Contributing her voice and measina [taonga] as part of the O le fogava’a e tasi – One family exhibition, in this track we hear from Janesa Boreham talk about her measina, Fafetu.

"The significance of the measina that I chose is that the women only make it on the island of Funafuti. Funafuti is the capitol of Tuvalu. The Fafetu necklace gets its name because it is shaped like a star, the same star that represents the Star of Bethlehem. The fafetu is a biblical reference to the star that the three wise men saw during the birth of Jesus Christ".

Image: Janesa Boreham, 2023, Photographer Pamata Toleafoa, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections

Music: Track 1: Drum_Dance_Vaipae_Aitutaki from the album https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=b2816c56-f483-4573-816c-56f4837573d1&entityType=FormatGroup

O le fogava’a e tasi – One family exhibition can be viewed on Level 2 of Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library till the end April 2023

Contributing his voice and measina [taonga] as part of the O le fogava’a e tasi – One family exhibition, in this track we hear from Kiribati knowledge holder Charles Enoka talking about te mae n roroa te buro ae roro.

Te mae n roroa te buro ae roro is one of the most important cultural materials that men and women wear to acknowledge and symbolise the great value, beauty, and richness of the ocean.

Te mae te buro is a cultural necklace piece with significant values that embrace connections and acknowledgment of Marawa – te moana (ocean) to livelihood.

In some parts of Kiribati, women engaged in marriage will wear te mae te buro decorations around their neck, arms, waist, and ankles and walk to display the costumes around the village, accompanied by family members singing and cheering.

Image: Charles Enoka, 2023, Photographer Pamata Toleafoa, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections

Music: Track 1: Drum_Dance_Vaipae_Aitutaki from the album https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=b2816c56-f483-4573-816c-56f4837573d1&entityType=FormatGroup

O le fogava’a e tasi – One family exhibition can be viewed on Level 2 of Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library till the end April 2023

Contributing his voice and measina [taonga] as part of the O le fogava’a e tasi – One family exhibition, in this track hear Charles Cokanasiga talk about his connection to Fiji and the special family link with his chosen measina, Masi [Tapa].

Masi was ceremonially displayed on special occasions, such as birthdays and weddings. In sacred contexts, tapa was used to wrap images of deities.

Charles recalls how his mum and her grandma used to make the masi from scratch and sell them at the markets for a source of income.

"Recently, I found out that the technique they use to make tapa [masi] is very unique to that Island. When asking her about how she made the tapa and its paint, she can recall it very well and go into deep detail about it. This tapa is special to me because of that, and also it can also be used in a lot of important events".

Image: Charles Cokanasiga, 2023. Photographer Pamata Toleafoa, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections

Music: Track 1: Drum_Dance_Vaipae_Aitutaki from the album https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=b2816c56-f483-4573-816c-56f4837573d1&entityType=FormatGroup

O le fogava’a e tasi – One family exhibition can be viewed on Level 2 of Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library till the end April 2023

This month we have extended the display of Heritage and Research material beyond the Kura Tūturu | Real Gold case in the Reading Room to across the floor on Level 2 to the Research Centre, Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library.

In this episode Zoë Colling and Nick Weijermars tell us about the serials, posters, books and more that are on display as part of Auckland Libraries Pride celebrations. The displays draw on recent donations and from the depths of our magazine collections down in the basement.

Come and see for yourselves. On display through till the end of February 2023.

Your research enquiry is welcome anytime!

For more information on Auckland Pride activities see:

https://aucklandpride.org.nz/

Image: Front Covers display of serials in the Research Centre cases - Gay News 1977.

Alison and Ineka are joined in the studio once again by librarian Deehan from Epsom Library, for the second part of our romance exploration.

Find out how the romance novel has evolved from the OG of the rom-com, Jane Austen, to the bonkbusters of the 1980s through to Hoover, Henry and other BookTok megastar authors of today.

Books mentioned on the show can be requested from the Auckland Libraries catalogue using the links below. Most titles are available in multiple formats.

