Our eLibrary
Check out our extensive list of online resources below.
Carry the library in your pocket
Your one-stop app for all library related things.
eBooks
Read a huge range of fiction and nonfiction in our eBook collections for adults, young adults and children.
eAudioBooks
Enjoy an eAudiobook on your daily commute, a road trip or while you take a walk. Download our wide range of eAudiobooks for all ages.
BorrowBox is home to the greatest authors of the world’s best eAudiobooks.
For the best user experience, download the BorrowBox app:
Libby by Overdrive offers a great range of adult, teen, and youth eAudiobooks.
How to download and eAudiobook.
Magazines & Newspapers
Read current issues of major newspapers and magazines from New Zealand and around the world.
History and Heritage
Ancestry.com is the largest online resource for family history information.
Only available in libraries.
The BWB The New Zealand History Collection
The New Zealand History collection provides access to a range of resources on the history of New Zealand and its ongoing relevance today.
The BWB Treaty of Waitangi Collection
The Treaty of Waitangi collection provides access to a range of resources on the history of the Treaty of Waitangi and its ongoing relevance today.
Papers Past: View digitized New Zealand newspapers from 1839-1945, including three Northland newspapers.
Rediscovery is a database providing digital access to heritage photos, documents, maps and related ephemera capturing the Far North District’s past.
Search the Te Ahu Museum collection.
Funding and Scholarships
Looking for grants or scholarships for yourself or your community group?
Generosity NZ is the largest digital search facility for funding information in Aotearoa.
You can use Generosity NZ's online platform to search for billions of dollars worth of opportunities - scholarships, grants and awards for individuals (using givME), and businesses, schools, community groups and clubs (using givUS).
When you first sign up you will need a library card number to access Generosity NZ. Once you have created an account you can sign in here.
If you don't have a library card, you can sign up using our online form.
Learn a language
Te Ara Poutama, the faculty of Māori and indigenous development and the altLAB at Auckland University of Technology have developed an app to promote the spoken language of Aotearoa.
Do you need some help writing your Pepeha?
Try it here
Nukutawhiti is an interactive game in te reo Maori northern dialect and supported by the Ministry of Education.
Download the free game to your device from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store
Tatau translates to counting in Te Reo Māori, New Zealand's native language. Tatau is a competitive counting game that hopes to teach it's audience how to count to a million in Te Reo Māori.
Movies
Beamafilm lets you stream indie films, search by genre, view trailers and has links for Q&A's and interviews.
Be entertained by Kanopy a video streaming service with thousands of award-winning films and programmes, including documentaries, classic movies, world cinema and New Zealand films.
Sign up for Kanopy here.
Kanopy is free to use with your library card barcode and pin. Kanopy works by using credits. Each month you will get 5 credits.
How credits work:
- Each library member gets five play credits per calendar month
- Once you press play, you will automatically use one play credit
- You have three days to play the film you have selected, watch as many times as you want
- When you have used your credits for the month, you won't be able to watch any more films until the first of the next month.
Watch Kanopy on your computer or download the app to your tv or mobile device.
Find Kanopy help here.
Research and Personal Development
EBSCO Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre and Masterfile are research databases with international articles, journals and general information.
Road to IELTS (International English Language Testing System) is your best possible online preparation and practice resource for IELTS.
Click here and use your library card to access this resource.
Have you tried Google Scholar yet?
Amazing open access content with JSTOR
Car and Motorbike Manuals
Haynes Online Car Manuals provides access to a wide range of car and motorbike manuals.
Coding Resources
Tinkercad is a free easy-to-use website where you can create 3D designs, electronic circuits, and create code.
Click here and start designing your 3D designs today.
Code Combat lets kids learn the basics of coding while playing a fun adventure/dungeon-delving-type game. Code Combat introduces you to different types coding languages like JavaScript, Python, HTML and CoffeeScript, while also learning the fundamentals of computer science.
Click here to start learning how to code with Code Combat.
Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations.
Click here to start coding.
MakeCode is a web-based coding website, it lets you have creative, interactive, and engaging programming experiences for those new to the world of programming.
Check out the MakeCode website.