Hastings District Libraries

Library Access

Public Access

Looking for an article in a New Zealand newspaper or magazine?  Use Index New Zealand (INNZ) to search for articles on your chosen subject. 

Not full text - if article is not held locally, ask about Interloaning it from another library.

Access Notes:
Available in our libraries (no charge) or from home.

Library Access

Public Access

Conditions:
Library card number required

Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFile Premier provides full text artles dating as far back as 1975.

Covers virtually every subject area of general interest.

Access Notes:
Click on EBSCOhost Web button, then select MasterFile Premier. Available in our libraries (no charge) or from home. Epic Database terms and conditions apply.

Hastings District Libraries subscribe to newspapers in various formats:

• Print
• Microfilm
• Online Databases including Press Display

 At Hastings Library we hold Hawke's Bay Today for one year in print and previous years on microfilm.  Please ask at the Reference Desk upstair to access these. 

Click Read more to go to a list of NZ newspapers available at Hastings District Libraries.

Library Access

Conditions:
Access from library only

The Knowledge Basket's Newztext is a searchable archive of full text articles in many of New Zealand's key publications.

Includes many metropolitan and provincial newspapers, e.g. The Herald, The Dominion and Hawke's Bay Today (from 2008 to date).  Also Radio NZ & Scoop newswires.   Also many NZ magazines. 

Digitised historic newspapers

Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals.

The collection covers the years 1839 to 1945 and includes 68 publications from all regions of New Zealand.

Search full text at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast

Five Hawke's Bay newspapers are available.

A useful tool for family history research or for anyone keen on our history.  Even the advertisements are interesting.

Hastings Library holds the following newspapers on microfilm:

•     Hastings Standard     Apr 1896- Dec 1910
•     HB Tribune                Dec 1910 - Jun 1937
•     HB Herald Tribune     1937 [Jan] - 1970 [Apr], 1970 [Jun] - 1978 [Nov], 1979 [Jan] - 01 May 1999
•     Hawke's Bay Today    Apr 1999 -

May be viewed on our two microfilm readers.  Printing available.

Call upstairs and ask at the Reference Desk for assistance in using these.