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Pride Month

Article Date
May 27, 2025

June is Global Pride Month. It’s a time to celebrate the diversity and resilience of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Did you know the first pride marches took place in 1970, a year after the Stonewall riots in New York? You can read more about this here o...

International Archives Day 9 June

Article Date
May 25, 2025

You may not realise how important archives (and archivists) are. Keeping documents, photos and other files ensures an accurate witness to history and a reliable memory for a nation. Monday 9 June is when we celebrate and recognise this important work...

Samoa Language Week

Article Date
May 22, 2025

Tālofa lava! 1 – 7 June is Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Samoa Language Week.

The theme for this year is:

Ia malu lou sā. Folau i lagimā

a well-grounded self, is a successful self

Find more Samoan proverbs and sayings in this lovely book...

King's Birthday

Article Date
May 22, 2025

Have you got used to saying “King’s Birthday” yet? Monday 2 June is a public holiday to celebrate the birthday of King Charles III. His actual birthday is on 14 November but in New Zealand it is always marked on the first Monday in June.

A...

Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Article Date
May 15, 2025

What is Global Accessibility Awareness Day? 

Launched in 2021, the Global Accessibility Awareness Day Foundation promotes digital access and inclusion to those with disabilities.    

Here in the Library & Learning Centre, many of our ebooks...

Update: ePubs and Proquest ebooks

Article Date
May 8, 2025

As you may have seen, our ebook provider ProQuest Central recently made a change to their ebook platform. This means that your ebook may display differently. The new format is called an ePub. Most ebooks will be available as an ePub and a PDF, but...

Easter closure 18-22 April + ANZAC Day 25 April

Article Date
April 17, 2025

Note, the Library will be closed over Easter on the following days:

Good Friday: 18 April
Easter Monday: 21 April
Easter Tuesday: 22 April

Our online library will remain available. We will respond to queries on 23rd and 24th April.

We will...

Earth Day 22 April - Our Power, Our Planet

Article Date
April 16, 2025

April 22 is Earth Day, a day that's been celebrated since 1970. 

The theme this year is Our Power, Our Planet, with the aim being to unite people "behind renewable energy, and to triple the global generation of clean electricity by 2030". How? See...

World Poetry Day

Article Date
March 21, 2025

21st of March is World Poetry Day where people are invited to listen and read poetry, organize poetry readings and to increase access to poetry publications. UNESCO established World Poetry Day to recognize poetry as a reflection of cultural heritage...

Website outage

The Library and Learning Centre website will have a maintenance outage on 30th of May between 3pm-6pm. We apologize for the inconvenience.