Library Week in New Zealand full of Living Books.
This years Library Week in New Zealand featured a series of Living Libraries. The participating libraries where encouraged to stage events and several new organisers decided to include the activity in the program for the 35th Library Week in New Zealand. The event is a celebration of libraries and librarianship and takes place in libraries across the country. Its seen as a chance to learn much more about the services libraries offer and to make visible the important role of libraries in our community.
Reaching new target groups.
Hosting a Living Library event at a public library can be a way to reach new target groups and bring their attention to the many possibilities in the library. Among the participating venues where the Marlborough Girls College Library & Wellington City Library. Some of the titles available to readers where the Nun, the Kiwi Muslim and the Maori gay, but also the Refugee, the female Rabbi and the Transgender books made their way to the Living Library bookshelf.
The events presented the last week attracted considerable media attention from New Zealand Television, Radio and Newspapers. Below a link to a TV report from the New Zealand Living Libraries.
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