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Library week 16 - 22 August

There will be Tea and Tales sessions at each library, where all are welcome to come and enjoy a cup of tea and share an hour of stories, poems, excerpts and anecdotes.
  • Paraparaumu Library –Monday 16 August 9.45 - 11am
  • Waikanae Library - Monday 16 August 1.15 - 2.30pm
  • Ōtaki Library - Tuesday 17 August 1.15 - 2.30pm
At 10:30am on Wednesday 11th August children, librarians, parents and teachers will gather in libraries all across the country for this very special Library Week event.
The story we will be reading this year is Mr Muggs The Library Cat by New Zealand author Dave Gunson.
Love Your Library Day -  Friday 20th August Library week around New Zealand


Friends of the Library events

  • Readers' Quiz Night - at Paraparaumu Community Centre, Friday 30 July  7.30 pm. $10 per ticket. Tickets available at the libraries. All welcome.

    2011 Rugby World Cup

    Volunteer to help at the 2011 Rugby World Cup

    You can log on to volunteer at any of our libraries.


    Arty August 2010

    Local artists at work

    All August - all art!
    “Arty August” is back in 2010, after alternating with our “Off the Page” literary events festival in 2009.

    Paraparaumu Library  Angie Salmon  2964-889 angie.salmon@kapiticoast.govt.nz
    Waikanae Library  Amanda Andrews 2964-760 amanda.andrews@kapiticoast.govt.nz
    Ōtaki Library   Kristie Parata  (06) 3649-300 kristie.parata@kapiticoast.govt.nz


     

    Tea and Tales

    We invite you to our new Tea and Tales sessions where all are welcome to come and enjoy a cup of tea and share an hour of stories, poems, excerpts and anecdotes. We have three entertaining readers who have chosen the best of humorous, thought-provoking, moving and insightful material from our collections.
     
    “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
     
    All welcome - no charge
    All enquiries to:
    Kaye Foran
    Information Services Librarian 2964 881 
     

    Paraparaumu Library

    First Tuesday of every month.

    9.45am - 11.00 am


     

    Online library resources


     
    Literature Resource Centre 

     
    To find some information on authors and books - try searching our Literature Resource Centre database.
    More databases can be found here.
     


    Did you know

    Did you know you can access the Māori Land Court Minute Books Index from your home computer. Look here.

    Did you know that PressDisplay gives you access to fulltext current issues of newspapers in the original form from all over the world. (Look under the Magazines/journals link)


    Community News

     

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