The Book and Beyond guide is a tool developed to help teachers of all subjects and librarians facilitate discussions about books.
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Kia ora, nau mai haere mai. Ka wani kē kua tae mai koe! Kāre e kore ka puta mai ētahi kōrero pārekareka, me kōrerorero pea tātou.
Hi! Great to see you. We've got tons to talk about so bring your friends, have a read and speak your mind.
February 7th, 2019
Create readers
January 30th, 2019
Libraries and learning
Findings from our nationwide survey of school libraries are now available. Read about the survey, and download the report.
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January 30th, 2019
Events
The Library hosted its first Wikipedia edit-a-thon. This one was devoted to New Zealand comics and cartoons.
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January 24th, 2019
Collections
Digitisation of the George Raper album, Birds of Australia and South Seas: Original drawings 1788–1790.
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January 10th, 2019
Collections
Surveying the Radio Active demo tape collection.
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January 8th, 2019
Collections and Library Tech
Web Curator Tool 2.0, an open-source enterprise solution for web archiving, is now live!
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December 20th, 2018
Collections
We’re incredibly honoured to announce the next major donation of the ATL100 Centenary...
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December 18th, 2018
Collections
To arrange, to describe, to connect with the world: 2018 highlights from the Arrangement & Description Team at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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December 12th, 2018
Collections and Events
December 6th, 2018
Create readers
Services to Schools staff reflect on our standout reads from 2018.
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