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Stream over a thousand documentaries, movies, independent features, educational & foreign films for free. Free access with your Library Membership number. Start by typing HB Williams Memorial Library into the search box on the Beamafilm webpage.

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Britannica Library

Find answers for simple or complex questions in this easy to use and interactive online encyclopedia. Choose your level: kids, teens or adults. Free access from home with your library membership.

Ancestry Library Edition

Access within the HB Williams Memorial Library only.  Ancestry brings with world's most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library.

Newsstream

Articles from New Zealand and Australia newspapers covering regional and international topics - updated daily. Some titles include:

• New Zealand Herald
• Bay of Plenty News
• Hawkes Bay Today
• The Post
  
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To login from outside the Library, login to the Library catalogue with your library barcode and the link will appear on the front screen

The Gisborne Herald

Local newspaper, with selected free to read articles

Pipiwharauroa

A monthly Maori-language newspaper, supplied within The Gisborne Herald.

PapersPast

Papers Past includes full text newspapers from all around New Zealand from 1839 to around 1950, including eight Gisborne newspapers.

BWB New Zealand History Collection

An online resource of over 100 full-text searchable New Zealand non-fiction history titles. Authors include Judith Binney, James Belich, Michael King, Claudia Orange, Alan Ward.

To access:

Login using Institutional access, then search for H.B. Williams Memorial Library and follow the instructions

Index New Zealand (INNZ)

Index New Zealand is a searchable database of records containing summaries and subject headings for articles from NZ journals, magazines and newspapers. Most are from the 1980s, with a few titles from the early 20^th century. This database is no longer added to from June 2024.

Maori Land Court Minute Books Index

Provides quick and easy access to over 1100 handwritten minute book records which were made between 1865 and 1910, from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu and Waipounamu Maori Land Court Districts.