Hub of the community Apr 202021 Hub of the community Finding your way in a new town or city is easy with a visit to the library. Documentary photographer, Pene Coleman, arrived in Tauranga 28 years ago and the first outing with her two young sons was to check out the local library and get membership cards. This is her experience of settling into a new community.
Introducing Porirua Library's New Digital Inclusion Librarian Apr 162021 Introducing Porirua Library's New Digital Inclusion Librarian Porirua Libraries now have the services of a librarian whose passion is digital literacy. Now more than ever it is important to come together to connect, adapt and find creative ways to grow and thrive as individuals and as a community....
Books for Fiji Apr 92021 Books for Fiji Desperately seeking children's and Young Adult fiction and non-fiction. Last month Fiji was hit by one of the strongest cyclones ever recorded leaving a path of devastation in its wake. The second to batter the island...
Tauranga Library Celebrates 150 years Apr 62021 Tauranga Library Celebrates 150 years Sowing the seeds of future generations! On this day, 7 April 1871, three men had a meeting at the Masonic Hotel about providing the local community with reading material. Little did they...
Te Pouhuaki | National Librarian, Rachel Esson, explains Mar 152021 Te Pouhuaki | National Librarian, Rachel Esson, explains National Library's process of culling the Overseas Published Collections (OPC). Libraries have been around for thousands of years. If society kept everything ever written whether, on tablet, scroll, parchment or...