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School libraries
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- Leading and managing
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Leading and managing
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- Managing your school library
- Services to Schools
- School libraries
- Leading and managing
Managing your school library
Visit page- School library budget
- Annual report
- Evidence-based school library practice
- Services to Schools
- School libraries
- Leading and managing
- Managing your school library
Evidence-based school library practice
Visit page- Evidence-based practice and why it matters
- Planning successful user-centred change
- Gathering evidence from existing research and knowledge
- Gathering your own evidence
- Turning evidence into action
- Journey mapping for school library design
- Managing your school library staff
- School Library Development Framework
- Collections and resources
- Library systems and operations
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- School libraries
Library systems and operations
Visit page- Your library catalogue
- Record Manager: Cataloguing service for schools
- Library operations
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- School libraries
- Library systems and operations
Library operations
Visit page- Getting started in your school library — an operations checklist
- School library suppliers list
- Stocktaking guide
- Earthquake, fire, or flood: Impact on school libraries
- Radio-frequency identification (RFID)
- Tips for moving your library
- School library mergers
- Place and environment
- Library services for teaching and learning
- Videos
- Stories
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- School libraries
Stories
Visit page- Whare Ahuru Mowai — a future-focused library space
- Student Library Review Group — giving students a voice
- Positive rewards from creating a school-wide reading culture
- The Poppy Blanket
- Encouraging reading through generous lending policies
- Genrefication — one primary school librarian's experience
- Inquiry into inquiry: The Marlborough Inquiry Project
- Supporting inquiry learning in kura kaupapa Māori
- She'll be OK: Growing confident team members
- From information overload to streamlined searching
- Professional development through online learning
- Services to Schools
- School libraries
- Stories
Professional development through online learning
Visit page- Learning about raising readers at Sylvia Park School
- Learning to develop a responsive secondary school library collection
- Learning about raising readers at Oropi School
- Learning to develop a responsive primary school collection
- Experiencing the benefits of facilitated online learning
- Online PD — an 'anchor' during a pandemic
- Projects to improve student learning
- School loans case studies
- Summer reading stories
- Research
- Reading engagement
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Reading engagement
Visit page- Understanding reading engagement
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- Reading engagement
Understanding reading engagement
Visit page- Why reading engagement matters
- Reading for pleasure — a door to success
- Reading for wellbeing (hauora)
- Reading promotion
- A school-wide reading culture
- Organisations, events, and awards celebrating reading
- My reading superhero
- Services to Schools
- Reading engagement
- Understanding reading engagement
My reading superhero
Visit page- Di-Kun — Mrs Dawson, reading superhero
- Eban — my Mum, reading superhero
- Eva — my Mum, reading superhero
- Morgan — my Mum, reading superhero
- Nicole — my Grandpa, reading superhero
- Rochester — Miss Webster, reading superhero
- Sam — my Mum, reading superhero
- Sarah — Miss Pritchard, reading superhero
- Libraries supporting readers
- Children's and youth literature
- Family, whānau, and community connections
- Teachers as readers
- Strategies to engage students as readers
- Summer reading
- Services to Schools
- Reading engagement
Summer reading
Visit page- Take a community approach to summer reading
- Research on the summer slide and summer reading
- Schools — how to support students' summer reading
- Services to Schools
- Reading engagement
- Summer reading
Schools — how to support students' summer reading
Visit page- Plan a summer reading initiative
- Principals — lead summer reading
- Teachers — prepare your students for summer reading
- School libraries — encourage summer reading
- Measuring the impact of summer reading
- Families — keeping your child or teen reading over summer
- Public libraries — encourage summer reading
- Videos
- Research
- Digital literacy
- Lending service
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Lending service
Visit page- Borrowing from us
- What you can borrow
- Books in our lending collections for schools
- Dates to request or return books
- School loan coordinators — how to use our lending service
- Services to Schools
- Lending service
School loan coordinators — how to use our lending service
Visit page- School loan coordinator role
- Quick guide
- Work with teachers to plan your requests for books
- Request books
- Receive and manage your books
- Return your books to us
- Renew books, overdue books, lost or damaged books
- Help with registering, changing coordinator, signing in
- Home educators — how to borrow our books
- Lending news
- Teaching and learning resources
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Teaching and learning resources
