Useful Websites

AnyQuestions offers free online homework help to New Zealand school students. You can log on to the website from 1pm to 6pm Monday to Friday during the school year and chat online with a friendly librarian about a schoolwork question.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online offers over 73,000 encyclopaedia articles, along with a world atlas, an online dictionary and thesaurus, articles and news headlines.

Gale In Context: Elementary lets primary school children get comfortable with research skills by delivering age-appropriate, reliable content covering a broad range of subjects taught in the classroom like animals, arts and music, social studies, and more.

Discover the world in a way you’ve never seen before — National Geographic Kids will take you on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. National Geographic Kids includes the complete run of the magazine from 2009 to the present, as well as books, videos, and images.

LanguageNut is a fun way to learn different languages for kids and adults. There are songs, stories and games for each language so you’ll be adding to your vocabulary without really realising it! To get started, enter your library card number into the box on the site labelled “barcode.”

Complementary to the AnyQuestions homework reference service – for those times when AnyQuestions librarians are not online, you can visit the ManyAnswers section of the website to find information on popular schoolwork questions.

Same day access to full-page replicas of newspapers & magazines from NZ and around the world in 60+ languages.

In Māori, Te Ara means ‘the pathway’. Through interlinking text and image trails, the Encyclopedia takes you on a journey of discovery. The site also includes New Zealand’s last official encyclopedia from 1966. It is published here in full, with all the original drawings, maps and photographs.