General Collection

The following subject headings are useful to find items:

Search the catalogue: (type keywords in the search window).

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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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 -

• Benders' Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology
• International Dictionary of Food and Cooking

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.

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Journals

Online Journals

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Print Journals

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Databases

A great way to find journal articles is to use an electronic database. Type keywords in the database search window.

• Academic Search Elite
  Academic Search Elite offers full text for more than 2,000 serials, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host . (Password required off campus).
• Business Source Premier
  Provides full text access to over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more.
• Hospitality and Tourism Index
  Provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 500 journals covering the hospitality & tourism industry.

Gale Cengage Suite of databases (formerly Thomson Gale) - Gale PowerSearch: Click here to search across all Gale databases at once.

Password required off campus for any of these:

Culinary Arts Collection
The Culinary Arts Collection includes major cooking and nutrition magazines from 1980 to present. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure Collection
This collection of more than 800 journals and 29 subject specific Delmar reference titles provide well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism fields.

Websites

Milly's Kitchen - www.millyskitchen.co.nz
The site to go to browse and buy all those kitchen gadgets that make life so much easier.

New Zealand Wine - www.nzwine.com
Provides information on New Zealand wine regions, wine styles, wineries, education, events statistics, research and reports.

Wine Sense - www.winesenz.co.nz
Combining both global and regional perspectives, Wine Sense offers a basic training course in wine tasting, as well as a guide to the finer points of blind tasting and style deconstruction.

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