Library Corner

Now that we’re in the thick of winter, the library is busier than ever with students desperately escaping the cold. What a perfect time to snuggle up with a good book! We have also started communal jigsaw puzzles in the middle of the library with numerous students from all year levels working to complete the puzzles in their breaks. Someone recently commented, “I’m addicted!” Well, it’s a nice change from screen overload.

Planning for our CBCA Children’s Book Week celebrations is well underway with plenty of exciting events in the works. Some of the Library Monitors will be hosting lunchtime activities including Book Trivia and a Book Cover-Making Competition, and we will also hold a Book Club Open Day where regular book clubbers will invite peers or teachers along. Three authors will be visiting for Book Week; Sammy J (Year 7s), Nova Weetman (Year 8s) and Cath Crowley (Year 9s). The week before Book Week there will be an incursion for Write a Book in a Day, where groups of students will hunker down in the library to write and illustrate their own books. And the week after, the Book Club will attend the Melbourne Writers’ Festival schools program to see a number of different author talks and literary events. 40 students will be attending this popular excursion!

Keep an eye out for our Book Week display that is going up in our corridor window, complete with shortlisted books from the CBCA Book of the Year awards. The theme for 2018 is “Find Your Treasure”. Books and libraries certainly are treasure, and you can read why the GEC students think so on the pin board display at our library entrance.

In other news, the highly-anticipated Japanese collection has been established and can be found in the Languages section of the library. Here you’ll discover the Hiragana Times (a Japanese magazine) as well as picture books, graphic novels and novels for varying language abilities. Everything in the collection is aimed at students looking for pleasure reading in Japanese, and these new books and magazines have been heavily borrowed from the minute they were placed on the shelves. We are very proud of our new Japanese collection! Next up: a new Hebrew collection! If you have any suggestions for contemporary books in Hebrew, or places to purchase these items, please get in touch with the library staff. We are also seeking donations of books in excellent condition, on subjects of interest to our students.

College Librarian: Karys McEwen

Library Technician: Megan Gatt