Your Questions Answered

As many as you can carry!
While your card allows up to 20 at any one time, we've been known to over-ride that rule for our beloved book-lovers.
If you're a teacher or ECE you can change your library membership to a 'bulk' user, allowing you more items and longer borrowing time of 3 months instead of one.

Our loan period for:

• Books - 4 weeks.
• Magazines and DVDs - 1 week.
• Our Tere Atu Tere Mai Collection (Library of Things) have shorter loans for equipment.

There is a maximum of two renewals per item.
Renew by logging in to your account, email or phone us too. Please note, if an item has been placed on hold by another borrower it cannot be renewed.

Place a hold by logging into your account (top right hand on our catalogue - Kōtui website), then hit the 'Place Hold' button for the items you're wanting. When the item is ready for you we'll text/call you the next day to pick up. This is a free service. Holds are placed on reserve for you for a maximum of 7 days.

Complete an application form here, then come into the library and check in with us to get your card. Membership is free.

The information you provided when you join the library is stored in your library customer record, including your name, your date of birth, your contact email address and/or phone number, and your home address. This information is held securely and safely by an external third party - Kōtui.

Unfortunately no. If you do not wish to provide your personal information, which is held in our library management system through Kōtui our third party provider, the Library must decline or cancel your membership application. But you can still come and hang out at Te Tāhuhu o Te Rangi and read the physical collections in our beautiful whare (library) and use our meeting rooms and connect to WiFi and use the computers and the MakerSpace technology... and kōrerorero (chat) with us!

• You can borrow books, magazines, DVDs, puzzles, as well as equipment within our Tere Atu Tere Mai Library of Things collection, for various borrowing lengths of time for free.
• Access items from our eLibrary, such as eMovies, eBooks, Audios, eMagazines via ePlatform, BorrowBox and Beamafilm for free.
• Access Research eResources such as the Bridget Williams Books Collection and NZ Geographic for free.

Everything else we have accessible to anyone be it a local or a visitor-from-afar as long as it stays in the library: you can even play Tio our piano, Hikitia our guitar and a ukulele or 2. You can use our sewing machines too.

Computers and WiFi are free to use.

There is a laser cutter, 3D printer, and vinyl cutter in the makerspace. We have a printer/photocopier and scanner to help with documents.

Meeting rooms are free for study and non-profit groups/individuals. Koha gratefully accepted from anyone that uses our awesome rooms. For-profit organisations are required to pay a hirage fee.