Auckland Libraries blog

Summer in Auckland is even better with a book! All libraries will be open throughout the holidays except for public holidays: Monday 25 December (Christmas Day), Tuesday 26 December (Boxing Day), Monday 1 January (New Year’s Day) and Tuesday 2 January, with the exception of Botany Library and Great Barrier Island Library.Botany Library will be open throughout the holiday period and close only on Christmas Day.
Botany Library will be open on Tuesday 26 December, 9.30am – 5.30pm (Boxing Day), Monday 1 January, 10am - 5.30pm, and Tuesday 2 January, 10am - 5.30pm.Great Barrier Island Library is closed from midday Friday 22 December to Sunday 7 January.Mobile libraries are closed from Saturday 23 December. Regular schedule resumes Monday 8 January 2018.
Extended loans will apply to all borrowed items from the end of November through to mid-January. See here for more details on extended loan periods.
For more details ask at your local library or visit the Auckland Libraries website.

Auckland Libraries loan periods for books, DVDs and magazines will change over the summer holidays.

From Saturday 25 November you will be able to check out certain items for a longer period of time to accommodate reduced hours during the Christmas holiday period.

These changes will continue to roll out in December.

Loan rules for Nov 2017- Jan 2018
From 25 November - 28 day loans become 42 day loans From 9 December - 14 day loans become 28 day loans From 16 December - 7 day loans become 14 day loans From 6 January - 28 day loans go back to normal From 13 January - 14 day loans go back to normal From 20 January - 7 day loans go back to normal

All our libraries will be closed on Monday 23 October for Labour Day.

Looking for information or a relaxing read? Our online resources will be available 24/7, as usual.

Check out our online resources, including eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, and more!

Our website will be experiencing outages due to maintenance and updates.

The Auckland Libraries website will be unavailable on the following dates:
Thursday 25 January, 12am - 3amTuesday 20 February, 12am - 4amWednesday 21 February, 12am - 3am Our apologies for this inconvenience. 
The website will be unavailable at these times, but our library catalogue and the Auckland Libraries app will still be functional.
Search the catalogue here.
Search "Auckland Libraries" in the app store of your device to download the app.

​With approximately 20,000 visitors per day to our website, it's important that we deliver a digital experience that meets the growing needs of library customers. 

We've put insights from customers at the heart of our website. Using your feedback, we've created a simplified and intuitive web experience that makes it easy to access the library catalogue, e-books and magazines, major databases and heritage resources, as well as find out what’s happening at your community library.

We encourage you to take a look around our new website and tell us what you think using the feedback options at the bottom of each page.

Visit our new website now and find out more about our vision for the site.

Dr Majid Daneshgar from the University of Otago is the winner of this year’s Auckland Library Heritage Trust scholarship 2016/17. 

This is a scholarship awarded annually by the Trust to fund research into collections held in the Sir George Grey Special Collections at Auckland Libraries.

Dr Daneshgar is preparing a catalogue of Middle Eastern manuscripts in Auckland Libraries. These include Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish works collected by Sir George Grey and Henry Shaw.

Dr Daneshgar reads in Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Ottoman Turk, and Malay (Jawi), and is in the process of completing a census of Middle Eastern and Islamic manuscripts in New Zealand.

Libraries and archives that Dr Daneshgar has worked through in search of materials include the Turnbull Library, the Sir George Grey Special Collections at Auckland City Library, the Heritage Collection in Dunedin Public Library, and Special Collections at Otago University.


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