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Law for Lunch | Baby Rock & Rhyme Ning social network | Concession cards | Select: Sound & Vision Collection | Baby Rock & Rhyme CD | New audiotours
Reserves on open shelves | Email notices | New satchels for sale | New library charges | Extended loans | Debt Recovery
New children's CD coming soon!
Whispers in the Wind: A collection of children's stories written and read by Wellington authors, will soon be launched.
Popular New Zealand authors include Joy Cowley, Fleur Beale, Janice Marriott, Barbara Else and more.
Generously sponsored by Creative New Zealand, this CD allows Wellington children's authors to create a closer connection to children, and for children to hear local authors telling or reading their own stories, which deepens their experience of the story.
All teachers and librarians know that children need good role models for reading. Hearing a teacher, a librarian or other adult read aloud allows a child to hear the phrasing, inflections and expressions that a good reader uses. Listening also develops a child's ability to imagine. How much more impact is there if the child knows the person who imagined the story is also reading it?
Through Whispers in the Wind authors and their stories come alive, are real and more authentic for children, igniting their love of reading and writing. Wellington City Libraries' overall objective has been to make this possible.
On sale from 27 November, this CD will be available at any branch library or email enquiries@wcl.govt.nz to purchase a copy.
A fantastic gift for any occasion! $20 per CD.
This CD was recorded at Life of Riley studio, Korokoro.
Plenty of bargains at the Wellington City Libraries' booksale!
Every year thousands of avid readers and music lovers gather at Wellington Central Library for the summer book sale. And judging by its past popularity, this sale should be no different. Past buyers have used the sale to find the best book deals, to complete their personal collections or just to rummage and find a gem. And the sale helps the library by making room for its ever increasing collection.
The sale includes books, CDs, cassettes, DVD, magazines and journals on every topic imaginable. Stock is replenished at regular intervals during the sale ensuring there are always fresh bargains to be found. And they really are bargains - prices start from 50 cents for magazines, with most other items between $1 and $6 and some marked prices.
If you love a bargain and love music or literature, you won't want to miss it. Book sale starts Tuesday 8 December, 9.30am and ends 21 December.
Law for Lunch
A series of free lunchtime seminars Wednesdays in November, noon - 1pm.
Central Library,
65 Victoria Street, Wellington
All welcome
Programme:
4 November / Redundancy: feel the fear!
Speaker: Colin Ross, Community lawyer at Wellington Community Law Centre.
- Have you or someone you know been made redundant?
- What are your rights?
- What is redundancy?
- What is proper process?
- What about compensation?
- Unjustified dismissals
Colin Ross is a community lawyer at WCLC, specialising in employment law. WCLC has recently seen a dramatic rise in employment-related legal issues, and Colin is expertly placed to discuss the ins and outs of redundancy and the employment market.
11 November / Twittering your Rights Away?
Speaker: Katrine Evans, Privacy Commissioner's Office
- Facebook, Bebo, Twitter and the rise of the tell-all generation
- Google Earth
Katrine Evans is an Assistant Privacy Commissioner. She joined the Commission in 2004, after a ten-year career as a law lecturer at Victoria University. She is legal counsel to the Privacy Commissioner, leads and manages litigation and gives advice in the area of investigations.
18 November / Clean up your relationship property or get taken to the cleaners
Speaker: Matt Freeman, Solicitor, Thomas Dewar Sziranyi Letts.
- Entering and exiting domestic relationships
- Practical advice for new and established couples
Matt Freeman is a solicitor with Thomas Dewar Sziranyi Letts. He practises in all areas of litigation, with particular interests in relationship property matters, ACC law, and insolvency law. He graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a BSc (Hons) in 2000 and an LLB in 2003. He was admitted to the bar in 2005 and has been with Thomas Dewar Sziranyi Letts since 2006.
25 November / A fair deal? Adult children supporting elderly parents
Speaker: Laurie Hilgsen, Director, Carers NZ
- When carers are compensated at a fair market rate for their labour (either during the family member's lifetime, or as a proportion of their estate)
- A contract for a specific time, or for life?
- Compensation as a lump sum, or in specific payments?
- A contract for specific services?
- What happens when a carer takes a break, resigns, or becomes incapacitated?
- Tax implications for all parties
Laurie Hilsgen is CEO of Carers NZ, the national peak body for family carers. More than 420,000 Kiwis support an ill, disabled, or frail aged family member. Family carers are New Zealand's biggest health workforce and, in an ageing society, will have an increasingly vital role.
Baby Rock & Rhyme Ning social network
Wellington City Libraries has joined Ning, a social networking site where all Baby Rock & Rhymers can interact with each other and Libraries' staff online.
If you would like to join please create an account on Ning, complete this form and hand it in at your local branch. We will then send you an invitation to the network - this is so we can ensure your privacy and keep this space safe.Any queries or questions? Just want to know more? You can email us, and we will endeavour to answer any questions that you have.
If you'd like to find out more right now, you can view this slideshow and preview our Baby Rock & Rhyme Ning network.
