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A Latitude of Libraries: Catching the Bus to WHY-car-whyyy
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A Latitude of Libraries. One woman visits her town’s 55 public libraries, and gets to know the neighbourhood. Saturday, 10 March 2012. Catching the Bus to WHY-car-whyyy. The Waikowhai bus is part of the fabric of Auckland, and those who rode it together as adolescents include Mark Greatbatch (cricketer), Russell Crowe (gladiator) and Simon Prast ( Gloss. Green Belt and Bible Belt. 8217;s Mt Roskill erection. It's illuminated at night during. I prefer the flexible fit of a green belt to the restrictions a...
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A Latitude of Libraries: August 2013
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A Latitude of Libraries. One woman visits her town’s 55 public libraries, and gets to know the neighbourhood. Thursday, 22 August 2013. Blandness, Beauty, Surprise: The Making of Albany. A small chunk of today. 8217;s Albany. The expanse. Of water is the North Shore sewage ponds. On her way to the north of the north, a South Island friend of mine once drove through what she remembers as “a small settlement some significant time out of Auckland”. Mention Albany to another nine-to-five Albanian, Catherine,...
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A Latitude of Libraries: January 2012
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A Latitude of Libraries. One woman visits her town’s 55 public libraries, and gets to know the neighbourhood. Thursday, 26 January 2012. Elsewhere, Anywhere and Right Here: The Many Locations of a Public Library. Ossibly not where libraries. Source their supplies. This is at. Room, downtown Edmonton Public Library. The old guys who read the newspapers. A Long Way from Anywhere. A long way from Anywhere and twice as far from Elsewhere is another location that a public library is concerned with: Right Here...
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A Latitude of Libraries: June 2013
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A Latitude of Libraries. One woman visits her town’s 55 public libraries, and gets to know the neighbourhood. Sunday, 30 June 2013. A Library in Every Pocket? Do they have their membership cards and/or mobile. Devices for instant library access? Probably Aucklanders, on a Coromandel beach. Love, Mustard, Black Holes and More. Most valuable to me was Oxford Reference Online (ORO), a library in its own right, and one that I could search in a couple of clicks. The access to this Oxford University Press ...
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A Latitude of Libraries: New Lynn, New Lynn
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A Latitude of Libraries. One woman visits her town’s 55 public libraries, and gets to know the neighbourhood. Tuesday, 18 January 2011. New Lynn, New Lynn. New Lynn, for many Aucklanders, means Lynnmall (New Zealand’s first retail shopping mall) and Crown Lynn (the now ‘iconic’ pottery). When I was a child, Dad drove through it on our way to the West Coast, specifically Piha; now that I live close to New Lynn it’s where I do Significant Errands. Change is hard. Some of us in Auckland have celebrated ...
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A Latitude of Libraries: February 2012
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A Latitude of Libraries. One woman visits her town’s 55 public libraries, and gets to know the neighbourhood. Friday, 3 February 2012. On Being Seen and Heard (or not) at St Heliers. Browsing at St Heliers Public Library. The writers to the New Zealand Herald. Seem to yearn for the Good Old Days of public libraries. Back then, stern, fusty staff shushed everyone and the only sounds from patrons were those of pages turning (not of pins dropping, as the library was no place for sharp objects). This outlyin...
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A Latitude of Libraries: The First Post
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A Latitude of Libraries. One woman visits her town’s 55 public libraries, and gets to know the neighbourhood. Tuesday, 11 January 2011. Auckland is, according to Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 176; 51'. I could have asked a reference librarian to find this out for me, but I worry that they’re busy right now, answering all the extra enquiries they’ve had since the superlibrary came into being. I did consult the Encyclopaedia Britannica. To put them right. Also free with Auckland Public Library member...
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A Latitude of Libraries: What Goes, What Stays? Time in a Western Library
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A Latitude of Libraries. One woman visits her town’s 55 public libraries, and gets to know the neighbourhood. Sunday, 17 June 2012. What Goes, What Stays? Time in a Western Library. A poster at Henderson. Will be archived at the. Turning 180 degrees to the doorway of the Waitakere Central Library, it’s reassuring to see another notice declaring that this is a. AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR ON SITE. The circulation desk at Waitakere Central Library. Members of the public come here with any. The entranc...
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A Latitude of Libraries: Elsewhere, Anywhere and Right Here: The Many Locations of a Public Library
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A Latitude of Libraries. One woman visits her town’s 55 public libraries, and gets to know the neighbourhood. Thursday, 26 January 2012. Elsewhere, Anywhere and Right Here: The Many Locations of a Public Library. Ossibly not where libraries. Source their supplies. This is at. Room, downtown Edmonton Public Library. The old guys who read the newspapers. A Long Way from Anywhere. A long way from Anywhere and twice as far from Elsewhere is another location that a public library is concerned with: Right Here...
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A Latitude of Libraries: While There’s Life, There’s Hope
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A Latitude of Libraries. One woman visits her town’s 55 public libraries, and gets to know the neighbourhood. Thursday, 14 June 2012. While There’s Life, There’s Hope. Ahem It may have been obvious to anyone visiting this latitude lately on the world wide web: things have been a bit quiet around here. I had a bright idea for another blog. And thought I could manage both at once. However, that has proven difficult. 8217;s news story. Anyway, despite my silence I’ve kept visiting Auckland public libr...