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Tuesday 28 June

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Register: Learning and support for new school library staff 2022

Tuesday 1 February 2022 to Thursday 15 December 2022

Online

New to your school library? If you're just getting started providing library services for your school, register to join our online learning community. You'll attend regular Zoom meetings and webinars, build your skills, receive support from National Library experts and connect with other library people.

Part of: Learning and support for new school library staff — 2022

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Growing and shaping your school library collection

Monday 23 May 2022 to Friday 1 July 2022

Online

A great school library collection reflects, includes and responds to your students and community. This requires good management and planning. Discover how to build a library collection that meets the needs of your students and teachers.

A Māori woman wearing a pale grey jacket, gold chains of office, and a number of medals.

Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua: Approaching our past with curiosity and courage

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 6pm to 7pm

Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, National Library Wellington

The annual Friends of the Turnbull Library Founder Lecture will this year be given by Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Cindy Kiro, GNZM, QSO, Governor General of New Zealand.

Join us in person or online for this event.

Part of: Friends of the Turnbull Public Programme — 2022

Monday 27 June 2022
Wednesday 29 June 2022
  • Upcoming events
  • Recorded events
    • Parihaka: Remembering November 5, 1881
    • E oho! He Whakaputanga and He Puapua
    • Te Pūtake o te Riri, He Rā Maumahara — How a petition led to a day remembering New Zealand Wars
    • E oho! Ngāti Toa Rangatira: People of the stars — whetu ki te rangi ka uhia ngā kapua kia ngaro ngā whetu e kore e ngaro
    • E oho! A short history of Te Arawhiti — The Office for Māori Crown relations
    • E oho! A short history of the Waitangi Tribunal — Where to from here?
    • E oho! Captain Cook: The beginning of what?
    • Knowledge is a blessing on your mind: Whakapapa, science and history
    • E oho! How New Zealanders commemorate Waitangi Day 2021
    • Tapu 2019: Te Awa Atua and the reclamation of Mana Wāhine
    • Into native seas: Europeans encounters an Indigenous ocean
    • He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni: The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand
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E oho! Waitangi 2022

10 January - 23 December
E oho! Waitangi Series 2022 aims to lay the foundation for all people living in Aotearoa by exploring key events that shaped the nation we ca ... Read more

School holidays 2022

10 January - 23 December
While we won’t have any in person school holiday programmes this summer, you can join us online from anywhere in the country. We’ll help you ... Read more

Friends of the Turnbull Public Programme — 2022

1 February - 23 December
The Friends of the Turnbull Library, Nga Hoa o te Whare Pukapuka Turnbull, offers a monthly programme of public talks that are free to all. T ... Read more

Learning and support for new school library staff — 2022

1 February - 15 December
Attend regular Zoom meetings, build your skills, receive support from National Library experts and connect with other library people.

Connecting to collections 2022

15 February - 15 November
Come and hear about ways you can connect and use the collections at the Library. Talks will usually be held on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from February to November and will be online.

Oral history workshops — 2022

19 February - 31 December
The Alexander Turnbull Library introduction to oral history workshops. These workshops will introduce you to basics of oral history and are f ... Read more

Public History Talk — 2022

2 March - 2 November
Free public history talks are a collaboration between the National Library of New Zealand and Manatū Taonga/Ministry for Culture and Heritage ... Read more

The breathing sea

2 May - 30 June
Events held as part of ‘The breathing sea: Three short films’ exhibition. This exhibition is three artistic responses to the global effects o ... Read more

Pacific Language Weeks 2022

8 May - 29 October
Celebrating Pacific languages at the Library. More information is available about the Pacific Language Weeks at the Ministry of Pacific Peoples website.

Between skin & shirt: The photographic portraits of William Harding

26 May - 29 October
Events held as part of 'Between Skin & Shirt: The Photographic Portraits of William Harding' exhibition.

Are we there yet?

3 June - 16 December
Inspired by the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition — Te Petihana Whakamana Pōti Wahine, this event series traverses the landscape of feminism fro ... Read more
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