Library And Museum

The Kawerau District Library/Sir James Fletcher Kawerau Museum

Street Address: Jellicoe Court, Kawerau

Postal Address: P.O. Box 103, Kawerau, 3169

Phone: (07) 306 9041

E-mail: library@kaweraudc.govt.nz
museum@kaweraudc.govt.nz

Opening Hours

Monday-Friday 10am-5pm

Saturday 10am-1pm

Queens Birthday Holiday

We are closed Monday 4 June 2012.

News And Events

Celebrate New Zealand Books!

March was New Zealand Book Month and April/May is all about celebrating the New Zealand Post Children's Books Awards. We have most of the finalists in our collections and we have the last few titles on order. To celebrate the finalists we themed our last school holiday activity sessions around some of our favourite titles and Georgia Brott, aged 6, won our read a New Zealand book holiday challenge by reading Tina Matthews' Waiting For Later. Finally we also have lots of fantastic NZ books to read so come in and try something new!

Kete Kawerau Is Launched

The Kawerau District Library and Sir James Fletcher Kawerau Museum has launched a new website Kete Kawerau to collect the stories and images of Kawerau. Visitors can view the Kete Kawerau on the APNK computer service or go online at http://ketekawerau.peoplesnetworknz.info/ to add your own material. Kete Kawerau has been created to capture and preserve the historical and current memories, stories, and activities of the Kawerau community and we need you to share your stories and images, past and present.

To get things started, we are asking people to share their memories of Kawerau's first pub - The Kawerau Hotel - with us. We are calling the project Pub Stories and you can find it at http://ketekawerau.peoplesnetworknz.info/site/topics/show/58-pub-stories-at-the-kawerau-hotel . We know there are some great stories out there about the "Flying Jug" and other hotel bars, and you can add yours online or come in and see the Museum and Library staff. Donations of original documents and photos are also appreciated.

Kete Kawerau is your place to add online material about Kawerau's current and past history so please help us by adding your stories for future generations to enjoy.

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