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- Teaching and learning resources
Resources for learning
Visit page- Resources for teaching NZ history topics
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- Teaching and learning resources
- Resources for learning
Resources for teaching NZ history topics
Visit page- Arrival and settlement of Māori in Aotearoa NZ
- First encounters and early colonial history of Aotearoa NZ
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi / Treaty of Waitangi and its history
- Colonisation/immigration to Aotearoa and the NZ Wars
- Aotearoa NZ's national identity in late 19th/early 20th centuries
- Aotearoa NZ and our national identity in late 20th century
- Aotearoa New Zealand's role in the Pacific
- Storybook app: Turikatuku — Te wahine taki wairua
- The New Zealand Wars
- Audiobooks and eBooks for students with dyslexia or other print disability
- Teaching tools and resource guides
- Services to Schools
- Teaching and learning resources
Teaching tools and resource guides
Visit page- Curiosity cards for inquiry
- Services to Schools
- Teaching and learning resources
- Teaching tools and resource guides
Curiosity cards for inquiry
Visit page- Set 1: He Tohu and Tuia — Encounters 250
- Services to Schools
- Teaching and learning resources
- Teaching tools and resource guides
- Curiosity cards for inquiry
Set 1: He Tohu and Tuia — Encounters 250
Visit page- Māori bartering with Joseph Banks (CC0001)
- Te Horeta's nail (CC0002)
- The 'Crook Cook' statue (CC0003)
- Burning the forest (CC0004)
- A New Zealand 1951 fifty pound note (CC0005)
- Tuki te Terenui Whare Pirau's map (CC0006)
- 2017 Women’s March (CC0007)
- Te Rangitopeora (CC0008)
- The bicycle and women's suffrage (CC0009)
- Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia (CC0010)
- Mere Ruiha Hakaraia/Mary Bevan’s signature on the 1893 Suffrage Petition (CC0011)
- Girls can do anything (CC0012)
- 1893 anti-suffrage cartoon (CC0013)
- Frances Parker’s Women’s Social and Political Union Medal for Valour (CC0014)
- Mt Cook School in Wellington (CC0015)
- Set 2: Tuia Mātauranga
- Services to Schools
- Teaching and learning resources
- Teaching tools and resource guides
- Curiosity cards for inquiry
Set 2: Tuia Mātauranga
Visit page- Navigation (TMCC1)
- Waka hourua (TMCC2)
- Māori bartering with Joseph Banks (TMCC3)
- Te Horeta's nail (TMCC4)
- Matau rino (TMCC5)
- Whakapapa (TMCC6)
- 'Crook Cook' statue (TMCC7)
- Silver fern (TMCC8)
- Huia (TMCC9)
- Hāngi (TMCC10)
- Mt Cook School in Wellington (TMCC11)
- Kahu kiwi (TMCC12)
- Hikoi (TMCC13)
- Whales (TMCC14)
- Dawn raids (TMCC15)
- Cross-cultural identity (TMCC16)
- Multiculturalism (TMCC17)
- Kauri dieback disease (TMCC18)
- Blank curiosity card template
- Fertile questions
- Primary sources — how to use them
- Inquiry exemplars and templates
- Guides for exploring children's and YA literature
- Explore He Tohu with your students
- World War 1 (WW1) resources
- Topic Explorer guide
- EPIC guide
- AnyQuestions guide
- DigitalNZ guide
- Papers Past guide
- Index New Zealand (INNZ) guide
- Videos
- Topic Explorer
- Our work
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Our work
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Videos
Visit page- Leading a learning community
- Modern library learning environments in Christchurch schools
- School libraries: Excellence in practice — Amesbury School
- Riccarton book club
- Developing digitally literate learners
- Creating a school-wide reading culture
- Te whakahiratanga a nga whare pukapuka
- The importance of libraries
- Te wahi
- Te wahi — Place
- Ngā rauemi
- Ngā rauemi — Resources
- Ngā whakaritenga
- Ngā whakaritenga — Access
- Ngā kamahi
- Creating a reading culture — Windley School
- School libraries: Excellence in practice — Ormiston Senior College
- School libraries: The heart of a reading culture at Hurupaki School
- Creating a school reading community
- Creating a reading culture — Matarau School
- Reading Together at Ohaeawai School
- School libraries: Excellence in practice Raroa Intermediate
- School libraries: Excellence in practice — Viscount Primary School
- Fertile questions explained
- The power of visual material
- Ideas for exploring Te Horeta's nail
- Using the '2017 Women's March' curiosity card
- Localising the curiosity cards templates
- Using the 'Crook Cook' curiosity card
- 'How is it activism to ride a bicycle?' Exploring the 'women cyclists' curiosity card
- Ideas for research activities to explore fertile questions
- Primary sources: The National Library of New Zealand collects, preserves and makes them available
- Primary sources that the National Library of New Zealand collects
- The National Library of New Zealand collects the real stuff of history
- Researchers use primary sources to create new works
- Research
- Professional learning and support
- Tuia Mātauranga
- Services to Schools
Tuia Mātauranga
Visit page- Voyaging through Aotearoa New Zealand histories
- Services to Schools
- Tuia Mātauranga
Voyaging through Aotearoa New Zealand histories
Visit page- Pacific Ocean
- Pacific navigation
- Pacific voyagers
- Waka hourua
- Early Polynesian arrivals
- Māori settlement and society
- Non-Māori explorers
- First encounters
- European settlement
- Treaty of Waitangi
- Post-Treaty of Waitangi
- Explore more: Resources, activities, AR app
- Resources and activities
- He Meka! He Meka!
- About Tuia Mātauranga
Schools and home educators can borrow from our extensive collections of fiction and non-fiction books to inspire and inform your students’ inquiry and develop their love of reading.