The 32 atolls and coral islands that form the Republic of Kiribati are most often associated with the immediate impacts of global climate change and rising sea levels. However, Kiribati also has a unique oral tradition, art and culture.Read more…
Get started at your library
There’s a lot more to the library than our books. Discover IT and Learning Essentials, academic skills workshops, and find your community.Read more…
New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre: 20 years online
The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre went live 20 years ago on 20 July 2001, making it one of the country’s longest-running poetry hubs.Read more…
Short loan and digitisation requests
As we are no longer at heightened Alert Levels, the digitisation services for our 2-hour short loan collections has ceased. Please visit our collections to access materials. Click and Deliver and overseas students can continue to request materials. Read more…
A mystery building, a pirate ship and other architectural treasures
A pirate ship cabaret and tearooms is one of the treasures housed in a collection of architectural drawings by architect S S Alleman (1901-1978).Read more…
Communist Party centenary: The Party and the hangover
James Hector: a note from the past
James Hector (1834-1907) was a leading scientist and administrator in Aotearoa. For Hector Day, Special Collections highlights a handwritten note by Hector left in a zoological journal.Read more…
We are making changes to Te Herenga Mātauranga Whānui | General Library
We are making some changes in the General Library to re-organise our collections and optimise library space.Read more…
Te Tumu Herenga: Our name and our story
Celebrate Māori Language Week and learn the story behind our name, Te Tumu Herenga.Read more…
Make a great start this semester
Achieve your learning goals by developing new skills and creating new habits this semester.Read more…
Picturing Cultural Collections
A series of photographs are hanging in the Special Collections Reading Room in the General Library. Read their backstories and discover more about Cultural Collections.Read more…
Help for Creative Arts and Industries students using library resources
The Fine Arts and Architecture and Planning collections are in their new home in the Library. Visit the General Library and view the new locations.Read more…
Special Collections: delivering tailored services
Special Collections artists’ books display
View the artists’ books display at Special Collections in the General Library until Friday 6 March.Read more…
Honouring Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki
Holiday treasures unearthed
Cultural Collections: Delivering digitised archives
We’ve made requesting items more convenient
Niue Language Week
The Fine Arts Library closed at the end of Semester Two 2019
The Fine Arts Library closed on Monday 18th November 2019. From 2020 the Fine Arts books, journals and supporting services will be available from the General Library.Read more…
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
Customary meets contemporary in whakapapa-inspired artwork
The Architecture and Planning Library is now closed
The Architecture and Planning Library closed at the end of Semester One. From Semester Two the Architecture and Planning books, journals and supporting services will be available from the General Library. Read more…
General Library turns 50
First World War armistice: Clear the line
General Library recycling bins
Journeys of an historic handpress
Ngā Kura Māori: The Native Schools System 1867-1969
Launch of Chinese rare books catalogue
The tomokanga of Te Herenga Mātauranga Whānui
“The First Girl Graduates”: The legacy of Kate Edger
Miss Butterfield’s busy year
‘The Balloon of the Mind’: Yeats, Donnelly and Cuala Press
