What’s On...

Festive Book Sale

Bring your own bag and stock up with some holiday reading at the Libraries’ summer booksale.

Treat yourself to something for the bach bookshelf, a literary secret santa gift, or some worthy stocking fillers.

Stock refreshed throughout the weekend, so there’ll be something new to browse throughout the sale. Items as priced. All bargain hunters welcome!

Friday 4th - Sunday 6th December (during library opening hours)

Ground Floor, City Library

Reed Gallery Exhibition: Children of God

The summer Reed Gallery Exhibition explores Christian books written with the primary intention of instilling a strong religious education and faith in children, and features a diverse range of children's religious books from the Reed and Special Collections, including some of Reed's own publications in Christian education.

Alfred Reed began his distinguished publishing career as a small-time supplier of imported Sunday school materials in Dunedin in the early 1900's. His Sunday School Supply Stores boasted that they offered "everything for the modern Sunday school".

Reed devoted significant time and money to build up his collection of rare books and manuscripts, chiefly of a Biblical nature. His original 1948 gift to Dunedin Public Libraries was followed by further donations until his death in 1975.

20th Nov 2015 - 14th Feb 2016

Reed Gallery, 3rd Floor, Dunedin City Library

Robert Burns Poetry Competition

Write a poem in English or Scots, inspired by the life or works of Robert Burns.
The Robert Burns Poetry Competition is a collaboration between the Dunedin Public Libraries and The Dunedin Burns Club, with the support of the Department of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, and the Otago Daily Times.
This year the Youth section of the competition will be open from 14th September, while the Published and Unpublished Poets sections open on Monday 30th November. The closing date for the competition is Tuesday 5th January, and entries will be judged by two locally-based published poets, including the 2015 Robert Burns Fellow. The winners will be announced and presented with prizes on Robert Burns' birthday, 25 January 2016.
For full details visit the website. 

Children’s Summer Reading Programme:
Reach for the Stars

Our ever-popular annual children’s Summer Reading Programme starts on Saturday 12th December 2015, when Mission Control opens at your local Dunedin Public Library. We’ll be signing on young Space Cadets who are up for the challenge of achieving their reading goal for the summer and a chance to win some great prizes.

Sign up with Mission Control at your local library, and join in the fun at the University Book Shop and Otago Museum space stations.

Saturday 12th December 2015 to Sunday 31st January 2016

All Dunedin Libraries

Adult Summer Reading Challenge

Stretch yourself this summer!

Read 10 books to score yourself a Library DVD rental voucher. Read another 5 books outside your usual comfort zone in each of the specified categories and you’ll go in to the draw for a chance to win a $50 book voucher.

Pick up a reading record at your local library and start your summer journey.

1st December 2015 – 31st March 2016

All Dunedin Libraries