Victoria University of Wellington and Libraries
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The problem with volunteer-run libraries for Auckland
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Volunteers play a vital role in communities but they're not a substitute for trained and qualified librarians and library assistants, writes Anne Goulding.
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60 years of Wai-te-ata Press
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Tucked away in the bottom of the library building sits a few little rooms that contain Wai-te-ata Press—Te Whare Tā O Wai-te-ata.
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The value a society places on knowledge is judged by how it treats public libraries
- Victoria University of Wellington
- 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
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Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Removing books an induced amnesia
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The National Library’s self-declared mission is to provide books that tell us only what we tell ourselves, writes Associate Professor Dolores Janiewski.
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Library needs to foster connection and collaboration
- Victoria University of Wellington
- 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.
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Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Lest we forget the power of knowledge
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Discarding more than 600,000 books from the National Library's overseas collections will bury vast insights into two current crises, writes Associate Professor Dolores Janiewski.
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Celebrating research gold
- Victoria University of Wellington
- From tall buildings to orchids to public libraries, every year a group of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington students spend their summers working on a huge range of research projects thanks to the support of a Summer Research Scholarship.
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The identity and privacy dilemma
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Library and Information Management Anne Goulding discusses the paradox of New Zealanders wanting to safeguard their personal data, while frequently and freely giving it away.
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International poets honoured in "The World in a Box"
- Victoria University of Wellington
- On the basement level of Rankine Brown library lie the treasures – old and new – of the University’s Wai-te-ata Press. Among the country’s oldest printing press and the brand new 3D plastic printing types, is a unique boxed set of 15 hand-crafted keepsakes, each dedicated to an international poet.
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Baxter celebration
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The release of James K. Baxter’s Complete Prose was celebrated in a packed-out event in Te Taratara ā Kae in the library this weekend.
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The keys to book success
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The Māori translation of a Victoria Library staff member’s book has won the Māori Language award at the 2015 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
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The Hub wins another award
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria’s Kelburn Campus Hub and Library project has just won the ‘Emerging Chapter Award’ and received a Commendation in the ‘New Construction, Major Facility’ category in the CEFPI Regional Awards (CEFPI is the Council of Educational Facility Planners International).
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Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Student exhibition challenges traditional library experience
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A National Library exhibition by three Victoria University of Wellington design students is using 3D media to challenge the way people interact with the Library’s collections.
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Victoria showcases World War I material online
- Victoria University of Wellington
- To mark Anzac Day and the centenary of the 1915 Gallipoli landings, Victoria University of Wellington’s Library has created a digital collection of World War I material.
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Library storytellers shown to contribute to early literacy
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New research shows that taking preschoolers to story-time sessions at the local library could help them with the early stages of learning to read.
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