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General Collection
The following subject headings are useful for finding items:
| Accounting |
697 |
| Business Communication |
658.45 |
| Communication |
302.2 |
| Customer Service |
647.94 |
| Foreign Exchange |
332.456 |
| Hospitality and Hotel Management |
647.94 |
| Hotel |
647.95 |
| Study Skills |
371.30281 |
Search the catalogue (Type in keywords in the search window).
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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:
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.
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The Reference Collection
| The Australian & New Zealand Wine Industry Directory |
R663.2 AUS |
| The Complete Beverage Dictionary |
R796 BOO |
| Directory of Wines and Spirits |
R641.2203 PRI |
| Encyclopedia of Wines and Spirits |
R641.2103 LIC |
| The Oxford Companion to Wine |
R641.2203 OXF |
| The Source: the directory for professionals in the accommodation, food service, liquor and tourism industries of NZ |
R647.9493 SOU |
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 -
 Read the full reference book online
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Journals
| Cuisine |
641 CUI |
| Drinks NZ : Allied Liquor Merchants trade magazine |
641.21 DRI |
| Food & Beverage Marketplace |
647.95 FOO |
| Hospitality |
647.94 HOS |
| Journal of Hospitality & Leisure Marketing |
641.9406 JOU |
| Restaurants & Institutions |
647.95 RES |
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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.
(password required off campus)
- 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 .
- 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.
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.
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Websites |
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Hotel & Catering International Management Association - www.hcima.org.uk
HCIMA is the professional association for managers in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industries. Members of the Association are represented in all sectors of the industry including hotels, caterers, restaurants, pubs and clubs, etc.
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Hospitality Industry - www.hospitality-industry.com
A portal that gives all the latest news from the industry and links to interesting related sites.
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International Hotel and Restaurant Association - www.ih-ra.com |
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Statistics New Zealand - www.statistics.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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Tourism NZ - www.tourisminfo.govt.nz
The official government website for anyone interested in and associated with the New Zealand tourism industry.
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