AnyQuestions
The real time reference service for NZ school students manned by a possie of public librarians here in New Zealand. The online librarians at AnyQuestions.co.nz help you find useful, accurate, online information for your homework.  Many Answers is the the sister site to Any Questions.  Many Answers was built as a tool to redistribute and extend the most popular, and curriculum useful sessions between the students and the librarians. It also made the results of the sessions available to Google, while also offering both students - teachers -parents, and of course, other librarians - the chance to extend and enhance the answers. There is also a tagging feature.

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

Australian Newspapers 1803-1954
This pilot programme allows access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program.

Awesome stories
History up close! Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, and other primary sources linked, in context, within each story.  Provides access to original sources such as artifacts, manuscripts, documents located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.  Especially good for schools, libraries, educators and students.

BBC News
The BBC News website contains the best of BBC News on the Web and is an unrivalled resource of authoritative fact and comment.

BBC Science & Nature
The best of BBC Science and Nature, from TV and radio, to the web and beyond. Take a tour from the smallest atoms, to the largest whales and the most ferocious dinosaurs. Travel from the bottom of the ocean to the furthest stars. 

Best Treatments
BestTreatments, produced by the British Medical Journal, is a patient-based website that gives clear, straightforward explanations of the most up-to-date medical research, and outlines the benefits and side effects of treatments.                                           

BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
A great site set up and maintained by a kid in the U.S. to help other kids with their homework.  Loads of links to sites like: Cliff Note Study Guides, rhyming dictionaries etc. Although it’s American, quite a lot of the links are relevant to NZ kids. 

B.J. says: “I started this site when I was 9 years old. My site contains over 800 great links to sites that will help you with your homework.”

Amongst the rave reviews:
"B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper has grown into one of the most comprehensive research sites maintained by a kid..." -- Family PC Magazine

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.

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 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.

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.

Eyewitness
History through the eyes of those who lived it. Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present.

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

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.

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.

Guardian
Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the Guardian newspaper, the world's leading liberal voice.

HistoryWorld
HistoryWorld is a general-knowledge website, designed for anyone above the age of about twelve with an interest in history. It approaches history in a way that is traditional but until recently unfashionable - as a narrative, making full use of chronology. 'What happened next?' is for all of us a fascinating question, and one of direct relevance in this context. At the heart of history there is inevitably a sequence of events. Timelines, linked to extensive background content, and interconnecting 'Tours through Time', provide the user with an unparalleled view of the fabric of world history. 

How Stuff Works
HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations.

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.

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.

Medline Plus
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other U.S. government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Newspaper websites - southern region

The Press

Otago Daily Times

The Southland Times

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 Business
This New Zealand government website brings together free business resources, tools and information to help people start, manage and grow their business. The information and tools on this site are designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses, and the people that advise and support them.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Free e-books! 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 Families
Information for New Zealand Parents - the essential guide to raising children in New Zealand, covering pre-conception, pregnancy, babies, toddlers to teens, expert parenting advice, help, information, related products & services, as well as support from other NZ parents.

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

New Zealand History Online
The site features information and resources from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Three broad categories showcase themes in New Zealand history: Culture and society, Politics and government and War and society. A Hands-on history section includes links to guides, external websites and other material for those who are 'doing' and teaching history.

New Zealand 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 oWhat'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 Transport Agency - Official Road Code Online
The official New Zealand road code is a user-friendly guide to New Zealand’s traffic law and safe driving practices. You will be tested on this information in your theory and practical driving tests.
This guide is intended for drivers of cars and other light vehicles. For information for heavy vehicle drivers, please see The official New Zealand road code for heavy vehicle drivers. For motorcyclists, please obtain a physical copy of The official New Zealand road code for motorcyclists.

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).

Otago Daily Times Newspaper

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.

The Press Newspaper

Resource Management Act (RMA) - Community Guide to the RMA
This site contains practical information to assist individuals, community groups and businesses to more effectively participate in processes under the Resource Management Act 1991.

SciTech Daily Review
SciTechDaily Review looks at the role of science and technology in society. It provides links to the most thought-provoking, well researched online items in the world of science and technology.

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.

The Southland Times Newspaper


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

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, encyclopedia project. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world; there are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 10,000,000 articles in more than 250 languages.

Xtra Business Website
Contains New Zealand business news, market information, developments, innovations and comprehensive links to resources.).