Electronic services
Free public internet for the first 30 minutes of use for everyone. If you need internet access for a longer period it may be possible to extend your session for a small fee as long as we do not have a queue of people waiting to use the service.
 | Kete Horowhenua Kete Horowhenua is a knowledge basket of images, audio, video and documents which are collected and catalogued by the community. Pippa Coard is the co-ordinator for Kete Horowhenua. email Pippa | |
Local government services | ||
| Community services database A listing of local organisations who provide community services. This database is created from information submitted by local organisations and contains contact information for all of those listed. | ||
 | Horowhenua District Council The latest news and information from your local council | |
| Elderberries A free two monthly magazine for those in our district aged over 50yrs. Read the current issue or consult back issues here. | ||
 | AtHome care A directory of products and services available for the elderly in our region | |
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New Zealand's premiere news and information archive since 1994 | |
There is a wealth of information available from our National Library | ||
 | Index to New Zealand Periodicals 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 2,500 documents are added monthly. Subjects covered include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities | |
 | Papers past Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1932 and includes 52 publications from all regions of New Zealand. | |
 | AtoJs Online contains a collection of digitised volumes of the Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives. The collection currently covers the years 1862 to 1879. There are some volumes from this period that have yet to be added to the collection. | |
 | Maori newspapers (Niupepa) Here we have a collection of historic newspapers published primarily for a Māori audience between 1842 and 1932. The newspapers can be searched (full text), browsed (by series) or accessed by date. This collection has been made available by the New Zealand Digital Library Project, at the Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato. | |
 | New Zealand and Pacific Island Websites A directory of New Zealand and Pacific Island websites managed by the National Library of New Zealand | |
 | Journal of the Polynesian Society The Polynesian Society is a non-profit organization based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Founded in 1892, the Society's aim was the scholarly study of past and present New Zealand Māori and other Pacific Island peoples and cultures. It has pursued this aim primarily through the Journal of the Polynesian Society, a quarterly publication begun at the Society's inception and enduring to the present. The University of Auckland Library and the Polynesian Society have collaborated in initiating the Online Journal. The project will progressively digitise the first 100 years of the Journal, from 1892-1991. | |
Heritage texts | ||
 | Te Ao Hou This website lets you search and browse all 76 issues of the magazine Te Ao Hou The New World. Te Ao Hou was published from 1952 to 1976 by the Māori Affairs Department in New Zealand Aotearoa. According to its first editorial, Te Ao Hou aimed "to provide interesting and informative reading for Māori homes ... like a marae on paper, where all questions of interest to the Māori can be discussed." | |
 | New Zealand Electronic text centre The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has four aims The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre is a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, offering an ever expanding, fully searchable, set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals. | |
 | Early New Zealand Books Project The Early New Zealand Books Project has been developed by staff at The University of Auckland Library. It aims to provide the keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century. Illustrations and maps in the books have also been digitised, with a higher resolution version available by clicking on the image in the text. | |
 | Collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Manuscript and Pictorial On this website you can browse the digitised Manuscripts and Pictorial collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, including 100,000 pages from the papers of Sir Donald McLean and more than 70,000 New Zealand and Pacific images. | |
Research papers | ||
 | Kiwi research information service This website is a gateway to the open-access research documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand. We have harvested research document metadata from around New Zealand and collected it in one place. You can use this website to search for research, look up specific subjects or authors, browse the research in various ways, and keep abreast of emerging research activity. If you're a researcher at a New Zealand institution, we encourage you to contribute your research outputs to your institution's research repository. nzresearch.org.nz will harvest them and distribute them to your peers - both in New Zealand and worldwide | |
 | Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand The Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand is one of New Zealand's most important research publications, particularly for science. The Royal Society (known as the New Zealand Institute before 1933) was established in 1867 to co-ordinate and assist the activities of a number of regional research societies including the Auckland Institute, the Wellington Philosophical Society and the Otago Institute. These societies often did not have the means to publish the papers that were presented to them or maintain a written record of their activities. The NZ Institute was set up to remedy this through the publication of a single volume of transactions and proceedings on their behalf. This project has been carried out by the National Library in consultation with the Royal Society. The original volumes are from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. | |
Images and Multi media | ||
 | Matapihi Matapihi is a window onto the online collections of a number of New Zealand cultural organisations. Matapihi lets you search across the digital collections of different New Zealand organisations from one website. In Matapihi you will find items about New Zealand, made in New Zealand, created by New Zealanders, or held in New Zealand collections. Geography, history, the natural environment, people and events are featured. You can find moving images, photographs, drawings, paintings, sculpture, texts and some 3-d virtual museum objects, as well as a small number of sound files. | |
 | Timeframes Timeframes includes selected New Zealand and Pacific images from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, the research library within the National Library of New Zealand. | |
 | DigitalNZ DigitalNZ is an initiative that aims to make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share and use. This includes content from government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups. | |
Looking for funding? | ||
 | BreakOut BreakOut is New Zealand's primary source of funding information for students, researchers, sports people, artists and those wanting professional development. It will give a selection of over 2,200 scholarships, awards or grants that best meet your requirements, the terms or criteria, closing dates and contact details. | Login for access outside the library |
 | FundView FundView is a searchable database for voluntary organisations and contains over 600 different funding schemes. It includes funding from government, local authorities, statutory and philanthropic trusts, gaming trust and some service organisations. It wil lgive a selection of the sources of funding that best meet your requirements, the terms or criteria, application requirements, closing dates and contact details. | Login for access outside the library |
Searching for family history? | ||
 | Ancestry.com The search of choice for Genealogists. Use the library subscription to search for information about your family tree. | |
| Cemeteries database You can search the Horowhenua Cemeteries Database of burial records to see where your friends and family are buried. | ||
Other miscellaneous databases | ||
 | Government datasets online This is a directory of New Zealand government datasets. The site focuses on machine-readable (ie, well-structured and open) datasets, but recognises that "grey" data (for example, web pages) can still be of use to developers and others. The site is a pilot and will be reviewed in June 2010. During the pilot GTS will be adding features, refining presentation and automating the behind-the-scenes processes. data.govt.nz is owned and maintained by Government Technology Services at the Department of Internal Affairs. | |
| Want to download complete printable classical music scores? Try the IMSPL/Petrucci Music Library. You can search here to see if the score you want is out of copyright and if it is you may print it for your own use. | ||
| Public domain guide Check here to see what is in the Public Domain now. ie. no longer subject to New Zealand copyright laws | ||
 | Māori Land Court Check here to search for Māori Land online | |