List of Carnegie libraries in Oceania

This is a list of Carnegie libraries in Oceania. Although most of Carnegie's philanthropic efforts were aimed at North America and Europe, a handful of libraries are scattered in other English-speaking areas of the world. New Zealand, with 18 Carnegie libraries, received the fourth-most libraries of any country.

Australia

Carnegie financed four libraries in Australia.

	City or locality	State	Image	Date granted	Grant amount	Inflation adjusted amount	Location	Notes
1	Hobart	Tasmania		6 Oct 1902	$36,505	$
2	Midland Junction	Western Australia		2 Dec 1909	$7,300	$
3	Mildura	Victoria		23 Jun 1906	$9,825	$
4	Northcote	Victoria		13 Mar 1909	$14,610	$
Total	—	—	—	—	$68,240	$	—	—

Fiji

There is a Carnegie library in Suva, Fiji's capital, funded by the philanthropist with a $7,300 grant on 13 December 1907.

Malaysia

There was a Carnegie library in Kota Bharu. The library is now called Kelantan Public Library Corporation.

Mauritius

There is a Carnegie library in Curepipe.

New Zealand

The money for Carnegie libraries in the Dominions was administered from New York. Twenty-five towns and boroughs applied for funding and eighteen libraries were provided in New Zealand. The country had the fourth-highest number of Carnegie libraries, behind the USA, the UK and Canada:

	Town	Region	Image	Date granted	Grant amount	Location	Notes
1	Alexandra	Otago		2 Dec 1909	$3,880		Demolished in 1978
2	Balclutha	Otago		2 Apr 1913	$4,870	23 John Street
3	Cambridge	Waikato		14 Dec 1908	$4,870
4	Dannevirke	Manawatū-Whanganui		10 Apr 1906	$9,690		Threatened by demolition as of August 2020
5	Dunedin	Otago		19 Sep 1902	$48,700	Moray Place	Dunedin Public Library moved to a new building in 1981.
6	Fairlie	Canterbury		31 Jan 1913	$4,875	6 Allandale Road	Library moved in mid 1990's to Mackenzie College
7	Gore	Southland		10 Jul 1907	$9,750	14 Hokonui Drive	Eastern Southland Gallery
8	Greymouth	West Coast		5 Oct 1904	$10,967		Destroyed by arson in 1947
9	Hamilton	Waikato		23 Apr 1906	$9,720	354 Victoria Street	Opened 27 February 1908; demolished in 1960
10	Hastings	Hawke's Bay		29 May 1905	$12,175		Opened in 1907; demolished in 1931
11	Hokitika	West Coast		20 Jun 1905	$12,175	17 Hamilton Street	Hokitika Museum
12	Levin	Manawatū-Whanganui		28 Sep 1909	$7,290		Demolished in 1965
13	Marton	Manawatū-Whanganui		23 Jul 1914	$6,075
14	New Plymouth	Taranaki		13 Feb 1906	$12,150		Demolished in 1957
15	Onehunga	Auckland		15 Jul 1909	$9,720
16	Thames	Waikato		7 Jan 1904	$9,760		In 2014 the library was restored and extended to provide archive and genealogy facilities for the Thames Coromandel area
17	Timaru	Canterbury		14 Jun 1906	$21,010	2 King George Place	Built in 1908, now the facade for the Timaru City District Council offices, library relocated in 1979.
18	Westport	West Coast		10 Sep 1903	$9,720	Lyndhurst Street	The library moved to a new building in 2003
Total	—	—	—	—	$207,397	—	—