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Showing news for November 2011.
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Polly Maybury on 02 November 2011
Sign your kids up NOW for the Puke Ariki and Community Libraries Summer Reading Programme.
Registration is open from Sunday 6 November until Sunday 4 December and places are limited. Go to your local library and make sure your children don't miss out on learning more about books, earning cool rewards and practising their reading this summer.
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Polly Catlin-Maybury on 22 November 2011
Contested Ground: Te Whenua I Tohea, the Taranaki Wars 1860-1881, edited by our very own Kelvin Day Manager Heritage Collections, won best book in the higher education category at the Copyright Licensing Ltd Educational Publishing Awards last week.
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Polly Catlin-Maybury on 22 November 2011
The Swainson-Woods project at Puke Ariki has uploaded the 100,000 record to the online database!
Find out more here!
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Polly Catlin-Maybury on 24 November 2011
A vision to radically transform the customer experience in New Plymouth’s i-SITE has led to a national innovation award for New Plymouth District Council.
The interactive conversation tables at the visitor information facility at Puke Ariki, which allow visitors to personalise their searches for accommodation, cafes, bars and restaurants, activities and events and other services, have been...
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Polly Catlin-Maybury on 24 November 2011
Puke Ariki has welcomed a very special addition to the collection.
The Banks' Florilegium consists of seven hundred and thirty-eight botanical prints which illustrate the plants collected by eminent natural historians Joseph Banks and Daniel Carl Solander on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world on the Endeavour between 1768-1771.
The historical significance of Volumes 21 and 22,...
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