eLibrary Databases
Gale Databases
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Entertainment
| Beamafilm allows you to stream over a thousand documentaries, movies, independent features, educational & foreign films for free. Free access with your Library Membership number. Start by typing HB Williams Memorial Library into the search box on the Beamafilm webpage. |  |
Books, Authors and Literary Works
| Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. |
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| Gale Literary Sources: Search over multiple literature databases with intuitive subject indexing. Databases available within this search are the Literature Resource Centre and LitFinder. |
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Business
| Business Insights: Global is a unique source for international business intelligence offering a convenient war to find case studies, in-depth statistics data, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries. |  |
| Search Gale Business: Entrepreneurship to learn how to plan, fund, start or manage your small business. Resources include; sample business plans, how-to guides, articles and websites. |  |
Community
| Community funding advice or assistance, see the Gisborne District Council website. |  |
| Scholarships try careers.govt.nz . |  |
| Disability grants and scholarships visit Firstpoint. |  |
Encyclopedia
| Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Library Edition Find answers for simple or complex questions in this easy to use and interactive online encyclopedia. Choose your level: kids, teens or adults. Free access from home with your library membership. |  |
| Britannica ImageQuest draws on image libraries from the likes of Getty and the National Portrait Gallery to provide high-quality, trustworthy images. Every photo and illustration is fully referenced with metadata information, including the source, the rights holder, caption and keywords. |  |
Environmental
| Gale in Context: Environmental Studies focuses on the physical and social aspects of environmental issues. |  |
Genealogy
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Ancestry Library Edition - Access within the HB Williams Memorial Library only. Ancestry brings with world's most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library. Watch Tutorial |
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Health
| Gale Health and Wellness offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. |  |
Newspapers
| Gale Onefile News - a full-text aggregated newspaper resource that provides access to more than 2,300 newspapers around the world. Additional material includes radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. The platform features include a Topic Finder and a mobile-optimized interface and allows unlimited simultaneous users including remote access. |  |
| The Gisborne Herald - users within the library can access our online subscription to The Gisborne Herald. |  |
| Newsbank Features more than 150 sources including The New Zealand Herald; The Dominion Post; Sunday Star Times, Otago Daily Times; The Press; Waikato Times. It offers local, regional and national perspectives on current issues and events. Access with your Library Membership. |  |
| Pipiwharauroa a monthly Maori-language newspaper, supplied within The Gisborne Herald. |  |
| PapersPast has a selection of historic Gisborne Newspapers. |  |
New Zealand
| Australia New Zealand Reference Centre Plus combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information. Sign in with your Library Membership. |  |
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BWB - New Zealand History Collection Over 30 years of award-winning history publishing combines into an authoritative resource of life in Aotearoa, from earliest beginnings to present day. |
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BWB - New Zealand History Collection Must be logged into library account for off-site access |
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| Index New Zealand (INNZ) is a New Zealand searchable database that contains abstracts and descriptions of articles from about 1000 New Zealand periodicals and newspapers published from the 1950s to the present day. |  |
| Maori Land Court Minute Books Index provides quick and easy access to over 1100 handwritten minute book records which were made between 1865 and 1910, from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu and Waipounamu Maori Land Court Districts. |  |
| New Zealand Journal of History is a journal for academic writing on New Zealand history and included contributions from New Zealand's most famous historians. |  |
Research Databases
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EBSCO: Masterfile Complete, a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for nearly 1950 general reference publications dating as far back as 1975. Sign in with your Library Membership. |
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| Gale General OneFile provides access to an unprecedented number of general reference magazines and key serials in a single resource. This database is useful to users conducting general reference queries, business searches, and current event research. |  |
| Gale in Context Middle School combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Students will find outstanding support to complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history. |  |
| Gale Power Search search tools include topic finder and subject guide search. Search over multiple databases with this power search tool. |  |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialised reference sources for multidisciplinary research. |  |
Research by Topic
| Gale in Context Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. |  |
| Gale in Context Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current features. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. |  |