We have an extensive collection of Pacific resources and materials, including items in Pacific languages, resources in English about Pacific nations and bilingual material.
All community libraries have a selection of Pacific items, in various formats including DVDs, music CDs, magazines and books.
The collections support children, teens and adults in the maintenance of their first language and culture, as well as fulfilling literacy, leisure and recreational needs.
We have books in:
Cook Island Māori
Fijian
Niuean
Samoan
Tokelauan
Tongan.
Books in Pacific languages move around the libraries. These are “floating” collections – the book will be kept at whichever library it gets returned to.
Our heritage and research collections include a range of Pacific materials:
family history (e.g. microfilms of birth, death and marriage registers)
reference books
magazines and newspapers
manuscripts relating to Pacific history and society and Pacific communities in New Zealand.
These collections are held at Research Central and Research South.
Browse map collections, portraits, historical images and diverse photographs of everyday life in Auckland and New Zealand.
Images, drawings and ephemera relating to the South Auckland and North Waikato areas from the 1870s to the present day. These can now be viewed in Kura Heritage Collections Online.
A selection of significant events from the history of the former Manukau City and adjoining areas. This collection can now be viewed in Kura Heritage Collections Online.
Browse the Samoan collection of images on Auckland Libraries Historypin.
Our heritage and research librarians share fascinations from the past.
Browse the digitised version of a catalogue of different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the southern hemisphere.
