News for Schools

Matapihi website improvements on 9 November The Matapihi website is changing on Monday 9 November 2009.

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.

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

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.

Delays to external emails The National Library is currently experiencing delays in receiving emails from and sending emails to external addresses.

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.

Papers Past adds more digitised newspapers Papers Past contains 1.3 million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals from the 1800s. We added 7 new titles this week.

Samoan Language Week Samoan Language Week is from Sunday 24 May to Sunday 31 May.

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.

Web outages on 11 May Digital items in Timeframes, Matapihi, TAPUHI and the National Library catalogue will be unavailable from 8-11pm on Monday 11 May 2009.

Call for nominations Call for nominations for the Library and Information Advisory Commission/Ngā Kaiwhakamārama i ngā Kohikohinga Kōrero and Guardians Kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library

Web outages 27 April Digital items in Timeframes, Matapihi, TAPUHI and the National Library catclogue will be unavailable from 8-11pm tonight.

See Gallipoli & Anzac Day photographs on Flickr In time for Anzac Day, New Zealand and Australian museums and libraries are sharing photographs taken in Gallipoli in 1915 during World War One on Flickr.

20 million books delivered to New Zealand schools The National Library of New Zealand celebrates the delivery of its 20 millionth book to a New Zealand school since 1992.

Website outages from 26 to 27 March Digital items in TAPUHI will also be unavailable from 5pm 26 March to 9am 31 March. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Website outages on 25 and 26 March This outage has been postponed. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Summer and back-to-school Hot Topics Five new Hot Topics provide online resources to help you settle back into school and keep safe in the sun.