Genealogist Jan Gow gives us her insider's guide to using the website FamilySearch.

Auckland Libraries is an affiliate library to FamilySearch and has special access to some of the digitised records on the site. You will need to access the site from an Auckland Libraries branch to use this feature.

Recorded at the Auckland Central Library on Wednesday 28 March 2018.

Image: Citizenship ceremony, Otara, 1964: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Footprints 06699

Music: Childhood by Frank Kölling

Angelique, Mati, Melissa and Louisa, Auckland Libraries staff from, or with family origins in, Kūki 'Āirani - the Cook Islands - talk about Cook Islands books from our Pacific collections that they particularly treasure, and about what it means to them to be a Cook Islander.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/books-and-beyond-cook-islands-2018.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 29 July 2018.

Karen and Louisa check out the list of the world’s most expensive books, topped by the Codex Leicester, a collection of manuscript scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci which Bill Gates bought in 1994 for USD 30,800,000, and consider whether 'most expensive' always equates to most valuable.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/books-and-beyond-expensive-books.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 5 August 2018.

Karen and Louisa celebrate nonsense literature, the most delightful genre of all, from the works of its grand old men Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll to those of the more contemporary Mervyn Peake and John Lennon.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/books-and-beyond-nonsense-literature.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 24 June 2018.

Louisa chats with Peter Dragicevich, author of dozens of Lonely Planet travel guides, including those for London, Venice and the Veneto region, Montenegro, Croatia and New Zealand.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/books-and-beyond-Peter-Dragicevich-Lonely-Planet.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 1 July 2018.

Karen talks with Dominic Hoey, whose novel 'Iceland' was an Auckland Libraries Top 100 and longlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards. Under the Tourettes moniker, he has also released five acclaimed studio albums, two books of poetry, four short films, and performed spoken-word poetry.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/books-and-beyond-dominic-hoey.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 3 June 2018.

Louisa hosts Esther Paddon, traveller, adventurer and author of Exciting Eighties: A time of high expectations, who shares some tales of adventure and talks about what led her into writing.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/books-and-beyond-esther-paddon.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 10 June 2018.

Leanne Radojkovich, author of the short-story collection 'First fox' (The Emma Press, 2017) and winner of the 2018 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition, chats with Karen about her work, including her forays in flash fiction, an exciting form of highly compressed short fiction.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/books-and-beyond-Leanne-Radojkovich.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 17 June 2018.

Karen and Louisa share some of the books which have given them plenty of laughs and much-appreciated endorphin boosts!

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 18 April 2018.

Karen chats with acclaimed literary biographer Joanne Drayton, whose works include the NY Times bestseller 'The Search for Anne Perry', about the Christchurch schoolgirl killer who forged a new life as a writer of popular historical crime novels.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/books-and-beyond-joanne-drayton.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 29 April 2018.