Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 10, 2019 16:20:49 GMT 12
NEW LIBRARY OFFERS 5000 BOOKS FROM CITY’S AOTEAROA COLLECTION
Wellingtonians have today gained a second central city library service, this time with a focus on Aotearoa, with the opening of a new cooperative space in the National Library.
Wellington Mayor Justin Lester says: “It’s a pleasure to add this welcoming new space to our CBD library network. Wellingtonians now have access to over 5000 items in our Aotearoa and Māori collection in one location.
Items can be borrowed or browsed, and include topics such as Māori and Māori local history, NZ fiction, biography, books in te reo, art and architecture, natural history, general history and social comment......
wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=122811
KOTAHI RAU PUKAPUKA AIMS FOR REO MAGIC
A new trust wants to produce 100 books in te reo Māori within 10 years, with work already underway on translations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Kōtahi Rau Pukapuka was launched last night at the university of Auckland by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Prime Minister Ardern says having such resources will be critical to achieving the Government's goal of having a million New Zealanders conversational in te reo Maori by 2040.
"Because when we speak the language to each other as a matter of course, when we have books available as a matter of course, when we have children learning in story books but also in comics and Harry Potter and beyond, that is when it will be truly embedded and entrenched and that is as it should be," Ms Ardern says.
Kōtahi Rau Pukapuka is the brainchild of broadcaster Miriama Kamo and her husband Michael Dreaver, and the books will be published in partnership with Auckland University Press......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjI4ODU/Paakiwaha/Kotahi-Rau-Pukapuka-aims-for-reo-magic
INCOMING WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL TO BE SCHOOLED ON TREATY OF WAITANGI
Wellington's deputy mayor wants the incoming council schooled on race relations.
This is after Jill Day accused councillor Simon Woolf of being racist over his reaction to the gift of a te reo Māori name for the city's Botanic Garden.
Day has since requested training around Te Tiriti o Waitangi to be included in the new council's induction programme......
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12275049
Wellingtonians have today gained a second central city library service, this time with a focus on Aotearoa, with the opening of a new cooperative space in the National Library.
Wellington Mayor Justin Lester says: “It’s a pleasure to add this welcoming new space to our CBD library network. Wellingtonians now have access to over 5000 items in our Aotearoa and Māori collection in one location.
Items can be borrowed or browsed, and include topics such as Māori and Māori local history, NZ fiction, biography, books in te reo, art and architecture, natural history, general history and social comment......
wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=122811
KOTAHI RAU PUKAPUKA AIMS FOR REO MAGIC
A new trust wants to produce 100 books in te reo Māori within 10 years, with work already underway on translations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Kōtahi Rau Pukapuka was launched last night at the university of Auckland by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Prime Minister Ardern says having such resources will be critical to achieving the Government's goal of having a million New Zealanders conversational in te reo Maori by 2040.
"Because when we speak the language to each other as a matter of course, when we have books available as a matter of course, when we have children learning in story books but also in comics and Harry Potter and beyond, that is when it will be truly embedded and entrenched and that is as it should be," Ms Ardern says.
Kōtahi Rau Pukapuka is the brainchild of broadcaster Miriama Kamo and her husband Michael Dreaver, and the books will be published in partnership with Auckland University Press......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjI4ODU/Paakiwaha/Kotahi-Rau-Pukapuka-aims-for-reo-magic
INCOMING WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL TO BE SCHOOLED ON TREATY OF WAITANGI
Wellington's deputy mayor wants the incoming council schooled on race relations.
This is after Jill Day accused councillor Simon Woolf of being racist over his reaction to the gift of a te reo Māori name for the city's Botanic Garden.
Day has since requested training around Te Tiriti o Waitangi to be included in the new council's induction programme......
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12275049