The library subscribes to these pay-for sites that you can search for information
Biography
Sites
Gale Biography Resource Centre- Biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries. - biography.com
- Searchable database of 15,000 brief biographies of prominent people past and present. From the Biography Channel.
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
- This website contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on this country. It does not include people who are alive. So you will not find people like Helen Clark or Sean Fitzpatrick, but you will find people like George Nepia or Michael Joseph Savage. The information on this site is the online version of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
- Famous New Zealanders
- Factsheets about famous New Zealanders from sports-people to artists. From Christchurch City Libraries.
- Inventors and Inventions
- Find out about inventors and their inventions in these Christchurch City Libraries' fact files.