History

The mysteries of Udolpho / Ann Radcliffe / 1794: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=c37c54fc-1289-5e2d-963b-77b8c2fa9e50&entityType=FormatGroup

The flame and the flower / Kathleen Woodiwiss / 2009: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=b84a9148-75cb-56d7-94f9-082ebc3225e4&entityType=FormatGroup

Bonkbusters of the 1980s

Lace / Shirley Conran / 1982: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=38e0cbf0-acb7-5ad2-8033-aa2d3db65db6&entityType=FormatGroup

Hollywood wives / Jackie Collins / 1983: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=e2844056-4a27-5913-93df-b17950143edf&entityType=FormatGroup

Scruples / Judith Krantz / 1978: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=64f8bf48-9226-50f5-ac94-14200550ed10&entityType=FormatGroup

Riders / Jilly Cooper / 1985: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=2b4567ef-2d57-5ebe-9f42-1091288569aa&entityType=FormatGroup

Modern Love

It ends with us / Colleen Hoover / 2016: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=06561c11-d002-5855-a450-9606ac29aa7f&entityType=FormatGroup

See more Colleen Hoover titles: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=c817e8c2-3b82-11ec-a90c-b7a018ea069a&entityType=Agent

Never never / Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher / 2023: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=7a967e32-5d62-515f-8ef6-7bf49425226d&entityType=FormatGroup

Beach read / Emily Henry / 2020: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=b8123497-9a13-5902-a632-cb7072b3b145&entityType=FormatGroup

Twisted games / Ana Huang / 2022 (Book #2 of the Twisted series): https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=492b14de-e205-5cb2-b292-766b8d10a4ac&entityType=FormatGroup

See all Ana Huang titles: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=4b16bc30-325a-11ed-abc0-539194f81d0a&entityType=Agent

It happened one summer / Tessa Bailey / 2021: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=568b6506-3660-5068-9329-0e8516d8bdf4&entityType=FormatGroup

Hook, line and sinker / Tessa Bailey / 2022: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=e41133dd-ba32-50fa-a16d-5431f40ba6e8&entityType=FormatGroup

The love hypothesis / Ali Hazelwood / 2021: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=05ab052d-bc84-5605-86d8-3a8bd75b6d15&entityType=FormatGroup

Closed Door Romance

The cheat sheet / Sarah Adams / 2022: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=68a44ba9-76ba-5ac8-87fb-740f2dd520d7&entityType=FormatGroup

The flat share / Beth O’Leary / 2019: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=1a87ef8d-c759-5f39-885e-ee8713bdbb50&entityType=FormatGroup

Dual Point of View

One day / David Nicholls / 2009: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=0b1d5a77-fb2e-58e8-924a-47a1c60efeed&entityType=FormatGroup

Grey / E.L. James / 2015: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=f371ffad-b550-5e1f-8d3c-2900f74711f1&entityType=FormatGroup

Midnight sun / Stephenie Meyer / 2020: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=6660dd16-e586-5448-8d3f-b8ba9eb3d9df&entityType=FormatGroup

Alison and Ineka are joined in the studio by librarian Deehan from Epsom Library. Find your happy ever after as we talk love, romance, soulmates and steam!

Check out Dee's latest romance reads on her Bookstagram account: https://www.instagram.com/deeeeeespicks

Books mentioned on the show can be requested from the Auckland Libraries catalogue using the links below. Most titles are available in multiple formats.

Pick-and-mix: Cute and colourful covers

New York Minute / Kate Spencer / 2022

Something wilder / Christina Lauren / 2022

You and me on vacation / Emily Henry / 2021

Loathe to love you / Ali Hazelwood / 2023

PLUS The OG of illustrated romance covers, The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory published 2018

And one more we just couldn't go past - Real men knit / Kwana Jackson / 2020

Love for every body and every mind – Own Voice authored romances featuring neurodiverse, differently abled and chronically ill characters

Two wrongs make a right / Chloe Liese / 2022

The kiss quotient / Helen Hoang / 2018

Act your age, Eve Brown (Book 3 of the Brown Sister series) / Talia Hibbert / 2021

See also Book One: Get a life, Chloe Brown and Book 2: Take a hint, Dani Brown.

Latinx love stories

You had me at Hola / Alexis Daria / 2020

West side love story / Priscilla Oliveras / 2022

Ramon and Julieta / Alana Quintana Albertson

LGBTQI+ adult romance - who’s top on BookTok?

Red, white and royal blue / Casey McQuiston / 2019

One last stop / Casey McQuiston / 2021

Bridgerton, but make it queer:

The queer principles of Kit Webb / Cat Sebastian / 2021

A lady for a duke / Alexis Hall / 2022

Slippery creatures / KJ Charles / 2020

Hot tip! Be one of the first to read Book 1 of KJ Charles’ new Doomsday series, ‘The secret lives of country gentlemen’. Described as ‘Bridgerton meets Poldark’, it’s due on library shelves from March 2023.

