{"id":8434,"date":"2014-11-29T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb-events\/?page_id=8434"},"modified":"2014-12-04T23:49:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T10:49:13","slug":"about-the-centre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/about-the-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome<\/h2>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">As a Centre we interpret \u2018book\u2019 broadly to encompass every aspect of written or printed communication, including physical representations and the cultural impact of the written word.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">The Centre for the Book aims to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000\">\n<li>Enhance the wide range of book-centred activities that take place throughout Dunedin<\/li>\n<li>Emphasize Dunedin\u2019s rich cultural heritage in print, as producer, consumer, and preserver of books<\/li>\n<li>Encourage research in all facets of the book\u00a0(in its broadest sense) by utilizing the diverse resources available<\/li>\n<li>Promote interaction and communication on the book within the University of Otago, and other local, national and international institutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0Check out Donald Kerr discussing the Centre&#8217;s aims on the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #663399\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ch9.co.nz\/content\/centre-book\" target=\"\">Channel 9 website<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>\u25ba Looking for Otago University Press?<\/strong>\u00a0 See\u00a0<a style=\"color: #663399\" href=\"http:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/press\" target=\"\">www.otago.ac.nz\/press<\/a>. Otago University Press publishes a wide range of books on New Zealand and the Pacific with special emphasis on history, literature and the arts, and on natural and social sciences. The Press is also the publisher of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #663399\" href=\"http:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/press\/landfall\/index.html\" target=\"\"><em>Landfall<\/em><\/a>, New Zealand\u2019s leading arts and literature magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome As a Centre we interpret \u2018book\u2019 broadly to encompass every aspect of written or printed communication, including physical representations and the cultural impact of the written word. The Centre for the Book aims to: Enhance the wide range of book-centred activities that take place throughout Dunedin Emphasize Dunedin\u2019s rich cultural heritage in print, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20027,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8434","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}