Upcoming events

Book a spot on our two-day workshop that gives an introduction to oral history methodology. Led by Lynette Shum, Oral History Advisor at the Alexander Turnbull Library and Helen Frizzell, a Dunedin-based freelance oral historian. The workshop is ideal for people considering using oral history in their work, community or personal projects.

Curating resources gives your students quicker access to your school library collections. Discover different ways to curate, share and add value to your Aotearoa New Zealand's histories curriculum resources.

Hear biographer Norman Meehan talk about New Zealand composer Jenny McLeod’s wildly eclectic life and music. By tracing the numerous threads that comprise her work and thought, he brings together a more coherent story of a life that was wildly eclectic in many ways. In this talk, he discusses some of the challenges of piecing that story together.

Join us for this event at the Library or online.

Join us for morning tea, a tour of our latest exhibition ‘Cast in light: Life in a mining town’ and a screening of the short film ‘JOS’ which profiles the life and work of Czech / New Zealand photographer Joseph Divis.

Join a guided reorua (bilingual) tour of He Tohu with our amazing kaiārahi and He Tohu curator Stefanie Lash. Learn about Aotearoa’s histories, the journeys these documents have taken, and what they mean for us now.

Join a guided reorua (bilingual) tour of He Tohu with our amazing kaiārahi and He Tohu curator Stefanie Lash. Learn about Aotearoa’s histories, the journeys these documents have taken, and what they mean for us now.

This Music Month talk, by Alexander Turnbull Library curator Dr Michael Brown, looks at the New Zealand label Crystal Magic Records. The label's entire catalogue has been preserved by the Library, and this talk explores the music, artwork, and web influence on the CMR sensibility.

Join us online for this event.

Curating resources gives your students quicker access to your school library collections. Discover different ways to curate, share and add value to your Aotearoa New Zealand's histories curriculum resources.

Join historian Dr Paul Moon for the Wellington launch of his biography of renowned Dutch-Kiwi photographer Ans Westra (1936-2023). Ans’ photographic output comprises a veritable photo album of the diversity of life in post-war Aotearoa.

In this talk, Catherine Comyn reframes the financial colonisation of Aoteaora — a history of the joint stock company, a speculative London property market that romanticised the distant lands of indigenous peoples, and the calculated use of credit and taxation by the British to dispossess Māori of their land and subject them to colonial rule.

Join us for this event at the Library or online.

Join us at the Library to celebrate Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa | Samoa Language Week.

The National Library of New Zealand, Capital Radio Samoa and Nga Tāonga Sound and Vision invite you to a special screening of ‘’O ata fa’asolo mai Samoa i aso anamua‘ (Samoan film).

Reading for pleasure can enrich literacy programmes. Discover how a school-wide approach can cultivate students who choose to read for fun. Explore strategies to use in the library, classroom and wider school community.

Book a spot on our two-day workshop that gives an introduction to oral history methodology. Led by Lynette Shum, Oral History Advisor at the Alexander Turnbull Library and Helen Frizzell, a Dunedin-based freelance oral historian. The workshop is ideal for people considering using oral history in their work, community or personal projects.

Reading for pleasure can enrich literacy programmes. Discover how a school-wide approach can cultivate students who choose to read for fun. Explore strategies to use in the library, classroom and wider school community.

Join us at the National Library to discover Wellington's Indian heritage. This is a collaborative community event that provides an opportunity to view Indian items in the collection, learn from curator Dr. Ashwinee Pendharkar about researching Indian family and community histories, and hear from Dr. Jacqui Leckie about her research on Indian communities in Wellington.

This one-day workshop will give you a hands-on opportunity to discover and use digital resources freely available to schools. You'll locate and curate quality, reliable digital content to support all learning areas of the curriculum.

Curating resources gives your students quicker access to your school library collections. Discover different ways to curate, share and add value to your Aotearoa New Zealand's histories curriculum resources.

The rising of the Matariki star cluster signals the start of Matariki, the Māori New Year. This programme introduces tamariki and whānau to how Matariki connects us to people, to whānau and to the rhythms and seasons of the natural world. Mānawatia a Matariki!

Book a spot on our two-day workshop that gives an introduction to oral history methodology. Led by Lynette Shum, Oral History Advisor at the Alexander Turnbull Library and Helen Frizzell, a Dunedin-based freelance oral historian. The workshop is ideal for people considering using oral history in their work, community or personal projects.