What’s On
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.
Runs until 31 March, All Dunedin Libraries
Sea Week Talk: A Penguin Knocked on My Door
Come back in time to 1982 as former DOC office Steve Broni reminisces on his adventures living on a penguin island off the coast of Africa where he did his MSc research on the African Black-footed Penguin. Hear about the breeding biology, diet, foraging behaviour and interaction with the inshore anchovy fishery. A tale of science, sun and some surreal happenings.
Thursday 3 March, 6.00pm
4th Floor, City Library
Sea Week: Be an Ocean Champion
Join us in the Children’s Library to learn about how to be a good
fisherman.
Some fish are good fish and some fish are bad. Find out what kinds of fish to avoid in order to keep our oceans healthy, and which fish you can happily eat for dinner…or a sweet treat!
Runs until Friday 4 March
Children's Storypit, City Library
Once Upon a Sunday: Teddy Bears
Picnic
It’s Children’s Day! Join us for a special Sunday storytime picnic,
with local storyteller Kaitrin McMullan.
Remember to bring your teddy bear!
For children of all ages.
Sunday 6 March, 2.00pm
Children's Storypit, City Library
How Do You Do...? Rare Book Collecting
A chance to hear how the owner of the largest second-hand bookshop in New Zealand, and the largest online bookstore in Australasia, hunts down his literary treasures.
Warwick Jordan has spent over 30 years as a second-hand bookseller, and developed Hard to Find Bookshops, which at one time ballooned into nine stores in five cities. He has also dabbled in printing, publishing over 30 authors in the late 1980s. He is now happily running the highly successful Hard to Find Books in central Dunedin.
BOOKINGS: 474 3690 or library@dcc.govt.nz
Thursday 10 March, 6.00pm
4th Floor, City Library
Signed & Inscribed: Association Copies and Their Owners
Like many bibliophiles the donor of the Reed Collections, Alfred Hamish Reed, was interested in the lives of books, where they came from, and who owned them. In pursuing this interest, Reed amassed a collection of books with inscriptions by their authors, or which showed previous ownership by such writers as Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.
The upcoming exhibition comprises a selection of books highlighting some of the association copies in the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection, including Richard Knolles’ The Turkish History (1687), inscribed by Samuel Pepys; Charles Dickens’ own copy of Charles Waterton’s Essays on Natural History; and Bibles once owned by African explorer and missionary, David Livingstone.
Friday 18 March - Sunday 12 June
Heritage Collections, 3rd Floor, City Library
Once Upon a Sunday: Tom Foolery
Did you hear some good jokes on April Fools’ Day? Bring them along to our Sunday storytime to share with local
storyteller Kaitrin McMullan.
For children of all ages.
Sunday 3 April, 2.00pm
Children's Storypit, City Library
Timeless Fashion Tour
An opportunity to view the changing face of fashion through an exclusive tour of Dunedin Public Libraries' fashion archives. A must for budding designers and dedicated followers of fashion, from retro to right-now.
Includes items from our Heritage collections, as well as a showcase of fashion-focused gems from the stacks.
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL (Max 20 people): 474 3690 or library@dcc.govt.nz
Thursday
17 March, 11.00am
Meet on Ground Floor of City Library
Lunchtime Bites: Niu Sila
Sample the latest play of the season from the Fortune Theatre over a hot cuppa, and go into the draw to win tickets to the show!
Written by two of New Zealand's best comedy writers, Oscar Knightly and Dave Armstrong, this is the hilarious and touching story about a friendship that spans 40 years, two cultures and one street.
In 1970s suburban New Zealand, 6-year-old Loane Tafioka, fresh off the boat from the Islands, moves in next door to Peter Burton. The pair instantly become the best of friends, but as they become teenagers they succumb to their stereotypical paths, drifting apart, until a chance reunion 20 years later forces them to confront their ghosts of years past.
Thursday 21 April, 12.30pm
Ground Floor, City Library