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Career & Education Planning

Career Services Raupara
Career Services, Settlement Support and Newcomers Network are available on first Tuesday of each month in Hastings Library from 1pm. See Career Services for advice in planning your next steps in education and your career available on their website. May be used in our libraries for no charge. See our Job Seekers page.

BreakOut Database
This database has information on scholarships and funding for individual. Can only be used in our libraries (free but charges for printing).

University Calendars
Print versions of the annual calendars are available in the libraries. You may also use the online versions in the libraries for no charge.

Education Courses
Information on a wide variety of educational courses is available in the libraries.

Homework Help - everyone needs it sometimes!

e.Library

Looking for up-to-date information in reference sources, newspapers, journals, magazines? Check out our list of databases, many may be used from home. They provide easy access to full text information on most topics. More>>

Also check out our Topics and Links page - your topic may be listed there. More>>

Databases

Start searching Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC)

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Student Resource Center - College Edition

A comprehensive reference source for senior high school and tertiary students.

Topics include include geography, culture, history, literature, people, science and health.

Topic resources may include: magazine, journal & newspaper articles, primary documents, images and multimedia, sources citations, further reading, chronology.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

For researching all sides of a controversial issue. More than 100 topics discussed through various sources.

Topics include: animal rights, bioethics, cloning, censorship, euthanasia, gambling, media violence, smoking, terrorism, women's rights and much more.

Topics covered by viewpoint essays, references (with bibliographies), statistics, images, magazine & newspaper articles, primary sources and web site links.

Other resources

Auckland City Libraries has some great study links

Christchurch City Libraries does too

Matapihi Digital images of NZ

Encyclopedia of NZ

Real time...real person...real help with your homework...AnyQuestions.co.nz

Any Questions gives all NZ school students your own on-call online librarian.