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)
By contentjane01/12/2014
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)
By Vanessa01/12/2014
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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