What a day. As you may know New Zealand has been plunged in to a very cold weather event bringing with it snow and freezing temperatures to much of the country over the last 24 hours. More is expected over the next 2-3 days so we’re not out of the woods just yet. Weather forecasters are calling it a ‘once in fifty years’ event. Certainly when you get snow falling in Wellington and New Plymouth [...]

Today a new website (and associated social media channels) was launched to provide people and other organisations with information on the upcoming Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2001. The site is well worth a look – 3strikes.net.nz The amendment comes in to force on September 1st 2011 but the impact of it could well be felt from August 11th onwards in New Zealand because alleged infringements from this date will count . This is [...]

The last few days at work have been busy with the launch of a month long fees amnesty. The concept is that you can return library books that have overdue fees associated with them and have the fees wiped in exchange for cans of food. Over 120 cans came in on a single day so it’s proving popular. Asides the webpage with all the info we’ve begun to create a few promotional videos to help [...]