Explore the National Library and Alexander Turnbull Library Collections

Detail of a garden with bright red and yellow begonias.

Like drifts of Chinese primulas The gardens of the Denis Friar collection.

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Detail of the Papers Past homepage

Papers Past: Millions of pages of New Zealand newspapers.

Detail of a woodcut entitled 'Shearing' by Hinehauone Coralie Cook

Shearing - through the eyes of a wood engraver.


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What you can do with the collections

Using the collections

Using collection items in the Katherine Mansfield room

Order and use items, make copies, get help, hire choral and orchestral music for performance, and more.

Caring for your collections

Collection items stored in acid-free boxes

Guides to caring for paper, photographs, audio, and more. Take care of your own precious items with our advice.

Donating items

Filling in a donation form at the Alexander Turnbull Library

Help our collections grow by donating. We would love to have a look at your New Zealand and Pacific material.

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PublicationsNZ

Published works stacked on a shelf

Search everything published in or about NZ.

Find newspaper and journal articles

DigitalNZ

DigitalNZ logo

Find, share, and use millions of pieces of NZ's digital content.

AtoJs Online

Volumes of the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives

Search the full text of the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives.

Papers Past

Headline from Papers Past, reading 'To-day's News'

More than two million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals from between 1839 to 1945.

Royal Society

Drawing of Squid to illustrate paper by T.W.Kirk from the Royal Society of New Zealand

The Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Sir Donald McLean Papers

Detail of seated portrait of Sir Donald McLean, ca. 1865

Search and read unique letters to and from one of the central figures in 19th century New Zealand.

Children's Digital Library

Detail of a page from Te Taniwha i te Kura

One of the Library's books available at the ICDL. ReadTe Taniwha i te Kura.

Te Ao Hou

Detail of June 1963 cover of Te Ao Hou

The complete run of the iconic magazine.

Subscription e-resources

Detail of the Berg Fashion Library website

Access to local and global databases, like the Berg Fashion Library.

Cool items from our collections

Stream HelloElectroland

Detail of the cover of HelloElectroland by Snarlos

Stream New Zealand music: Listen in to Snarlos.

Art at the Library

Detail of an unfinished landscape by Toss Woollaston

Part of the largest art collection in New Zealand: An unfinished landscape by Toss Woollaston.

Take the wide view

Panoramic view of Seatoun, 1920s

Take in the breezy ocean view over Seatoun.

Recently added

100 years ago today

An opinion-piece from The Dominion, 1913, about dancing

News from 100 years ago, today – brought to you by Papers Past.

Can you believe we've got...

Captain Cooks' knife and fork

Captain Cooks' knife and fork.

February on the wall

Detail of Women's cricket poster. February, 1935

Come see the women's team hit it for six at Lancaster.

Plan of Whenuapai air base

Detail of plan of Whenuapai air base

One of many blueprints, maps, and floorplans you can pore over.

Wood engravings

Woodcut by William James Linton entitled 'Boats attacking whales'

"...a dynamic scene of three sperm whales in foreground, with small rowboats negotiating waves caused by the leaping of the whales. On the right one broken rowboat tips its crew into the sea..."