John Kinder Theological Library

Last Friday, we celebrated 50 Years since Judith Bright started at the Kinder Library.

It was a lovely morning of stories from friends and colleagues, of recognising the immense work that Judith does in Theological libraries and archives for the Anglican and Methodist Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia.

The library space has seen many changes over the years - moving the collection multiple times, renovations and building projects, and technological changes, to name but a few! - and Judith continues to navigate it all with impeccable strength and leadership.

As the current library staff, we want to say thank you to Judith for all she does and continues to do in this role.

Thank you to St Johns Theological College for co-hosting this morning with us.

In our display cabinet at the moment, you'll find some letters, diary entries, record books, photographs and artefacts on the Southern Cross, the Melanesian Mission ships.

We encourage you to have a peruse when you're in the library next - just head to the back left corner of the building.

Not coming in any time soon? We've also written a blog post about Captain Martin Huggett and the Southern Cross IV, which you can read here.

https://www.kinderlibrary.ac.nz/captain-martin-huggett-southern-cross-iv/

Just a reminder that we will be CLOSED on Monday 26 January for Auckland Anniversary.

You can still browse ebooks, journals, and physical books on the catalogue and put reserves on the latter. We'll put those through for you on Tuesday 27 January when we open again from 8:30am.

If you're in the Auckland region, we hope you have a nice long weekend.