2012 is shaping up to be an interesting and exciting year – and I don’t mean all that Mayan hype! I’m starting the month by moving from the Dunedin Public Libraries marketing team and joining the Dunedin City Council’s web team. The web team has in turn been incorporated in to a council wide communications and marketing team as part of some internal restructuring undertaken at the end of 2011. While I’ll still look after [...]

A short plug for my employers new exhibition launched today at the Dunedin Public Libraries Reed Gallery. The exhibition entitled Signs & Symbols: Decoding Mediaeval & Renaissance Iconography explores the meanings behind the symbols and visual cues found in mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts. More than twenty manuscripts from the thirteenth to sixteenth century are on display, drawn from the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection; the second largest collection of such manuscripts held by a New [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]