Home, Garden & DIY

MyLibrary:

Have a look at the libraries' Home and Garden Recent Picks and Cooking Recent Picks for more new books.

MyLibrary is a free service which allows you to set up your own portal page to collect lists of new books, CDs and DVDs in the library. Our librarians compile these lists on a monthly basis across the different subject areas in the library's collection, and for many subjects these monthly lists are available going back a number of years.

The library has several online subscriptions. Remember you will need to enter your library card to access these links. In mygateway.info, read the addictive The Oxford Companion to the Garden.

Full-text versions of several magazines are available through the EBSCO database, including:

• Australian house & garden
• Horticulture
• Mother Earth News
• OG
• Organic Gardening
• Vegetarian Times

(If you are accessing this page from a non-library computer you will need to login with your library card details before these links will work for you.)

The library holds a number of gardening encyclopedias and dictionaries.

• Building Plan search
• WCC building Services overview
  The Council's Building Services team can help you with a range of building needs and requirements. Have a look here for an overview.
• Building Research Association of New Zealand
  BRANZ is an independent and impartial research, testing, consulting and information company providing resources for the building industry.
• New Zealand Legislation
  This site contains New Zealand Acts, Bills, and Regulations. You can read and download any of these free of charge.
• Resource Consents
  Any development, subdivision or other proposed use of a site must be assessed against the Council's District Plan. The District Plan contains rules about different types of activities in different parts of the city. Anything not permitted by the Plan requires a resource consent, which will be for either a land-use consent or a subdivision consent. Find out more information here.
• Sustainable Building Guidelines
  Wellington City Council has developed sustainable building guidelines to help homeowners, tenants, commercial property owners, architects, developers and builders make Wellington's buildings more sustainable.
• WCC archives overview, including family history, rates books, publications, rating and valuation records
• Updates recent changes to the Building Act 2004.