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- Index New Zealand (INNZ)
- Italian Art Collection
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Schools Lending Collection
The Schools Lending Collection provides resources to support the New Zealand education curriculum and the development of young New Zealanders as engaged readers and learners.
What’s in the Schools Lending Collection
The collection includes over 500,000 fiction and non-fiction books that can be borrowed by registered New Zealand primary, composite, and secondary schools, and home educators (homeschoolers).
Books are in English, Māori, and Pasifika languages and a range of languages to support migrant and refugee students.
Access items in this collection
The collection is held at the Auckland and Christchurch National Library Services to Schools Centres.
View books in the collection — National Library catalogue
Borrow items in this collection
Teachers and home educators can borrow Schools Lending Collection items through their school loan coordinator.
Other users can borrow specific Schools Lending Collection books by interloan through New Zealand or overseas libraries.
- Caring for your collections
- A-Z of our collections
- Alexander Turnbull Library Collections
- Archive of New Zealand Music
- Arthur Nelson Field Collection
- AtoJs Online
- Carling Collection
- Cartographic Collection
- Corelli Collection
- Danish Collection
- Dorothy Neal White Collection
- Drawings, Paintings, and Prints
- Earp Collection
- Ephemera Collection
- Esperanto Collection
- Family History Collection
- Fiction Collection
- Fleck Collection
- Fraser Collection
- findNZarticles
- Gaelic Collection
- General Lending Collection
- General Reference Collection
- General Serials Collection
- Hodson Collection
- Ian F. Grant Cartoon Research Collection
- Index New Zealand (INNZ)
- Italian Art Collection
- Laird Collection
- Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand
- Mantell Collection
- Manuscripts Collection
- Māori Reference Collection
- Montfort Trimble Collection
- Music collections and services
- National Children's Collection
- National Library General Collections
- National Newspaper Collection
- New Zealand and Pacific Collection
- New Zealand Cartoon and Comics Archive
- New Zealand Music, Sound, Audio-visual Collection
- New Zealand Serials Collection
- New Zealand Web Archive
- Oral History and Sound
- Papers Past
- Photographic Archive
- Pop Fiction Collection
- Print Disabilities Collection
- Publications New Zealand
- Ramsay Collection
- Ranfurly Collection
- Ranstead Collection
- Rare Books and Fine Printing
- Robert and Mary Hogg Bequest
- Robert G. Barr Collection of Amateur Journalism
- Robert Trimble Collection
- Schools Lending Collection
- Shetland Islands Collection
- Sir Donald McLean Papers
- National Library e-resources
- Susan Price collection
- Te Ao Hou
- Te Kohikohinga o Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika
- Te Upoko o Te Ika — Māori radio collection
- Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
- Turnbull General Collection
- Turnbull Library Pictures
- Turnbull Named Collections
- Wood Collection
- Wright Collection
- Using the collections
- Digital preservation
- Music Hire Service
- Offer material to the Alexander Turnbull Library