Plan your trip with our help
The Big OE is a Kiwi institution. Spending time travelling and seeing the world is something that most New Zealanders do at some point in their lives. Whether its a trip to Australia, Antarctica, Andorra, Austria or the Americas, research and planning your journey using our resources will help you get the most out of your hard-earned money.
Many people who have travelled will tell you that learning some key phrases in the language of the country that you are travelling to can go a long way to helping experience the country in a much more rewarding way. Our community information directory CINCH lists language courses to help you get a grip on pronunciation and vocabulary. The library also has a wide range of language learning resources.
Food is another great joy of travelling, and the people and places in the photos you take will create a lifetime of memories.
13 to 18? Send us your holiday snaps and be in to win!
If you're aged 13 to 18, you can win some fantastic prizes in the Pulse digital photo competition. There’s two vodafone cellphones with $500 credit and three Telecom cellphones with $50 credit up for grabs – plus airtime vouchers as consolation prizes.
Just send us a photo of your favourite place – where you went on holiday, a park, a beach – and go in the draw to win. It’s that easy!
Visit the pulse flickr to get ideas.
We recommend: Travel resources
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We recommend: Online resources
Our online resources: What’s new on the blog
The Christchurch City Libraries blog is written for people who love books, movies and music and want to know about the latest developments and trends in the book world. Regularly updated and constantly fresh, the blog has plenty to offer avid readers and music fans. Recent posts include:
What’s new on the library website?
Keep up to date with our newsletters
You can find out about latest and hottest books automatically by subscribing to one of the many library newsletters. Browse the newest titles, follow your favourite genre or area of interest and even reserve them, all in one go. Sign up for free today.
Take a look at the armchair travel newsletter. It brings you the best in travel writing, both classic and fresh, covering every corner of the globe. Bi-monthly. December's issue featured, among other places, Lapland, Greece and the Gobi Desert.
Resource of the week: World Book
World Book is an online database with all the articles from the 22-volume print set plus 3,700 more! Search thousands of articles from the World Book Year Book dating back to 1922! - plus World Book Kids.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.
Suggest a theme:
We want your feedback on our editions - feel free to suggest a theme that you think other library users would find useful.
Next week: Photography
Digital cameras are everywhere - and next week we'll take a look at how to get the most out of your digital camera.
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