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National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa Headquarters in Wellington 41°16′36″S 174°46′42″E / 41.276614°S 174.778372°E / -41.276614; 174.778372 Location Molesworth Street, Thorndon , Wellington , New Zealand Established 1965 Branch of Department of Internal Affairs Collection Size 1,515,172 in General Collections 5,333,500 in Alexander Turnbull ...
After Turnbull's death in 1918, the house was purchased by the government in 1920 and opened to the public as the Alexander Turnbull Library. The library stayed in the building until 1973 when the collection was incorporated into the National Library of New Zealand. [3] In 1994 the Department of Conservation conducted restoration work. [2]
Cadwell Turnbull is an American science fiction and fantasy writer from the U.S. Virgin Islands. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the author of award-winning short stories and novels, including The Lesson (2019) and No Gods, No Monsters (2021) .
Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull (14 September 1868 – 28 June 1918) [1] was a New Zealand merchant, dandy [2] and book collector. [3] On his death, his collection became the nucleus of the Alexander Turnbull Collection, initially housed in his residence, Turnbull House, but as of 1987 housed with the collections of the National Library of New Zealand, a body formed in 1965 by the amalgamation of ...
The Trumbull Library System (TLS) [52] is the town's main lending library with a staff of fifteen and two locations. The library features online book searches & renewal, statewide inter-library loan, adult & youth sections, and several meeting rooms. Internet terminals and photocopy machines are also available for use.
Parliamentary Library: Wellington, Molesworth Street 1899 Heritage New Zealand Historic Place Category 1. [41] Turnbull's 3-storey design for the General Assembly Library (now known as the Parliamentary Library) was not completed because of rising costs, and it was finished with only two floors by John Campbell in 1899. [42]
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Berkeley's initial public library building, funded by a Carnegie grant in 1903, was designed by John Galen Howard, the Beaux Arts architect of the University of California. The library's expansion requests in 1913 and the subsequent voter-approved library building tax in 1921 and 1925 foreshadowed its need for growth.