Recent necrology, May 2016

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Geoffrey Godden, 1929-2016
  Porcelain expert, author, historian, collector and dealer

• Hugh Honour, 1927-2016
  Art historian

• Wendy Leigh, died 2016
  Best-selling biographer of David Bowie and JFK

• Elsie Morison, 1924-2016
  Australian soprano who enjoyed great success at Sadler’s Wells, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne and the Proms

Win tickets to Disney’s The BFG!!!

How BIG can you dream? Here’s a competition for library members aged 16 and under. We’d like to see your biggest, friendliest and giant-est hopes and wishes! Pick up an entry form from any library (or download one in PDF here), fill your dream jar and be in to win movie tickets to a special preview of Disney’s The BFG on Sunday 26 June, 10.30am at Hoyts Riccarton.

Your entry can include photos, magazine clippings, drawings, and/or words.
Hand it in to your local library by Monday 20 June to be in to win!

See the official trailer for Disney’s The BFG:

Want to read The BFG before you see the movie? We have it in book, eBook, and in French!

Terms & Conditions

• Competition open to all Christchurch City Libraries’ members aged 16 years and younger. Not a member? Join today!
• Competition closes at 5pm on Monday 20 June.
• Winners will be randomly drawn.
• Winners will be notified by telephone by 5pm on Friday 24 June. Christchurch City Libraries reserves the right to reallocate tickets if winners cannot be contacted.

Note – you can’t take your cellphone!
Full security is going to be present at this screening of THE BFG because it is being held before the US opening of this film. This means that cellphones will need to be collected before the screening by security guards for piracy reasons.

The BFG is in cinemas July 7 2016
Copyright: ©2016 Disney Enterprises, Inc
Cert: TBC

The other two eBook platforms – Askews and Wheelers

We are very lucky at Christchurch City Libraries to be blessed with a trinity of eBook platforms. OverDrive, Askews and Wheelers all have their own individual characters and strong points. OverDrive with its sheer size tends to take the bulk of our eBook market. This is probably not surprising considering it is our largest, oldest (introduced 2008!), and most familiar platform.

If you love your eBooks like me then please don’t forget that there are other options apart from OverDrive. Like two scrawny kids on the sidelines wanting to prove their worth to you Askews and Wheelers are waiting for their chance …

• Askews: Britannia’s eBook collection with assorted British titles, authors and publishers. These titles are best enjoyed with a cup of tea and cucumber sandwiches while watching the polo. If you get nervous around horses and don’t like cucumber then a random couch with potato chips is just as useful.

• Wheelers: As Kiwi as Billy T and just as entertaining with its New Zealand focused content and authors. It includes hundreds of titles including the West coast based mystery and Booker Prize winner The Luminaries and Dan Carter talking all about himself. I mean where else are you going to find a title like The Great Weta Robbery?

Remember size is not everything and these smaller gems can reveal a new world of literary content. All you will need is a library card number and password/PIN and a willingness to go off the eBook beaten track.