If you’re feeling uninspired by the algorithms on Spotify, or have a hankering for some old New Zealand bands that you can’t find anywhere, why not check out the old Central Library CD collection in its new home in Johnsonville .

We’ll be opening our Te Pātaka Collection Centre to customers on two days during the school holidays. You’ll be able to browse and borrow material from our off-site storage collection. Some of the collection is on rolling stacks, so different areas of the collection will be more accessible at different times.

Please note: The area of the stacks containing the CD Collection will only be accessible from 10am-11am on the 22nd.

Spots are limited and visits are restricted to one hour, so bookings will be essential — view and book session times and topics available below.

Times and topics

As well as our music collection, these areas are available at any session:

• Fiction
• Large print
• Biography
• Science and health
• Graphic novels
• Teen fiction and graphic novels
• Children’s fiction and comics
• Picture books

Thursday 22 July — Topics and Time Slots

Time slots and topics available per time slot for Thursday 22 July

10-11am	11am-12pm	12-1pm	3-4pm
Social issues Art / photography Sports and games Cooking DVDs TV series Popular CDs Book for 10-11am, 22 July	True Crime Craft Poetry Art/architecture DVDs Movies Magazines Book for 11am-12pm, 22 July	Languages Cooking Literature Songbooks DVDs Movies Music Scores Book for 12-1pm, 22 July	Teen only session. Book for 3-4pm, 22 July

Browse all sessions on our Calendar

Here are some pictures of just some of the CD shelves out at Te Pātaka to give you an idea of the scope of what’s available.