New Brighton Library to close for improvements from 4pm Sun 24 September, scheduled to re-open 9am Monday 13 November
New Brighton Library will be closed for improvements for seven weeks from Monday 25 September 2023 and is scheduled to reopen on Monday 13 November 2023. Find out more.
Transport
- The number 5, 60 and 135 bus routes stop nearby. See the Metroinfo timetables for more information.
- Purchase and top up Metrocards
- Bike stands
- Off street parking, including 2 electric vehicle charging stations.
Services and facilities
- Services available at all Christchurch City Libraries
- Book a librarian one on one sessions
- AED (Automated External Defibrillator)
- After hours returns bin in car park
- Parenting room
- Toilets off pier building foyer
- Bookable spaces
- Events at New Brighton library
- Purchase and top up Metrocards
- Niwa piercam
Computers and technology
- Auahatanga - Creative Spaces including 3D printing, heat press, DTG Direct to Garment Printing, and craft cutter.
- Janome AR1012 sewing machine (and kit including: machine needles, pins, seam ripper, needle threader, tape measure, needles for hand sewing and darning, and a variety of cotton colours)
- 8 public computers with free internet access
- From 1 February the former New Brighton Learning Centre will operate as Te Papatipu Matihiko. The computer lab machines will be unavailable until further notice.
- Children's computer
- Playstation 4
- Free wireless internet access
- Scan to email or USB
- Printing & copying
Collections
- Fiction and nonfiction
- Magazines
- CDs and DVDs
- Children’s and young adults’ material
- Jigsaws
- Large print and Talking books
- Newspapers
- Ngā Pounamu Māori
Photographs of New Brighton Library
