The colour of time: A new history of the world, 1850 to 1960 A history book spanning one hundred years is nothing out of the ordinary, however what makes this book so unusual is that all the photographs have been fully and painstakingly redigitised in colour by Brazilian artist Marina Amaral. The detail and exhaustive…
한 해 마감은 도서관과 함께
올 해도 Summertime Reading Challenge 가 시작되었습니다. 좋아하는 책 많이 읽으시고 다양한 상품도 받으세요. 가까운 도서관에 준비된 엽서나 온 라인으로 등록하세요. 12월 1일 부터 내년 2월 28일까지입니다. 어린이는 0 - 13살까지, 어른은 14이상입니다. 이 달에도 많은 새로운 책들이 도서관에 들어왔습니다. 여행계획이있으시다면 도서관 전자책을 가져가세요. 훨씬 가볍게 떠나실 수 있을거예요. 도서관 카드 잊지마세요. 림태주 작가의 ‘관계…
Book launch: All the Other Days by Jack Hartley
It's not often you get to attend the launch of a book written both by a local debut author but also by someone barely into their twenties. Book publishing is a competitive business and the path to publication can be slow and dispiriting (for those that make it there at all), so it's an impressive…
World Languages Collection at Tūranga receives warm welcome
“It is my first time to see Korean books in a library!” an elated Donggi Jun said when he saw the shelves of books in his native Korean, a part of the World Languages Collection Ngā Reo o te Ao / World Languages, Auahatanga | Creativity, Level 4 of Tūranga. Jun hails from South Korea…
Dan recommends: The best of fiction
Another year is coming to a close and it gives me pause to think about what an amazing year it has been for fiction! We've been bestowed with such a wealth of quality new releases, from longstanding authors continuing to deliver, debuts of such genius it boggles the mind, sequels that have been waiting more…
A Very ‘Smart’ Library – Tūranga
We were privileged to host Christchurch East School for our first two-day school in Tūranga, a programme called 'Smart' City. Christchurch is the City Of Opportunity where new, advanced technology is helping the city use resources more efficiently. This was the focus of our programme, looking specifically at the advanced technology in the library. Jack…
Stacy Gregg interview: “I write for strong, brave independent-minded readers who aspire to be heroes”
Several years ago now, I bought Mystic and the Midnight Ride by Stacy Gregg as a Christmas present for Miss Missy, my daughter. We read our way through all the Pony Club Secrets books as I (and other members of my family) bought them for her as Christmas and birthday presents. Miss Missy quickly become…
Podcast – Teaching war, teaching peace
Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from specialist human rights radio show Speak up - Kōrerotia. This show is created by Sally Carlton. 11 November 2018 marked one hundred years since the signing of the Armistice that ended the First World War. The scale of this war makes a compelling argument for…
Further First World War stories
Although the commemorations marking the centenary of the First World War have come to an end, the war continues to be remembered and its stories continue to be told. The war is a huge, big subject which sometimes, to me, feels too massive to truly comprehend. Therefore it really is those individual or local stories…
Dracul – viscerally visual
The characters and scenes in this story remain imprinted on my mind's eye. Dracul has not been written like a screenplay but it would make a sumptuously surreal film. Dracul Dracul is written by J.D. Barker in collaboration with Bram Stoker's Great Grand-Nephew, Dacre Stoker. The authors' note (p.483) asserts that this is the story that was left out of the…
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