The Garden Place Library is the community library for the inner city and nearby suburbs, but is also the hub with larger lending collections than the outer suburban libraries. It holds specialist and research collections such as Heritage, overseas newspapers, world languages, music scores and Stack.

The Garden Place Library is situated in Garden Place between Victoria and Alexandra Streets.

Contact us

Telephone: 838 6826

Fax: 838 6858

Email: libadmin@hcc.govt.nz

Location: Garden Place

Map

Hours

Monday – Friday            9.00 am-8.30 pm

Saturday                        9.00 am-4.00 pm

Sunday                         12 noon-3.30 pm

Extra services

• Play group – Wed 10.30-11.15am (weekly during school term) Preschoolers…..

• Internet - free access to broadband internet services, and free WiFi service, through the Aotearoa People's Network. 20 PCs available.

• Colour photocopier

• Self-check issues

• Community notice board

• After hours returns

• Archives and historic photos

• Historic photographs

• Local history and genealogy research

• New Zealand Film Archive

• Overseas newspapers

• World languages

• Lending Stack of old favourites