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We're going digital! We will soon be offering ebooks and audiobooks to download using OverDrive. The OverDrive platform allows library customers to borrow audiobooks and ebooks for a limited time for use on their own devices. In the meantime we'd love to hear from you if you're into this stuff. Let us know what device(s) you use and what you like to read or listen to. Click here to get in touch

 

For adults we have a range of:

  • Popular fiction collections
  • Information books on a wide variety of subjects
  • Ebooks and audiobooks
  • Videos
  • Genealogy collections
  • CD-ROMs
  • Talking Books
  • Local History
  • Magazines
  • Large Print

For  Kids We Have…
  • Board and Picture books
  • First readers’ and chapter books for older kids.
  • Books for teens.
  • Information books & great stuff for school projects.·
  • Videos and CD-ROM’s suitable for kids & teens.
  • An annual ‘summer reading programme’.·
  • Visits from schools, kindergartens and  home schoolers are welcome – bookings required.
  • Reference Materials

 

Our range of reference materials includes:

  • Fundview
  • Electoral Rolls
  • Car Manuals
  • Hansard
  • Encyclopedia and atlases
  • Telephone Books
  • Council Documents (Agendas, Minutes, proposals etc)

Newspapers

Each library has the New Zealand Herald and Waikato Times delivered daily. Also available is the Matamata Chronicle & Piako Post and a limited range of other New Zealand papers.

 

Internet & E-mail

Free internet and wireless access is available at all three libraries through the Aotearoa People's Network Kaharoa. 30 minutes guaranteed per person per day.

 

Photocopier

Each library has a ‘self serve’ black & white photocopier.  See charges and loan periods for more information.

 

Feedback

The Librarians welcome feedback.  Suggestions and requests for ‘Books to Purchase’ are welcome. E-mail or phone your nearest library.