Oriental Bay looking north as photographed from Oriental Terrace. Date: c. 1940.

Collection: Constable Postcard Collection.

Christmas, the Summer Reading Adventure, plus our reduced opening hours over the holidays.

Here are the results from last month's survey! 

Now, to this month's question...

Have you sorted your summer reading yet?

Christmas events at the library

We're running a bunch of delightful Christmas events for the whole family, check out our spotlight event below!

You can find our full list of festive events here.

Teddy Bear Christmas Sleepover

Monday, 11 December, 10am – 4:30pm

Te Whare Pukapuka o Te Takapū o Patukawenga | Mervyn Kemp (Tawa) Library

Event listing

or 

Tuesday, 12 December, 10am – 4:30pm

Te Whare Pukapuka o Waitohi | Johnsonville Library at Waitohi Hub

Event listing

Bring your teddy to the library for a special Christmas sleepover with their furry friends. Pick your teddy up the next day and discover what Christmas mischief they got up to!

Summer Reading Adventure

Read books, explore the city, win prizes! The Summer Reading Adventure runs from 1 December 2023 — 31 January 2024, and this year we are inviting intrepid explorers of word and page of all ages to join us — children, teens, and adults!

Holiday hours

A warm season's greetings to all our library borrowers and visitors with best wishes for a happy holiday season. Here are the opening hours across all our libraries over the Christmas and New Year period.

eMagazines on Libby

Explore our expansive Libby eMagazine collection – there’s over 4,500 titles to choose from! Featuring titles from across the globe available in a variety of languages, there’s really something for everyone; whether you’re looking for the latest global news, inspiration for a creative endeavour or movie recommendations. There’s design, architecture, chess, vintage cars, woodworking, stitching, high fashion, gardening, preserving and so much more.

Explore the collection here.

The 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards were announced recently in Christchurch, with Charity Norman’s Remember Me chosen as Best Novel. Several months ago we enjoyed talking with Charity about her book, you can watch the interview or reserve the book from our libraries.

Haynes Manuals AllAccess 

From the publishers of the popular books comes the online version which makes available over 600 online manuals, covering car and motorcycle maintenance and repairs.

Explore the collection here.

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