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East Coast Bays Library Collections & Services

Community Noticeboards

Display space is available for community notices and events. All enquiries to library staff.

Local History Archives

The Friends of East Coast Bays Library Local Archives contains a wide variety of materials about the East Coast Bays (From Campbells Bay to Long Bay), including:

  • About 1000 photographs from the 1890s to present. Includes W.J. Ellis and Ian Morris collections.
  • Oral History tapes - about 20 from 1982-present with abstracts.
  • Newspaper cuttings files relating to ECB people, places, events, e.g. jubilees, 1993-2002. Includes adverts. Searchable by card index.
  • Historical memories, newspaper articles, scrapbooks, ephemera.
  • Long Bay and Rangitoto College magazines 1960s-2002, special edition newspapers and jubilee publications.
  • Publications
    • Early Days in the East Coast Bays - School Social Studies material with photographs.
    • Fifty Years on the Press
  • Special Collections
    • East Coast Bays Little Festival of Arts & Crafts 1966-95 includes committee records, photographs, ephemera.
    • Mairangi Players 1952-2002. History, newsletters, programmes.
    • Torbay Folk Music Society scrapbook 1979-84
    • Browns Bay Boating Club & Trailer Yacht Squadron club records, newsletters, etc. 1980-94
    • North Shore Girls' Marching Association records & photographs 1977-84
    • Friends of ECB Library Society records, photographs from 1982-present.

The collection can be accessed by making an appointment with the Archivist at East Coast Bays Library. The New Zealand National Archive of Archives and Manuscripts also contains information about this collection.

Newspapers and Magazines

The Ethel Baxter room houses a comprehensive selection of general magazines and several national newspapers.

Ethel Baxter Room

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