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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Beamakids+ is a new section on Beamafilm designed specifically for kids and families. It offers a child safe collection of G, PG and E- rated movies, TV shows and educational documentaries. You can set a unique password to ensure children stay with Beamakids+ through the Parental Control tab in your profile settings, where you can also remove PG-rated selections if you prefer.

You can find it in the main navigation bar on the home page of the website or under the account icon in the app.

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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. 

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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Ad-free, streaming online music library with over 32,000 albums, including contemporary Jazz and Instrumental, Pop and Rock, Blues and Nostalgia. Listen on your computer or use the Naxos Jazz app on a mobile device.

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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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Ad-free, streaming online global music library. It offers legendary historical performances to contemporary world music featuring recordings of over 32,000 artists. Listen on your computer or use the NML World app on a mobile device.

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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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Access OverDrive's eBook, eAudiobook and magazine collection in our library website. Great to use on computers to stream thousands of fiction, non-fiction and magazine titles for adults, young adults and children. eBooks can be transferred to Adobe Digital Editions for download or to transfer to older model Kobo eReaders.

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We recommend OverDrive's Libby App for mobile devices and to download for use offline.