Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia
Aotearoa New Zealand
BWB Texts Collection Academic & Research
Find New Zealand Artists
A comprehensive index of New Zealand artist names that directs researchers to further information sources.
findNZarticles Magazines & journals Newspapers
findNZarticles provides access to New Zealand content, including material by or about New Zealanders, from a range of New Zealand newspapers and journals.
Index New Zealand (INNZ) Reference: dictionaries, encyclopedias etc
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.
Māori Land Court Minute Books Index (MLCMBI) Reference: dictionaries, encyclopedias etc
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.
New Zealand Gazette Archive
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.
New Zealand Geographic Archive
New Zealand History Collection Academic & Research
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.
New Zealand Sign Language Collection Reference: dictionaries, encyclopedias etc
NewsBank – Access New Zealand
NZGeo TV Music, audio & video
Natural history videos focused on New Zealand's people, places, wildlife and environment. Part of New Zealand Geographic Archive.
Papers Past Newspapers Primary resources
Digitised New Zealand newspapers, periodicals, letters, diaries and parliamentary papers from 1839 to 1945. Coverage includes The Press from 1861 to 1979.
Te Kerēme Reference: dictionaries, encyclopedias etc
Te Kerēme is a selective index to the Ngāi Tahu claim.
Te Pouhere Kōrero – Māori History, Māori People New!
Te Puna Reference: dictionaries, encyclopedias etc
Te Puna is a web-based search service giving access to what is held in New Zealand libraries and worldwide.
Critical Issues Collection, The
Treaty of Waitangi Collection, The
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.
Women’s Studies Collection, The
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.
Canterbury
Canterbury Stories
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.
Christchurch City Council Cemeteries Database
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.
CINCH Reference: dictionaries, encyclopedias etc
CINCH, Community INformation CHristchurch contains information for around 6,000 organisations, course providers and individuals.
Discovery Wall
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.
Papers Index Newspapers Reference: dictionaries, encyclopedias etc
An index to selected articles, obituaries and reviews published in The Press, Christchurch Mail, Christchurch Star, Star Midweek and Star Weekender.