As an added incentive, if you join before 30 November 2009 you could win a Baby Rock & Rhyme CD and book!
Get more for less with library concession cards!
Are you a regular user of the Bestsellers collection, or do you frequently reserve library items or borrow magazines?
These concession cards are now available for purchase at your nearest branch:
- Bestsellers concession cards cost $25.00* for six Bestsellers book rentals (one free).
- Reserves concession cards cost $20.00* for 12 reserves (two free).
- Magazines concession cards cost $10.00* for 24 issues (4 free).
The cards are valid for one year from the purchase date and are available from your local library (note the Bestsellers concession cards are available at branches with Bestsellers collections).
Save yourself time and money - or gift them to other book lovers!
* Community Services Card discounts do not apply.
New 'Select: Sound & Vision' collection
Get the latest CDs & DVDs faster! The 'Select' collection is designed to make it easier to borrow heavily used and reserved items within our audiovisual collection at Central Library. The titles in this collection have a reduced loan period of 3 days, meaning you can access the most popular CDs and DVDs faster for the same price and find them on the shelf more often. Just look for this sticker:
The small print:
- Loan prices and overdue fines for items within the 'Select' collection are the same as the ordinary collection..
- The 'Hire-3-get-one-free' discount does not apply to titles within this collection.
- You cannot reserve or renew any items in the collection.
Enjoy Baby Rock & Rhyme at home - with our new CD
This new CD is a great gift for the young ones in your family, as it's a quality production of 33 songs to share with babies and children under 5. It includes traditional songs, nursery rhymes and waiata - all your favourites. It was recorded and produced by Wellington City Libraries and features the musical talents of library staff along with some very special guest singers from Capital City Pre-school.
Song samples (all in MP3 format): Haere mai | Wheels on the Bus | Eensy Weensy Spider | Hokey Cokey | Paki Paki
The CD is now available for sale for $15 at all our libraries. Stocks are limited so get in quick!
Now available - Central Library audiotours
Borrow a free audio tour to help you find your way around the Central Library and our collection - it's easy! The self-guided audio tours are available at the Information Desk on the Ground Floor. We have the tour on MP3 players you can borrow and it will soon be downloadable from our library website, for listening whenever you want. To see which areas of the library are covered, here are the maps showing the tour spots: ground floor | first floor | second floor
Central Library joins other branches in providing easier access to reserved items
From 27 March, all reserved books and magazines ready for pick-up at the Central Library can be found on the new Open Reserves shelves next to the self-check machines on the ground floor. Using the self-check machines to issue your own reserved items means picking up reserved books and magazines has never been quicker.
Other libraries already offering this service are: Miramar, Karori, Cummings Park (Ngaio), Wadestown, Khandallah, Johnsonville and Tawa.
If you have reserved DVDs, videotapes, audiobooks or compact disks for collection at Central Library, please see the Issues desk staff.
If you have any questions about the new Open Reserves shelving, feel free to contact us on 499 4444 or ask a staff member at any Central Library enquiries desk.
Email notices for overdues & reserves
Did you know you can get your overdue and reserve notices by email? This service can easily be added to your customer record, just complete the online form. We also offer notices by telephone or mail.
Being environmentally friendly never looked so good!
Wellington City Libraries are selling a new range of sustainably produced satchels which are fantastic for carrying, storing and filing papers, documents and magazines. They have also proved to be very popular gifts and as mementos for overseas visitors. In three unique vibrant designs, the satchels are made from "Govt 3" approved paper sourced from sustainable forests, are produced with Enviro-Mark NZ certified printing processes, and are 100% recyclable.
By buying the satchels, you will support the library's collections. They are $3 each - so buy one or a set of three today from any of our libraries.
New Library Charges
The Council's Annual Plan for 2007/08 was finalised on Wednesday 27 June 2007. This included new charges for some library services.
These charges are effective Monday 2 July 2007:
| Adult | Children and Young Adults | |
|---|---|---|
| DVDs | $4 | 50 cents |
| Reserves | $2 | free |
| Magazines | 50 cents * | free |
| Overdues (books, magazines, CDs and cassettes) |
60 cents | 30 cents |
| Bestseller Books | $5 | $5 |
| Bestseller Magazines | $2.50 * | $2.50 |
* Community Service card discounts do not apply to magazine charges for adults.
More details about the Council's Annual Plan is available at www.Wellington.govt.nz
Extended loans now available in our libraries and via our website
You can now extend the due date of your issued items for one week for a fee of $1 per item (plus rental charges where applicable), either via our website or in our libraries. Loans can be extended up to the due date via the online service if there are no other reserves waiting. If your item is one day overdue, please visit our libraries and a librarian will be able to extend your due date by one week if there are no other reserves waiting. We hope to add the extended loans feature to our telephone service, PAL, in the near future.
Changes to Library Debt Recovery Policy
All charges, costs, commissions and legal fees incurred by Wellington City Libraries in the retrieval of outstanding items and debt through our contracted Collection Agency will be passed on to the customer. This change will take effect from 1 September 2006.
