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- Reduction in service hours at National Library from 1 November
- Celebrate Poetry Day in the Capital
- Whiria te Tāngata seeking recruits for final cohort
- Sustainable future a key priority for libraries’
- Ensuring the sustainable future of libraries for all New Zealanders
- Next national Reading Ambassador named!
- ‘Kurawaka’ exhibition shows shaping of gender justice in Aotearoa
- National Library guidelines on salvaging water-damaged materials
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- Ross Harris: Lilburn Lecture 2022
- New Poet Laureate announced on National Poetry Day
- Come and celebrate Papers Past turning 21
- Nick Bollinger named as Lilburn Research Fellow 2023
- New Zealand music safeguarded in Global Music Vault
- Call for Poet Laureate nominations
- Communities working together get kids reading
- Digital dimension sure to delight at new portrait exhibition
- International archival service expertise helps New Zealand preserve its audiovisual taonga
- Lilburn Trust Citation Awards 2021
- National Library reconsiders agreement with Internet Archive
- The endless search for the next note: Ross Harris, Lilburn Lecture 2021
- ‘Trouble in Paradise’: exhibition to shine spotlight on climate change in the Pacific
- National Library signs historic agreement with Internet Archive
- $5m in grants to support library sector
- ‘Fortnite, Fades and Kicks’ at National Library
- Documentary heritage celebrated at National Library Auditorium
- Mīharo Wonder: Celebrating 100 Years of the Alexander Turnbull Library
- Calling NZ authors to register for payments
- Te Awhi Rito NZ Reading Ambassador nominations open
- A century of wonder: An evening of celebrations
- New website connects Pacific people to cultural heritage collections
- National Library announces new National Librarian — Te Pouhuaki
- Living the Dream: Karyn Hay on New Zealand Music: Lilburn Lecture 2020
- One more year for the Poet Laureate
- Music education the focus of two inaugural Lilburn Research Awards
- Anton Killin named as Lilburn Research Fellow 2021
- Libraries to help with jobs and community recovery
- Turnbull Library makes iconic score of ‘Overture: Aotearoa’ available online
- Five new collections of New Zealand’s scientific and social history treasures added to the UNESCO Memory of the World New Zealand Register
- National Library makes more room for New Zealand and Pacific stories
- Chris Knox tape archive arrives at Alexander Turnbull Library
- Antarctic Treaty 60th anniversary gift to NZ schools — new wall map of Antarctica
- Rangatahi take part in popular creative writing competition — Smart Alex
- Pūkana exhibition open at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
- Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision moves to the National Library building
- Waiata taking off at Wellington Airport during te wiki o te reo Māori
- New Poet Laureate announced
- New central Wellington library space named
- The fast pace of a fast-talking PI Poet Laureate
- New Zealand Poet Laureate Award — call for public nominations
- Rip It Up live on Papers Past
- Wahine 50 Charitable Trust’s collected stories donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library
- Warm Pacific Greetings from Smart Alex
- Jack Lovelock Papers and Cambodian women oral history inscribed to Memory of the World
- Holocaust Memorial launches in New Zealand
- Alexander Turnbull Library secures significant art archive
- Smart Alex Creative writing winners announced
- Flying Nun lands in 100 year old Alexander Turnbull Library
- Hikoi remembering Alexander Turnbull — 1918–2018
- Daniel Beban named as Lilburn Research Fellow 2019
- Topp Twins exhibition opens at National Library of New Zealand
- Rare 15th Century books donated to National Library of New Zealand
- UNESCO status for Wellington heritage collections
- Complete online record of 150 years of discovery
- The Lilburn Lecture 2017: Twin passions for Royal
- Kua riro mai i a He Tohu ngā tohu hoahoa ā-motu
- He Tohu exhibition scoops national design awards
- Smoke incident
- New Zealand’s new Poet Laureate announced
- Poet Laureate Award – 2017 call for nominations
- Help preserve your local history – get it online!
