Grey Lynn Library

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…

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!

News today of the shortlist for the Ockhams: check it out! radionz.co.nz/news/national/…

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... facebook.com/GreyLynnLibrar…

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. bit.ly/2HP6Kjk bit.ly/2HP6Kjk

Don't be late for this very important date! facebook.com/GreyLynnLibrar…

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... facebook.com/GreyLynnLibrar…

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. facebook.com/GreyLynnLibrar…

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!

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... theguardian.com/books/shortcut…

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!

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... facebook.com/115131349787/p…

It's that time of year again - not Christmas, but the Great Summer Read! Read all about it at aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Pages/great-su… - and be in for some great prizes. aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Pages/great-su…

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? facebook.com/GreyLynnLibrar…

A comic-book great has died, and the tributes have been quite something (digitalsynopsis.com/design/stan-le…). Here at Grey Lynn, we are featuring books that Stan Lee worked on. digitalsynopsis.com/design/stan-le…

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!