Thursday 15 February

Student and school librarian issuing a book, next to the words 'Welcome to the school library!'

Register: Learning and support for new school library staff 2024

Learning and support for new school library staff — 2024

Monday 29 January 2024 to Friday 13 December 2024
Online — Microsoft Teams

New to your school library? If you're just getting started providing library services for your school, register to join our 2024 learning community. You'll receive support from National Library experts, attend regular local and national meetings, build your skills and connect with other library people.

Welcome — Term 1 local meetings

Learning and support for new school library staff — 2024

Monday 12 February 2024 to Friday 12 April 2024
Online — Microsoft Teams

At this first meeting, you’ll meet your local National Library facilitators. They'll set the scene for your learning and share resources and ideas to help you get started in your new role. Make sure you've already registered for our 2024 learning and support community so we can send you a meeting invitation.

A man wearing a blue denim jacket and black t-shirt leaning on a brick wall.

Unfreedom forest: A history of New Zealand’s prison plantations

Friends of the Turnbull Public Programme — 2024

Thursday 15 February 2024, 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, National Library Wellington

Author Jared Davidson opens the 2024 Friends of the Turnbull Public Programme with a talk charting the history of New Zealand’s prison plantations — exotic forests grown by prisoners. In time these forests became extremely valuable and when they were sold off in the 1990s their privatisation was dubbed ‘he sale of the century’

Join us online or in person for this event.