Albany Library staff will be moving books to the new library from Monday 23rd November. This will have some impact on access to the book collection.

From this date, Level 3 of the Albany Library (where the main book collection is currently located), will be closed to students. The books will still be available for you to borrow, but Library staff will retrieve them for you. If you need a book that is showing as "Available" on Level 3 on the Library catalogue, please request it online. You will be able to collect the book from the Lending Desk. Please do ask for assistance - Library staff will be happy to help you locate what you need!

Please also note: Albany Library will be CLOSED from Friday 4 December- Wednesday 9 December, when the new library building will be opening.

The Library is delighted to announce that EndNote X3 is now available for purchase. Instructions for obtaining X3 are on the ITS EndNote page.

EndNote X3 offers the same range of features as X2, but with extended capabilities in many aspects - including significantly enhanced off-campus and wireless full-text access.

Those with EndNote versions older than X2 should upgrade to X3, making sure to uninstall the old version before installing the new one. X2 users may wish to consider upgrading to gain its improved full-text downloading capabilities. (Alternatively, X2 users can download and run the Massey Profile Installer to get the latest Massey configuration, including the new APA 6th style.)

EndNote X3 will available on Information Commons and Lab machines in due course.

Help and Assistance

• The Library provides a Quick Start Guide and a more comprehensive Introductory EndNote handout. It also has a dynamic Quick Start Guide. (Note: these may be for X2 but the instructions should be similar for X3. )
• Massey University Library also regularly runs Introductory EndNote Tutorials.
• There are also tips for configuring Mac machines to the Massey standard
• Endnote installs with a Getting Started Guide that provides introductory instructions, as well as the full detailed EndNote X3 Manual. These are located in the EndNote program folder.
• The EndNote website also provides a basic dynamic online tutorial.

Please direct any queries to:

• Your Liaison Librarian (staff and postgraduate students), or
• Contact the Library, or
• Ask at the Information Desk in your campus library.

A big welcome to new or returning students who are studying over summer! Feel free to contact us if you need any assistance with anything related to the Library. A great starting place for becoming familiar with, or reminding yourself of, our services is to check out The Library for pages. Here you will find handy links to useful parts of our website, tailored to your specific needs as an undergraduate, extramural or postgraduate student etc.

Another feature that will save you time on our website are the Subject Guides - these provide links to useful things such as reference resources and the most useful article databases for a range of subjects. They are worth checking out if you are new to a subject area, or if you would like to check that you aren't missing out on anything useful!

You can find the opening hours for all of the Massey Libraries on our website too.

Good luck with your studies!

(Here's hoping we will see more than a virtual sun this summer even if we are stuck inside studying or working!)

The Massey University website redesign has meant our Library site has also changed. You’ll find the content has remained the same but the look of the site has been updated.

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The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive is now on trial, through until 30 November.

The TLS Historical Archive dates from 1902 to 2005. This complete online facsimile edition, which is updated annually and features full-text searching, allows you to explore an archive of over 300,000 reviews, letters and poems, and to access previously unpublished, comprehensive biographical information about contributors – many of whom originally wrote for the paper anonymously.

Please submit feedback to Julia Old, Electronic Services Librarian.