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Historian Beaglehole’s letters now available
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 3:58 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
A wonderful insight into New Zealand’s cultural life in the middle decades of last century is revealed in Professor John Cawte Beaglehole’s letters now available at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. More >>
Fairytale facts
Monday, 21 October 2013, 3:33 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
The story "Fairytale sex off the shelves" in the Sunday Star Times and Stuff (20 October 2013) is incorrect in saying that the graphic novel Lost Girls was 'pulled from the National Library Catalogue'. The story has now been corrected online. More >>
Making New Zealand home - National Library of NZ
Monday, 7 October 2013, 12:17 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
The challenges and opportunities of starting life in a new land are the focus of a discussion at the National Library this week. More >>
New Laureate announced on Poetry Day
Friday, 16 August 2013, 10:02 am | National Library Of New Zealand
New Laureate announced on Poetry Day Vincent O’Sullivan is New Zealand’s new Poet Laureate. “The Poet Laureate Advisory Group received some excellent nominations but was unanimous in its choice of Vincent to succeed Ian Wedde for the two-year ... More >>
A Fresh Look At Women In Aotearoa New Zealand
Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 11:32 am | National Library Of New Zealand
Thirteen chiefly women signed the Treaty of Waitangi, and this little known fact is the starting point for a new public programme at the National Library which considers where women stand now, how they got here, and how they see themselves in 2013. More >>
Nominations called for Poet Laureate
Monday, 17 June 2013, 2:20 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
The National Library of New Zealand is inviting nominations for the next New Zealand Poet Laureate. More >>
Snapshot of Heartland NZ On Papers Past
Monday, 10 June 2013, 12:24 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
From colonial Lyttleton to pre-Second World War Upper Hutt, the latest additions to the Papers Past website offer a fascinating cross-section of life in 19th and 20th century New Zealand outside the main centres. More >>
More musical tales of resistance and rebellion
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 11:12 am | National Library Of New Zealand
Activists recount their personal experiences of the role of music in New Zealand protest movements, in the latest event around the Revolting! The Sound of Proest in Aotearoa exhibition at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington this Friday. More >>
Songs of Protest At the Turnbull
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 9:43 am | National Library Of New Zealand
New Zealand’s rich history of protest music is featured in an exhibition designed to be seen and heard, at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. More >>
Revolting music at the National Library
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 9:44 am | National Library Of New Zealand
The music of protest – with a distinctly punk flavour – gets dissected by a panel of experts at the National Library in Molesworth Street this Friday (17 May), followed by live music. More >>
Real story behind Hollywood’s Argo donation to library
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 10:09 am | National Library Of New Zealand
A document throwing light on the dramatic, real-life story of how New Zealand diplomats helped save the American hostages featured in Oscar-winning Hollywood movie Argo has been donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library. More >>
World-class venue for photographic conservators
Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 12:25 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
The choice of Wellington as the venue for a conference of the world’s experts in photographic conservation is a compliment to the state-of-the-art facilities developed at the newly-revamped National Library, says National Librarian, Bill Macnaught. More >>
Kim Hill To Chair Big Data Discussions
Monday, 4 February 2013, 2:24 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
Media Release from the National Library of New Zealand Kim Hill To Chair Big Data Discussions More >>
Doors open on new era for National Library
Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 9:34 am | National Library Of New Zealand
The National Library building in Wellington has today reopened to the public after a three year closure for essential refurbishment. More >>
Record of remarkable NZ artistic collaboration to Turnbull
Monday, 12 November 2012, 10:18 am | National Library Of New Zealand
An album of drawings that records one of the most unique artistic collaborations in the history of New Zealand has been gifted to the Alexander Turnbull by sculptor Tanya Ashken, the wife of the late artist John Drawbridge. More >>
From gold rush to Great War: historic papers now online
Monday, 27 August 2012, 1:56 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
From the gold rush frenzy of 1870’s Thames to the casualty lists of from Gallipoli, a new batch of old papers in now available on the National Library’s popular PapersPast website ( http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz ). More >>
Katherine Mansfield treasure trove comes to the Turnbull
Saturday, 11 August 2012, 3:27 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
The private life of Katherine Mansfield is revealed in a treasure trove of personal letters and photos newly acquired by the Alexander Turnbull Library. More >>
Alexander Turnbull Library reopens for researchers
Friday, 3 August 2012, 10:05 am | National Library Of New Zealand
The National Library of New Zealand building in Wellington reopens its doors to researchers on Monday (6 August) for the first time since refurbishment work began two years ago. More >>
Help save more historical newspapers
Friday, 8 June 2012, 2:18 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
The National Library of New Zealand is inviting libraries, newspapers, institutions and community groups to apply to have historic newspapers from their regions digitised and put online. More >>
Seditious, libellous and blasphemous: the Maoriland Worker
Thursday, 23 February 2012, 2:26 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
“No ‘quack’ advertisements of any kind whatsoever will be inserted in the columns of the Maoriland Worker,” stated an early edition of one of the nation’s most controversial newspapers, now available to all on the National Library’s Papers ... More >>
