Breakout In Library access only
Awards, scholarships and grants for individuals looking for funding for study and personal development.  Breakout is New Zealand’s primary source of funding information for students, researchers, sports people, artists and those wanting professional development.

Cenotaph
Search for biographical and service details for over 115,000 New Zealand service men and women from the 19th century till today and especially from World War One and World War Two.

Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on this country. It does not include people who are alive.

Early New Zealand Books
This website aims to provide the keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century.  Illustrations and maps in the books have also been digitised, with a higher resolution version available by clicking on the image in the text.  

Accounts of early travellers have been a prime source of information about traditional Maori society and culture. There is also great interest in accounts of the earliest British settlements. The ability to search this body of literature for words and names will be of benefit to both scholars and genealogists.

Find NZ Articles
FindNZarticles provides access to New Zealand content, including material by or about New Zealanders, from a range of New Zealand newspapers and journals. It searches across a number of New Zealand newspaper and journal indexes, including:

• Southern regional news index created by Dunedin Public Library
• Regional news index created by Christchurch City Libraries
• Index New Zealand (INNZ) created by the National Library. Contains descriptions of over half a million articles published in New Zealand over the past 20 years. Approximately one third of the entries contain links to the fulltext of the article.  The titles indexed range from popular magazines such as North and South and Consumer to more specialised journals such as New Zealand Law Review and Art New Zealand.  Subjects covered include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities
• STIX database (scientific and technical journals published up to 1994) – Crown Research Institutes, some Research Associations and the former DSIR
• Publications database – Landcare Research NZ Ltd
• BUGS - bibliography of NZ terrestrial invertebrates, 1775-1993
• Landcare Research NZ Ltd
• New Zealand science journals 1918-1994 - Royal Society of New Zealand

Fundview In Library access only
Fundview is New Zealand’s primary source of information about all forms of funding for voluntary organizations; it contains information about 600+ sources of funding available to community groups. These include local bodies, philanthropic trusts and an assortment of government agencies such as Lottery Grants Board.

Maori Dictionary
The Ngâta English to Mâori dictionary is the most extensive dictionary yet published, offering over 14,500 headwords. Based primarily on the Ngati Porou dialect, the dictionary embraces a wide variety of tribal usages and is accessible to students at a basic level, as well as to those with an advanced knowledge of Mâori language.

Matapihi
An online gallery of pictures, sounds and objects from New Zealand’s archives, libraries, galleries and museums.

New Zealand Building Code Handbook
The New Zealand Building Code Handbook has been revised; the new edition reflects the changes introduced by the Building Act 2004, Building (Specified Systems, Change the Use, and Earthquake-Prone Buildings) Regulations 2005 and amendments to other documents. It contains the following five sections:

• How the building controls regulatory framework works
• Building Code clauses
• Current definitions
• Lists of all standards referenced in the Compliance Documents
• A current index for Compliance Documents.
• Importantly, the revised Building Code Handbook material has been separated into two publications.

The revised ‘compliance schedule’ section from the first Building Code Handbook is now contained in a separate publication called the Compliance Schedule Handbook.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials.  Offers an ever expanding, fully searchable, set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals.

New Zealand Government
All NZ government services and information resources can be found here.

NZ Legislation
Contains New Zealand Acts (laws made by Parliament), Bills (proposed acts), and Regulations (laws made under acts). The site is updated by the Parliamentary Counsel Office, which drafts and publishes most New Zealand legislation

New Zealand Libraries’ Catalogue
Lists the resources held in every New Zealand library. Includes books, journals, sound recordings, CD-ROMs and videos.  If you find a book that you want to read that we don't have in our catalogue, you can call or email us and request a book from another NZ library (postage charges apply).

New Zealand Live
Connecting you to New Zealand's cultural events and organizations - find out what's on in NZ music, theatre, galleries, sport & other events

New Zealand & Pacific Island website directory
Compiled and maintained by the National Library of New Zealand, this is a comprehensive list of NZ and Pacific websites - if it's got NZ or Pacific content, you'll find it here!

New Zealand Writers
Contains entries on 350+New Zealand writers.  Includes 150 author entries reprinted from the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, (Ed. Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie).

PapersPast
Contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1920 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand journals.

Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
‘Te ara’ in Mâori means ‘the pathway’. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand offers many pathways to understanding New Zealand. When complete, it will be a comprehensive guide to the country’s peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society.

Timeframes
Selected New Zealand and Pacific images from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library (the research library within the National Library of New Zealand).