Don(Te Herenga Waka—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 ...
Tyson, A. F.(Te Herenga Waka—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 ...
Bowler, Tessa(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 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 ...
Hunter, Anthony(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
Research problem: The Public Records Act (2005) is designed to ensure open access to and the preservation of information and records, while Archives New Zealand’s Information and records management standard (2016) stipulates ...