Library Opening Hours Revisited - and Restored!

The recently announced change to the Library's opening hours has been rescinded and we will now be open for the same hours as for 2006 effective from 2 April -

Albany

Monday – Friday 8.30am – 10pm
Saturday – Sunday 10am – 8pm

Turitea

Monday – Thursday 8am – 11pm
Friday 8am – 8pm
Saturday – Sunday 10am – 8pm

Hokowhitu

Monday – Thursday 8.30am – 6pm
Friday 8.30am – 5pm
Sunday 1pm – 5pm

Wellington

Monday – Thursday 8.30am – 11pm
Friday 8.30am – 8pm
Saturday – Sunday 10am – 8pm

Statutory holidays

Good Friday (6 April): closed at all libraries

Easter Saturday (7 April) through to University Holiday (Tuesday 10 April): 10am – 8pm Albany, Wellington and Turitea (closed for this whole period at Hokowhitu)

ANZAC Day 25 April): 12 – 8pm Albany, Wellington and Turitea (closed Hokowhitu)

Queen’s Birthday (4 June): 10am – 8pm Albany, Wellington and Turitea (closed Hokowhitu)

Labour Day (22 October): 10am – 8pm Albany, Wellington and Turitea (closed Hokowhitu)

Important Postings from 2006

Before the 2007 academic year gets fully underway now is a good time to look back at some of the 2006 postings to our blog, Science News from Massey University Library, that are still highly relevant -

The Massey Digital Commons - making your research visible on the web.

New Scientific Encyclopedias - Encyclopedia of Life Sciences and Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences.

Library Information for Extramural Students - insert for your study guides.

Import of Google Scholar Records into EndNote - if you understand what this means you will probably want to do it!

IT Help for Students in the Library

Linking to Electronic Journal Articles from WebCT - making the scientific literature accessible to your students.

Library Opening Hours for 2007

Library opening hours have been reduced for 2007 due to budget constraints. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Academic year opening hours will be as follows:

Albany
Monday – Thursday 8.30am – 10pm
Friday 8.30am – 6pm
Saturday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm

Turitea
Monday – Thursday 8am – 11pm
Friday 8am – 6pm
Saturday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm

Hokowhitu
Monday – Thursday 8.30am – 6pm
Friday 8.30am – 5pm

Wellington
Monday – Thursday 8.30am – 11pm
Friday 8.30am – 6pm
Saturday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm

All libraries will be closed over the Easter period (6 – 10 April) and ANZAC Day (25 April). Please see the Library website for further details.

Any concerns about opening hours may be addressed to the University Librarian, John Redmayne.

Microsoft Office Training In the Library

Do you feel uncomfortable using a computer?

Friendly IT Assistants can help you learn how to use Microsoft Office for your study. There will be useful tips for writing essays, reports and presentations.
We can also show you some little tricks to make your computer use quicker and easier. This is free to all Massey students!

When is it happening?

(All sessions will be held at the Turitea Library from 7pm– 8.15pm)
· Wednesday, 7 March (Excel I)
· Monday, 12 March (Word I)
· Wednesday, 14 March (Excel II)
· Monday, 19 March (Word II)
· Wednesday, 21 March (PowerPoint I)
· Wednesday, 28 March (Excel I)

How can I make a booking?

· Ask at the Information Desk at the 2nd floor of the Turitea Library
· Phone us at (06) 350 – 5670 ext 2121
· Email to: asklib@massey.ac.nz with your name and student ID number

For more information please visit:

http://library.massey.ac.nz/aboutus/informationcommons.htm

New Titles On FOODnetBASE

• ISBN: 0849315727 - Dictionary of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
  Health professionals are recognizing the major role that nutraceuticals play in health enhancement. As a result, there is a dramatic increase in research aimed at identifying new functional foods and nutraceuticals. There is not, however, a single source that presents this research in a thorough and accessible manner. Comprehensive and complete, the Dictionary of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods is the first reference of its kind written explicitly for this rapidly developing field.
  
  
• ISBN: 0849319110 - Environmentally Friendly Technologies for Agricultural Produce Quality
  While ecology as a whole continues to receive considerable attention, postharvest food handling, until recently, had not been examined from a green perspective. This has changed as health-conscious consumers look to improve both their diets and their environment. Environmentally Friendly Technologies for Agricultural Produce Quality is the first book to take a focused look from an ecological point of view at the way produce is preserved, packaged, and shipped. The book's editor, Shimshon Ben-Yeh...
  
  
• ISBN: 0849324416 - Functional Food Ingredients and Nutraceuticals: Processing Technologies
  A growing awareness of the contributions that functional foods, bioactive compounds, and nutraceuticals make to health is creating a tremendous market for these products. In order for manufacturers to match this demand with stable, high volume production while maintaining defined and reliable composition, they must have ready access to the very latest information emerging in the literature.
  
  
• ISBN: 082472657X - Handbook of Brewing, Second Edition
  It has been ten years since its first edition, making the Handbook of Brewing, Second Edition the must have resource on the science and technology of beer production. It recounts how during this time, the industry has transformed both commercially and technically and how many companies have been subsumed into large multinationals while at the other extreme, microbreweries have flourished in many parts of the world. It also explains how massive improvements in computer power and automation have m...
  
  
• ISBN: 0849372445 - Measurement and Control in Food Processing
  The industrial world consumes millions of kilos of processed food per day. Consistency of taste and texture, standards of raw materials, adherence to health codes, and uniform weights, are established industry specifications. Failure to meet any one of these can result in tons of food destroyed and billions of dollars lost. By the end of the 20th century the growing reliance on computers had shifted food quality and safety activities from human inspection to automated, statistically driven moni...
  
  
• ISBN: 1574445685 - Sensory-Directed Flavor Analysis
  Today, flavor chemists can generate copious amounts of data in a short time with relatively little effort using automated solid phase micro-extraction, Gerstel-Twister® and other extraction techniques in combination with gas chromatographic (GC) analysis. However, more data does not necessarily mean better understanding. In fact, the ability to extract, isolate, and concentrate potential flavor-important chemicals from complex food systems has surpassed the ability to understand how the chemical...
  
  
• ISBN: 0824706889 - Vitamin E: Food Chemistry, Composition, and Analysis
  Meeting industry demand for an authoritative, dependable resource, Vitamin E: Food Chemistry, Composition, and Analysis provides insight into the vast body of scientific knowledge available on vitamin E related to food science and technology. Coverage of these topics is intertwined with coverage of the food delivery system, basic nutrition, and food regulations, as well as the functional food and the pharmaceutical industries, and the excellent efforts of scientists worldwide who are unraveling ...