The Friends of the Turnbull Library
Programme of Activities
February to November 2009
Wednesday 18 February, at 5.30 pm
Graeme Lay
The Turnbull Library: South Pacific treasure house
Graeme Lay is the author of In Search of Paradise: Artists and
Writers in the Colonial South Pacific.
National Library Auditorium
All welcome
Thursday 19 March at 5.30 pm
Malcolm McKinnon
Depressing times, then and now: looking at the depression of
the 1930s in New Zealand
Dr McKinnon is theme author of "Places" for the New Zealand online
Encyclopaedia, Te Ara.
National Library Auditorium
All welcome
Thursday 16 April at 5.30 pm
Ray Grover
March to the Sound of the Guns
Ray Grover, author of Cork of War, discusses the writing of his
latest book.
National Library Auditorium
All welcome
Thursday 28 May at 5.30 pm
Hon Hugh Templeton
Mr Ambassador: The Memoirs of Sir Carl Berendsen
Hugh Templeton talks about editing the five volumes of memoirs of New
Zealand diplomat Carl Berendsen (1890-1973) which had been hidden away
in Victoria University's Beaglehole Room. "Before New Zealand had a
diplomatic service, it had Sir Carl Berendsen, an opinionated, prickly
public servant with a gift for tub-thumping oratory, who founded New
Zealand's foreign policy in a poky parliamentary office." Nick Venter,
Dominion Post, 20 March 2009.
National Library Auditorium
All welcome
Thursday 18 June at 6.00 pm
Chris Szekely, ATL Chief Librarian
2009 Founder Lecture: The Future Turnbull
National Library Auditorium
Wednesday 15 July 2009 at 5.30 pm
Annual General Meeting
The AGM of The Friends of the Turnbull Library will be followed
by a presentation from Ruth Lightbourne, Curator, Special Printed Collections,
with a display of some recent acquisitions. The Turnbull's purchases from the
recent Dunbar Sloane auction in Wellington included
two incunables, Augustine De Civitate Dei (1474), and Gregorius Moralia (1480).
First floor, Alexander Turnbull Library
Wednesday 19 August at 5.30 pm
Elizabeth Caffin, former director, Auckland University Press
Making New Zealand Writers: Publishing and Patronage
National Library Auditorium
Wednesday 16 September at 5.30 pm
Niborum Young and Judith Fyfe
The Cambodian Oral History Project
National Library Auditorium
Tuesday 13 October at 5.30 pm
Grahame Anderson
Longitudinal Spherical Trigonometry: Rescuing Tasman and his navigators from
the shadow of Cook
National Library Auditorium
Wednesday 4 November at 5.30 pm
Bill Carter and Rhys Richards on their new book
A Decade of Disasters: The Chatham Islands from 1866 to 1875
National Library Auditorium
Friends of the Turnbull Library 2009
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