Palmerston North City Library July 2024 news

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Kia ora! Welcome to the Palmerston North City Library newsletter.

There’s a new reading group at Central Library called The Same Page. Brought to you in partnership with The Reading Revolution – an organisation that encourages shared reading sessions in an effort to encourage inclusion, relaxation, and improved mental health. Experience the fun of shared reading. It’s like having a live-action audiobook right in front of you! Enjoy short stories and poetry read aloud over a cuppa.

Everything provided, everyone welcome. 10:30am, second Monday of every month, at Central Library.

The Same Page

City Library is delighted to present a talk from Catherine Robertson, in association with Massey University as part of the Off The Page programme.

Catherine will be speaking at Central Library on July 19 at 5:30pm. Catherine is not only a bestselling author, she has done pretty much everything it’s possible to do in literature. She has taught creative writing, run a bookshop, appeared regularly on Jesse Mulligan’s RNZ show, helped organise literary festivals, and more! Catherine will discuss why she switched to the romance genre, which manages to be both incredibly popular and incredibly undervalued as a form of literature. There are so many myths about romance. Catherine would like to bust some. As well as her author talk,

Catherine will also be running a workshop on July 20, about the different ‘paths to publication’ an author can take.

Off The Page

Monrad School children make regular visits to Te Pātikitiki Library. The tamariki enjoy coming to the library for their class visits but the library has also become a place to meet and hang out with friends after school.

Te Pātikitiki Library also runs a weekly 'Quiet Hour' for a library experience that minimises noise and other sources of sensory overload. It is aimed at people who are neurodivergent – an umbrella term for people with autism, ADHD and other sensory-processing conditions. How does Quiet Hour work? It involves:

- pausing collection and distribution of library materials via library carts
- turning off any music
- turning off as much lighting as practicable
- turning down the volume on checkout scanners.
Every Thursday from 10am - 12 noon.

Te Pātikitiki Library

Heaps of great school holiday activities are planned for July! Here are just some of the things that are happening:

Beanstack Reading Challenge - 'Palmy Kids Read NZ's Best 3' featuring activities connected to the NZ Children and Young Adults book awards finalists.

Alan Dingley visits Central on Thursday 11 July with a session bringing picture books alive.

A storytime session at Central 'What's the time Mr Wolf' on Thursday 18 July.

And the wonderful Canine Friends visit all libraries again.

What's On - School Holidays

And, since we mentioned Te Pātikitiki Library above, did you know you can limit the What's On listings to one location? For example, here are links to Te Pātikitiki and Roslyn Library's July activities:

Te Pātikitiki Library Activities

Roslyn Library Activities

Central Library hours are getting a tweak, based on the times when more people want to use it. So, from July 7, 2024, Sunday hours will be extended and Central will be open from 12 noon till 4pm. That's an extra weekend hour to enjoy the Library, hang out in the wonderful spaces, and grab some lovely books!

To balance this out, Wednesday hours will move to 10am - 6pm. This begins on July 3. The rest of the weekdays keep the opening time of 9am.

Central Library Hours

Did you know that there's a series of talks co-hosted by the City Library with the Royal New Zealand Engineer Charitable Trust / Engineer Corps Memorial Centre?

There's a monthly midday series, and an evening series, and you can find the schedule for them on the NZ Sappers website. At the audio and video archive of NZ Sappers you can access previous talks and slides.

On Thursday July 11 at midday, there’s a talk by Rear Admiral (Rtd) David Ledson, RNZN, former Chief of the Royal New Zealand Navy, about the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.

These talks are free, and open to all. Sign up to the Heritage newsletter so you hear about them all in advance!

Heritage and History

If you want more people to know about your club, or if you're looking for a new hobby and want to connect with like-minded people, Club Sandwich is the place to go! It's a free service that aims to be a one-stop shop for all clubs in Palmerston North. Head to www.clubsandwich.pncc.govt.nz and browse by category, or click on Add Your Club to create your own listing.

Club Sandwich

Rangitāne o Manawatū and Central Economic Development Agency (CEDA) have worked together to create an innovative interactive map that brings to life the pūrākau (stories), oral histories and historical recreations of life on and around te awa o Manawatū – the Manawatū River. It looks amazing! Try it out here: He Ara Kotahi, Hei Ara Kōrero.

Also, learn about the history of the Ruahine Reserve, on Kanuka Drive in Hokowhitu, in this Stuff article.

Ersatz Ent wins Tree of the Year

More tree news: Isabella Tree stars in a new movie about rewilding.

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