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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We are making improvements to our website
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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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Get out there this summer with wilderness fiction, survival stories, sea-side drama and more!
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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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Our fourth series for 2025, Rebels & Renegades, features six critically acclaimed films about real and imagined troublemakers.
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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.
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Takapuna Library warmly invites you to a space that supports your te reo Māori journey.
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Classes are beginner-friendly with progressions for regular practitioners.
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Dance and sing, share a story with us and enjoy some fun action rhymes and cool times at your favourite library.
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Use your imagination to build crazy and creative structures.
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.
