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ANZ Newsstand (ProQuest)
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A selection of full-text newspapers and newswires from Australia and New Zealand covering regional and international topics.
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Armed Constabulary of New Zealand 1867-1877 
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This database contains further information about constables in the Armed Constabulary. It covers the period from 1867 to 1871, and lists 3,281 names, including members of the Native Constabulary.
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre (Ebsco) 
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A broad interest database that contains Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers and newswires, reference books and company information. Full-text titles include New Zealand Herald, Metro, North and South, NZ Business, NZ Marketing and the Australian Women's Weekly.
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Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia (Thomson Gale)
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Covers a wide range of subjects of historical and contemporary significance to the country of New Zealand.
Breakout 
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Awards, scholarships and grants available to New Zealand individuals, principally in academic, artistic, research and sporting fields.
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Ephemera Index 
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An index of printed ‘throwaway’ materials (e.g. cards, posters, tickets, programmes, flyers) particularly items with details about social issues, entertainment, and cultural and sporting events in the Auckland region from the 1840s to the present day. Includes items from circuses, dance, festivals, film, politics, sports, theatre, tourism, war. More...
Fundview 
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Information about funding for community groups.
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Heritage Images Online
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Three significant collections (Winkelmann, Firth, and Schmidt) have been catalogued and scanned for availability through Auckland City Libraries' website forming the Heritage Images Online database. Included are images of Auckland, portraits from 1930s to 1970s and First World War soldier portraits.
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Index Auckland
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A rich resource of history, art, theatre, film and music references sourced from Auckland area newspapers and journal articles.
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Index New Zealand
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Abstracts of selected New Zealand serial publications, including newspapers and New Zealand journals about New Zealand and the South Pacific. Coverage extends from 1987 onwards and approximately 2000 documents are added monthly. Subjects covered include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities.
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Iwidex
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An index to sources of information on tribal history, tikanga-a-iwi, and whakapapa held in the heritage and research collections of Auckland City Libraries.
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Knowledge Basket Hansard
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A searchable database of Hansard, the formal record of debates in Parliament. It contains the Hansard archive, from 1987 to 2002, written questions from 1987 to 2002, Hansard from 2003 to current, and Hansard Advances (the form they take until they are printed and become final).
Try our e-government pages for more about Parliament.
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Knowledge Basket Legislation NZ
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See also: Regulations Browse and Bills Browse
A searchable database of Acts, Bill, Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs), and Regulations. This database contains all the latest legislation, and is updated whenever the Parliamentary Counsel Office sends legislation to the printer, Legislation Direct.
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Another source of NZ legislation online is the Public Access to Legislation website, which contains compiled legislation and is updated monthly.
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Knowledge Basket Māori Land Court Minute Books Index
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Indexes over 1100 minute books between 1865 and 1910, from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu, and Waipounamu Māori Land Court Districts.
For more information about the minute books, contact Te Rōpu Rātonga Māori, the Māori services team.
Knowledge Basket Newztext 
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Full text of articles from New Zealand's key news and business publications. This database now includes the real-time Radio New Zealand Newswire, and New Zealand Herald Classifieds.
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Knowledge Basket New Zealand Index
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A combined database of Index Auckland, Index New Zealand, Newzindex, Newspaper Index and NZ Science. Search across these collections to retrieve abstracts from newspapers, popular and academic magazines and science publications.
Index Auckland
Contains local history, art, music and theatre references sourced from publications in the Auckland region.
Index New Zealand
An index with abstracts from a wide range of New Zealand newspapers, magazines and journals. Topics inlclude business, current affairs, arts and society.
Newzindex
An index to the contents of New Zealands key business publications.
Newspaper Index
Created by the New Zealand Parliamentary Library. Contains content from all major New Zealand newspapers.
New Zealand Science
Originally created by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), the divisions of which became the Crown Research Institutes (CRI's). It contains records of scientists' publications, some as far back as 1848.
Manuscripts Online
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The New Zealand Manuscripts collection, located in Special Collections, consists of about 1.5 kilometres of manuscripts and archives relating to New Zealand, particularly Auckland and Northland, from the early 19th century to the present. Current collecting concentrates on the performing arts, social action and community groups, music, literary papers, women's organisations, Maori collections and personal papers and diaries.
Indexes to Sir George Grey's Manuscript collections are not yet available online.
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Maps Online
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A selection of heritage maps from our collection which have been catalogued and digitised. This includes the George Church collection as well as other significant maps from throughout New Zealand from the 1830s to the 1920s.
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NZX Deep Archive
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New Zealand company information. Highlights include:
- full text annual reports of New Zealand and Australian companies back to 1995
- daily announcements to the stock exchange
- daily trading history back to 1998
- top 100 shareholders
- summary of capital events, name changes, and delisting information
- indices data
- sector data
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Photographers' Database
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The Photographers’ Database is an index to photographers who have worked in New Zealand from the 1840s to the present day. It draws on advertisements, newspapers, electoral rolls, published articles, trade directories, and other resources to build up a picture of the individuals and their businesses.
It is not exhaustive, so if you want to know any additional information about a particular photographer, you are welcome to contact us by email.
Standards New Zealand

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New Zealand standards cover a wide variety of subjects and industries - standards for health and disabilities; business management; environment; and building, to name a few. This database contains both New Zealand (NZS) standards and joint Australian / New Zealand (AS/NZS) standards.
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Te Puna Search 
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Catalogue of New Zealand and overseas resources including which New Zealand libraries hold copies. Includes books, journals, sound recordings, CD-Roms and videos.
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