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June's WCL eBook Club: Leave the Girls Behind by Jacqueline Bublitz
We recently interviewed Jacqueline Bublitz, author of Leave the Girls Behind. Watch the interview and grab your free eBook copy, 16 June - 1 July! -
Shine bright like a diamond: Interview with Ian Douglas, Village Goldsmith
We talk to local master jeweller, Ian Douglas, Village Goldsmith, about innovation. -
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.
Recent stories
- Being a Justice of the Peace: interview with Juping Zhou
- If it Weren't for your Gumboots: An interview with Bata
- One Hundred Years of Local Theatre
- RAD: Radio Active Digest now on Wellington City Recollect
- Author Interview: Becky Manawatu
- Conversation Over Coffee: An interview with Matt Lamason, founder of Peoples Coffee
- Musician Interview: Nathan Carter and Jack Woodbury from The Temple
Kids featured stories
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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! -
Out on the Shelves: Rainbow books for kids recommended by our librarians
To celebrate Out on the Shelves, our librarians have chosen some of their favourite rainbow books for kids that we've read and enjoyed. We hope you enjoy them too! -
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.
Recent stories
- 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
- Consent and Body Autonomy for Kids and Teens!
- Top reviews from our Summer Reading Adventurers
- Our 2024 picks: Kids' fiction, comics, and more
- Summer Reading Adventure: How to create an acrostic poem
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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!
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- 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
Business featured stories
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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. -
Confronting Workplace Bullying
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Flour Power: Interview with Maxine Scheckter, Pastry chef
Wellington pastry chef Maxine Scheckter, Sugar Flour, has just produced her first book. We talk to Maxine about her journey from student to author.
Recent stories
- 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
- Counting Sheep: the importance of a good night's sleep
- How To Be Wrong: A crash course in startup success
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.