Te Wiki o te Reo Māori: Te reo Māori in the NZFVC library

Did you know that Māori search terms can now be used to search for research and resources in the Clearinghouse library?

Items which may be particularly relevant for Māori and people working with Māori now have te reo Māori topic tags in the Clearinghouse library. A project to add these was completed earlier in 2016.

Topic tags used come from the Ngā Upoko Tukutuku | Māori Subject Headings (MSH) developed by the Māori Subject Headings Project, jointly sponsored by LIANZA, Te Rōpū Whakahau and the National Library for use in libraries. 

Here are just some of the topics you can search:

Please note that not all records in the database have Māori topic tags. If you want to find everything in the database about a particular topic, e.g. "Parenting" you will need to search te reo Pākehā topic too.

Also please note that at present there are no terms in the Ngā Upoko Tukutuku | Māori Subject Headings list for some Pākehā concepts and words commonly used in family violence, for example: "intervention", "prevention" or "perpetrators." Te reo speakers may be able to suggest appropriate terms. We could then offer these to the MSH project team, to contribute to the continual development of this valuable resource for all New Zealand libraries. 

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori | Māori Language Week runs from 4-10 July 2016. They key message from Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori | Māori Language Commission is "ākina te reo" ("give te reo Māori a go").