Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia

Trace your family history. Includes records from United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Available remotely until 31 December 2021.

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A rich resource for perspectives on major contentious social, political, and technological issues that are relevant to New Zealand and Australia.

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Collection of full text leading Australia/New Zealand magazines, newspapers, newswires, biographies and reference books.

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A series of short books on big subjects from Bridget Williams Books: succinct narratives spanning history, memoir, contemporary issues, science and more from great New Zealand writers. Packed full of fresh thinking, ideas and critical analysis of subjects relevant to New Zealand.

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Canterbury Stories is our place for collecting and presenting online collections from our digitised archives, publications, photographs and community. Canterbury Stories includes material from Photo Hunts, exhibitions on Christchurch places and themes, sets of images, as well as a growing collection of archive and published material.

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This database covers interments in Christchurch City Council managed cemeteries. Apart from some on Banks Peninsula, church cemeteries are not included. There are very few records for the Barbadoes Street cemetery listed. Cremation details are not included in this database unless there was an ashes burial.

Details of interments from Christchurch City Council cemeteries compiled by the Greenspace Unit of the Christchurch City Council.

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CINCH, Community INformation CHristchurch contains information for around 6,000 organisations, course providers and individuals.

Online access to over 40 key books from Bridget Williams Books, addressing the big issues facing New Zealand today including housing, inequality, climate change, child poverty, the environment, migration, financial crisis, and more.

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The Discovery Wall showcases images and videos curated from the Christchurch City Libraries Digital Heritage collection, you can visit the wall at Tūranga or the Mobile Discovery Wall when it visits your local library or you can search or browse the images on our Discovery Wall website. You can contribute to the Discovery Wall by uploading images or videos.

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A research tool for students that searches across multiple sources in a single search. Includes a range of topic overviews

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A comprehensive index of New Zealand artist names that directs researchers to further information sources.

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findNZarticles provides access to New Zealand content, including material by or about New Zealanders, from a range of New Zealand newspapers and journals.

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An index of abstracts and descriptions of articles in New Zealand publications from the 1950's to the present in English, and from September 2007 in te reo Māori.

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Explore Kete Christchurch, create topics, add images, documents, audio and video. Comment on existing material and connect your stories with others.

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Copies of issues of the New Zealand Gazette and related publications from 1841 to the present. Available in PDF format. Access this at any of our libraries.

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Lingogo is a digital library app to enjoy great stories and immerse yourself in te reo Māori.

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We no longer subscribe to the Knowledge Basket version, you can now access this via the University of Auckland website.

The MLCMBI is an index to the volumes of Māori Land Court Minute Books produced by The Māori Land Court — Te Kooti Whenua Māori. The Māori Land Court Minute Books contain judges' notes on court sittings from 1865 to 1910 from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu, and Waipounamu Māori Land Court Districts.

Physical copies of the South Island and Chatham Island minutes are held in the Ngā Pounamu Māori Centre. The entire collection is available at the Macmillan Brown Library.

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Over 600 in-depth features about our country, natural history and culture. Also includes NZGeo TV which contains hundreds of hours of natural history video.

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The New Zealand History Collection provides complete online access to a major, authoritative resource – over thirty years of award-winning history and biography publishing from Bridget Williams Books. Over ninety titles,  including recent additions to BWB’s history list such as the widely acclaimed Great War for New Zealand by Vincent O’Malley, as well as multiple works by late historian Judith Binney.

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The New Zealand Sign Language Collection has reference material alongside  accounts of Deaf experience. Using rich multimedia and visuals which could not be delivered to libraries in traditional means. Includes access to Rachel McKee's New Zealand Sign Language: A Reference Grammar.

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The largest online collection of national, regional, rural, and local news sources from across the North and South Islands.

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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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An index to selected articles, obituaries and reviews published in The Press, Christchurch Mail, Christchurch Star, Star Midweek and Star Weekender.

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Digitised New Zealand newspapers, periodicals, letters, diaries and parliamentary papers from 1839 to 1945. Coverage includes The Press from 1861 to December 1945.

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Te Kerēme is a selective index to the Ngāi Tahu claim.

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Te Puna is a web-based search service giving access to what is held in New Zealand libraries and worldwide. 

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The Treaty of Waitangi Collection brings together leading thinking on this foundational document, including works by acclaimed scholars such as Claudia Orange, Judith Binney, Vincent O’Malley, Alan Ward and Aroha Harris. This Collection is a living resource backed by a long-term vision for Treaty scholarship into the twenty-first century.

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The Women's Studies Collection from Bridget Williams Books provides access to the history of New Zealand women, and a series of ground-breaking books on women's issues, lives and histories. The Collection includes the widely acclaimed A History of New Zealand Women by Barbara Brookes, and The Women’s Suffrage Petition 1893. Significant biographies (Suzanne Aubert, Lauris Edmond, Pauline O’Regan) enrich the historical narrative, alongside key works on politics, economics and feminism.

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