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Entertainment
Beamafilm allows you to 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. Sign up instructions |
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Community
Community funding advice or assistance, see the Gisborne District Council website. | |
Scholarships try careers.govt.nz . | |
Disability grants and scholarships visit Firstpoint. | |
Encyclopedia
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. | ![]() |
Genealogy
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. |
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Newspapers
The Gisborne Herald - local newspaper, read for free articles available. | ![]() |
Newsbank Features more than 150 sources including The New Zealand Herald; The Dominion Post; Sunday Star Times, Otago Daily Times; The Press; Waikato Times. It offers local, regional and national perspectives on current issues and events. Access with your Library Membership. | ![]() |
Pipiwharauroa a monthly Maori-language newspaper, supplied within The Gisborne Herald. | ![]() |
PapersPast has a selection of historic Gisborne Newspapers. | ![]() |
New Zealand
BWB New Zealand History Collection Over 30 years of award-winning history publishing combines into an authoritative resource of life in Aotearoa, from earliest beginnings to present day. |
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Index New Zealand (INNZ) is a New Zealand searchable database that contains abstracts and descriptions of articles from about 1000 New Zealand periodicals and newspapers published from the 1950s to the present day. | ![]() |
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. | ![]() |
New Zealand Journal of History is a journal for academic writing on New Zealand history and included contributions from New Zealand's most famous historians. | ![]() |