- Te Puna Foundation launched
- NLA Fellowship for Paul Diamond
- Victoria University and National Library offer new maps of human knowledge
- Tiaki – all systems go
- Historic South Island and Māori newspapers on Papers Past website
- Unfolding the map
- New Poet Laureate announced
- Poet Laureate Award – call for nominations
- National Library takes next step to modernise Services to Schools
- Lilburn Research Fellow 2015
- Notes from the Front
- Opening the files on World War 1
- An imaginary Antarctica at the Turnbull
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- Singapore adopts NZ search service
- RadioNZ on DigitalNZ
- Historian Beaglehole’s letters now available
- Fairytale facts
- Booker win can inspire others
- Next in Line opens
- Papers Past reaches 3 million pages
- New Laureate announced on Poetry Day
- From logs to blogs
- Burt Munro’s pistons
- Helping save our local history
- Tirohia Mai opens
- Nominations called for Poet Laureate
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- Songs of protest
- From the pages of the NZ Herald
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- Contact us
- A to Z of our work and services
- Strategic directions to 2030
- Collaborative projects
- School library collection recovery initiative
- Whiria te Tāngata
- Utaina — audiovisual digital preservation project
- New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme
- Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador
- Pūtoi Rito Communities of Readers
- About Pūtoi Rito Communities of Readers
- South Dunedin Communities of Readers project
- Canterbury Communities of Readers project
- Dargaville Pūtoi Rito Communities of Readers project
- Huntly Communities of Readers project
- West Auckland Te Kāhui Ako o Tiriwā Communities of Readers project
- Pūtoi Rito Communities of Readers — reports
- Pūtoi Rito Communities of Readers Phase 1: 2019 – 2021 Summary and Insights Report
- South Dunedin Communities of Readers Project report
- A changing story of reading at Huntly College
- Canterbury Communities of Readers Project report
- Making reading for pleasure visible in five primary schools from Te Kāhui Ako o Tiriwā
- Teachers as readers in New Zealand primary and intermediate schools
- Reading for pleasure for the collective good of Aotearoa New Zealand
- A national agenda on reading for pleasure: Insights from Communities of Readers research
- Pacific Virtual Museum Pilot Project
- Increasingly Digital project
- Open data
- Te Puna Web Directory metadata
- Papers Past data
- DigitalNZ API
- Ngā Upoko Tukutuku metadata
- INNZ metadata
- Publications NZ metadata
- Turnbull metadata via DigitalNZ API
- Turnbull names metadata
- Turnbull unpublished collections metadata
- New Zealand Library Partnerships Programme data
- Structure of the Library
- Strategy and policy
- Collecting plans
- National Library of New Zealand collections policy
- Alexander Turnbull Library General Collection collecting plan
- Cartographic collecting plan
- Cartoons and comics | Waituhi whakakata me ngā pukawaituhi collecting plan
- Children’s Collection collecting plan
- Contemporary Voices and Archives collecting plan
- Drawings, paintings, and prints collecting plan
- Ephemera collecting plan
- Manuscripts collecting plan
- Music collecting plan
- New Zealand and Pacific Published Collections collecting plan
- Oral History and Sound collecting plan
- Overseas Published Collections collecting plan
- Overseas Published Collections — collection management project
- Photographs collecting plan
- Rare Books and Fine Printing Collection collecting plan
- Schools Collection collecting plan
- Collection use and reuse policy
- Access policy
- Principles for the care and preservation of Māori materials
- Removal and Disposal Policy
- Takedown or request a review process
- Charging policy
- Digitisation plans
- Annual report and statement of intent
- Collecting plans
- Scholarships and awards
- Friends of the Turnbull Library Research Grant
- Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Research Grant
- Helen Zwartz Scholarship
- Jack Ilott Oral History Education Operating Fund
- Jean Wright Award
- Lilburn Research Fellowship
- New Zealand Poet Laureate Award
- Paul Reynolds Scholarship – The No Numpties Award
- Susan Price Scholarship
- Friends and advisors
- Statutory bodies
- Te Puna Foundation supporters
- Publications
- Our history
- Working here
- Media
- 10 years of ComicFest NZ — May the 4th at the National Library
- Term of the NZ Poet Laureate Award extended
- Te Rā o Waitangi — Waitangi Day activities at the National Library
- Reduction in service hours at National Library from 1 November
- Celebrate Poetry Day in the Capital
- Whiria te Tāngata seeking recruits for final cohort
- Sustainable future a key priority for libraries’
- Ensuring the sustainable future of libraries for all New Zealanders
- Next national Reading Ambassador named!
