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Holiday hours
Christmas and New Year holiday hours 2023 / 2024
Ngā mihi o te Kirihimete me te Tau Hou. Check our hours and services over Christmas and New Year 2023 / 2024.
Tamariki - Kids
Best of 2023 for Kids and Teens
Our selectors choose the best new titles for tamariki and rangatahi for 2023. Find books that excite, enthuse, enthral and inform.
Local history
QUIZ: The Twelve (slightly tenuous) Days of Christmas
Work your way through the 12 local history questions of this quiz loosely based on the famous Christmas song.
Te Ao Māori
Me Kōrero Tātou, part of a series
Let's speak and build our te reo Māori skills together! Join us at Shirley Library for a friendly kōrero.
Explore
Comics Plus Children's Library
Read all the comics with unlimited access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels and manga suitable to children and teens under 16.
Comics Plus
Read all the comics with unlimited access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels and manga, For ages 16+.
Creativebug
Unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft video classes.
Crafty Christmas from Creativebug
Craft projects for a range of abilities, from easy to do with kids to those with craft super skills.
Newsletters
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For Readers
Best of 2023
Best of 2023
What reads, watches & listens have you enjoyed this year? Find out what staff and customers loved in 2023 - have your say and win prizes!
New Titles
New Titles
Explore the latest eAudiobooks, eBooks, fiction, large print, non-fiction, & stuff for kids and teens.
Reading recommendations - Fiction
Short stories reading guide
Looking for something you can read easily in a lunch break? Find short stories in a range of genres, hand-picked by librarians.
Reading recommendations - Non-fiction
Popular science reading guide
Popular science takes science and makes it engaging and interesting to read. We recommend some great popular science titles and authors.
Join the library. It's free!
Kia ora and welcome to Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi - join online now.
Recent necrology, November 2023
Some well-known people who have died recently including author A. S. Byatt and musician Shane McGowan.
What you waiting for? December 2023
A monthly selection of titles I am looking forward to. These are the things gracing my holds and for later shelf.
New For You - History & Current Events - December 2023
New additions to the collection that explore history and global issues including politics, media, climate change, racism and more.
New For You - True Crime - December 2023
Hand-picked new additions to the Christchurch City Libraries collection on espionage, crime, murder, and everything in between.
