Library News
Our library now has Lib Guides
The Preston High School library is excited to introduce LibGuidesto students this term.
Lib Guides is an online resource to support students with research, study skills, and subject-specific learning. Each guide provide curated, reliable information, including recommended websites, databases, citation guides and research tips, all in one easy-to-use platform.
Designed to help our students find high-quality sources quickly, LibGuides are especially useful for assignments, essays and exam preparation. They encourage independent learning while ensuring our students use credible academic resources instead of unreliable websites.
Parents can support their child’s learning by encouraging them to use LibGuides when working on research tasks. These guides are available to Preston students anytime, anywhere - perfect for both classroom and home study.
Students can access Lib Guides by logging into the library catalogue via Compass. There are guides for every English text studied at PHS, plus specialised guides for science and research topics as well as for our Da Vinci, Bandler Parks and Ada programs. The guides are carefully curated for each Cohort level. Guides available to your child will appear at the top of the Library home page when they log in. More guides are coming next term.
Families can explore our LibGuides using the links below. Please take a look to see how they can support your child’s learning.
Nikki Protyniak
Library Manager
LibGuides hot links list
- Da Vinci years guide
- The year the maps changed guide (Year 7)
- Bandler Parks guide
- Darius the Great is not okay guide (Year 8)
- The hate u give guide (Year 9)
- The white girl guide (Year 9)
- Research and study tips guide
- Scientific research skills guide
- Ada years guide
- Oedipus the King study guide (Year 12)
- Flames study guide (Year 12)
- Medea study guide (Year 11)
- 1984 study guide (Year 11)
- Where the trees were study guide (Year 10)
- Psychology unit 3 & 4 guide
- Tony Birch Library general guide
Library pool joke makes an April Fool's splash!
Apologies to any families who had to deal with teens venting their fury about the pending closure of the Preston High library to make way for an indoor pool earlier this week!
We're happy to report that plans to shut our library and install a pool in its place, while retraining our librarian as a lifeguard, were merely part of a (very successful) April Fool's prank. But it was wonderful to see just how much our students value their library space and how outraged so many were about plans to shut it down.
The prank also showed that student activism is strong at Preston! We had some students ready to launch a sit-in, some wanting to protest outside the Principal's office, and others planning a petition against the "terrible" proposal. Plenty more wanted to rescue the books and take them home, particularly our much-loved Manga collection. On the activism flip-side, now that the prank has been revealed, some students want to start a petition FOR a pool!
The good news is that the library remains open for business. We have added more than 80 new books, both fiction and non-fiction, to our collection this term. Please encourage your offspring to come in and grab some holiday reading before school closes on Friday for the Term break!