General Resources
Topic Explorer - The Topic Explorer helps you find quality, curated resources on a range of topics to support and inspire inquiry. Each topic features a carefully selected set of national and international resources, including websites, images, videos, books and more.
Any Questions - Free online chat service that helps NZ school aged children with their questions. Funded by the Ministry of Education, staffed by real librarians across the country.
The New Zealand Wars - Discover quality learning resources about Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa | The New Zealand Wars. There's information on the campaigns and the long-lasting impact on Māori. Find historical Māori and Pākehā primary sources, contemporary articles, and more.
Many Answers - Reliable, student friendly resources on a range of topics. Includes searching and website evaluation tips to help students with their research.
DigitalNZ - Find, curate, share content from NZ libraries, museums, galleries, media and more.
Papers Past - Search and browse digitised newspapers, magazines, manuscripts and more
Te Ara - General NZ history.
New Zealand history - Regional histories.
Cyclopedia of New Zealand - was published in six volumes between 1897 and 1908 by the Cyclopedia Company Ltd and has been digitised as part of the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection - Te Pūhikotuhi o Aotearoa, part of Victoria University of Wellington Library.