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Arts & Letters Daily
Daily report of news in art and literature. Includes reviews of new books, essays and articles.

Breakout   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.

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

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 4,000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.

The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artifacts from the Imperial War Museum and a set of specially developed educational resources.

General Onefile
Millions of articles from popular to the specialist, covering a wide range of areas: current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health, law, politics, literature and art, science, social issues, sports, technology and many topical issues.

Contains over 35 million articles and updated daily.  Source material is principally journals, newspapers and newswires, most of which are fulltext, though some of the NZ magazines in particular only give a citation, not the full article.  There are growing numbers of NZ titles, but overall NZ coverage is still limited in many areas.

Leaf Salon
Leaf Salon is a news digest of everything that happens in the New Zealand book scene, including reviews, new releases, competitions, awards and events.

 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).

SoundJunction
SoundJunction is the award-winning site for listening to, exploring, discovering and creating music. You can take music apart and find out how it works, create music yourself, find out how other people make music and how they perform it, you can find out about musical instruments, and look at the backgrounds to different musical styles.