Kia ora and welcome to the Christchurch City Libraries blog.
Our mission is to keep you in touch with our world, sharing views, opinions and ideas on reading, listening and watching. Our world is the world of information, so our team spend their working (and private) lives exploring books, movies, magazines, music, the web and more.
We’re sharing our experiences of our world through an on-going digest of reviews, and we want your comments on the things we’ve got to say. This is a two-way street, so we want to know what you think about what we do. After all, the library is your library.
The views expressed on this weblog may be those of individual authors and therefore do not necessarily represent the views of Christchurch City Libraries, part of Christchurch City Council. We welcome comments but reserve the right to moderate or edit those comments prior to publication.
26 May 2007 at 10:24 am
Loving the blogs on the Festival from Donna.
Really makes you feel that you are there.
31 May 2007 at 1:05 pm
Beautiful blog! I love the Header image and the colour scheme – very restful and meditative, very ‘Karen Walker’
1 June 2007 at 10:47 am
Like Sarah I LOVE the design of the blog – that landscape image stretching across the top of the blog is so inviting and for me, so much part of our landscape. (I like the content too -interesting and written with a nice tone.)
13 June 2007 at 4:34 pm
Hi I’m doing research on blogs for a revamp of the Townsville Library website. Have to say that your blog really stand out – well done!
In particular the book cover images really help to jazz it up. I was wondering what the process was in grabbing those and what restrictions/hurdles you had to overcome. Any help/advice would be great – thanks – Norma.
13 June 2007 at 5:32 pm
Thanks for your comments Norma, I will contact you with information on how we use the book cover images.
23 July 2007 at 4:14 pm
Hi Donna
I have a similar question to Norma’s regarding your use of book covers – it would be wonderful if you could also send this information on to me.
23 July 2007 at 4:44 pm
Hi Courtney,
Book covers are purchased from Nielsen Bookdata and may only be used in our catalogue and on our web site(s). They do not provide covers for CDs or DVDs.
Simone Hindin,
Online Services Specialist
Christchurch City Libraries
25 September 2007 at 9:25 pm
Hi there,
I am doing a research essay for my publishing diploma about Literary Blogging, and was wondering if you could please tell me when you established this blog, and how many entries you have put in.
It would also be great if you could complete a survey I have about literary blogging in New Zealand – I will send it through if you agree.
kind regards
Sarah Hughes
Whitireia Polytechnic Diploma of Publishing
26 September 2007 at 10:30 am
Hi Sarah
I will contact you about this
Donna Robertson
Editor
16 October 2007 at 12:46 pm
Hi all, I love what you’re doing here.
I’ve set up a network on Ning for NZ librarians who are interested in blogging or other Web 2.0 “stuff”. Might be of interest to you (apologies if not).
ed. SdH – link removed because this has now disappeared
1 November 2007 at 4:27 pm
I like libraries. I will be back often. Nice library, good library.
1 March 2008 at 1:09 am
Hello,
I work for west sussex library service in the united kingdom. Like many others i really like the design of your blog and i am going to start a blog for our own website. This will cover the 2008 National Year of Reading intitally. I would like to use wordpress as you have done can you tell me how easy it is to use and any other hints or tips. Also, is wordpress free to use.
Thanks for the inspiration!
James
20 April 2008 at 9:18 am
Hi,
Thank you for this very interesting and informative blog. It gave me a pretty good idea what books people in New Zealand read.
Please keep up the good job you are doing here!
2 May 2008 at 5:43 pm
This is a very informative blog. Thanks for the interesting read
13 August 2008 at 5:06 am
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
20 June 2009 at 5:36 am
writing from france only to tell you that I red Derek Hansens Sole Surveyor , got the book from the library in our small town and loved it so much that i bought it.Looking forward to next book translated into french.
14 July 2009 at 4:20 am
What a wonderful website! You might be interested in Narrative Magazine since they are also in the business of promoting works by existing and emerging authors. They are a prize-winning, online publication based out of San Francisco, CA. You can go to http://narrativemagazine.com for more information and to check the website out for yourselves.
Best,
Natalie
2 October 2009 at 8:04 pm
This is a wonderful blog! Being a visual person and interested in Christchurch history, I especially like the historical photos.
Thank you so much!
21 November 2009 at 9:18 pm
Hello, yes I concur, an interesting and unobtrusive blogsite, thanks. This is also to let you know I’ve just put a video of a performance at the Blue Ladder Theatre in Christchurch from 1984 on my myspace site… see Bride of the Wheel under videos. http://www.myspace.com/bill direen
cheers and thanks 4 being there, bill.
21 November 2009 at 9:19 pm
sorry that address for the Blue Ladder video should be http://www.myspace.com/billdireen
bd
29 December 2009 at 5:24 am
Monday Dec. 28, 2009 USA
Pardon me but are we talking about Christchurch NZ? I am in central Virginia USA and obliged to read to get good conversation. DO get the TLS every week, but it is lovely to imagine all of you reading and thinking and writing each other…So no I have not been in a cell but simply never attempted to contact the global readers who are out there reaching out to each other. Bravo.
Got to you from the “Bad Sex Award” on Bookbabble. Knew such a thing existed when I first read about it in the NY Times years ago but of course my local library had nothing about it- too provincial though the U. of Virginia is a center of learning…
Glad to know many of you are reading and thinking “deeply”.
Zak
20 January 2010 at 2:22 pm
Hi Zakananda
yes we are located in Christchurch New Zealand. Nice of you to come visit and let us know!
20 January 2010 at 12:37 pm
Great Blog! Interesting design and topics. I like your “About” page. It is clearly written. From a librarian working in Wellington.
4 November 2011 at 7:41 am
Just wanted to stop by and say how lovely the Graham Condon Recreation Centre turned out. Truly a wonderful place to take the kids.