Libraries

New Zealanders are great readers, but the way we are reading books is changing. Audio

Mary Craig of Books on Bikes is one of a team of intrepid librarians using cargo bikes to spread book love in her community. Audio

The Quiet Volume created by Ant Hampton is a form of audience-generated theatre, or autoteatro, which takes place in a working library. It explores the particular tension common to any library… Audio

Maria Popova's Brainpickings website, weekly emailer, and associated Twitter feed's a magnet for hundreds of thousands of people all over the world on the hunt for thought-provoking writing. Audio

The details are revealed of two big projects to mark New Zealand's commemoration of the centenary of the First World War. We talk to two people closely involved in making WW1 documents available… Audio

Fiona Oliver is the published collections curator at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington: Body in the Library: the remarkable and murky past of Wellington's first librarian. Audio

Alex Revell drops in on a library with a difference. He visits the school-based bicycle library in Lower Hutt that lends out bikes not books. Audio

This week Ideas looks at Loving our Libraries. Audio