Whanganui District Library has more than 100,000 items you can borrow – and they are borrowed around half a million times each year. Members can borrow items for the whole family – adults, young adults and children – from all six library branches across the district. We also have extensive reference and heritage collections and archives.
Our borrowable collections consist of:
- Non-fiction
- Fiction
- Large-print
- Graphic novels
- Magazines
- DVDs & Music CDs
- Talking books
- Children’s picturebooks
- Children’s early readers, board books & cassettes
- Te Taurawhiri (specialist Maori collections)
We currently hold the following in our reference sections:
- Vehicle repair manuals
- Electoral rolls and phone books
- Local government and district health board minutes/agendas
- New Zealand Statutes and order papers
- A selection of national, regional and Whanganui newspapers