Welcome to the Junior Collection

After some interim locations in Te Herenga Mātauranga Whānui | General Library, we’re excited to announce that the Junior Collection materials are now in their final homes on Levels 1 and M.

This material has a curriculum focus to support junior and young adult classroom teaching practice.

This collection is made up of a number of discrete areas, and these are the Locations that you will see in the Catalogue. They include:

• Junior Fiction
• Junior Non-Fiction
• Junior Picture Books
• Sophisticated Picture Books
• School Journals
• Young Adult Fiction
• Junior Oversize (Non-Fiction and Fiction)
• Pictures (Posters)

This collection sits alongside the Mātauranga Māori Collection and includes:

• Māori Junior Non-Fiction, including Early Childhood series and Māori language readers
• Māori Junior Picture Books
• Māori Sophisticated Picture Books
• Māori Junior Fiction
• Māori Young Adult Fiction
• Māori Junior Oversize (Non-Fiction and Fiction)
• Māori Pictures (Posters)

This collection is at the beginning of the Pacific Collection and includes:

• Pacific Junior Non-Fiction
• Pacific Junior Picture Books
• Pacific Junior Fiction
• Pacific Young Adult Fiction
• Pacific Junior Oversize (Non-Fiction and Fiction)
• Pacific Pictures (Posters)

Given the large format of Pictures, they are not able to be self-issued.

To borrow a Picture remove it from the large plastic sleeve and take it to the Student Hub Help Desk on Level G. The staff will issue the Picture along with a protective Picture Tube to your library account.

Please return the Picture and protective Tube to the Student Hub Help Desk.

As well as browsing the Junior Collection books on Levels 1 and M, a wider range of resources is available to you online and on request from the On-Demand Collection, through searching the Catalogue.

• Use juvenile as a keyword, not junior, e.g. juvenile literature, Māori juvenile literature, Pacific juvenile literature
• Create keyword searches that combine a collection area with a topic, title or author, e.g. picture books nature, picture books matariki
• Too many results? Once you have a search result, use the Catalogue filters to further narrow your search, e.g. picture books nature refined to Subject: Nature Fiction, or picture books matariki refined to Subject: Māori Language Materials.
  

For in-depth searching tips see the Education and Social Work Study and Research Hub, Classroom teaching resources module.

Any questions? Please Ask us.