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Image searchBrowse and search half a million digital images
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Upcoming events
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Tue 11 Aug, 5:30pm to 7pm Meeting Worlds of Words- a Fulbright experience in Arizona, USA
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Tue 11 Aug, 6pm to 7pm Labour History Project AGM: 'Politics and protest in a time of crisis'
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Wed 12 Aug, 12:10pm to 1pm Rugby League: a New Zealand history
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Thu 13 Aug, 5:30pm to 6:30pm Singing the trail: the story of mapping Aotearoa New Zealand
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Tue 18 Aug, 12:10pm to 1pm Working from home: resources you can access online
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Borrow for an exhibition
You can borrow items from the Alexander Turnbull Library collections to use in public exhibitions in New Zealand or internationally.
Open data
Build new things
Data sets and API access to metadata for millions of records. Grab it and see what you can make!
Rehoming our overseas published collections
Get the latest information about what we are doing with our overseas published collection.
The Drunken Sailor/Rio Grande/Billy Boy (medley)
A recently digitised gem from New Zealand’s musical past.
Music collections
Donate an item
Donate items to the collections
Find out how to donate or bequest an item to our collections.
Preservation advice
Look after special items
Learn how to take care of your precious photographs, books, and digital documents with advice from the National Preservation Office.
Interloan
Our books in your hands
Get National Library materials sent to your local library by making an interloan request. And more.
Communities of Readers
Connecting more children and young people to reading
Learn about the work we are doing in a small number of communities to strengthen reading engagement.
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Turnbull Ephemera
Beautiful and often rare posters, prints, and other materials from daily life.
Turnbull Rare Books
Gorgeous manuscripts, intricate fine printing, and other wonderful objects.
Oral history advice
Become an oral historian
Oral history advice and workshops to get you started, or hone your skills.
From the blog
Nature and nurture: Connecting conservation and wellbeing
Erena Williamson and Nicole Gaston
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Our strategic directions
Turning knowledge into value: this is the National Library's strategic direction to 2030.
See how we're aiming for big changes in taonga, knowledge, and reading.
