Your digital library
This site is the gateway to Christchurch City Libraries online, giving you access to a huge range of unique content and information you can trust, including a wealth of resources about Christchurch and Canterbury. Use the main headings on our homepage to find your way around the site, or why not:
- Read our weekly edition, offering you the best of our new and unique online content every week?
- Follow our library blog – comment and recommendations on books, music, media and the arts?
- Take a fascinating look at the way we were in Christchurch through our online heritage photos?
- Find out the details of that NZ TV ad music that’s been bugging you?
- Use our Internet Gateway to reach our recommended websites, offering the very best of the web?
Our premium sites are special websites that you’d mostly have to pay for as an individual subscriber, but to Christchurch City Libraries cardholders, they’re free of charge. There’s anything and everything you could want to find out about. You could:
- Read today’s NZ and world newspapers, cover-to-cover, using PressDisplay
- Listen to thousands of classical, jazz and world music tracks online with NAXOS
- Search our complete online Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Trace your family history with Ancestry.com (in libraries only)
- Browse the world’s most trusted reference collection in Oxford Reference Online
We can also deliver the best of our digital library direct to you. Sign up to receive our weekly edition by email every Monday, stay in touch with all our new content through our regular email newsletters, or get our weekly RSS feeds or our monthly New Titles service.
You can search our entire catalogue online to find books, images, music, magazines, DVDs and more and if you use our libraries themselves, you can manage your membership account to keep track of the items you borrow, keep a list of the authors and artists you’ve enjoyed and even place holds for the items you’d like next. Our monthly New Titles service keeps you in touch with the latest stuff to hit our shelves. Finally, check out our other Christchurch City Libraries websites:
- The Pulse - our hot site exclusively by and for youth – read, watch, listen, play, me, life and school
- localeye - our guide to Christchurch and Canterbury online, listing around 12,000 websites
- CINCH – our community directory for Greater Christchurch, the most comprehensive around
For more help on using your digital library, contact our helpful librarians.
