Digital & Heritage News

Donation of watercolour painting by Len Waitkin A 1910 watercolour painting by Len Waitkin is a recent bequest to the Drawings, Paintings and Print Collection.

The Pleasures (and Limitations) of Reading Online Summary, links and text from Adrienne Kebbell's lecture on "The Pleasures (and Limitations) of Reading Online" from 15 October 2009.

A Decade of Disasters A new book on the history of New Zealand's Chatham Islands between 1866 and 1875 draws significantly on the Library's Papers Past website.

Public libraries winning awards for hooking up Kiwis with free broadband The Aotearoa People's Network Kaharoa has collected two awards for their work with public libraries.

Jean Wright Award applications open Applications are open for the $10,000 Jean Wright Award for the education and training of librarians.

Website outages on 12, 14, 15 and 16 October There will be outages to a range of National Library websites and services on four evenings this week.

National Library stand at LIANZA Conference Find out which National Library staff will be on our stand at LIANZA when, so you can drop by with your questions.

Website outages on 22 September A number of National Library websites will be intermittently unavailable on the evening of Tuesday 22 September.

New donation from Canada A new donation brings a unique insight into early 20th century mining on the West Coast to the Turnbull Library.

Can you help us with our customer research? The National Library is surveying customers and researchers so we can learn about how you use the Library and how you like to search for information

Website outages on 17 August 2009 Digital items in Timeframes, Matapihi, TAPUHI and the National Library catalogue will be unavailable for a short periods on Monday 17 August.

Website outages on 11 August Digital items in Timeframes, Matapihi, TAPUHI and the National Library catalogue will be unavailable from 4.30pm to 6.30pm on Tuesday 11 August 2009.

Website outages 9 August 2009 Several National Library websites (including Manuscripts & Pictorial, Directory of NZ Libraries and KRIS) will not be available from 6pm-8pm on Sunday 9 August.

Bluff poet looks forward to New Zealand Poet Laureate role Cilla McQueen's appointment as the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2009-10 was celebrated at an event at the National Library on 22 July.

New structure for School Services The National Library has confirmed a new structure for its School Services directorate designed to develop and support new services for schools and educators.

Website outages on 3 June Digital items in Timeframes, Matapihi, TAPUHI and the National Library catalogue will be unavailable from 8pm-9pm on Wednesday 3 June 2009.

Open letter from Penny Carnaby The media spotlight has been on donations to libraries and museums over the past week.

Web outages on 27 May Digital items in Timeframes, Matapihi, TAPUHI and the National Library catalogue will be unavailable from 8-9:30pm on Wednesday 27 May 2009.

Nominations open for next New Zealand Poet Laureate Nominations are being invited for the 2009-2011 New Zealand Poet Laureate Award

Web outages on 19 May Digital items in Timeframes, Matapihi, TAPUHI and the National Library catalogue will be unavailable from 8-9:30pm on Tuesday 19 May 2009.