Welcome to  Heritage Week 2008, our first in what is to be an annual week celebrating the unique social, cultural, built and environmental heritage of Franklin.
The main aim of Heritage Week is to raise awareness of our special heritage places, and the importance and benefits of conserving them and to promote the richness of heritage material held in the collections at bookinopolis. At the same time we will point to material held both by local historical groups and societies and those held in national collections e.g. The National Library in Wellington, that have a special significance for us – the people of Franklin.

Our theme for this year will be “Kids Of Yesteryear” and will focus on the history of Franklin schools and education. All of our libraries hold school reunion booklets, photographs, newspaper articles etc. dealing with this subject and our displays will be highlighting school life in days gone by. The displays will be accompanied by historic photos of children in the Franklin area, from the library's photographic archive.