The Arrangement & Description team sits in the middle of Alexander Turnbull Library. Completing our tasks to help make ...

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Discover or refresh your knowledge about the many ways the National Library can support your school, including how to borrow books through our school lending service. We are offering the same webinar ...

Christmas holiday hours — We will be closing for the Christmas break at 5pm Friday 20 December 2024. Normal opening hours will resume on Monday 6 January 2025. More about our opening hours Some ...

Recounts the history of the Quinn's Arcade (Quinn's Arcadia) and the Waimate Regent Theatre, both cinemas in Waimate. Looks at the activities of the Waimate Regent Theatre Trust in purchasing and ...

A collection of traditional Māori stories and legends from various iwi developed as a resource for people learning te reo. Notes Hinemoa & Tūtānekai -- Ngā ahi a Tamatea = Tamatea -- Kupe -- Rangitoto ...

Established in 1926. The company included: Lester Brown, Len Barnes, Grace Macdonald, Lionel Inch, Vin Wilton, Robert Mayne, Amy Woodward, Jim Cooke, Tom Forrester ...

"The story begins with the migration of ancestral peoples out of South China, some 5,000 years ago. Moving through the Pacific, these early voyagers arrived in Aotearoa early in the second millennium ...

Welcome to the Arrangement & Description (A&D) team blog for 2023! This year the team farewelled Nicola Frean who had been the driving force behind Arrangement and Description at Turnbull since 2011 ...

Traces the history of the construction of the Great South Road by the military under General Cameron in the early 1860s. Places its construction within the context of campaigns in the Waikato against ...

Writing to Hoani Wiremu Hipango from Waerenga-a-hika in 1862. Died 9 Jun 1865 at Nukutauma. Ordained to Anglican deaconate by Bishop Williams in Dec 1864.

Booklet centre spread lists the programme for the evening, compered by Philip Liner of Radio New Zealand. Other pages contain a message from the mayor Brian Elwood (with his photo), and from Eric ...