Summer Reads is off to a flyer and has created a wonderful happy buzz throughout the libraries 😊 Don’t worry if you haven’t been in to grab your booklet yet—programmes are available until Monday, 18 January 2021. We won't run out!

This Valentine’s Day, we hope that you’re as loved by somebody as the book in this stock photo is. But hey, if love isn’t on your horizon, maybe we could set you up on a blind date with a book! Beautifully-wrapped surprise titles available in our libraries until 14 February🥰

We celebrated Valentine's Day yesterday by taking our loneliest book out on a date. It had spent two lonely years sitting on the shelf, unread and waiting to be picked😢 Here are some highlights of the date 🥰

This is a call to past staff members of Tauranga City Libraries: this year we are celebrating 150 years of library service in Tauranga and we’d like to invite you to a special reunion party! Saturday, 10 April Tauranga Library 5:30pm Please email [email protected] ASAP!

Our brand-new Mobile Library is here! Woohoo! What do you think? Be on the look out when it hits the road Monday :) library.tauranga.govt.nz/about-us/times…

We won April Fools’ Day 2021 according to SunLive News 😮 What an honour! 😊 Tauranga City Libraries win April Fools’ Day sunlive.co.nz/news/265852-ta…

We're celebrating 150 years of library service in Tauranga (🥳) and heritage specialist Abby Wharne's talk, featured in this article, is a great summery of our early years: sunlive.co.nz/news/265999-ta…

The National Library is offering oral history training workshops at Greerton Library in Tauranga in Aug and Sept this year. The workshops will be run by oral historians Lynette Shum and Megan Hutching phanza.org.nz/oral-history-w…

Omg the library just reopened & people lined up and were so excited and the library staff gave an ovation when they walked through the door. Just loving human beings so much right now. SOUND ON! 🥲🥲🥲 SF Public Library

Wow! Amazing stuff @leemurraywriter! Congratulations—we're big fans 🥳❤️

The latest issue of ‘The Library Book’, our bimonthly newsletter detailing the goings on at your library, is here! Enjoy 😊 issuu.com/taurangacityli… via Issuu

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We ❤ gorgeous libraries - Peek inside Waseda University’s brand new Haruki Murakami library. bit.ly/2XIM9pk via Literary Hub

Wow😯This is so neat!

TILDA SWINTON AS LIBRARIES: a thread Tilda Swinton as Texas Southern University's Library Learning Center

Ouch, this is a big one. Read Joan Didion's books if you haven't! stuff.co.nz/entertainment/…

Good advice from Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi. Brushing up on your Kamala Khan is a worthy endeavour and you can start right here: ent.kotui.org.nz/client/en_AU/t…

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RIP Mr. Bookman, Library Cop. A legend of library enforcement.