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The Ockhams 2025 Fiction Longlist
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist for 2025 has been announced - congratulations to all of this year's nominees! -
Staff Picks DVDs: The Best of 2024
Our staff recommends their favourite shows and movies that we added to the collection in 2024 - have a browse! -
Guest post: Cultivating an Unstoppable Mindset
In this week's Business story, guest author Stew Darling, Unstoppable Force, considers strategies for cultivating a growth mindset. This post has been reproduced with his permission. -
Computer Upgrade Coming Soon
We are upgrading to a new computer system in mid March. -
Summer Reading Adventure: Announcing our Grand Prize Winners
The Summer Reading Adventure is over for another year and now it's time to announce the winners of our twelve Grand Prize Packs! -
Top reviews from our Summer Reading Adventurers
We received so many fantastic book reviews from tamariki for Summer Reading 2025 - have a read! -
Staff Picks CDs & Vinyl: The Best of 2024 Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of our favourite music picks of 2024! -
Guest post: The Wellbeing Program Paradox
Author and culture consultant Colin D. Ellis examines how money channelled into employee wellness programmes could be better spent first addressing unhealthy workplace culture. -
Staff Picks CDs & Vinyl: The Best of 2024 Part 1
Our music loving staff pick their favourite albums from 2024. -
Being a Justice of the Peace: interview with Juping Zhou
At some point, most of us will require the services of a Justice of the Peace but many of us aren't sure what a JP does. We had a chat with local JP Juping Zhou to find out more. -
Guest post: What can we take from movies?
In this week's Business story, guest author Lance Burdett looks at some of the life lessons that can be learned from popular family movies. This post has been reproduced with his permission. -
Summer Reading Suggestions from our Business Specialist
We've compiled a list of reading for the active relaxers who like to multitask while chilling in the sun at the beach, on the deck, or wherever you may be holidaying. -
Congratulations to Lee Murray
Our warmest congratulations to multi–award-winning author Lee Murray; recipient of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2025 New Years Honours list for services to literature. -
Our 2024 picks: Young Adult favourites of the year
We're very lucky that YA books keep getting published and we keep getting to read them. And even luckier that we get to write about the YA books we like! Read on for our librarians' top picks of 2024. -
Our 2024 picks: Kids' fiction, comics, and more
There have been so many fantastic children's books published in 2024, and this is our chance to share our top picks of the year with you. -
Spotlight on: JC Sturm
One of NZ's leading female Māori short story writers & poets was a key member of our library team -
Our 2024 picks: International science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction
Love SF, fantasy and speculative fiction? Join us as we pick our favourite titles from 2024.