Christchurch City Libraries now subscribes to the Burney Collection. This enables library members to access the best collection of 17th and 18th century British newspapers from your home computer or in any of our libraries.

Family History at Christchurch City Libraries
We've rearranged our Family History guide to make it easier to get around and integrated our guides to finding shipping information such as passenger lists and cemetery information such as burials.

Digital Maps online
The digital copies of these maps are from originals held by Christchurch City Libraries, Christchurch City Archives, and from the Cartographic Collection at the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand.