Library Information, Authors, Illustrators

Explore topics using the Dewey Decimal System

The digital encyclopaedia of New Zealand Birds

reviews of children’s books

Information Skills for Inquiry Learning

Resources

Library fun stuff

Catalogue of the School Journal.
You will need to subscribe to this.

Index of poets.

Auckland City Libraries

Digistore is a storehouse of digital content to support learning across the curriculum, from early childhood through to senior secondary.

The New Zealand Library Association Inc. (operating as LIANZA) is the professional organisation for the New Zealand library and information management profession.

Bringing children and books together.

Sophisticated books

Children's book reviews

AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.

Authors: Stories, Books and Authors : Internet Gateway - Reference

Books

A list of Authors - Random House

Australian Authors on the Net

Experience a selection of pictures, sounds and objects from New Zealand’s archives, galleries, libraries and museums.

Papers Past 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.

Discover is a database of resources selected for use by New Zealand schools. Over 2,500 multimedia items are available and almost all are from National Library of New Zealand collections. Access to Discover is free.
Currently Discover supports the Visual Arts and Music disciplines of the Arts/Ngā Toi curriculum by providing a
rich selection of works by some of New Zealand's musicians, artists, photographers, designers and architects both historic and contemporary, Māori and Pākehā. Our aim is to provide more New Zealand online resources to
support and cover other curriculum areas.

Timeframes includes selected New Zealand and Pacific images from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, the research library within the National Library of New Zealand.

‘Te ara’ in Māori 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.

Te Ara consists of a series of themes, appearing progressively between 2005 and 2013:

•Māori New Zealanders and
•New Zealand Peoples – the arrival and settlement of the people.
•Earth, Sea and Sky – marine life, people and the sea, natural resources, and shaping forces such as geology and climate.
•The Bush – New Zealand’s landforms, fauna and flora.
•The Settled Landscape – farming, rural life, and people’s impact on the land.
•Economy and the City – the economy, business and city life.
•Social Connections – social groups, families and communities.
•Nation – systems of government and symbols of national identity.
•Daily Life – the customs, leisure activities and beliefs that make New Zealand unique.
•Creativity – arts, culture, invention and innovation.

Ask a librarian.
Information for parents, teachers and librarians
AnyQuestions.co.nz is a free online reference service for New Zealand school students.

Designed for both primary and secondary students, AnyQuestions puts them in touch with a skilled and friendly online librarian. Using interactive software and an agreed information literacy approach these librarians are able to help school students identify the information they need then guide them to quality online resources.

AnyQuestions.co.nz focuses on supporting the New Zealand curriculum. It is accessible from any internet connected computer anywhere; school, library or home.

The service is an additional resource, to work alongside and complement, (but not replace) existing school and public library services – a ‘guide on the side’ at the point and time of need.

The key benefits of the service lie in its safety and the help it provides for students in finding quality assured information that’s right for their need and level.

Welcome to the Kids section of Wellington City Libraries' website. You'll find heaps of fun and interesting stuff here. Content changes all the time so bookmark us and visit often!

Create and share your work online with Google Docs.
Documents, Presentations, Spreedsheets, Drawings, Forms.

This is a collaborative space for members of the School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa, to find and share information on topics related to their work. Membership is for SLANZA members only, but we encourage anybody to view.

Teachers and school librarians can use our Schools channel to learn all about our Writers in Schools programme, book an author, give us their feedback and find additional resources to use alongside the programme. Pop into the Kids' Zone for fun with reading, with competitions, word and reading games, and news about great new books. Head over to the Parents channel if you are looking for New Zealand book recommendations for children of all ages and other useful material for supporting your children’s reading.

Software for schools

Services to Schools - Supporting literacy and learning

Publications New Zealand is a record of New Zealand publications listed in the National Bibliography, from books to films to maps. Use it to get information about published items with a strong New Zealand connection, and see which libraries have these publications.

What is SCIS?
SCIS (Schools Catalogue Information Service) was created with the aim of providing schools with access to a database of consistent catalogue records created according to agreed national standards, in order to reduce the cost and duplication of effort of cataloguing resources in schools. Since its inception, SCIS has been responsible for improving the quality and consistency of cataloguing materials for schools.

SCIS is a business unit of Education Services Australia, a new national, not-for-profit company established by all Australian Ministers of Education. Education Services Australia has been established through the merger of Curriculum Corporation and Education.au Limited. Education Services Australia delivers innovative, cost-effective services across all sectors of education.

SCIS continues to support school libraries throughout Australia and New Zealand, offering access to the largest database of school-related catalogue records in the Southern Hemisphere. We also maintain SCIS Subject Headings, a controlled list of subject headings particularly appropriate to the needs of schools; SCIS Authority Files, a downloadable file of all approved SCIS Subject and Name Headings, which can be imported directly into schools’ library management systems; and SCIS Special Order Files, which allow schools to download regularly updated bulk files of catalogue records for educational websites, ClickView video files and The Le@rning Federation (TLF) learning objects