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• N4L's Pond portal unveiled

  Network for Learning’s (N4L) portal for schools, Pond, was unveiled at the Festival of Education in Auckland last week.

• Internet report shows digital divide among Kiwis

  Maori and Pasifika New Zealanders are less likely to use the Internet with 14 per cent of people being non-users, compared to 7 per cent of New Zealand Europeans and 3 per cent of Asians.

• National Library harvests NZ’s web

  The National Library will be conducting its second “web harvest” of New Zealand websites, from May 12 to 25.

• National Library extension to showcase digital collections

  Extensions to the National Library in Wellington will place more emphasis on the digital aspects of the collection and will make them more accessible and more obvious to visitors.

• ANZACs remembered online

  Websites hosted by the National Library offered their own observation of Anzac Day with images, articles and multimedia recordings of New Zealand and Australian war experiences. The Matapihi, Te Ao Hou, Publications New Zealand and Timeframes websites all contributed to this year's commemorations.

• Sytec wins library deal

  TelstraClear-owned IT consultancy Sytec has notched up another contract win, close on the heels of it and its parent being awarded the $43 million deal to build the research and education advanced network.

• Budget brightens 'digital Dark Ages'

  Budget cash may help stave off a predicted "digital Dark Ages" by funding the archival of important national information available only in electronic form.

• Early days in web harvesting

  Providers don't want supplying content to becomea burden

• Library takes on e-government responsibility

  The e-government unit and the National Library have marked a small landmark in the implementation of e-government by signing the first service-level agreement (SLA) for transferring an e-government standard into formal operational mode.