University Research Papers: Recent submissions

  • Library Services for the Future: engaging with our customers to determine wants and needs 
    Esson, Rachel Margaret; Stevenson, Alison; Gildea, Maureen; Roberts, Sue (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The future-focussed academic library “must be distinguished by the scope and quality of its service programs in the same way it has long been by the breadth and depth of its locally-held collections.” (Walker, 2011). To ...
  • Internet Search Tactics 
    Smith, Alastair G. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Purpose Bates' Information Search Tactics have been influential in the practice and teaching of online searching since they were published in 1979. This article is about using information search tactics to search the ...
  • Copyright Guidelines for Research Students: Second Edition 
    Millett, Tony (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Copyright is a form of intellectual property - which is a generic term for a range of property rights that provide protection for “creations of the mind”. Copyright does not, however, exist until a work is recorded, in ...
  • New Zealand information on the Internet: the Power to Find the Knowledge 
    Smith, Alastair G (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    In a world of apparently ubiquitous information, does knowledge still equal power? Whatever the answer to this question, we will not have power unless we can retrieve our knowledge. Despite the advances of the last decades, ...
  • Open Libraries, Open Resources, Open to Change?: Library Organisational Development and Design to Improve and Support the Creation and Open Publication of Research Resources 
    Roberts, Sue; Stevenson, Alison (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    This paper takes a holistic and broad look at introducing and managing change in libraries to improve support for the creation and open publication of digital research resources. It uses a case study approach – the example ...
  • Wikipedia and institutional repositories: an academic symbiosis? 
    Smith, Alastair G. (International Society of Scientometrics & Infometrics 2011 Conference, 2011)
    A study of citations from Wikipedia articles to documents in institutional repositories showed that although the number of citations was small in relation to the number of documents (citations made to the repositories were ...
  • Māori values for Māori business: Cultural Capital in Indigenous Organisations 
    Best, Philip; Love, Matene (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    Cultural capital holds much prospect as a theoretical concept for engaging core Indigenous Māori values in capitalistic endeavours, yet it still awaits satisfactory interpretation by Indigenous Māori management theorists ...
  • Public Attitudes to the Sharing of Personal Information in the Course of Online Public Service Provision 
    Lips, Miriam; Eppel, Elizabeth; Cunningham, Amanda; Hopkins-Burns, Virginia (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    The research focused on the following question: What are attitudes of different members of the New Zealand general public towards the collection, management, and sharing of personal information in the course of online ...
  • Emerging Records Management in 21st Century New Zealand Government - Part 2 
    Lips, Miriam; Rapson, Anita (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)
    This research project focused on the following questions: 1. How do New Zealand public servants identify and manage electronic records that are of significant value and importance to their government agency, created through ...
  • Research Report ‘E-mail Records Management in 21st Century New Zealand Government’ 
    Lips, Miriam; Rapson, Anita; Hooper, Tony (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    Our research has focused on the following research questions: 1. How do individual employees across the New Zealand government identify and manage e-mail records of significant value and importance to their government ...
  • The Use of New Media by Political Parties in the 2008 National Election 
    Gong, Hugo; Lips, Miriam (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)
    The overall purpose of this research project has been to undertake an empirical, exploratory study into how political parties in New Zealand make use of ICTs in and around the 2008 national election campaign, and their ...
  • Improving Information Sharing for Effective Social Outcomes 
    Lips, Miriam; O'Neill, Rose; Eppel, Elizabeth (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)
    The research project focused on the following questions: To what extent and how is personal information of individuals with complex social needs collected, managed, and shared across government and other organisations? What ...
  • Identity Management in Information Age Government: Exploring Concepts, Definitions, Approaches and Solutions 
    Lips, Miriam; Pang, Chiky (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    Our research question is the following: What could be a useful working definition of Identity Management in government at present? a) What are conceptualisations, definitions and approaches of IDM in government according ...
  • School Leadership: A comparison of Singaporean and Indian cases 
    Retna, Kala; Jeyavelu, S (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    The role of the principal in transforming a school is a core theme within the education literature on leadership. However, such work is mostly developed in a "Western" cultural environment, representing a particular set ...
  • Electronic Resource Acquisition Pilot Study Final Report 
    Shepheard-Walwyn, Emma (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    In light of the increasing numbers of e-resources targeted at academic libraries and the increase in the e-resource budget for 2007, a pilot study was held to investigate the integration of e-resource acquisition into ...
  • Managers Matter: Who Manages New Zealand's Volunteers? 
    Smith, Karen; Dutton, Nicholas; Cordery, Carolyn Joy (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    In partnership with Volunteering New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington undertook a nationwide survey of volunteer managers between December 2009 and February 2010. The research was funded by a Tindall Foundation ...
  • Index to the New Zealand architect and Architecture New Zealand 
    Bolland, Kathryn; Howarth, Julie (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1991)
    A cumulative index from 1986 - 1990 inclusive, giving entries by architect, building type/subject, place, and author. Supplement to WP13 : BROOKES, Susan. Index to the Journal of the New Zealand Institute of Architects ...
  • Index to the New Zealand Architect 1981- 1985 
    Brookes, Susan; Bolland, Kathryn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1987)
    A cumulative index from 1981-1985 inclusive, giving entries by architect, building type/subject, place, author and title. Supplement t o WP82-13 : Brookes, Susan. Index to the journal of the New Zealand Institute of ...
  • Index to the Journal of New Zealand Institute of Architects 1912-1980 
    Brookes, Susan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1982)
    A cumulative index to the Journal of the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) from 1912-1980 inclusive, giving entries by architect, building type, subject, place,author and title.
  • Domestic Wallpaper in New Zealand: a Literature Survey 
    McCarthy, Christine (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)
    This paper summarises the existing literature on New Zealand wallpaper. It draws on material from contemporary sources, architectural histories, archaeolgical research on specific buildings, and guides to building ...

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