Holiday reading 
Books we enjoyed reading this year from the staff and book club of the Leys Institute:
Kennedy's brain / Henning Mankell.
On Chesil beach / Ian McEwan.
Salmon fishing in the Yemen / Paul Torday.
The turning / Tim Winton.
The road / Cormac McCarthy.
A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini.
Michael Tolliver lives / Armistead Maupin.
Thank you for smoking : a novel / Christopher Buckley.
Some great new New Zealand authors:
Davey darling / Paul Shannon.
Cutting Caleb Keys / Glenn Bowden.
Miss me a lot of / Louise Wareham Leonard.
And some non-fiction to look out for:
Maximum city : Bombay lost and found / Suketu Mehta.
Lee Miller's war : photographer and correspondent with the Allies in Europe, 1944-45 / foreword by David E. Scherman ; edited by Antony Penrose.
The kindness of strangers : (kitchen memoirs) / Shonagh Koea ; with illustrations by Peter Wells.
The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid / Bill Bryson.
Wonderful today : the autobiography / Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor.
Younger next year : a guide to living like you're 50 until you're 80 and beyond / by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge.
Collections
 In 1905 the Leys Institute lending library contained “3,000 volumes including the best standard and modern fiction, besides many books of biography, travel, history, and philosophy“. For a taste of fiction at the beginning of the last century check out the fiction historical collection.
In 2005 the lending collections at Leys Institute Library contained over 25,000 volumes including:
Fiction the best standard and modern fiction.
Non-fiction covers a wide range of subject areas from philosophy and history to interior design and pet care. This is supported by our eResources.
A wide range of magazines are available including: Australian House and Garden, Arena, Paris Match, Country Life and Conde Nast traveler.
DVDs, videos and music CDs are available.
The What's Hot collection contains in-demand books, DVDs, CDs and magazines.
Large print books.
Audio-books - these are available on cassette tape and in CD format.
Ngā Mātauranga Māori (Māori Knowledge) is a collection of books on all aspects of Māori art, culture and history.
Collections for children
The Leys Institute Hilary Memorial Wing was opened in 1958.
The wing contains the childrens fiction collections, audio and interactive collections and the collections for younger children including picture books, board books, puzzles, music and story CDs, and junior easy readers.
Our parenting collection groups books on pregnancy, babies and children and is convienetly located here in the children's wing.
Here is a list of some of our favourite storytime books of 2007:
Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! by Kyle Mewburn ; illustrated by Ali Teo & John O'Reilly
Penguin by Polly Dunbar.
Rats! by Gavin Bishop.
Class two at the zoo by Julia Jarman ; illustrated by Lynne Chapman.
Who's in the loo? by Jeanne Willis ; [illustrated by] Adrian Reynolds.
More and more rabbits by Nicholas Allan.
Snip, snap by Jill Carter and Judy Ling ; illustrations by Jan van der Voo
Meet wild boars by Meg Rosoff and Sophie Blackall.
The cow that laid an egg by Andy Cutbill ; illustrated by Russell Ayto.
Community languages
We have a collection of books in French, Italian, German and Spanish.
See the community languages page for lists of titles.
Library services:
The library has a colour photocopier. See Photocopying and printing for a list of charges.
Internet access: All Auckland City Libraries have free public access to the internet. See Photocopying and printing and Internet access for a list of charges.
Community services:
The Citizens Advice Bureau is located at 510 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn.
The WINZ department is located at Shop 5, 100 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby. |
