Grey Lynn Library

Welcome to Grey Lynn Community Library. We are a busy public library serving a wonderfully diverse community.

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That's a wrap for our weird, wild and wonderful school holiday programme! Here are a few of the creations from our last two events, Alien Antics and Penguin Pops. Until next time…

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As part of our weird, wild and wonderful school holiday program, children visiting Grey Lynn Library had fun making their own pairs of reflective butterfly wings. Beautiful!

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News today of the shortlist for the Ockhams: check it out! https://t.co/qv7tABacVW

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Valentines Day may have come and gone, but you can still enjoy a "Blind Date with a Book". Choose a beautifully wrapped book from our display (thanks, Jean), check it out, submit an entry card by February 24 and... https://t.co/Zf8Cz8v7uN

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Shake, rattle, roll and rhyme:
it’s library preschool session time!
Monday’s Rhymetime, Tuesday’s Wriggle & Rhyme, Thursday’s Storytime - all start this week at 10.30am.
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Don't be late for this very important date! https://t.co/o1hklKpIIv

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Today a Grey Lynn Library customer from more than 50 years ago returned - and snaffled one of the Just William books he'd so enjoyed checking out as a child. "Reread a childhood favourite" is one of our Great... https://t.co/PFWL1yCDV6

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Who knew colouring could be so cool - and for the bigger kids too?! We teamed up with a tech company for a Dare to Explore session to bring coloured-in pictures to life. https://t.co/A32i8tK8cj

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Important update about our Water Games event for Dare to Explore / Kia Māia te Whai! It will start at 3pm, *not* 2pm as stated on some of our printed calendars. Sorry for any confusion!

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Are you a book hoarder or a book minimalist? If your resolution is to declutter this year, try borrowing rather than buying novels and magazines, guidebooks and... https://t.co/LgdrHafzWn

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Join us at 10.30 today for our first kids' "Dare to Explore" activity: making a Christmas message in a bottle. It's in keeping with our Voyages/Haerenga theme and many great stories from the past - and you can hang it on your Christmas tree!

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We were delighted to host a launch this week for Bob Orr's new - and already lauded - book "One hundred poems and a year". The event continued the library's long association with this local poet (to us he will... https://t.co/TdFuOWW4Nv

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It's that time of year again - not Christmas, but the Great Summer Read! Read all about it at https://t.co/6yfmaiewm3 - and be in for some great prizes. https://t.co/a6asvU27c6

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This Buzzfeed listicle had us all nodding and lol-ing in recognition in the workroom (although we still use and prefer the Dewey system rather than Library of Congress classifications). Was there anything here that surprised you? https://t.co/E0odsrUCGh

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A comic-book great has died, and the tributes have been quite something (https://t.co/CUB1gsHT1B). Here at Grey Lynn, we are featuring books that Stan Lee worked on. https://t.co/CUB1gsHT1B

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Get a last glimpse of our pop-up display today, before it's whisked away from the glass cabinet. Thanks to local library user Gitta, aka Miss Pop-Up, for a month's loan of some exquisitely engineered pop-up books from her private collection.

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Thanks to Marianne from S.A.F.E and to Philippa from Tart Bakery for coming and speaking about vegan living last Saturday. A special thanks to Philippa for bring some delicious vegan donuts to share!