New Zealand and Pacific Islands

Location

The New Zealand and Pacific Islands Zone (NZPI) is located on the 2nd floor of the Central Library.

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Collections and Resources

The Zone has books, magazines, newspapers, maps and atlases, statistics, and many government publications (including a full set of the New Zealand statutes and regulations), as well as online databases and CD-ROMs. There is also a range of resources available on microfiche and microfilm. Material is both reference and lending.

Online databases and CD-ROMs
Newspapers
Magazines

Check out the following New Zealand and Pacific Islands Zone signature collections:

Local History

Unique information about the Manawatu and other local areas. Photographs of local people or places (with card index) Newspapers from the 1870's with card or online indexes

Online indexes

Genealogy

Family history resources including books, electoral rolls, Post Office directories, microfiche indexes, some shipping lists, as well as many free-to-access internet resources.

Internet resources

Kohikohinga Maori

Maori and Pacific history, cultures, languages and contemporary issues.

Computers

Free public access to selected websites, online reference databases, New Zealand and Pacific CD-ROMs.

Online databases and CD-ROMs

Digitised resources

One of our latest initiatives is digitising materials from our Local collections and making them available online.

In April we launched our new Digital Library Pātaka Ipurangi: Manawatu Memory Online

Pātaka Ipurangi: Manawatu Memory Online

Links to other related Library topics

Highlights

New Zealand and Pacific Islands Zone

What Else?

We also have information on the following New Zealand and Pacific Islands topics:

Society and culture
Politics
History
Travel
Biography
Law
Official publications
Statistics

Go Online

Visit these websites for information on New Zealand topics - past and present

Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
In Maori, Te Ara means ‘the pathway'. Beginning with the theme of Peoples, it will eventually present a comprehensive guide to New Zealand – its natural environment, history, culture, economics and government.

Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
This website contains more than 3,000 biographies of well-known New Zealanders.

Matapihi
A window onto the digital collections of some of New Zealand's premier cultural organisations, including around 50,000 selected images, sounds and objects. Matapihi lets you search across the digital collections of different New Zealand organisations from one website.

Cenotaph database This is primarily a roll of honour of those who died as a result of war service, but also includes some personnel who have died since.

New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Part of Victoria University of Wellington, the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre is a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, which offers an ever-expanding, fully searchable set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals.