Library resources app
These sources support the following learning types (see definitions):
The Library resources app (or LibGuides) has been integrated with Canvas. It allows you to embed Library subject guides—a collection of resources that are subject-specific for your faculty—within your course. You can embed full guides, parts of guides (i.e., tabs within a guide) or specific content from a guide (e.g., lists of key resources or databases). You can add this content to Canvas pages, modules, or assignments.
The Library subject guides are web pages developed by staff at Te Tumu Herenga, Libraries and Learning Services, to help students find information resources in their discipline. These include databases, books, archival material, maps, statistics, theses, newspapers, and more. Library subject guides also highlight some of our unique Māori, Pacific and New Zealand collections.
How-to guides
Explore the subject guides and decide what you want to add:
Decide where you want to embed content:
Note: You can also choose to add a single database or a list of databases to your page. If you choose to add a list of databases, please be aware that this is a selection of databases listed in the subject guides, and subject tagging may differ from our complete list of Library databases.
We suggest adding the database box from the appropriate subject guide to add a list of relevant subject-specific databases to your Canvas course.
How can you use the Library resources app to help your students?
The Library resources app can help your students discover Library resources in your discipline and where to find different types of information.
Ideas for how to use it:
- Embed a full guide into your welcome or support modules.
- Embed a list of databases or key resources in your assignments.
- Embed the thesis and dissertations guide in your PG course to help students locate examples from their field.
- Create an activity around finding different types of information, e.g., news media, images, maps, statistics and numeric data, standards, patents and more.
- Get students to explore the unique Māori and Pacific resources available through the Library.
Support
If you have any questions about the Library Resources app or the Library Subject Guides, please get in touch with us using the Ask us form.
Page updated 29/08/2024 (page added)