Māpuna Library’s Display: Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa 2025!

This week in our library we celebrated Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa! More info here on this incredible charity: https://pride.school.nz/ #ŌtautahiPride #SPWA2025 #InsideOUT #EveryoneIsMagic Thanks to our wonderful student librarians would helped find some of our many LGBTQ books for this display. Thank you to InsideOUT for creating the very popular Pride Week stickers! Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa 2025!

Māpuna Library’s Display: These books Have Never Been Issued 2025!

Our latest display in our library was inspired by displaying the books which had never been issued, and in so doing, try to encourage students to take them out! #TheseBookAreLonely #TheseBooksHaveNeverBeenOut Thanks to our wonderful student librarians and Library Team who researched and collected these books for display. Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: These books Have Never Been Issued 2025!

Māpuna Library’s Display: Pink Shirt Day 2025!

The most recent display in our library is in support of Pink Shirt Day 2025! Thank you to our wonderful group of student librarians who worked together to put this display up. #PinkShirtDayNZ #SpeakUp #StandTogether #STOPBullying #KōreroMai #KōreroAtu! #MauriTū #MauriOra Celebrated annually around the globe, Pink Shirt Day began in Canada in 2007 when two students took a stand against homophobic bullying, after a peer was … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: Pink Shirt Day 2025!

Māpuna Library’s Books Around the World 2025!

Our most recent display in the library was created to encourage students to explore the world with their next book. Each book was set in a different country or the author was from that country. #BooksAroundTheWorld #FindYourNextRead Thanks to our wonderful student librarians and Library Team who worked hard on designing the signage, flags and found books for this display. Thank you to one of … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Books Around the World 2025!

Māpuna Library’s Genre Doors 2024!

Our most recent display in the library was created to encourage students to find their next read. Perhaps to find some great books for their summer reading. Each ‘door’ represents a genre and inside the doors are suggestions of books within that genre. #GenreDoors #FindYourNextRead Thanks to our wonderful student librarians and Library Team who worked hard on designing the doors and found books within … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Genre Doors 2024!

Māpuna Library’s Te Wiki o te reo Māori Week 2024!

In Aotearoa New Zealand we celebrated Te wiki o te reo Māori (Sept 14 – 21) with the theme being “Ake ake ake – A Forever Language.” For our display we used a combination of our non-fiction titles about Māori culture, learning the language and some of our books in te reo. Some of the titles included: Te Rātaka a Tama Hūngoingoi (Diary of a … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Te Wiki o te reo Māori Week 2024!

Māpuna Library’s BOOKFLIX 2024!

A recent display in our library was BOOKFLIX! To promote the various book to movie/TV show adaptation books we have! The idea was to show the book to film/TV adaptations we have available as if watching through old-fashioned TV screens. With the book on the right and a still from the film/TV show on the left. #BOOKFLIXLibraryDisplays Thank you to our wonderful student librarians who … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s BOOKFLIX 2024!

Māpuna Library’s National Poetry Day NZ: Spine Poetry Display 2024!

Our most recent display in the library was to celebrate New Zealand’s National Poetry Day! Which was on Friday 23rd August. #NationalPoetryDayNZ #SpinePoetry Thanks to our wonderful student librarians who’ve created poems and found books with interesting spines for this display. Continue reading Māpuna Library’s National Poetry Day NZ: Spine Poetry Display 2024!