Christchurch Press Image: Stacy Squires 2010:09:06 16:07:46

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Lincoln University library books. Extensive damage to books. Roger Field, Vice Chancellor examines some of the damaged books".

Christchurch Press Image: Stacy Squires 2010:09:06 16:05:21

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Lincoln University library books. Extensive damage to books".

Photograph number UC 10-0503-15

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Books from the library, organised into plastic bins.

Canterbury Earthquake September 2010

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I didn't even know the bookshelf had fallen on me till later that morning. When I saw the bookcase and books all over the bed, I was glad to be only 5 foot tall or my legs would have been crushed by sturdy books like 'A day in the life of the Soviet Union' and some thumping big art books, or even the cheapo board bookcase with half its shelves...

Photograph number UC 10-0661

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Library staff Catherine Werner and Nazira Yusoff working to reshelve books and help with new electronic book tags.

Photo by Jennifer Middendorf 001

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Recipe books fallen off a shelf in a house in Burnside. There was no other damage to the house.

Photo by Jennifer Middendorf 004

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Fallen bookshelf and scattered books in a postgrad common room in the Locke Building at the University of Canterbury.

Kate De Goldi: Canterbury quake

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Saturday Morning's commentator on children's books talks about being in her old home city of Christchurch last Saturday during the earthquake.

Natalie Kerschner WEMO Photograph 066

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A photograph of a table in Cowles Stadium, full of books, clothes and toys for refugees from the 4 September earthquake.

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A photograph of a table in Cowles Stadium, full of books, clothes and toys for refugees from the 4 September earthquake.

Christchurch Press Image: Stacy Squires 2010:09:09 16:27:28

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Canterbury University. Steven Joyce Tertiary Education Minister's visit to Central Library. Earthquake damage to books and shelves".

Christchurch Press Image: Stacy Squires 2010:09:09 16:26:40

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Canterbury University. Steven Joyce Tertiary Education Minister's visit to Central Library. Earthquake damage to books and shelves".

Christchurch Press Image: Stacy Squires 2010:09:09 16:26:05

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Canterbury University. Steven Joyce Tertiary Education Minister's visit to Central Library. Earthquake damage to books, shelves and ceiling".

Parliament throws full support behind earthquake bill

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Parliament has unanimously supported legislation giving Government ministers the power to make exemptions to almost every law on the statute books, to help fast-track reconstruction efforts in Canterbury.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 128

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A photograph of a pile of books in an office in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Elizabeth Ackermann Photograph 066

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a block of shops on Manchester Street. Plastic fencing has been placed along the street as a cordon.

Services to Schools : supporting literacy and learning

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Services to Schools offers support to New Zealand educators, through advisory services, professional development, literacy programs and the supply of non-fiction, fiction, picture books and graphic novels to New Zealand schools. Earthquake related information can be found in the archived instances from September 2010-

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 132

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A photograph of a pile of books in an office in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The book at the top is called, "Wellington After the 'Quake: The Challenge of Rebuilding Cities".

Elizabeth Ackermann Photograph 062

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a block of shops on Manchester Street. Plastic fencing has been placed along the street as a cordon.

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A photograph of a bookcase in the Civil Suite at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The photograph was taken on the day when the staff were allowed to return to the building. The shelves of the bookcase have been removed, exposing damage along the sides where they knocked against the back panel. Some books have been left on the bottom shelf.