It's our last meeting for our local librarians and staff new to the role in 2024, so let's celebrate! We'll toast your ...

How well do your students learn when they read online? What are the outcomes of on-screen reading compared with reading in print? I spend a lot of time in front of my laptop reading for research. But ...

Ni sa bula vinaka kece sara! Mai marautaki tiko e dua na Macawa ni Vosa Vaka Viti. National Library of New Zealand e na veiqaravi tiko me ra vakatakilai e so na yaca, ni veiwekani enai taba mai vei ...

From the early use of tools like the humble nail to the advanced communication devices of today, new technologies have changed how we all engage in the world. Mobile technology and social media have ...

At the recent IBBY Congress in Auckland, a number of speakers used the analogy of books as both windows and mirrors in various contexts. Children need books that mirror their world and open windows to ...

Banana banana ; Tauatino o te inangaro ; Kurikuri ia manue tangi nei ; Te kni nei ; Taki nei au (Amarama) -- Te inu nei a faohi au ; Aue aue (Nipurahi) ; Rakahanga enua ; Kua ite o te ra ; I te pahi ...

Shows canoes, storehouse and carved objects. Hongi is seated in a central position, with huia feathers in his hair. Earle, seated on the left, is gesturing and is wearing a green cap. Another European ...

Photographs, some engravings from publications and one negative. This collection is made up of some of the images collected to illustrate "Early Wellington" by Louis E Ward (Auckland: Whitcombe & ...

Discusses issues relating to the definition of hapū, relating in particular to his hapu, Ngāti Pareraukawa. Defines a hapū using historical, geographical and genealogical justification. Identifies ...

`The Samoan Islands'. The outline of a monograph, giving special consideration to German Samoa by Dr Augustin Kramer, Surgeon-Major in the Imperial Navy. Vol One; Constitution, genealogies and ...

Grandma looked at me through the small, round metal frames of her glasses, her white hair falling softly around her face. For several minutes, it seemed, she looked silently into my eyes and I into ...

Full-rigged iron ship of 1111 tons built at Port Glasgow in 1878. Owned by Albion Shipping Co., she was wrecked at Timaru on 12 June 1886. See White Wings (Vol 1, p 151) by Sir Henry Brett.