You can look for books, movies and audio on our catalogue.
Explore our research resources.
Or learn more about our ongoing website updates.
Collections and reading
Ngā Kohinga me ngā pānuitanga
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You may notice some temporary changes to our website and online services.
Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Council Libraries
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Public Libraries NZ Wellbeing
Tell us why you love your library! Take the short Community Impact Survey 2025 to help us demonstrate the value of libraries across Aotearoa.
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LinkedIn Learning
Get access to over 16,000 free eLearning video courses and tutorials to upgrade your technology, creative and business skills.
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Auckland Libraries app
Search the Auckland Council Libraries catalogue, request books, manage your account and more on the Auckland Libraries mobile app.
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New titles
Check out the latest new titles in fiction, nonfiction, DVDs, CDs, eBooks, audiobooks, Māori, and community language books.
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Recommended reads
Find your next favourite reads with these staff picks!
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eCollections
Access eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, eNewspapers and streaming films from anywhere when you log in with Auckland Libraries.
Listen and watch
Whakarongo, Mātakitaki
Events via OurAuckland
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Join this free training and gain the confidence to take action if someone suffers a cardiac arrest.
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Join us to celebrate our newly renovated courtyard!
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Broaden your understanding of whakapapa research by attending our Tātai Hono open day, run by our Māori research specialists.
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Come and celebrate children's rights with a fun whānau day out.
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Each workshop will focus on a different technique used in the 2025 Queer Joy Community Quilt, facilitated by some of the contributing artists.
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Join us for a peaceful and grounding meditation session!
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The mobile library is a pickup location for items ordered online – just look for Mobile South & East in the alphabetical list of libraries.
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This exhibition centres indigenous ways of knowing and being. Rather than presenting measina as relics of the past, it reveals them as dynamic and evolving forms.
From our blogs
Mai i ā tātou rangitaki
Find out what's happening at Auckland Council Libraries, discover blogs by our expert staff or listen to our latest podcasts.
