We support primary, intermediate and secondary school teachers and students by providing a range of curriculum resources to supplement resources available in New Zealand schools.
National Library Schools Collection
The Schools Collection contains over 500,000 items to directly support the current New Zealand school curriculum, including books, videos and DVDs. Search for items using the National Library Catalogue.
The Curriculum Information Service operates from centres in Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch. Teachers and home schoolers can borrow items through their closest centre.
You can also borrow specific Schools Collection items by interloan through your local library.
More about borrowing school curriculum resources
More about the National Library Schools Collection
National Library General Collections
The General Collections supports the current information needs of all New Zealanders, with a focus on resources relating to New Zealand and the Pacific. Material is mainly suitable for teachers and students at secondary school level.
You can borrow many items by interloan through your school library, or by contacting your closest Curriculum Information Service centre if you are a teacher or home schooler. Search for items using the National Library Catalogue.
More about the National Library General Collections
Discover
Discover is a free database of multimedia resources selected for use by New Zealand schools in support of the Visual Arts and Music disciplines of the Arts/Ngā Toi curriculum. It provides works by New Zealand musicians, artists, photographers, designers and architects, both historical and contemporary.
AnyQuestions.co.nz
Anyquestions.co.nz is an online chat reference service for all New Zealand school students. Students can get direct, real time help from a trained librarian to find information, and build searching and information-seeking skills.
EPIC
EPIC is an initiative by New Zealand libraries to give New Zealand schools access to a worldwide range of online resources. Recent additions include Grove Art and Grove Music online, and Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Britannica Junior and student editions for primary schools. You can use EPIC resources in the Library, or login with your school username and password on the TKI website.
Index New Zealand – find articles from or about New Zealand
Students and teachers can request New Zealand magazine and newspaper articles from the Library at no charge.
Find articles using Index New Zealand, which describes over half a million articles published in or about New Zealand since 1987. Search Index New Zealand.
Matapihi
Matapihi lets you search digital collections held by New Zealand libraries, museums and other cultural institutions. The collaborative website provides free access to images, virtual museum objects, movies, e-texts, encyclopedia entries, and a small number of sound files. Content is suitable for all age levels.
Alexander Turnbull Library collections
Copies made from primary sources in the Turnbull Library collections could be used to support teaching and learning programmes, particularly at secondary school level. Search for items like photos, drawings, prints, maps and manuscripts using TAPUHI.
Digital copies of selected items from the collections can be viewed online. Search our online database of heritage images, Timeframes.
