News

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). Many thanks to the colleagues who nominated us for this Award, and we look forward to being at the Award Ceremony in Dunedin later this year. The letter with citation is attached for your interest. LIANZA.pdf

14 July 2010
Bibliography of Published New Zealand Family Histories
The Bibliography of Published New Zealand Family Histories is a listing of separately-published histories of families with descendants in New Zealand. All of the histories are indexed by author, title, keyword and family names; many are also indexed by founder names; country, county and town of origin; ship on which the family arrived in New Zealand; year of arrival; and region and place of main settlement in New Zealand. Some records also include the surnames of the families into which the first generation of descendants married. The bibliography is compiled by Tony Millett (tony.millett@xtra.co.nz). There are 3350+ records in the collection, which has been added to the New Zealand Index. It is updated periodically by Tony.

12 July 2010
NZ Science
More than 700 records were added today from NIWA and GNS - many thanks to the contributors.

26 May 2010
Paul Reynolds

News of the passing of Paul Renolds on Sunday 23rd May reached us here in Suva. We were shocked and saddened by his sudden death. We, like so many others, have many recollections and stories about the man - some very funny and we know that the tributes coming in will reflect our own memories. Our love and condolences to Helen. Lindy & Dave.

6 April 2010
The Knowledge Basket welcomes "Indian Weekender" - a new publication to the Newztext database. More than 2000 articles from January 2009 to current date have been loaded into the Magazines collection and we will be receiving weekly updates. We would also like to congratulate them on their first anniversary of the Indian Weekender on the 16th of this month. You can see more at their website www.indianweekender.co.nz

1 March 2010
The New Zealand Card Index was added to the New Zealand Index database today. The Knowledge Basket version does not include images of the Library Cards from which the data was transcribed (all 416,544 of them!). We have attempted to extract the dates mentioned in the References or Notes field to make a "year" field - this has succeeded for the majority of records, but there are some which do not have extractable dates. We have also expanded known abbreviations of sources indexed so that the user does not have to look them up separately in most cases.

Thanks to Auckland City Libraries for this valuable contribution.

12 July 2010
More than 700 new records have been added to the NZ Science database in New Zealand Index. Thanks to NIWA and GNS for their regular additions to our wealth of scientific research papers.

1 January 2010
Happy New Year from The Knowledge Basket.
The Knowledge Basket - Te kete o te waananga has undergone a makeover in the style of The Knowledge Basket - Pacific Islands. We would like to thank Helen Smith of McGovern and Associates for continuing to give us new ideas and inspiration for our websites.

11 November 2009
BusinessWire has been added to the Newztext database. BusinessWire is the new voice in New Zealand business news coverage and offers an up-to-the-minute daily newsfeed.

9 November 2009
Manukau's Journey has been added to the New Zealand Index. Manukau's Journey is a chronology of significant events in the history of South Auckland or the Counties Manukau region (Otahuhu, Manukau City, Papakura, Franklin).

4 November 2009
The Hansard Advances have been updated to 29 October 2009.

29 August 2009
National Business Review - delay in supply from this day forward.
We have been informed by the NBR that they will be supplying the NBR late from now on, to all its aggregator partners including the Knowledge Basket. At this stage they intend to delay the supply of the electronic version by 4 weeks. We are engaging with the NBR in an attempt to change this, but it looks as though we will not be receiving the NBR today, Friday 28th August, until some time in the future. Our apologies for this unwelcome development at such short notice - we will keep you informed of any developments as they occur

30 June 2009
The "Shattering Statutes" are now available on The Knowledge Basket
The "Shattering Statutes" are annual volumes of New Zealand Acts for the years 1888 to 1894. See more in LegislationNZ

8 June 2009
Visit our new website for the Pacific region at any of these domains:
www.knowledge-basket.ws
www.knowledge-basket.com.fj
www.knowledge-basket.to
www.knowledge-basket.vu
www.knowledge-basket.co.ck
www.knowledge-basket.com.sb
Knowledge Basket New Zealand customers are invited to trial The Knowledge Basket Pacific Islands. Free access is offered for one month while we continue to add new sources to the Niustext database. Please contact Jo Cooper (joanne.cooper@knowledge-basket.co.nz) to arrange access.