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.

Tamariki - Kids

Discover what the library offers for tamariki – events, books, homework help & more.

  • What's on
    Find out what events and programmes are happening at the library for tamariki and their whānau.

  • Collections
    Explore the physical and digital resources that tamariki can access with their library cards.

  • Māori
    Connect with te ao Māori through our pukapuka, library events, and other resources in te reo Māori.

  • Searching and Homework
    Photo of bookshelves at a library.
    Visit this page for homework help, catalogue search guides for tamariki, and other resources to help with your learning.

  • Kids and Families Newsletter
    Subscribe to our monthly newsletter highlighting upcoming events, new services, regular programmes and more.

Kids' stories

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