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April’s WCL eBook Club: Delirious by Damien Wilkins
Our WCL eBook Club pick for April is Delirious by Damien Wilkins. Unlimited copies available 1 - 14 April! -
The Prehistoric Earth: April School Holiday Programme
Dive into nearly 50 fun, hands-on and free events at your local library over the holidays! -
Welcome to our New Catalogue
We’ve upgraded our library system, bringing new features to improve your experience. Here’s what you need to know to get started.
Recent stories
- Our New Computer System is Live!
- Nefarious Newtown: Mystery in the Library author talk 11 April
- Summer Reading Adventure: Announcing our Grand Prize Winners
- Capital Crimes: Karori Mystery in the Library Event, Thursday 1 May
- Staff Picks CDs & Vinyl: The Best of 2024 Part 1
- Being a Justice of the Peace: interview with Juping Zhou
- Our 2024 picks: General fiction (International)
Kids featured stories
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The Prehistoric Earth: April School Holiday Programme
Dive into nearly 50 fun, hands-on and free events at your local library over the holidays! -
Consent and Body Autonomy for Kids and Teens!
We’ve found five awesome books to read with your kids and teens to help them understand consent and body autonomy. -
Summer Reading Adventure: Announcing our Grand Prize Winners
The Summer Reading Adventure is over for another year and now it's time to announce the winners of our twelve Grand Prize Packs!
Recent stories
- Top reviews from our Summer Reading Adventurers
- Our 2024 picks: Kids' fiction, comics, and more
- Summer Reading Adventure: How to create an acrostic poem
- Summer Reading Adventure: How to draw lines for an Ozobot
- The Summer Reading Adventure is Just Over the Horizon!
- What’s on for tamariki at the library: In-person and online!
- Beyond the Page 2024: Week Two Round-up!
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The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... Captain America
The star-spangled man with a plan... to help you read his adventures! It’s the Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to Captain America! -
Summer Reading Adventure: Announcing our Grand Prize Winners
The Summer Reading Adventure is over for another year and now it's time to announce the winners of our twelve Grand Prize Packs! -
Our 2024 picks: Young Adult favourites of the year
We're very lucky that YA books keep getting published and we keep getting to read them. And even luckier that we get to write about the YA books we like! Read on for our librarians' top picks of 2024.
Recent stories
- The Summer Reading Adventure is Just Over the Horizon!
- The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... The Joker and Harley Quinn
- Spooky YA reads to keep that Halloween 👻spirit👻 going
- Sign up for our Teen Newsletter Please
- Mental Health Awareness Week: A librarian's guide to big sad thoughts and other weird growing-up things
- The Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to... Batman
- Queer Fantasy NOT for Pride Month! Because everyday is LGBTQ+!
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Counting Sheep: the importance of a good night's sleep
Sleep is an important part of general wellbeing. The end of Daylight Saving is approaching and if a good night's sleep proves elusive, you may find some assistance in the resources below. -
How To Be Wrong: A crash course in startup success
Entrepreneur Rowan Simpson shares the first chapter of his new book, How To Be Wrong: A crash course in startup success with Wellington City Libraries readers. -
More Than a Feeling: Emotional Intelligence in the workplace
Emotional Intelligence is an important part of leadership and self-management. We provide some resources to help you develop this skill.
Recent stories
- Bolt Bins - modernising skip bin service: an interview with founder Wade Keys
- Navigating Negotiation
- Te Araroa Walkers and Wellington Business
- Guest post: Cultivating an Unstoppable Mindset
- Guest post: The Wellbeing Program Paradox
- Being a Justice of the Peace: interview with Juping Zhou
- Guest post: What can we take from movies?
Local History featured stories
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Bringing History Into 2024: A Recap
This year our heritage team have digitised and uploaded over 1500 unique items to our platform Wellington City Recollect, including posters, photographs, books, documents, maps and more! -
Author Interview: Daniel Beban
Riki Gooch interviews author Daniel Beban about his new nonfiction book Future Jaw-Clap. -
RAD: Radio Active Digest now on Wellington City Recollect
A 1980s magazine from Wellington’s pioneering alternative radio station is now available to read online
Recent stories
- New online resource: the Wellington Provincial Council Gazette, 1854-1876
- The Spectacular Cinemas of Wellington
- The Rise of Vernacular Architecture in Wellington
- The Flowering of The Tulip
- New online genealogical resource: The Scholefield Papers
- ‘The Streets of My City’: the Legacy of Fanny Irvine-Smith
- The Work of Ans Westra on Recollect
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Te Māori Exhibition: 40 Years On
10 September 1984. On this day, 40 years ago, Te Māori exhibition opened at MOMA in New York City. -
Rauemi Reo : a guide to resources to help strengthen your reo Māori
Wellington City Libraries staff have produced an online pamphlet of 'Rauemi Reo : a guide to resources to help strengthen your reo Māori'. -
Remembering Moana Jackson
He Tangata, he tangata, he tangata: of the people, by the people, for the people. He hōnore, he korōria ki te Atua he maungārongo ki te whenua. He whakaaro pai ki ngā tāngata katoa.