{"id":77,"date":"2015-05-18T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.dnwfriends.nzl.org\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2015-12-19T08:59:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:59:01","slug":"dnw_bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/home\/dnw_bio\/","title":{"rendered":"DNW Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1158\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnwfriends.nzl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dnwyellowstone.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1158 size-medium\" title=\"Dorothy Neal White at Yellowstone Park\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dnwfriends.nzl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dnwyellowstone-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Dorothy Neal White at Yellowstone Park\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dnwyellowstone-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dnwyellowstone-744x1024.jpg 744w, https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dnwyellowstone.jpg 1071w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorothy Neal White at Yellowstone Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dorothy Neal White (Mrs Ballantyne) 1915-1995<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Dorothy Neal White Collection, opened in 1980, is named in honour of Dorothy Neal White, an outstanding contributor to the development of children&#8217;s librarianship in New Zealand. Dorothy Neal White spent most of her long career at the Dunedin Public Library, after studying at the Carnegic Library School in Pittsburgh in 1937. Under her leadership the provision of children&#8217;s services in Dunedin became a model for libraries in other areas of New Zealand. She reached an even wider public through her two acclaimed books <em>About books for children <\/em>published in 1946 and <em>Books before five<\/em> published in 1954 by the NZCER.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dnwwithchildren.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-134 size-medium\" title=\"Image of Dorothy Ballantyne working with children at The Dunedin Public Library\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dnwfriends.nzl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dnwwithchildren-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Dorothy Ballantyne working with children at The Dunedin Public Library\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dnwwithchildren-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dnwwithchildren.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorothy Neal White working with children at Dunedin Public Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Greater biographical detail of Dorothy Neal White is available in the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teara.govt.nz\/en\/biographies\/5w23\/white-dorothy-mary-neal\">Dictionary of New Zealand Biography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Neal White (Mrs Ballantyne) 1915-1995 The Dorothy Neal White Collection, opened in 1980, is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/1164"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}