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Alexander Turnbull Library centenary
Find out about Alexander Turnbull and his incredible gift to New Zealand. Help us remember and celebrate Turnbull and the Library with our 2018 centenary celebrations.
Find out how we celebrated
We’ve celebrated Alexander Turnbull's life and gift to New Zealand with exhibtions, talks, events and the Smart Alex competition. Have a look.
- COVID-19 coronavirus update
- Scholarships and awards
- New Zealand Poet Laureate Award
- Paul Reynolds Scholarship – The No Numpties Award
- Lilburn Research Fellowship
- Friends of the Turnbull Library Research Grant
- Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Research Grant
- Susan Price Scholarship
- Jean Wright Award
- Jack Ilott Oral History Education Operating Fund
- Helen Zwartz Scholarship
- Our history
- Structure of the Library
- Strategic directions to 2030
- Collaborative projects
- Strategy and policy
- Collection use and reuse policy
- Collections policy
- National Library of New Zealand Collections Policy
- Collecting plan – Cartographic: 2016-2018
- Collecting plan – Drawings, paintings, and prints: 2016-2018
- Collecting plan – Ephemera: 2016-2018
- Collecting plan – Manuscripts: 2016-2018
- Collecting plan – Music: 2016-2018
- Collecting plan – New Zealand and Pacific Published Collections: 2016-2018
- Collecting plan – Oral history and sound: 2016-2018
- Collecting plan – Overseas Published Collections: 2016-2018
- Overseas published collections — collection management project
- Collecting plan – Photographs: 2016-2018
- Collecting plan – Rare Books and Fine Printing Collection: 2016-2018
- Collecting plan – Schools Collection: 2016-2018
- Preservation policy
- Access policy
- Charging policy
- Digitisation plans
- Friends and advisors
- Open data
- Statutory bodies
- Working here
- Te Puna Foundation supporters
- Media
- 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
- Reunited for Valentine's
- New Mansfield Story
- Reopening Molesworth Street
- Big Data opens
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Like to donate items?
Donations and bequests help build the collections and support the activities of the National Library and Alexander Turnbull Library.