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Computer Upgrade Coming Soon
We are upgrading to a new computer system in mid March. -
Keep Saved Lists or Searches from the Library Catalogue
Instructions to Keep Saved Lists or Searches -
Summer Reading Adventure: Announcing our Grand Prize Winners
The Summer Reading Adventure is over for another year and now it's time to announce the winners of our twelve Grand Prize Packs!
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- Being a Justice of the Peace: interview with Juping Zhou
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- If it Weren't for your Gumboots: An interview with Bata
- The Summer Reading Adventure is Just Over the Horizon!
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Summer Reading Adventure: Announcing our Grand Prize Winners
The Summer Reading Adventure is over for another year and now it's time to announce the winners of our twelve Grand Prize Packs! -
Top reviews from our Summer Reading Adventurers
We received so many fantastic book reviews from tamariki for Summer Reading 2025 - have a read! -
Our 2024 picks: Kids' fiction, comics, and more
There have been so many fantastic children's books published in 2024, and this is our chance to share our top picks of the year with you.
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- Summer Reading Adventure: How to create an acrostic poem
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- The Summer Reading Adventure is Just Over the Horizon!
- 15 popular Kids’ Books to reserve this month!
- What’s on for tamariki at the library: In-person and online!
- Beyond the Page 2024: Week Two Round-up!
- Beyond the Page 2024 School Holiday Programme
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G'Day, Kia ora, Hello! A Global Hangout for Rangatahi
11-15 years old? Sign up for our Global Hangout to meet other teens from overseas online, play games, and eat snacks! -
The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... Captain America
The star-spangled man with a plan... to help you read his adventures! It’s the Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to Captain America! -
Summer Reading Adventure: Announcing our Grand Prize Winners
The Summer Reading Adventure is over for another year and now it's time to announce the winners of our twelve Grand Prize Packs!
Recent stories
- Our 2024 picks: Young Adult favourites of the year
- The Summer Reading Adventure is Just Over the Horizon!
- The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... The Joker and Harley Quinn
- Spooky YA reads to keep that Halloween 👻spirit👻 going
- Sign up for our Teen Newsletter Please
- Mental Health Awareness Week: A librarian's guide to big sad thoughts and other weird growing-up things
- The Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to... Batman
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Navigating Negotiation
We've collated some resources to help with negotiating in business and life. -
Te Araroa Walkers and Wellington Business
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Guest post: The Wellbeing Program Paradox
Author and culture consultant Colin D. Ellis examines how money channelled into employee wellness programmes could be better spent first addressing unhealthy workplace culture.
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Bringing History Into 2024: A Recap
This year our heritage team have digitised and uploaded over 1500 unique items to our platform Wellington City Recollect, including posters, photographs, books, documents, maps and more! -
Author Interview: Daniel Beban
Riki Gooch interviews author Daniel Beban about his new nonfiction book Future Jaw-Clap. -
RAD: Radio Active Digest now on Wellington City Recollect
A 1980s magazine from Wellington’s pioneering alternative radio station is now available to read online
Recent stories
- New online resource: the Wellington Provincial Council Gazette, 1854-1876
- The Spectacular Cinemas of Wellington
- The Rise of Vernacular Architecture in Wellington
- The Flowering of The Tulip
- New online genealogical resource: The Scholefield Papers
- ‘The Streets of My City’: the Legacy of Fanny Irvine-Smith
- The work of Ans Westra on Recollect
Māori featured stories
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Te Māori Exhibition: 40 Years On
10 September 1984. On this day, 40 years ago, Te Māori exhibition opened at MOMA in New York City. -
Rauemi Reo : a guide to resources to help strengthen your reo Māori
Wellington City Libraries staff have produced an online pamphlet of 'Rauemi Reo : a guide to resources to help strengthen your reo Māori'. -
Remembering Moana Jackson
He Tangata, he tangata, he tangata: of the people, by the people, for the people. He hōnore, he korōria ki te Atua he maungārongo ki te whenua. He whakaaro pai ki ngā tāngata katoa.