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.

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:

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

• 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.

Journals

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).
• Hospitality and Tourism Index
  Provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 500 journals covering the hospitality & tourism industry.
• Business Source Premier
  Provides full text access to over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more.

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 - ask a librarian)

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

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.

Videos & DVDs

We have a range of hospitality videos designed to compliment your study. These can be found on the AV shelves.

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Alcohol.org.nz - www.alcohol.org.nz
The website of the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand. It's primary objective is to promote moderation in the use of alcohol and to develop and promote strategies that will reduce alcohol related problems nationwide.

All Recipes.com - www.allrecipes.com
A website that gives you recipes, meal ideas and cooking advice.

American Hotel & Lodging Association - www.ahla.com
AH&LA is the oldest of the lodging associations throughout the US with some 11,000 property members worldwide, representing more than 1.5 million guest rooms. AH&LA provides its members with assistance in operations, education, and communications, to provide a business climate in which the industry can prosper.

Cuisine - www.cuisine.co.nz
One of the most comprehensive food, wine & associated good living online resources in NZ. Including: a huge archive of recipes, wine tastings, travel tips, cook’s toys and tools, books and more.

E-Hotelier.com - www.ehotelier.com
Ehotelier.com allows you to browse over 23,500 pre-selected and categorized hotel-industry website links that are growing daily. Fast, practical, and frequently updated.

Global Drinks - www.globaldrinks.com
Dynamic online beverage data and charting for country, regional and global scopes in over 14 beverage categories for the years 1997- to the present.

International Executive Housekeepers Association - www.ieha.org
I.E.H.A. is a professional organisation for Executive Housekeepers, Directors of Environmental Services, managers within the housekeeping or custodial activities, and suppliers of custodial goods and services.

John's Grocery - www.johnsgrocery.com
This family owned business strives to educate the customer on the diversity, history, and benefits of imported and microbrewed beer. One of the Internet's best sites for information about beer.

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.

Ministry of Health - www.moh.govt.nz
The Ministry of Health develops policy advice for the Government on health and disability issues, administers health regulations and legislation, funds health and disability support services, plans and maintains nationwide frameworks and specifications of services, monitors sector performance and provides information to the wider health and disability sector and the public.

New Zealand Beef and Lamb - www.nzbeeflamb.co.nz
Promoting the use of NZ Beef and Lamb, this is an excellent sites for recipes and meal ideas, whether for the family or a restaurant meal.

New Zealand Food Safety Authority - www.nzfsa.govt.nz
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority website provides information on how to protect and promote public health and safety in relation to food and facilitates access to markets for New Zealand food and food related products.

New Zealand Seafood Industry - www.seafood.co.nz
Aims to promote the seafood industry in New Zealand. Website also provides recipes, information on handling and cooking as well as teaching resources.

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

Restaurant Association of New Zealand - www.restaurantnz.co.nz
The Association serves and represents owners and managers of food service operations. It is the principal party representing this industry.

Tourism Industry Association of New Zealand - www.tianz.org.nz
TIANZ is a membership-based and funded organisation representing the interests of over 3,500 businesses throughout the tourism industry.

Tourism New Zealand - www.tourisminfo.govt.nz
Tourism New Zealand's site for everyone interested in and associated with the New Zealand tourism industry.

Tourism Research Council New Zealand - www.trcnz.govt.nz
This site provides free access to all of the government's core tourism statistics and information.

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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