- ‘Kurawaka’ exhibition shows shaping of gender justice in Aotearoa
- National Library guidelines on salvaging water-damaged materials
- Nominations for next Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador close 31 January
- Nominations open for Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador
- Ross Harris: Lilburn Lecture 2022
- New Poet Laureate announced on National Poetry Day
- Come and celebrate Papers Past turning 21
- Nick Bollinger named as Lilburn Research Fellow 2023
- New Zealand music safeguarded in Global Music Vault
- Call for Poet Laureate nominations
- Communities working together get kids reading
- Digital dimension sure to delight at new portrait exhibition
- International archival service expertise helps New Zealand preserve its audiovisual taonga
- Lilburn Trust Citation Awards 2021
- National Library reconsiders agreement with Internet Archive
- The endless search for the next note: Ross Harris, Lilburn Lecture 2021
- ‘Trouble in Paradise’: exhibition to shine spotlight on climate change in the Pacific
- National Library signs historic agreement with Internet Archive
- $5m in grants to support library sector
- ‘Fortnite, Fades and Kicks’ at National Library
- Documentary heritage celebrated at National Library Auditorium
- Mīharo Wonder: Celebrating 100 Years of the Alexander Turnbull Library
- Calling NZ authors to register for payments
- Te Awhi Rito NZ Reading Ambassador nominations open
- A century of wonder: An evening of celebrations
- New website connects Pacific people to cultural heritage collections
- National Library announces new National Librarian — Te Pouhuaki
- Living the Dream: Karyn Hay on New Zealand Music: Lilburn Lecture 2020
- One more year for the Poet Laureate
- Music education the focus of two inaugural Lilburn Research Awards
- Anton Killin named as Lilburn Research Fellow 2021
- Libraries to help with jobs and community recovery
- Turnbull Library makes iconic score of ‘Overture: Aotearoa’ available online
- Five new collections of New Zealand’s scientific and social history treasures added to the UNESCO Memory of the World New Zealand Register
- National Library makes more room for New Zealand and Pacific stories
- Chris Knox tape archive arrives at Alexander Turnbull Library
- Antarctic Treaty 60th anniversary gift to NZ schools — new wall map of Antarctica
- Rangatahi take part in popular creative writing competition — Smart Alex
- Pūkana exhibition open at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
- Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision moves to the National Library building
- Waiata taking off at Wellington Airport during te wiki o te reo Māori
- New Poet Laureate announced
- New central Wellington library space named
- The fast pace of a fast-talking PI Poet Laureate
- New Zealand Poet Laureate Award — call for public nominations
- Rip It Up live on Papers Past
- Wahine 50 Charitable Trust’s collected stories donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library
- Warm Pacific Greetings from Smart Alex
- Jack Lovelock Papers and Cambodian women oral history inscribed to Memory of the World
- Holocaust Memorial launches in New Zealand
- Alexander Turnbull Library secures significant art archive
- Smart Alex Creative writing winners announced
- Flying Nun lands in 100 year old Alexander Turnbull Library
- Hikoi remembering Alexander Turnbull — 1918–2018
- Daniel Beban named as Lilburn Research Fellow 2019
- Topp Twins exhibition opens at National Library of New Zealand
- Rare 15th Century books donated to National Library of New Zealand
- UNESCO status for Wellington heritage collections
- Complete online record of 150 years of discovery
- The Lilburn Lecture 2017: Twin passions for Royal
- Kua riro mai i a He Tohu ngā tohu hoahoa ā-motu
- He Tohu exhibition scoops national design awards
- Smoke incident
- New Zealand’s new Poet Laureate announced
- Poet Laureate Award – 2017 call for nominations
- Help preserve your local history – get it online!
- Te Puna Foundation launched
- NLA Fellowship for Paul Diamond
- Victoria University and National Library offer new maps of human knowledge
- Tiaki – all systems go
- Historic South Island and Māori newspapers on Papers Past website
- Unfolding the map
- New Poet Laureate announced
- Poet Laureate Award – call for nominations
- National Library takes next step to modernise Services to Schools
- Lilburn Research Fellow 2015
- Notes from the Front
- Opening the files on World War 1
- An imaginary Antarctica at the Turnbull
- Get the insiders’ guide to innovation
- Singapore adopts NZ search service
- RadioNZ on DigitalNZ
- Historian Beaglehole’s letters now available
- Fairytale facts
- Booker win can inspire others
- Next in Line opens
- Papers Past reaches 3 million pages
- New Laureate announced on Poetry Day
- From logs to blogs
- Burt Munro’s pistons
- Helping save our local history
- Tirohia Mai opens
- Nominations called for Poet Laureate
- Snapshot of the heartland
- Songs of protest
- From the pages of the NZ Herald
- Real story behind Hollywood’s Argo
- Lawrence manuscript discovered
- Reunited for Valentine's
- New Mansfield Story
- Reopening Molesworth Street
- Big Data opens
- COVID-19 coronavirus update