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Hours:

• Monday to Friday: 9am - 6pm
• Saturday and Sunday: 10am - 4pm

• Parking is close to library, with disabled access;
• Bike stands are outside the restaurant next door to the library.

Services

• Services available at all Christchurch City Libraries
• Book a librarian one on one sessions
• Public toilets in foyer, including disabled access
• Wheelchair available for use in library
• No public phone in library
• Parenting room: child’s size toilet and basin, adult basin, pull down nappy changer, sanispray for spraying changer, microwave, adult chair / feeding chair
• Purchase and top up Metrocards
• Niwa piercam situated at the library

• 23 public computers with free internet access (22 with 30 minute time limit for sessions; 1 with 15 minute time limit) Please note: 15 free PCs unavailable when in use as the New Brighton Learning Centre)
• Free wireless internet access
• 1 children’s computer
• Scan to USB
• Games PCs, PlayStations
• Events & classes - see calendar below
• Christchurch City Libraries events calendar

Collections

• Stories to Go
• Local history
• New Brighton Learning Centre
• Pier photograph collection

Events & classes

Te Kete Wānanga o Karoro

About our Māori name

Listen to our Māori name [65Kb MP3]

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Kate Ogden - community librarian (interview)

About the New Brighton Library building

Architects: Andrew Barclay and Scott Koopman of Architecture Warren and Mahoney
Construction: Mainzeal Property and Construction Ltd
Cost: $4.5 million
Date opened: July 1999

Awards

• 2000 NZIA Resene National Award for Architecture
• 2000 NZIA Resene Regional Award (Urban Design)
• 1999 NZIA Resene Branch Award for Architecture (Community and Culture)
• 1999 NZIA Resene Colour Award for Architecture (Interior Design)

New Brighton Pier

• New Brighton Pier: includes a brief history of the current and original piers and links to additional resources
• Pier construction photographs
• New Brighton: a selection of historical photos from our collection
• Big Storm at New Brighton Pier, 20th July 2001