Ordinary into extraordinary

Our management recent picks bring you negotiation boot camp, brilliant answers to tough interview questions, the Starbucks experience (5 principles for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary…), business plans in a day, and more.

Murderball saved my life

A true story of adoption, how to save the planet, confessions of the other mother, and murderball are among the topics of our latest popular non-fiction recent picks.

Gimme gimme shock treatment

Be your own pet, Magazine, Dead Kennedys, The Ramones… all this and more on our punk special on Access Radio, 4.30pm Saturday 24 March.

Kids: create your own clay person

This was a popular activity in 2006 to celebrate Race Relations Day, so check out the times and dates at Kids: What’s On – then visit a branch library this week to make your very own clay person!

Want to know more about family law?

If so, come along to this week’s Law for Lunch topic: “Family Court parenting hearings”. This popular series is happening every Thursday at Central Library, 2nd Floor, 12-1pm. To find out more about these sessions, check out the library website’s News page.

Goodbye!

The anonymous WCL blogger is heading off overseas, to be replaced by another WCL staff blogger. Best wishes to WCL customers and staff, and thanks to everyone in the blogosphere and library world who has supported our blog.
Now off to plan a campaign of comment writing…

The superbad Samuel L. Jackson stare

Sublimely built emperor penguins, Scully and Mulder in Springfield, Darnell the Crab Man, forensic anthropology, a swarm of vampires in Dunedin, a Fijian-Kiwi matriarch and handsome American Doug are featured in our latest DVD recent picks.

The right talent

Talent management & corporate culture is our latest business hot topic.

Cosmic onion

Climate science, the multi-billion dollar Hadron Collider at CERN, Francis Crick, the godfather of Ecstasy, Galen, insects, quantum mechanics and consciousness are among the topics of our most recent science books and DVDs.

Sweeping shoujo


New graphics books (and miserable dvd)


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