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Our 2024 picks: General fiction (International)
Our Top 20 international, non-genre novels of 2024. -
Our 2024 picks: Aotearoa general fiction
What a year it's been for fiction releases here in Aotearoa! Have a browse of our NZ general fiction picks for 2024. -
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!
Recent stories
- If it Weren't for your Gumboots: An interview with Bata
- The Summer Reading Adventure is Just Over the Horizon!
- One Hundred Years of Local Theatre
- RAD: Radio Active Digest now on Wellington City Recollect
- Author Interview: Becky Manawatu
- Conversation Over Coffee: An interview with Matt Lamason, founder of Peoples Coffee
- Musician Interview: Nathan Carter and Jack Woodbury from The Temple
Kids featured stories
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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. -
Summer Reading Adventure: How to create an acrostic poem
One of the activities we're challenging the tamariki of Pōneke to complete over the summer is to write an acrostic poem for the phrase "Summer Reading Adventure". But what exactly is an acrostic poem? -
Summer Reading Adventure: How to draw lines for an Ozobot
What exactly is an Ozobot?
Recent stories
- 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
- Beyond the Page 2024: Week One Round-up!
- Things that will make you go WOW: World of Wearable Art 2024
Youth featured stories
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Our 2024 picks: Young Adult favourites of the year
We're very lucky that YA books keep getting published and we keep getting to read them. And even luckier that we get to write about the YA books we like! Read on for our librarians' top picks of 2024. -
The Summer Reading Adventure is Just Over the Horizon!
Our annual Summer Reading Adventure begins 1 December! Preview how you and your whānau can get involved. -
The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... The Joker and Harley Quinn
Here’s our not-so-serious guide to The Joker and Harley Quinn!
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- 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
- Queer Fantasy NOT for Pride Month! Because everyday is LGBTQ+!
- The Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to... Wolverine
- The Defence of Poetry! Proving Poems Aren't All Bad for Bad Poetry Day
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Summer Reading Suggestions from our Business Specialist
We've compiled a list of reading for the active relaxers who like to multitask while chilling in the sun at the beach, on the deck, or wherever you may be holidaying. -
If it Weren't for your Gumboots: An interview with Bata
In our final Business story for 2024, we learn more about Wellington footwear manufacturer, Bata. Tucked away in Owhiro Bay, Bata have been making footwear for Kiwis for nearly 75 years. -
Upskilling with Online Courses
If you’re looking to learn a new work skill, advance your career or just study something for interest, these are some platforms offering a variety of free online courses.
Local History featured stories
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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.