Outside the Library

The Alexander Turnbull Library acknowledges the passing of Maui John Mitchell (Ngāti Tama, Te Ātiawa, Taranaki, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira).

A farewell tribute to Lydia Wevers, longstanding and influential friend to the National Library.

Working with Alexander Turnbull Library photographic archives for a public art installation.

Strategies for managing our personal digital archives.

Learn more about what's involved in hand-printing C.K Stead's remarkable book of poetry.

A compendium of Crown Lynn archives in collecting institutions around New Zealand.

A collaborative web collection.

Bloodshed, tea buns, wooden arks, brass piping, fire and flood; when you’re 153 years old, you’ve seen it all.

Looking back at a year of celebrations for Douglas Lilburn's centenary.

Chief Librarian Chris Szekely remembers some of the country's unique roadside signage.

Cafe culture catches critical qualities of Cuba St's character.

Memories of life at Orsini's.

Deirdre Tarrant and the character of Cuba Street.

Staff from the National Library visit Chunuk Bair.

Practical guidance for preserving digital heritage and supporting digital collecting in New Zealand.

Marking Māori Language Week at the Library with Toni Huata's new video.

Pupils from Ngaio School share what they wrote after visiting the Library.

Reflections on Fijian Language Week and reconnecting.

Our relationship with Tuvalu, in archives and in the Pacific.

A Wellington illustrator turns our heritage colour palettes into gorgeous sketches.