Students arriving for the first time at university can be overwhelmed: numerous people, diverse buildings, the campus to navigate, lots to do and general information overload. A number of strategies are developed to assist ...

Traditionally Maori have been viewed as having no written form of communication prior to the European colonization of New Zealand. The aim of this paper is to determine whether Ta Moko, Maori facial tattooing, can be ...

Based on student responses to a 1999 survey conducted at the University of Otago Science library, traditional tours are not a popular part of the existing user education program. In order to combine an effective learning ...

The Otago Biodiversity Data Management Project investigated the feasibility of managing, curating and sharing University of Otago biodiversity research data. This article discusses how the Project came about and how a mixed ...

When a life scientist pointed to a pile of unpublished, uncatalogued reports, stacked untidily on the floor of his office, he unwittingly started a series of conversations that were to bring the Library and many researchers ...

Before deploying a software system we need to assure ourselves (and stake-holders) that the system will behave correctly. This assurance is usually done by testing the system. However, it is intuitively obvious that adaptive ...

The ‘Otago Biodiversity Data Management Project’ aims to establish the framework for managing and sharing Otago biodiversity primary research data. This 12-month Library funded initiative has the support of the University ...