Get Lit! Adult Winter Reading Challenge

Our Get Lit! Winter Reading Programme starts Friday 4 June! This year we again have a teen challenge card as well as an adult challenge card.

The bingo card is back as are the challenge squares!

The challenge lasts for 12 weeks!

Getting Started with Your Family History - Static Display

Between 2-7 August there will be a static display to help you get started with your family history.

Focusing on beginners and put together by the Te Awamutu Genealogy Group, the display will cover ancestor stories to get you enthused, 6 key steps to get you started on the journey and free handouts to help you make it happen. The library will also have a selection of family history books on display.

From Go to Wow! An evening of family history

Something for all levels of experience.

An insight into researching your family history with Richard Cato and others from the NZ Society of Genealogists (Te Awamutu Branch).

No matter what your level, or where you are at with your research, there will be something for everyone, including starting out, best resources, DNA as a research tool, writing up your research to create a story and publishing (whether that is a family story or as a family reference).

Books Alive Special Event - Egg & Spoon

LIANZA and the New Zealand Book Awards Trust are bringing together another year of Books Alive online events and virtual storytimes.

Waipā District Libraries have been chosen again as hosts.

Egg & Spoon, an illustrated cookbook, is a finalist in the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction.

Family Fun Night

Our libraries are open late on a Friday night until 8pm.

Come along and watch one of our scheduled movies from 6pm.

Schedules are displayed inside the libraries (Te Awamutu available on request).

Genealogy for beginners

Join Family History Librarian at Hamilton City Libraries Shelley North for an introduction on how to get started with researching your family history.

Shelley will also cover the resources that are held in Hamilton City Libraries that may be of use to researchers.

Family history for children

Join us for a introductory session aimed specifically at children to get them interested in family history.

Children should come accompanied by a family member to enable them to make a start on their enquiries.

Each child will receive a work book that they can take away which will include enquiry sheets and projects to do at home as well as sources for wider investigation.

Introduction to Family History

An introduction to family history with the Cambridge Branch of the NZ Society of Genealogists.

Featuring an introduction to the group by Jo Barnes (also Cambridge Museum & Historical Society) followed by a presentation by Bruce Crook, the Secretary of the Cambridge Branch.

Bruce's presentation will cover getting started, recording your findings and how to find the information you need.