How long is it since you visited the Central City Library? Come in and enjoy our new look and additions to our collections. Here are just some of the ways you can make the most of your Central City Library.

• Rapua i t? whakapapa – search your genealogy
• Borrow a book (and a magazine and a video and some CDs and a talking book and a standard and a CDROM)
• Sit and relax on the comfortable sofas
• Get some help with homework
• Share a story with your children
• Listen to some music
• Check out an electronic book
• Enjoy the beautiful views over the river
• Grow a family tree
• Whakarongo ki te Reo Irirangi o Tahu FM – listen to Tahu FM radio
• Choose some music to take home
• Look up a phone number from another country
• Learn how to use e-mail
• Catch up with newspapers from around New Zealand and the world
• Grab a best-seller
• Visit (and borrow) on a Sunday (open 1-4pm)
• Participate in a pre-school story time
• Tirotiro haere ki ng? rauemi e p? ana ki t? iwi – browse the collection for information about your tribe.
• Swot up previous exam papers
• Peruse the latest magazines
• Get advice on good books to read
• Study or relax in the Young Adult areas
• Log on to the Internet
• Access databases on subjects from Shakespeare to science
• Find out about funding for you or your organisation
• Save time and money with Business Advantage, our commercial information service
• Read a book in Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish or Vietnamese
• Improve your English with the English for Speakers of Other Languages collection
• Gain some knowledge of Christchurch city’s history

For more information, call in or phone the library on 941 7923.