EXPLORE NEW ZEALAND HERITAGE ONLINE
Search the Digital Collections
The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa offers digital collections and online catalogues that can be accessed through www.natlib.govt.nz. The Library also offers online national databases that are available to you through your local library.
Papers Past
Papers Past contains digitised pages from New Zealand newspapers and periodicals published between 1839 and 1915. It covers over 40 titles from throughout New Zealand. You can now search the full-text of more than half the newspapers, and over time all will become searchable.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Transactions and Proceeding of the Royal Society of New Zealand
The Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1968 to 1961) is one of New Zealand’s most important research publications, particularly for science. All 88 volumes are searchable online.
Timeframes
Timeframes is an online database of more than 50,000 paintings, drawings, portraits and photographs from the Alexander Turnbull Library relating to New Zealand’s heritage. You can browse the collection by subject or search by a word or phrase. High-quality image copies can be ordered online using the ‘shopping basket’.
http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz
Matapihi
Matapihi enables you to search the digital heritage collections of a number of New Zealand cultural organisations from one website. Find pictures, sound recordings, movies and texts about the history, arts, people, nature and society of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Discover – Te Kohinga Taonga
Discover is an online collection of New Zealand art, music and science resources. Discover supports the New Zealand school curriculum.
http://discover.natlib.govt.nz
Te Ao Hou – The Maori Magazine Online
This site enables your to search and browse all 76 issues of the bilingual magazine Te Ao Hou The New World, which was published from 1952 to 1975 by the Maori Affairs Department in New Zealand Aotearoa.
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