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• Children's and YA book blog

  
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• How to Use (and Search) This Collection

  How to Use (and Search) This Collection The Complete Overview & Synopsis Table: all 80 papers at a glance The place to start is always the Complete Overview & Synopsis Table. This displays every paper’s file name in context. It serves as a list, a sorting mechanism and cross-referencing. Plus it gives a headline summary and our custom-written synopsis of under 100 words for every document. For instance, you can search by document type (speech, article, book chapter, case, and so on); s...
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• Ezy Tech Sessions

  Ezy Tech Sessions If you need help with ebooks, your cell phone, tablet or email why not check out Ezy Tech sessions on Tuesdays 1-3pm at Taradale Library. These sessions are for that one question you want answered. Each session will have a different topic each week (e.g. smartphones, tablets, emails, iPads etc.). Ezy Tech is not for fixing devices or in-depth troubleshooting, it is for those basic questions that have been bugging you for such as how do I lengthen my screen time etc. Go to our...
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• Free Digital Skills Workshops

  Free Digital Skills Workshops If the cellphone or tablet your well meaning children bought you is still tucked away in a drawer, a bewildering tangle of buttons, beeps and flashing lights, fear not! Help is at hand. Napier Libraries, in partnership with Stepping Up: Digital Skills for Life and Digital Inclusion Alliance Aotearoa, have put together a range of free digital skills workshops for the community. These workshops cover a selection of topics including smartphones, eBooks and internet ba...
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• Social Groups

  Social Groups Knit and Natter Knit and Natter takes place at Taradale Library regardless of the seasons. Bring your knitting or other needlework and share a cuppa and a chat.        Taradale Library: Third Wednesday of each month at 10am.     Rummikub Come and play or learn how to play the game of Rummikub. Rummikub is a tile-based game for 2-4 players, combining elements of the card game Rummy and Mahjong.         Taradale Library: Weekly on Wednesdays at 11am. The Knit-in group (AW...
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• Hell Pizza Reading Challenge

  Hell Pizza Reading Challenge is now back in the library! Napier Libraries are running the HELL Reading Challenge for children in Years 1-8 again this March - December. We are now doing in person report ins. We look forward to seeing you back in the library. All children in the middle of a online wheel will receive their wheels in the mail shortly.  What is the Hell Reading Challenge? Read for Pizza! What could be better? This well-established programme has been hugely successful in getting ki...
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• Skinny Jump

   Ask Us About Skinny Jump - subsidised broadband for learning at home   Come in to either Napier or Taradale Library and ask us about getting a modem set up. We will go through the process with you and have you set up that day.  Spark Foundation and Digital Inclusion Alliance Aotearoa are making subsidised broadband available to people in Napier through Napier Libraries, enabling more people to keep up with the digital skills necessary for today. Skinny Jump enables more people to go online...
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• Library Privacy Policy

  Napier Library Privacy Policy Click here to view Napier Library's Privacy Policy.
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• Library Policies

  Library Policies Please click on the policy links on the left-hand menu to view.
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• City Loan

  City Loan City Loan is a request service operating between the Napier & Hastings Libraries. If you are using one of the Napier Libraries and the item you require is held by the Hastings Libraries, you may request it on City Loan. Use the City Loan Request Form or contact the library. The item will be sent to Napier or Taradale Libraries for you to collect.Similarly, patrons using Hastings Libraries may request items from the Napier Libraries. Items will be sent to Hastings District Libraries...
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