Tapu Te Ranga | Island Bay closing early

Tapu Te Ranga | Island Bay Library will close at 5:30 today due to staff illness. The afterhours slots will be open and we expect to be open as usual tomorrow.

Systems maintenance - Wednesday 23 July

From 8.30am-9am you may experience a short outage as we undertake some work on this website - we apologise if you experience any impact. NB. The online library catalogue and access to your library card will not be affected by this work.

Kohinga Reo o te Ao - World Language Collection

From Amharic to Urdu, our libraries hold books in over 50 languages for both kids and adults. Explore our language collections, and the libraries which hold them, below.

Catalogue Quicksearches

World language collection locations
Language Locations On the Catalogue

Afrikaans

Amharic | አማርኛ

Arabic | َلْعَرَبِيَّة

Bengali | বাংলা

Burmese | မြန်မာဘာသာ

Chinese | 汉语

All libraries except for Khandallah and Wadestown

Cook Islands Māori | Māori Kūki ‘Āirani

Dutch | Nederlands

  • Off-site Storage

Farsi/Persian | فارسی

Fijian | Na vosa vaka-Viti

French | Français

All libraries except for Khandallah and Wadestown

German | Deutsch

All libraries except for Khandallah and Wadestown

Greek | Ελληνικά

Gujarati | ગુજરાતી

Hindi | हिन्दी

Indonesian | Bahasa Indonesia

  • Off-site Storage

Italian | Italiano

Japanese | 日本語

Korean | 한국어

Malay | Bahasa Melayu

  • Off-site Storage

Nepali | नेपाली

  • Off-site Storage

Niuean | ko e vagahau Niuē

Oromo | Afaan Oromoo

Panjabi/Punjabi | جابی | ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

Polish | Polski

Portuguese | Português

Russian | Pусский

  • Off-site Storage

Samoan | Gagana Sāmoa

All libraries except for Khandallah and Wadestown

Sinhala/Sinhalese | සිංහල

Somali | Af-Soomaali

Kilbirnie, Miramar, Newtown, Off-site Storage

Spanish | Español

All libraries except for Khandallah and Wadestown

Swedish | Svensk

  • Off-site Storage

Tagalog/Filipino | Wikang Filipino

Tamil | தமிழ்

Thai | ภาษาไทย

Tigrinya | ትግርኛ

Tokelauan | Gagana Tokelau

Tongan | lea fakatonga

Tuvaluan | 'gana Tuvalu

Ukrainian | українська

  • Off-site Storage

Urdu | ُردُو

Vietnamese | tiếng Việt

  • Off-site Storage
These are dedicated collections. For all the World Languages books we hold, check our catalogue.

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