Web site tools

Tools and information to help you get more out of our online resources.

Library database tools

Use these tools to quickly search our databases (Catalogue, CINCH etc) from your browser.

Bookmarklets: Create Favorites / Bookmarks which let you search our Catalogue, CINCH Community Database or localeye web site for selected text from any web page in your Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browser.
Links to searches: Make a persistent link to a search in our Catalogue, CINCH & Papers databases, that you can reuse in your web site, blog or email.
Toolbar add-ins: To aid in quickly searching our Catalogue from any web page you can now add this search function to Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox.
Z39.50 Connections: A number of Christchurch City Libraries databases can be accessed via a Z39.50 connection.

Feeds: Get RSS updates of our website, blog and new titles and items just ordered.
File types & plug-ins: Learn about different types of files that you will find on our web site and the internet and where to download the software to view them.
Fonts: Viewing fonts on our web site, in particular macrons in Māori words and non-roman fonts in the new settlers pages.
Glossary: Library and technical terms that you may come across.
Link to our web site: Guidelines for linking to our web site including logo images to use.
Newsletters: Get monthly newsletters with new items.