Auckland Council Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau (Māori) | |
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Location | Auckland, New Zealand |
Established | November 2010 |
Branches | 55[1] (now 56 from March 2021) |
Collection | |
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Access and use | |
Circulation | 17 million items (2012)[3] |
Population served | 1.5 million[3] |
Other information | |
Director | Mirla Edmundson[update][4] (General Manager Libraries and Information / Amorangi, Ngā Pātaka Kōrero) |
Website | www |
Auckland Council Libraries, usually simplified to Auckland Libraries, is the public library system for the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It was created when the seven separate councils in the Auckland region merged in 2010.[5] It is currently the largest public-library network in the Southern Hemisphere with 55 branches from Wellsford to Waiuku.[6] Currently from March 2021, the region has a total of 56 branches.