Music, audio & video

World-class documentaries, award-winning educational films, and helpful instructional videos on every known subject.

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Streaming audio of classical, jazz, and world music. Includes an American music collection with country, folk and blues grass and R&B, also the Smithsonian Global Music collection.

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A wide range of fiction and nonfiction eAudiobooks for adults, young adults and children with a great selection of Australian and New Zealand titles.

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Access available for Christchurch residents only. 

Unlimited access to thousands of fine art and hand-crafting classes.

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Streaming video collection aimed at children.

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On-demand streaming video service with a large collection of award-winning independent, international and classic films, and documentaries.

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Learn the most in-demand Business, Technology and Creative skills. LinkedIn Learning is a online learning platform where you can tailor your learning for professional and personal development. Choose from over 18,000 courses and tutorials on software, technology, creative and business skills designed and taught by industry experts. The Learning Interface and some course videos are available in Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.

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Streaming over 9000 jazz albums, from jazz legends to contemporary jazz. Online music streaming on computer or on the Naxos Jazz app ad-free.

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Online classical music library of streaming music. Over 150,000 albums including standard and rare recordings, album notes, reference and tuition material.

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Streaming over 10,000 world music albums, from legendary historical performances to contemporary world music.

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Natural history videos focused on New Zealand's people, places, wildlife and environment. Part of New Zealand Geographic Archive.

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Electronic reference library of technology, digital media, business and management titles. From artificial intelligence and mark-up languages to desktop publishing and networking, O'Reilly for Public Libraries contains eBooks, eAudiobooks, and video courses by experts in their fields.

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eBook and eAudiobook collection containing thousands of fiction and non-fiction titles for adults, young adults and children.

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