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 installment of Riveting Reads come to you from Assistant Youth Librarian Kerrie Gamble.
Her current read is 'A Court of Thorn and Roses' by Sarah J Maas
A breath-taking new series by Sarah J Maas who elegantly blends the classic Beauty and the Beast themes with Faerie law.
The Forrester Gallery is currently showing Regroup Reflect Regenerate: Medal Artists of New Zealand 25th Anniversary Exhibition.
As the North Otago Museum, Forrester Gallery and Waitaki District Archive prepare for the Cultural Facility Redevelopment the front part of the museum building is being used as a working space.
Books are not ranked in any particular order and can all be found in the Fiction section under the first three letters of the author’s surname.
This instalment of Riveting Reads come to you from Assistant Youth Librarian Kerrie Gamble.
Her current read is ‘The Naturals’ by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
This exhilarating new novel by Jennifer Lynn Barnes blends mystery, romance and suspense perfectly.
All of these items can be found in the Children’s area at the Oamaru Library and are ranked in no particular order.
1. Christmas Tales – Enid Blyton
A new collection of Christmas stories. As ever with Blyton, there is mischief and mayhem but good always prevails in the end.
This installment of Riveting Reads comes to you from Assistant Youth Librarian Kerrie Gamble.
Her current read is ‘You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)’ by Felicia Day.
All of these books are available to borrow at the Waitaki District Libraries. They are shelved in the non-fiction section in the Food and Drink area.
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