Open Polytechnic Library

The Open Polytechnic Library provides services to Te Rito Maioha, giving you access to library resources including course readings, ebooks, books, scholarly articles and more, as well as helping you develop your research skills.

The friendly library team are always happy to answer your questions and to help you find what you need:

• See your Whare Pukapuka/Library Support channel for key announcements
• Call the Library on 0508 650 200 - option 3, 8am-5pm Mon-Fri, or email, library@openpolytechnic.ac.nz

Assistive Technology Tools

Some of you may benefit from using a read aloud app with our ebooks.

There are a number of tools that will work. I usually use Chrome Read Aloud https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-aloud-a-text-to-spee/hdhinadidafjejdhmfkjgnolgimiaplp?hl=en-GB

However, you have to first enable ProQuest ebooks for text-to-speech function.

I’ve made a short video on how to do this:

https://watch.screencastify.com/v/sOALdDiBg1Dj6asZSyH8

You might also be interested to know, we have a page on Assistive Technology Tools on our public facing website, so anyone can view it. It has further tools and information that might also be helpful: 

https://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/current-students/open-polytechnic-online/assistive-technology-tools/