5 Digital Resources

Find articles from newspapers, magazines, and reference books covering current events, business, politics, sports and many other subjects.

Australia/NZ Reference Centre Plus combines Australasian magazines, newspapers, and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to libraries in Oceania. This database includes leading Australian, New Zealand and international magazines and newspapers in full text; full text reference books; more than 90,000 full text biographies and an Image Collection of more than one million photos, maps and flags. Titles include the Dominion Post and the Manawatu Standard.

Learn how to plan, fund, start or manage your small business.

Coverage includes all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Resources include; sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and websites.

A step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit.

This database helps patrons interested in planning and optimizing their businesses or nonprofits. Built for aspiring entrepreneurs and those with existing small businesses. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through five areas of exploration in order to develop a business plan focused on long-term success.

Create an account to access this resource.

givME offers access to scholarships and awards for individuals.

To assist with finding funding for school or tertiary study, arts, travel, cultural and sporting activities, personal or professional development.

You need to create a givMe account to use this database. Enter your name, email, a password and your Palmerston North City Library card number.

Login to your existing givMe account, with your email and password.

LinkedIn Learning for Library offers free access to thousands of online courses.

LinkedIn Learning for Library, helps users learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Library members have access to a video library of top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts.

A LinkedIn profile is not required to access LinkedIn Learning for Library, only a library card and PIN. Your learning history is tied to your library card.

The LinkedIn Learning app is now available for library members. After you download it from your app store, click on Sign in, then click on Sign in with your library card to log in through our Library.

You’ll be prompted to enter our Library’s ID, and then your library card number and pin.

Note: the Library ID is at the end of the LinkedIn Learning invitation link, and is palmerstonnorthcitylibrary (lower case and one word).