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Find out about some of the collaborations we are involved in to help us achieve the outcomes we have outlined in our strategic directions to 2030. The themes of our strategic directions are taonga, knowledge, and reading.

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New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme

Find out about the COVID-19 recovery work being led by the National Library to support librarians and library services across New Zealand. We update this page regularly.
Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador

Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador

Find out about the new role of Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador for children and young people. The first Reading Ambassador announced on 4 May 2021, is Lyttelton writer Ben Brown.
Communities of Readers

Pūtoi Rito Communities of Readers

Pūtoi Rito Communities of Readers is a collective impact project working with different communities across New Zealand to grow reading for pleasure and well-being for children and young people.
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Pacific Virtual Museum Pilot Project

Together with the Australian Government and National Library of Australia we are working with colleagues from across the Pacific to develop a shared online place that enables Pacific peoples to connect with their cultural heritage from around the world.
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Increasingly Digital project

Increasingly Digital was a multi-agency project that explored the access and use of Aotearoa New Zealand teaching and learning resources.

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        • Making reading for pleasure visible in five primary schools from Te Kāhui Ako o Tiriwā
        • Teachers as readers in New Zealand primary and intermediate schools
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    • International archival service expertise helps New Zealand preserve its audiovisual taonga
    • Lilburn Trust Citation Awards 2021
    • National Library reconsiders agreement with Internet Archive
    • The endless search for the next note: Ross Harris, Lilburn Lecture 2021
    • ‘Trouble in Paradise’: exhibition to shine spotlight on climate change in the Pacific
    • National Library signs historic agreement with Internet Archive
    • $5m in grants to support library sector
    • ‘Fortnite, Fades and Kicks’ at National Library
    • Documentary heritage celebrated at National Library Auditorium
    • Mīharo Wonder: Celebrating 100 Years of the Alexander Turnbull Library
    • Calling NZ authors to register for payments
    • Te Awhi Rito NZ Reading Ambassador nominations open
    • A century of wonder: An evening of celebrations
    • New website connects Pacific people to cultural heritage collections
    • National Library announces new National Librarian — Te Pouhuaki
    • Living the Dream: Karyn Hay on New Zealand Music: Lilburn Lecture 2020
    • One more year for the Poet Laureate
    • Music education the focus of two inaugural Lilburn Research Awards
    • Anton Killin named as Lilburn Research Fellow 2021
    • Libraries to help with jobs and community recovery
    • Turnbull Library makes iconic score of ‘Overture: Aotearoa’ available online
    • Five new collections of New Zealand’s scientific and social history treasures added to the UNESCO Memory of the World New Zealand Register
    • National Library makes more room for New Zealand and Pacific stories
    • Chris Knox tape archive arrives at Alexander Turnbull Library
    • Antarctic Treaty 60th anniversary gift to NZ schools — new wall map of Antarctica
    • Rangatahi take part in popular creative writing competition — Smart Alex
    • Pūkana exhibition open at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
    • Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision moves to the National Library building
    • Waiata taking off at Wellington Airport during te wiki o te reo Māori
    • New Poet Laureate announced
    • New central Wellington library space named
    • The fast pace of a fast-talking PI Poet Laureate
    • New Zealand Poet Laureate Award — call for public nominations
    • Rip It Up live on Papers Past
    • Wahine 50 Charitable Trust’s collected stories donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library
    • Warm Pacific Greetings from Smart Alex
    • Jack Lovelock Papers and Cambodian women oral history inscribed to Memory of the World
    • Holocaust Memorial launches in New Zealand
    • Alexander Turnbull Library secures significant art archive
    • Smart Alex Creative writing winners announced
    • Flying Nun lands in 100 year old Alexander Turnbull Library
    • Hikoi remembering Alexander Turnbull — 1918–2018
    • Daniel Beban named as Lilburn Research Fellow 2019
    • Topp Twins exhibition opens at National Library of New Zealand
    • Rare 15th Century books donated to National Library of New Zealand
    • UNESCO status for Wellington heritage collections
    • Complete online record of 150 years of discovery
    • The Lilburn Lecture 2017: Twin passions for Royal
    • Kua riro mai i a He Tohu ngā tohu hoahoa ā-motu
    • He Tohu exhibition scoops national design awards
    • Smoke incident
    • New Zealand’s new Poet Laureate announced
    • Poet Laureate Award – 2017 call for nominations
    • Help preserve your local history – get it online!
    • Te Puna Foundation launched
    • NLA Fellowship for Paul Diamond
    • Victoria University and National Library offer new maps of human knowledge
    • Tiaki – all systems go
    • Historic South Island and Māori newspapers on Papers Past website
    • Unfolding the map
    • New Poet Laureate announced
    • Poet Laureate Award – call for nominations
    • National Library takes next step to modernise Services to Schools
    • Lilburn Research Fellow 2015
    • Notes from the Front
    • Opening the files on World War 1
    • An imaginary Antarctica at the Turnbull
    • Get the insiders’ guide to innovation
    • Singapore adopts NZ search service
    • RadioNZ on DigitalNZ
    • Historian Beaglehole’s letters now available
    • Fairytale facts
    • Booker win can inspire others
    • Next in Line opens
    • Papers Past reaches 3 million pages
    • New Laureate announced on Poetry Day
    • From logs to blogs
    • Burt Munro’s pistons
    • Helping save our local history
    • Tirohia Mai opens
    • Nominations called for Poet Laureate
    • Snapshot of the heartland
    • Songs of protest
    • From the pages of the NZ Herald
    • Real story behind Hollywood’s Argo
    • Lawrence manuscript discovered
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    • New Mansfield Story
    • Reopening Molesworth Street
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