Culture Waitaki Blog
The collaborative blog of Culture Waitaki, featuring thoughts and ideas from the Forrester Gallery, North Otago Museum, Waitaki District Libraries and Waitaki District Archive.
This year the theme of Oamaru’s Victorian Heritage Celebrations is medicine in the Victorian era. So we are sharing the story of Lane’s Emulsion.
Ted Lane had an idea.
This installment of Riveting Reads comes to you from Assistant Youth Librarian Kerrie Gamble.
Her current read is 'The Special Ones' by Em BaileyEm Bailey has created a one of a kind thriller that lets your imagination run wild and your heart pound.
Behind the scenes we are doing a lot of work on our collections. This is to support the Cultural Facility Development Project. Most recently I have been researching our equine collection. This collection includes saddles, snaffle bits, horse collars, hames, blinkers and more.
Libraries are full of magical gateways that take you to exciting worlds and introduce you to new lifelong friends. Libraries are amazing so what better way to celebrate this than have our top ten quotes from books about libraries.
Ernest Rutherford and Frank Milner met during Milner’s first year at Nelson College. It was the start of a friendly association that lasted until Rutherford’s death in 1937. Although Rutherford was four years older than Milner the two shared an intellectual bond.
This installment of Riveting Reads comes to you from Assistant Youth Librarian Kerrie Gamble.
Her current read is 'Six of Crows' by Leigh Bardugo.A sweeping new epic tale from Leigh Bardugo. An action packed, fast paced heist novel.
Behind the scenes. This is the final blog in a series of three focused on the North Otago Museum’s geology collection.
This installment of Current Reads comes to you from Assistant Youth Librarian Kerrie Gamble.
Her Current Read is 'Falling Kingdoms' by Morgan RhodesMorgan Rhodes weaves a magical series full of intrigue and shock twists.If you like Game of Thrones give Falling Kingdoms a try.
This installment of Current Reads comes to you from Assistant Youth Librarian Kerrie Gamble.
Her Current Read is 'The Falconer' by Elizabeth May.
This installment of Current Reads comes to you from Social Media and Digital Support Librarian Julia de Ruiter.
Her Current Read is "Hyperbole and a half: unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem and other things that happened" by Allie Brosh.
This installment of Current Reads comes to you from Assistant Youth Librarian Kerrie Gamble.
Her Current Read is "The Wrath and the Dawn' by Renee Ahdieh
It was with a lot of excitement Jane Macknight and I met with Chris Smith the curator at the W.D Trotter Anatomy Museum on Tuesday 9 August. We found the Museum on the 2nd floor of the
Staff member Maclean interviewed a regular library patron about her experience as a user of resources and services in our Library, and the daily life of a Library in these times.
YouTube has taken over the social media world during the last few years. Along with internet popularity, many YouTubers have also scored book deals. Below is a list of five YouTubers who are also published authors.
This installment of Current Reads comes to you from Assistant Youth Librarian Kerrie Gamble.
Her Current Read is 'Ink and Bone' by Rachel Caine.In this exhilarating series, Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating an exciting and dangerous new world.
Welcome to the second in a series here on the blog, where we interview library staff and ask how they became librarians.
The librarian featured here is the fabulous Maclean Barker:
Jane Macknight, Director of the Gallery, Museum, Archive is delighted to announce a substantial gift from the Sutton family – the complete record of the Waitangi Station, from the late 1880s to 1970s through its farm diaries.
Welcome to a new blog series, where we ask Oamaru Public Library staff how they became librarians.
First up is Debbie Price-Ewen, Reference and Digital Services Librarian.
A photographic exhibition by NZ photographer Wayne Barrar.
9 July to 4 September 2016
