National Library Blog

Recipes in the Turnbull Library Manuscripts Collection.

Newly available collections at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Celebrating the season with a look back through the Cartoon Archive.

Experiences from the growing community of photographers working to enable digital access to New Zealand’s cultural heritage.

Learn how He Taupuhipuhi — an initiative involving kura and Services to Schools — will strengthen support for Māori medium schools across Aotearoa.

National Library Services to Schools staff round up a few of their favourite reads of 2017.

It's a little bit early for New Years' resolutions, but here are some suggestions to jump-start your school library planning for 2018.

Reading as few as 5 or 6 books over the summer holidays helps ensure students keep the reading and other learning gains they’ve made during the school year. Here are a few ideas to get your school community fired up about reading over the summer.

It's almost the end of the school year — what's left on your to-do list?

A year on from the Kaikoura Earthquake we look back at the pilot project that captured earthquake event-related tweets as they happened.