Auckland Libraries

Kia ora Melanie Kung, Associate Curator, Heritage Collections and welcome to Awakura.

Thanks for making the time to talk with us about your recent project that you've been working on and have written about also in the Heritage at Our blog related to the United Nations collections here at Auckland Libraries.

It's probably an unexpected and new topic of conversation for listeners in terms of heritage collections.

So perhaps we can just open with you telling us a little bit about this United Nations collections and what has recently prompted it into the heritage.

Yeah, thanks for allowing me to share this

collection with everybody.

Yeah, so Auckland Libraries became what's called a UN depository library back in 1948.

This was early, very early days of the United Nations as an organisation.

She budgeted $150 a week for groceries, realized that she could probably manage on $100 and planned to throw the difference at debt.

She joined Auckland Libraries, rather than buying so many books, created paper debt trackers because physically watching the balances fall really motivated her, and she began delaying purchases.

discovering that after a few days she often didn't want them anymore.

She even noticed that she'd returned to work too late in the tax year to automatically receive the full KiwiSaver member tax credit and planned to make a voluntary contribution to receive it.

And one more question for you.

Are you gonna go to Kingpin, the wrestling and boxing exhibition at Auckland Library that's on now?

Oh, absolutely.

I'm so excited for this.