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Te Pātaka Open Days: 11th and 12th July
Visit, browse and borrow from our Te Pātaka Centre which houses our Central Library collection, 11 & 12 July. -
Design a limited-edition Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Central Library card!
We’re reopening next year and to mark the occasion we want your original te taiao | nature themed artwork. -
Winter School Holiday Programme
Mānawatia a Matariki me Puanga! Dive into the magic of Matariki and Puanga at your library over the holidays!
Recent stories
- Fur-niture with flair : An interview with Bess and Stu of Beloved Pet Furniture
- Shine bright like a diamond: Interview with Ian Douglas, Village Goldsmith
- New Zealand Railways and the Remutaka Deviation
- Being a Justice of the Peace: interview with Juping Zhou
- One Hundred Years of Local Theatre
- RAD: Radio Active Digest now on Wellington City Recollect
- Author Interview: Becky Manawatu
Kids featured stories
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Design a limited-edition Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Central Library card!
We’re reopening next year and to mark the occasion we want your original te taiao | nature themed artwork. -
Winter School Holiday Programme
Mānawatia a Matariki me Puanga! Dive into the magic of Matariki and Puanga at your library over the holidays! -
Kia ora, Canada: Letters to Huron County Library
It's winter in Aotearoa but it's summer in Canada and we're joining in with their summer holidays with some letters to the children of Huron County Library!
Recent stories
- Out on the Shelves: Rainbow books for kids recommended by our librarians
- What's on for Out on the Shelves 2025
- Baby Rock and Rhyme comes to Brooklyn Library!
- The Prehistoric Earth | School Holidays Wrap-Up!
- The Fish Doorbell: Help a fish on the other side of the world
- Top reviews from our Summer Reading Adventurers
- Our 2024 picks: Kids' fiction, comics, and more
Youth featured stories
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Out on the Shelves: YA books recommended by our real-life librarians
There's nothing better than reading a book recommended to you by a friendly librarian, right? So we've put together a list of the rainbow books in our collection that we loved enough to recommend! -
What's on for Out on the Shelves 2025
June is the Out on the Shelves campaign month, and to celebrate we're running a fantastic range of events for tamariki and rangatahi across our libraries. -
The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... The Thunderbolts
Reading guides, like lightning, should always appear to few men’s ruin, but to all men’s cheer! It’s the WCL Guide to the Thunderbolts!
Recent stories
- G'Day, Kia ora, Hello! A Global Hangout for Rangatahi
- The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... Captain America
- Our 2024 picks: Young Adult favourites of the year
- The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... The Joker and Harley Quinn
- Spooky YA reads to keep that Halloween 👻spirit👻 going
- Sign up for our Teen Newsletter Please
- Mental Health Awareness Week: A librarian's guide to big sad thoughts and other weird growing-up things
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The Great Pretender: overcoming imposter syndrome
Many able and successful people sometimes feel they are frauds and will be found out. In this week's blog, we look behind the mask and address imposter syndrome. -
Fur-niture with flair : An interview with Bess and Stu of Beloved Pet Furniture
A dog crate prototype and a posting on social media led to Brooklyn couple Stu and Bess becoming accidental entrepreneurs. We talk to them to find out how they developed Beloved Pet Furniture. -
Bridging the gap: navigating generational differences in the workplace
With multi-generations now working together, each demographic brings its own characteristics to the workplace. We've collated some resources to help navigate the generational differences.
Recent stories
- Confronting Workplace Bullying
- Flour Power: Interview with Maxine Scheckter, Pastry chef
- Guest post: Why do you want to be richer?
- Guest post: As it turns out, no one's got their sh*t together - learnings from inside the collective intelligence journey
- Lead from behind: the art of managing up
- Shine bright like a diamond: Interview with Ian Douglas, Village Goldsmith
- Guest post: Unleashing the Improvement Mindset - a Game-Changer for Leaders
Local History featured stories
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New Zealand Railways and the Remutaka Deviation
Photographs from the New Zealand Railways Department capture the modernisation of train routes in the Wellington region, with a focus on the Upper Hutt to Wairarapa connection. -
Bringing History Into 2024: A Recap
This year our heritage team have digitised and uploaded over 1500 unique items to our platform Wellington City Recollect, including posters, photographs, books, documents, maps and more! -
Author Interview: Daniel Beban
Riki Gooch interviews author Daniel Beban about his new nonfiction book Future Jaw-Clap.
Recent stories
- RAD: Radio Active Digest now on Wellington City Recollect
- New online resource: the Wellington Provincial Council Gazette, 1854-1876
- The Spectacular Cinemas of Wellington
- The Rise of Vernacular Architecture in Wellington
- The Flowering of The Tulip
- New online genealogical resource: The Scholefield Papers
- ‘The Streets of My City’: the Legacy of Fanny Irvine-Smith
Māori featured stories
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Te Māori Exhibition: 40 Years On
10 September 1984. On this day, 40 years ago, Te Māori exhibition opened at MOMA in New York City. -
Rauemi Reo : a guide to resources to help strengthen your reo Māori
Wellington City Libraries staff have produced an online pamphlet of 'Rauemi Reo : a guide to resources to help strengthen your reo Māori'. -
Remembering Moana Jackson
He Tangata, he tangata, he tangata: of the people, by the people, for the people. He hōnore, he korōria ki te Atua he maungārongo ki te whenua. He whakaaro pai ki ngā tāngata katoa.