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Use Topic Lists in the menu above to search for books and digital resources on current classroom topics.

Search this Website for resources and information for your research topics.
Choose your School level: Middle is Yr 7,8,9, Senior Y10 - 13

AnyQuestions will work with any internet enabled device, such as a computer, tablet or a smartphone. AnyQuestions does look a bit different on different devices but you’re still talking to a librarian, somewhere in New Zealand :)

When we’re open, click the green Chat with us now button on the AnyQuestions homepage. If the green button isn’t there we aren’t open, sorry!

Since 2009, SweetSearch has been the best place for students - and anyone else - to begin their research. It leverages Google to search only a fully vetted "whitelist" of websites.

Research Skills: Search Strategies from the University of Waikato.
Tips for the beginner researcher through to Post - Grad students.
Boolean Search is a useful tool to use in your search for online resources.

General onefile is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. (Publisher)

Gale provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries.

Learn to speak Te Reo.

Auckland University Quickcite page. For other referencing information check out their Referencing Guides page.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks
Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

ManyBooks was established in 2004 with the vision to provide an extensive library of books in digital format for free on the Internet.

Hi I’m Brian, I write exciting adventure books for young people
Oh, and I also run writing workshops for keen young writers, maybe that’s you.

The collection includes over 500 curated documentary and movie titles

All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.

See what books your friends are reading.
Track the books you're reading, have read, and want to read.
Check out your personalized book recommendations.
Find out if a book is a good fit for you from our community’s reviews.

A brief explanation about copyright is given in the section 'What is copyright?' and information on 'Your stuff', 'Using other people's, and 'Student guide'

Netsafe have launched a new campaign to help us figure out when a news item might actually be fake news.

Your job is to put the books in call number order, e.g. ABC, DAH etc.

Search 30+ million New Zealand items across 300+ collections in one place. Easy.

Gale provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries.

Search up your Science questions
Biology Online is the world’s most comprehensive database of Biology terms and topics. Since 2001 it has been the resource of choice for professors, students, and professionals needing answers to Biology questions.

The Science Learning Hub – Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao links New Zealand scientists with school students, teachers and community audiences.

Fun Science and Technology for kids

The Topic Explorer helps you find quality, curated resources on a range of topics to support and inspire inquiry. Each topic features a carefully selected set of national and international resources, including websites, images, videos, books and more.

Newspapers, magazines and journals, letters and diaries and parliamentary papers

Access to a wide range of international history topics. Features full text articles from over 100 history journals.

This timeline lists New Zealand’s worst post-1840 natural disasters, transport accidents, fires, mining accidents and other tragedies that have caused major loss of life. Follow the links for more information on NZHistory, Te Ara and other sites. See also: map showing location of these disasters

You can browse this website by People, Places, Events and Topics. Also, three broad categories showcase themes in New Zealand history: Culture and society, Politics and government and New Zealand at war.

Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand is the complete guide to our peoples, environment, history, culture and society.

EPIC gives us access to thousands of electronic resources. Magazines, newspapers, biographies, reference works, images, ebooks, and multi-media. Resources cover all curriculum learning areas. Scroll down the page to access resources.
For use at home use Epic password : Username:gbhs
Password: 33gbhs

This is a collection of resources from Bridget Williams Books. They are searchable any problems use the Help tab.

Explore the life stories of over 3,000 people who shaped our culture and history.

The sole purpose of this site is to help students improve their listening and reading comprehension of the English language.
"BITS" is an online-only site. No links for downloading items are available and none will be provided.

The entire archive of the New Zealand Geographic
magazine dating back to 1989!

Golden Bay High Schools Wide Reading wiki.

This wiki has been set up to provide lists of resources for our students when selecting titles for their Wide Reading unit and also provide suggestions for themed reading. Just added Personal response list.

The New Zealand government website for career inspiration and job hunting support.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.