Resources for Greek speakers
Wellington City Libraries has Magazines, Books, DVDs and Music CDs in Greek, as well as many useful resources for people learning English.
Newspapers & magazines
You may read magazines in the library or borrow copies for one week with your library card. We subscribe to the Greek magazine Life and Style which is held at the Kilbirnie branch library.All libraries provide free Internet access to selected Greek newspapers.
Books
Books in Greek, both classical and modern, are held on the First Floor of the Central Library, to the left of the stairs, near the Arts, Music & Literature Enquiries Desk. You may read these books in the Library, or borrow them for 4 weeks with your Library Card.DVDs and Music CDs
CDs and DVDs may be borrowed for 1 week with your Library Card. A borrowing fee is charged for Sound & Vision materials.Music CDs are on the Ground Floor of Central Library, in the Sound & Vision Centre. Look for the World Music: Greece section.
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Music of the Greek islands Michalis Terzis. |
Mauthausen trilogy : in memoriam of liberation, Mikis Theodorakis. | Putumayo presents Greece : a musical odyssey. |
Learning English
 Focus on IELTS by Susan O'Connell. |
In our collection we have:
These items are available in the Adult Learning Collection, the main collection at 420.7 and 428.24, and the Central Sound & Vision Centre. There are Adult Learning collections at Central, Newtown, Ruth Gotlieb (Kilbirnie), Johnsonville, Miramar and Karori Libraries. All of these items are FREE to borrow and are issued for 4 weeks. You can borrow as many items as you like. For more information, visit our English as a Second Language subject guide. |
Books in English
Our fiction collection is shelved alphabetically by author surname. We have several Greek novels translated into English and many novels set in Greece.
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Koula Menis Koumandareas ; translated by Kay Cicellis. |
The maze Panos Karnezis. |
Fear : a novel Irini Spanidou. |
Our books are organised by a numbering system and the same system is used at all branches. For example, The Road Code for car, motor cycle and truck driver's licenses is shelved at 343.0946 DON. There are copies at all Libraries and they can be borrowed for 4 weeks. If no copies are currently available, you can reserve one with your Library Card.
Here are some subjects you may find useful:
- 428: learning English
- 489: Greek-English dictionaries
- 500s: science, the universe, plants and animals
- 640-649: home care, home care, cooking and parenting (including Wellington publication Favourite Greek recipes compiled by Mercina Viatos, Koula Argus & Melpi Kondos)
- 650s: information on working in New Zealand
- 700s: art, calligraphy, music, movies & entertainment
- 800s: literature, including poetry, plays, essays and letters (classical literature is in the 880s)
- 900s: countries, travel and history, including Greek travel (914.95) and history (ancient 938, modern 949.5), and New Zealand travel (919.31) and history (993.1).
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| George Seferis: collected poems 1924-1955, translated, edited and introduced by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. | The Greek War of Independence : the struggle for freedom from Ottoman oppression and the birth of the modern Greek nation by David Brewer. | Women in purple : rulers of medieval Byzantium by Judith Herrin. | It's all Greek to me! : a tale of a mad dog and an Englishman, ruins, retsina, and real Greeks by John Mole. |
Please ask us if you need help finding anything you need.
