AnyQuestions.co.nz
AnyQuestions.co.nz is an innovative service that gives all school children in New Zealand their own guide to help them find quality information amongst the millions of pages on the internet.
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ANZ Reference Centre *
The Reference Centre database gives you access to abstracts and articles from international, Australian, and New Zealand magazines and newspapers. It is an excellent resource for those requiring up-to-date world, Australian and New Zealand current events information.
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Archives New Zealand
Archives New Zealand is the official guardian of New Zealand's heritage documents. They gather, store and protect an extremely wide range of material, including the originals of the Treaty of Waitangi, government files and records, maps, paintings, photos and film.
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Biography Resource Centre *
This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.
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Business and Company Resource *
Centre Business & Industry is a broad-based business information database that focuses on facts, figures, events and market information about companies, industries, products and markets. It covers all industries and is international in scope.
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Contemporary Women's issues *
A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press - with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.
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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
This website contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on this country. It does not include people who are alive. This site includes the collected biographies originally published in the printed Dictionary of New Zealand Biography series between 1990 and 2000, and in the parallel Maori-language series, Nga Tangata Taumata Rau.
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Discover
Discover supports the Visual Arts and Music disciplines of the Arts/Ngā Toi curriculum by providing works by some of New Zealand's musicians, artists, photographers, designers and architects both historic and contemporary, Māori and Pākehā.
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Discovery Collection *
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
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EnviroFunz
Envirofunz is a database which covers funding for environmental and conservation projects in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Envirofunz provides help to groups and individuals looking for funding for environmental and conservation projects.
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Health and Wellness Resource Centre *
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
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History Resource Centre *
Modern World History Resource Center: Modern World has always featured extensive coverage of the 20th century. History Resource Center: World broadens this focus both geographically and chronologically, with the addition of new content on the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From antiquity to the present, world history curricula is reflected by content from over 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and from 110 academic journals.
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Index of Māori Names
This index has been digitised from an unpublished manuscript compiled about 1925 by the missionary Rev. Henry James Fletcher (1868-1933). It provides access to information about or references to Māori individuals, boundaries, canoes, trees, landmarks and geographical locations.
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Index New Zealand
Index New Zealand describes over half a million articles published in New Zealand over the past 20 years. The titles indexed range from popular magazines such as North and South and Consumer to more specialised journals such as New Zealand Law Review and Art New Zealand.
Index New Zealand. is updated daily and approximately 2,000 documents are added monthly.
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InfoTrac OneFile *
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
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Iwidex
Iwidex is an index to the sources of information on tribal history, tikanga-a-iwi, and whakapapa held in the Heritage and Research Collections of Auckland City Libraries.
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Land Information New Zealand
Information for Researchers and Historians about land records, including Taranaki land information and Crown grants.
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Law Hawk
This site provides news and a collection of libraries dealing with internet based New Zealand sources of law.
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Library Catalogue
Search the Puke Ariki library catalogue
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Literature Resource Centre *
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles.
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Lottery Grants
Lottery Grants are available for different types of projects and services.
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Maori Land Court Decisions
Maori Land Court Judgments, mainly from the Maori Appellate Court, are now available through this website. These include Maori Appellate Court decisions and some Lower Court reserved decisions, previously published in Tai Whati, dating from 1958 to 1985. Maori Appellate Court decisions from 1986 are also available.
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MasterFILE Premier *
This collection provides full text access to articles from over 2000 major international publications. It also includes reference and travel works, image collection, biographies and book reviews. Covering virtually every subject area, MasterFILE is ideal for general research enquiries.
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Matapihi
Matapihi lets you search across the online digital collections of different New Zealand cultural organisations from one website. Items available through Matapihi are about New Zealand, made in New Zealand, created by New Zealanders, or held in New Zealand collections.
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New Plymouth District Council Meeting Agendas and Minutes
Meeting agendas and minutes
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New Plymouth District Council Scholarship Information
Every year, New Plymouth District Council provides three scholarships to people studying in a field that has relevance to local government.
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New Zealand Defence Force Personnel Records
This site provides information on who is entitled to apply for information on medals and for details from the records of ex-Service personnel, how to apply, the conditions affecting an application, and lists the contact details for Personnel Archives.
