Cataloguing tools

Cataloguing tools for librarians are available on the Te Puna Subscriber Services website. These include the WebCat cataloguing tool.

Te Puna Subscriber Services website

Login to WebCat  (registered users only)

More about WebCat

Cataloguing-in-Publication (CiP)

CiP is a free service we offer to New Zealand publishers. We catalogue books before they are published. The aim is to increase pre-publication orders.

Apply online to join the CiP programme

Apply online for a book CiP record

More about CiP

Dublin Core Registry

Our Dublin Core Registry gives you official information about Dublin Core metadata terms, including te reo Māori (Māori language) terms. This information will help you define metadata schemes.

National Library Dublin Core Registry website

More about the Dublin Core Registry

Email lists

We run a small number of email lists on various topics. Other New Zealand library-oriented electronic discussion lists can be found on the South Seas Bulletin Board for Libraries.

More about National Library email lists

South Seas Bulletin Board for Libraries – Victoria University of Wellington website

Interloan tools

Interloan tools for librarians, including Te Puna Interloan, are available on the Te Puna Subscriber Services website.

Te Puna Subscriber Services website

Login to Te Puna Interloan (registered users only)

More about Te Puna Interloan

Library document repository

Find publications, reports, papers, forms, manuals, presentations, fact sheets and other items authored and commissioned by the Library.

National Library document repository

Submitting internet publications for Legal Deposit

We have an online submission tool for publishers who wish to voluntarily submit their internet publication for Legal Deposit.

You can use the submission tool to deposit publications such as reports, journals, e-books and online versions of printed publications. The tool cannot be used to deposit a website, or part of a website.

Legal Deposit online submission tool

More about Legal Deposit

RSS feeds

Get automatic updates whenever New Zealand books are published, or when we post new events, news, documents or other updates.

More about RSS feeds

Requesting ISBN, ISSN and ISMN

If you are publishing a book, serial, printed music, or other published material; you may want to include a Standards Number. These include ISBN (International Standard Book Numbers), ISSN (International Standard Serial Numbers), and ISMN (International Standard Music Numbers).

Apply online for an ISBN

Apply online for an ISSN

More about putting out a publication

Thesauri for cataloguing

We maintain several subject lists to assist indexers and cataloguers. We use the Index New Zealand Thesaurus to describe articles in journals and newspapers. Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku / Māori Subject Headings and the Iwi-Hapū Names List are for describing Māori content.

Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku / Māori Subject Headings website

Iwi-Hapū Names List website 

Index New Zealand Thesaurus - Index New Zealand website

Web Curator Tool

The Web Curator Tool is for managing the selective web harvesting process. The tool is designed for use in libraries and other collecting organisations. It supports collection by non-technical users while still allowing complete control of the web harvesting process.

More about the Web Curator Tool project

Download the Web Curator Tool from SourceForge