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Services to Schools has a broad range of books that can help in conversations with students about diversity, empathy, sadness, mindfulness, and more in the wake of the recent Christchurch terror attack.

Looking back at five years of the James Cox diary on Twitter.

It's World Meteorological Day on March 23. Given how prominent weather and climate have been in the public eye recently, here are some great resources to support teaching and learning about these topics in the science and social sciences learning areas.

8 March is International Women's Day! Here are some social sciences-focused, gender equality teaching and learning resources to provide rich support for International Women's Day and beyond.

How would your secondary students like to enter an exciting creative writing competition? Entry is free and there is $3,000 in prize money!

Pages from the late 19th century Hodgkins family sketchbook.

Pearls of knowledge from Services to Schools can help our young kaitiaki look after marine taonga as we celebrate Seaweek in New Zealand from 2 to 10 March and World Wildlife Day on 3 March. These resources and local events are great opportunities.

Learn how your school library can become a learning hub for the new Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko curriculum content being introduced in 2020. Use picture books (such as The Wonky Donkey) and other library activities to help develop your...

How one WWI veteran went on to run one of Wellington’s most successful and long-lived photographic studios.

The Book and Beyond guide is a tool developed to help teachers of all subjects and librarians facilitate discussions about books.

Findings from our nationwide survey of school libraries are now available. Read about the survey, and download the report.

The Library hosted its first Wikipedia edit-a-thon. This one was devoted to New Zealand comics and cartoons.

Digitisation of the George Raper album, Birds of Australia and South Seas: Original drawings 1788–1790.

Surveying the Radio Active demo tape collection.

The new version of the WCT was previewed at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference on 14 November 2018 at the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington.

To arrange, to describe, to connect with the world: 2018 highlights from the Arrangement & Description Team at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Eve de Castro-Robinson delivered the Lilburn Lecture 2018.

Services to Schools staff reflect on our standout reads from 2018.

Last November, we offered some tips and suggestions for getting through the end of the year in your school library. We've got a few more ideas to share before schools close for the summer holidays.

Researching the LAGANZ collections just got a lot easier.