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New Zealand Legislation
Free public access to New Zealand statutes (Public, Local, and Private Acts) and Statutory Regulations. You can search and browse this material free of charge. This site is provided by the New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office/Te Tari Tohutohu Paremata (PCO) in association with Brookers.
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New Zealand National Register of Archives and Manuscripts
You can use this site to search archival collections held in museums, local government bodies, libraries, historical societies, community repositories, and in-house business, educational, religious and sporting archives throughout New Zealand.
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NZHistory.Net
NZHistory.net.nz aims to be your first port of call when you voyage the World Wide Web in search of information on New Zealand history.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource *
Centre Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles
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Papers Past
Papers Past is an online collection of 19th century New Zealand newspapers and periodicals from the Alexander Turnbull Library. Includes the Taranaki Herald Aug 1852 - Dec 1900.
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Parliamentary publications
Includes some publications no longer produced in hardcopy format.
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Passenger Lists
This database has details of shipping arrivals and departures as taken from the Taranaki Herald 1852 to 1885.
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Puke Ariki Collection: Archives
The Puke Ariki archive collection contains the papers, journals, letters (documents) of individuals and families, historic records from businesses and organisations and societies within the Taranaki region.
The collection includes a wide range of newspapers including The Taranaki Herald, The Daily News, The Kaponga Courier, The Opunake Times, The Stratford Evening Post, The Stratford Press and Taranaki Punch.
Other items include: taped oral histories, maps and architectural plans.
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Puke Ariki Collection: Artefacts
This artefact collection contains some of the many treasures that we have in the Puke Ariki collection. At present, the database contains information on objects from the following parts of the collection: Natural Sciences, Decorative Arts, Fine Arts and Photographs. Other parts of the collection will be made available in the near future.
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Puke Ariki Collection: Pictorial
This database contains images of New Plymouth and Taranaki from Puke Ariki's Photograph and Fine Arts collections. This is a small selection from the collection and we will continue to add images.
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Statistical Sources
This is a starting place for locating a large range of New Zealand statistical information sources both online and in print.
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Statistics New Zealand
New Zealand's official website for census and demographic statistics.
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Student Resource Centre *
Approach research from every angle with the Student Resource Center - College Edition, the Gale Group's comprehensive, cross-curricular reference source for college and college-prep libraries. The Student Resource Center - College Edition provides researchers with an expansive collection specifically designed to meet the needs of college freshmen and sophomores
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Taonga
Taonga are publications from the early Dominion Museum Monograph and Dominion Museum Bulletin series.
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TAPUHI
This site provides access to descriptions of unpublished manuscripts and picture collections within the Alexander Turnbull Library. The ability to search Tapuhi by hapuu/iwi, place name, personal name and subject makes this site an excellent site for finding more information on Kaupapa Māori.
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Taranaki Iwi
Taranaki Iwi contacts and boundary maps.
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Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
In Māori, Te Ara means 'the pathway'. Through interlinking text and image trails, the Encyclopedia takes you on a journey of discovery. Beginning with the theme of Peoples, it will eventually present a comprehensive guide to New Zealand – its natural environment, history, culture, economics and government.
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Te Puni Kōkiri publications
Comprehensive range of publications and reports about Maori subjects, including demographics, tourism, health and much more.
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Technology innovation in New Zealand
History of technological innovation in New Zealand. This site covers the history of the technological era in New Zealand from the end of WWI until the 1980's.
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Timeframes
Timeframes is an online database of more than 22,000 images from the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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UBD Insight *
New Zealand business directory. Search by name, industry, brand etc. Please click "Log out" when you have finished.
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Venture Taranaki
This site includes Taranaki statistics, industry information and regional development reports.
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Waitangi Tribunal
Learn about the work of the Tribunal in providing processes to assist in the overall Treaty claims settlement process. Includes full access to "The Taranaki Report: Kaupapa Tuatahi", and other Taranaki claims.
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What do I read next? *
What Do I Read Next? includes over 100,000 recommended titles, more than 60,000 plot summaries, and awards information from 562 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.
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