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 nation, in recent months, Cyclone Ana caused severe flooding and forced around 10,000...
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...
Life Through Lockdown Mar 102021 Life Through Lockdown A book of poems During Level 4, Manawatu District Libraries ran a poetry competition asking the community to share their feelings and experiences and...
Author shares her love of public libraries. Mar 82021 Author shares her love of public libraries. Commissioned by Public Libraries of New Zealand, Briar Grace Smith writes about her local library. The first in a series of essays commissioned by PLNZ, Briar Grace-Smith's essay, "To My Local" can be read in The...