Library Resources

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Generosity - givME and givUS

Generosity is a funding database that provides information about awards, scholarships, grants and schemes for individuals, community groups and organisations.

To access Generosity, you will need to register your email address and create a password. Alternatively, you can use Generosity through our Library Catalogue.


Māori Collection

We have an extensive Māori Collection with some lending items and some reference items. To find out what titles we have, search for the subject heading on the computer catalogue.


Databases

The following are free to use in the library:

  • Ancestry Library Edition (genealogy)
  • Thomson Reuters (law)
  • Fundview and Breakout (funding)
  • Māori Land Court Index (Māori land, genealogy)

Newspapers

The following are free to read in the library:

  • Whakatāne Beacon 
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Coast and Country News
  • Ōpōtiki News 
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • NZ Herald
  • Herald on Sunday

We hold editions of the current month and previous month for all of our newspapers.

If you would like older editions of the Bay Weekend, Whakatāne Beacon and Whakatāne News, they are stored in the Whakatāne District Museum Research Centre (old Museum).