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
