The clubrooms are the home of our library.
What the library offers
- Over 1,200 books available for loan, including guidebooks, biographies, anthologies and recipe books
- Books about: climbing, cycling, mountaineering, skiing, tramping, walks and tracks, bushcraft, conservation, first aid, search and rescue, New Zealand flora & fauna, landscapes, islands, national parks, the Southern Alps, South Island High Country, Antarctica, European Alps, the Himalaya
- Book reviews, in recent editions of Backcountry bulletin or via the online library catalogue on the website.
- The latest Wilderness magazines
- A database at TTC Library catalogue for searching for titles and authors or by subject matter.
Using the library
- Come into the library before and after club night meetings to browse the collection.
- To borrow a book or magazine: enter details in the Issues Book
- Loan periods are two weeks for new books and three weeks for other books and magazines.
- Returning a book or magazine: use the box in the library labelled RETURNS. Please return all borrowed items promptly.
- Library amnesty: Books and magazines borrowed from the library some time ago can be returned with no questions asked. Please have a look around at home to see if you have any overdue TTC library books.
Cataloguing
Two or three-letter coding is used for each category:
- Antarctica ANT
- Biographies B and then the first three letters of name of the person the book is about. e.g. Edmund Hillary B HIL
- Bushcraft BUS
- Conservation CON
- Cooking & Recipes REC
- First Aid & Rescue FAR
- Flora & Fauna F&F
- New Zealand General NZG
- North Island NI
- Snowsports SNO
- South Island SI
- Watersports WAT
Acquisitions
See the Library catalogue for details.
Another interesting site to reference is the NZ Maps Through the Years. It shows NZ maps from 1899 to 2019.
Librarian
Susi Lang -> mailto:ttc [period] librarian [snail] ttc [period] org [period] nz?Subject=Query from TTC website