Way back in May this year, the Library began a trial in collaboration with Code Club Aotearoa to set up and run a volunteer led coding club for Year 7 and 8 students at Upper Riccarton Library. This was the first collaboration between Code Club and a Library anywhere in the country and due to…
Memories of becoming an adult reader (at the tender age of 12)
Recently The Guardian weekly invited people to write in about the books that marked their transition from Child to adult books. My mother and I used to go to the old Timaru Public library on a Tuesday night. It was of a bygone era, wooden shelves and a stuffy atmosphere. The Librarians surveyed us all…
This week in Christchurch history (1 – 7 December)
1 December 1863 Opening of the Ferrymead to Moorhouse Avenue railway, New Zealand’s first public steam railway. (The gauge was 5ft 3ins.) 1 December 1949 Sidney G. (later Sir Sidney) Holland (Fendalton) becomes Prime Minister. 2 December 1866 Moa bones discovered at Glenmark. The international sale and exchange of these helped Haast, the Canterbury Museum’s…
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