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General Collection

The following subject headings are useful to find items:

Accounting 657 Human Resources 658.3
Business Communication 651.7 Letter Writing 651.75
Business Writing 658.45 Management 658
Communication (Interpersonal) 302.2 Marketing 658.8
Computing 005 - 006 Office Management 651.076
Conflict Management 303.69 Shorthand 653.424
Customer Service 658.812 Typing 651.3
Employment Relations 331/344.012 Word Processing 651.3
Essay and Report Writing 808.042    

Search the catalogue (Type keywords into the search window. e.g.: customer service).

 

 


Textbooks & Recommended Readings

Course texts and selected recommended readings are held in the restricted loan collection.
Please ask for them at the front service desk. Your tutors should provide you with a full list of readings.

Course texts - two hour loan. Selected recommended readings - three day loan.

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Ebooks

Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online provides access to an expansive digital collection of business and technical publications at your fingertips, available anytime, anywhere. Safari is the only service in the world that delivers entire searchable collections of books, working manuscripts, short topic PDFs, certification study guides, and instructional videos from top technology and business publishers. (around 5000 book titles availabe).
To find out how to use Safari Books, click here for the Flashdemo.

WelTec has access to:

Safari Business Books
 
Desktop Help Library
 
IT/Developer Library

 

Also, don't forget to check out Google Books - free online books via Google.
Right now, you can search the full text of some seven million books through Google Book Search. Try it out for yourself.

 


The Reference Collection

Online Reference books


Britannica Online - a great all round general online encyclopedia with links to millions of articles, definitions, facts, etc.
(password required off campus).


Credo Reference (formerly XRefer Plus) is a completely customizable ready-reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. There are over 225 titles consisting of an aggregate of 2.9 million entries all interconnected by over 100,000,000 links.

The list of titles includes -


The print reference collection

  • Located by the front service desk.
  • Contains materials such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, directories and yearbook.
  • Provides concise, factual information which help you to define your subject area.
  • Check out other reference resources online by clicking on the hotlink Reference Tools.
Accommodation Guides R919.3
Atlases R912
Dictionary of New Zealand biography R920.3
Directory of National Community Groups R068.93 DES
English Dictionaries and Thesauri - also online R423
Foreign Language Dictionaries - also online R430 - 499
New Zealand Business Who's Who R370.1025 NEW
NZ Business Directory by UBD - also online R380.1029 UNI
New Zealand Government Directory - also online R354.93
New Zealand Official Year Book R319.3 NEW
Telephone Books (yellow and white pages) - also online Reference Section
World Travel Guides R910.202

 


Journals

  • Provide current ideas and information on a subject.
  • The catalogue states what volumes/issues we hold.
    It cannot tell you what articles are inside of each journal.
  • Use a database to find articles - see below.
Employment Today 658.3 EMP Management Accounting 658.1511 MAN
Her Business 658 HER Marketing Magazine 658.8 MAR
Human Resources 658.3 HUM National Business Review Newstext database
Management 658 MAN NZ Business 658 NEW

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Databases

Use an electronic database to easily find journal articles. Simply type keywords in the database search window. Of interest to Business Administration are:

 

A'Courts
The A'Courts Database of Products and Brands in New Zealand, constitutes an collection of over 50,000 brand names, classified in over 40,000 product categories.



Brookers Online

Search acts/Statutes of NZ by title

Brookers online database offers access to NZ legislation, case law, and legal guides. WelTec subscribes to:
- Building Law
- Case Law
- Commercial Law
- Company Law
- Employment Law
- Insolvency Cases
- Intellectual Property Law
- Law Partner - Statutes, Bills and Regulations of New Zealand
(Password required off campus)

 


 

Search all Ebscohost databases:

Research databases
 

(Password required off campus)


Gale Suite of Databases

General One File databaseGeneral OneFile 1980 - JUN, 2008
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

 

RDS database
RDS Business Suite
- Click here to search across all three databases at once.
The RDS Business Suite is a collection of three highly complementary business information databases - Business & Industry, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase.  Using the Business Suite search interface you may search each database individually through search interfaces that are designed to optimize the searching of each individual database.  It is also possible to search across two or three databases simultaneously through the Business Suite search interface.
The RDS Business Suite search interface is useful when searching for broad profiling information about companies or industries. The content from each database is highly complementary.  Additionally, searching B&I and TableBase together produces results which include the textual content from B&I supported by the tabular content of TableBase.


 

Newztext
Newztext provides searchable access to articles from the major NZ newspapers (including NZ Herald, Waikato Times, Dominion Post, The Press, etc) and many business/trade magazines (including The National Business Review, The Independent, NZ Marketing, NZ Management, NZ Business, etc). Updated daily.



UBD Business Directory
The UBD database contains detailed information on more than 152,990 businesses throughout the country.


Websites  

Govt.nz - www.govt.nz
Looking for government and council services? This site links you to the information you need to get services such as getting a birth certificate or applying for legal aid.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing - http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
An in-depth guide to help you with any questions you may have about grammar or sentence structure.
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New Zealand Companies Office - www.companies.govt.nz
Search for information on companies, register a new company, reserve a company name, file certain company documents and update director and company address information online
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Statistics New Zealand - www.stats.govt.nz
Statistics New Zealand is New Zealand's national statistical office and is the country's major source of official statistics.
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Universal Business Directory (UBD) - www.ubd.co.nz
Over 160,000 New Zealand businesses, with 158,000 products in 321,976 company trades listed.

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Yellow Pages & White Pages - www.yellowpages.co.nz & www.whitepages.co.nz
The New Zealand Yellow Pages & White Pages online.

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