National Library Blog

Preserving New Zealand’s musical history is a mission for all seasons.

'Privacy — from principles to practice.' That's the theme of this year's Privacy Week and a great catalyst to consider all things privacy-related in your school library.

Roger Smith's introduction to the launch of Searches for Tradition: Essays on New Zealand Music, Past & Present.

British artist Geoffrey Allfree's watercolour shows how enormous quantities of bully beef, biscuits and other stores were set alight during the evacuation.

My grandfather arrived at Gallipoli on 8 August 1915, the day the Wellington Infantry Battalion captured Chunuk Bair. This is his story.

The Wahine disaster through the eyes of Evening Post photographers.

Where were you on the 10th of April 1968? Were you sheltering from Cyclone Giselle as she battered the country? Did you brave the weather to make your way to work or school? Imagine if you were, like Ada Woolf, on board the Wahine.

Innovative solutions, a change in attitude and behaviour about the use of plastics, and empathy will all be needed to tackle plastic pollution, the focus of this year’s Earth Day on 22 April.

Remember the ANZACs with your school students using these quality teaching resources in a range of media that will help engage them with Anzac Day and World War 1 (WW1) topics.

Kei te hiahia ō ākonga kura tuarua kia whai wāhi rātou ki tētahi whakataetae tuhituhi whakaoho i ngā whakaaro, kia wini moni hoki?