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      <title>Setting the scene in Upper Hutt: five questions with author Cat Connor</title>
      <link>https://www.upperhuttlibrary.co.nz/News/Five-Questions-with-Cat-Connor</link>
      <description>Ahead of her book launch at Central Library on 11 April 2025, local author Cat Connor shares insights into character development and her choice to set a book series in Upper Hutt.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Upper Hutt City Council</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-03-31T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Pūheke : City to Sea</title>
      <link>https://architecture.org.nz/2024/09/06/puheke-city-to-sea/</link>
      <description>As you may be aware Council members were briefed on Te Ngākau Civic Square Precinct Development Plan, created by Pōneke Collective with Council officers, on September 4. The council will receive further briefings on per-site proposals in July next year. The Town Hall, Te Matapihi Central Library, and the Civic Administration Building (CAB) and Municipal […]</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://architecture.org.nz/2024/09/06/puheke-city-to-sea/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Architectural Centre Inc</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-09-05T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>City to Sea Bridge, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Saving the Civic Centre, or destroying it</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=134604</link>
      <description>Open letter to the Wellington Mayor and City Councillors I write with a degree of alarm and anger over your proposals for the Central Library and Te Ngakau/Civic Centre. I am urgently asking you to amend the draft LTP at your meeting on Thursday.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=134604</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-03-02T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>The value a society places on knowledge is judged by how it treats public libraries</title>
      <link>https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2021/02/the-value-a-society-places-on-knowledge-is-judged-by-how-it-treats-public-libraries</link>
      <description>Professor Anne Goulding from the School of Information Management explains why the part privatisation of Wellington's Central Library is dangerous in this opinion piece originally published on Stuff.co.nz</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:56:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Victoria University of Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-02-25T21:56:48Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>The case for moving the Library</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=131755</link>
      <description>The Ian Athfield designed Wellington Central Library that was built in 1991 was placed just a stone’s throw, and a quarter turn around the square, from the 1940 Centennial Library building that it replaced. That building continues to provide great service as the City Gallery.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=131755</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-10-17T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Library needs to foster connection and collaboration</title>
      <link>https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2020/09/library-needs-to-foster-connection-and-collaboration</link>
      <description>While Wellington's boarded-up central library is a sad prospect, the city and its communities are now presented with an exciting opportunity, writes Professor Anne Goulding.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 22:14:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Victoria University of Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-09-01T22:14:55Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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