LGBTQI+ Rom-Coms

I’m so (not) over you / Kosoko Jackson / 2022

Written in the stars / Alexandria Bellefleur / 2020(Book 1 in the Written in the stars series – titles are connected by characters but also suitable as stand-alone reads: see also Book 2 Hang the moon and Book 3 Count your lucky stars.

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care / Ashley Herring Blake / 2022 Book 1 in the Bright Falls series - see also Book 2, Astrid Parker doesn’t fail.

Listen in to this Kura Tūturu | Real Gold track to hear from music librarian Marilyn Portman on a very special first printed edition of a musical score recently donated to Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections.

Das wohltemperirte Clavier, oder, Präludien und Fugen durch alle Töne. By J.S. Bach, Book I is perhaps Bach's best-loved keyboard work. Known in English as "the 48" or the "Well-Tempered Clavier", it was composed and used as a valuable teaching tool for students.

Learn more about this first printed edition : http://heritageetal.blogspot.com/2023/01/bachs-well-tempered-clavier-first.html

Digital copy available here: https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/rarebooks/id/12770/rec/1

Music courtesy of International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP). Creative Commons License.

https://imslp.org/wiki/Prelude_and_Fugue_in_E-flat_minor,_BWV_853_(No 8 Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)

https://imslp.org/wiki/Prelude_and_Fugue_in_E_major,_BWV_854_(No. 9 Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)

Performed by Peter Bradley-Fulgoni.

Recorded September 2016 in St. Paul's Hall, Huddersfield University

Episode 7:

Join librarians James and Clare on an adventure down the Road and the River. Kenneth Grahame has created a magical world that reminds us of our own favourite places. In this episode Ratty and Mole have a otherworldly experience of nature and as always, Mr Toad is up to no good!

If you enjoyed these chapters, ask one of our friendly librarians to help you find the Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame in your local Auckland Library.

The Wind in the Willows:

https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=5d2693aa-afa1-582c-8dd1-269b1221acf9&entityType=FormatGroup

Join Alison and Ineka in the Literary Lounge as they talk about some of the hottest books of 2022.

Books mentioned on the show can be requested from the Auckland Libraries catalogue using the links below – most are available in multiple formats

Better the blood / Michael Bennett / 2022: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=9edb6c1a-22ce-576e-baf1-1278464d56ba&entityType=FormatGroup

The doctor’s wife / Fiona Sussman / 2022: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=e6312f2e-16ff-5778-8369-9d0c3a7208e6&entityType=FormatGroup

The last resort: a chronicle of paradise, profit, and peril at the beach / Sarah Stodola 2022: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=2712752b-40c0-5396-90f0-2c564c77ed70&entityType=FormatGroup

Women making waves: trailblazing surfers in and out of the water / Lara Enzig / 2022: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=e0f85cb0-9027-5144-9eb5-37bc9de43174&entityType=FormatGroup

True Biz / Sara Novic / 2022: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=3c7001f7-c66a-52c6-bb3c-a487c0363725&entityType=FormatGroup

How to take over the world: practical schemes and scientific solutions for the aspiring supervillain / Ryan North / 2022: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=0dd9a531-7bbc-5e87-91e6-c43e85dc1a86&entityType=FormatGroup

Listen in to this Kura Tūturu | Real Gold track to hear from Sharon Smith, Senior Librarian Community Archives, on J.T Diamond and his deep love and connection to the Waitākere Ranges.

As an amateur historian and archaeologist Jack Diamond devoted over 60 years of his life to building a documentary heritage collection. His work provides a complete record of the region’s heavy clay and pottery industries between 1940 and 1980, and the most significant documentary record of the kauri timber industry in the Waitākere Ranges between 1830 and 1940.

In this show case and podcast we learn also of his links to the Auckland Tramping Club and Waitākere Ranges Protection Society.

Original items can be viewed in the Heritage Collections reading room, Level 2 of Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library through out January 2022, or via Research West in Henderson for access to the full collection.

Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ULVUjaWlI&t=3s

Some digitised items feature in Kura Heritage Collections Online kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz

J.T Diamond Collection:

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/manuscripts/id/9426/rec/1

Auckland Tramping Club:

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/search/searchterm/Auckland%20Tramping%20Club

Waitakere Ranges Protection Society:

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/oralhistory/id/731/rec/12