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The public library is for everyone in the community (1964)

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<em>The public library is for everyone in the community</em> (1964)

In 1965 the New Zealand Library Association published The public library is for everyone in the community, a small booklet designed to encourage more Māori library users. Ans Westra took the photographs. 

 

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Julia Millen, Libraries – Library services to Māori, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/41647/the-public-library-is-for-everyone-in-the-community-1964 (accessed 26 June 2026).

Story by Julia Millen, published 13 May 2013.