Library News
Dear Students, Parents and Staff,
I hope that you are all doing well with online learning and supporting each other.
This is an exciting term for the Library and the English Department as we will be celebrating Book Week in August (21st -27th). We hope to have a great week and keep you posted about what will be on offer.
The Readers' Cup Challenge 2021 : A focus on classic short stories - link to .pdf file
This term to celebrate Book Week (21 -27 August) the Library and Book Club will be holding our first annual Readers' Cup Challenge. This year the theme will be classic short stories. Everyone is welcome to enter!
We will hold the event- a fun Kahoot event where you enter as teams or individually to answer questions on the prescribed list of short stories below.
You can sign up individually or in teams of up to 5 and help each other in answering the Kahoot questions. Please sign up!
We aim to hold the event during lunchtime on Tuesday the 24th August in the GO3 room. I will confirm these details closer to the date of the Kahoot.
In preparation for this event, please start gathering your teams together and we have multiple copies of the short stories both as eBooks and eAudiobooks available for you to start reading and listening to. You can click on the covers or the titles of the books on the attached .pdf file below to link straight to the books.
The winners will have their names engraved (this year will be the first engraving) on the Reader's Cup!
Here is a list of the prescribed short stories:
The short stories are: link to list on Overdrive eBooks and eAudiobook
1. Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl
2. The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
3. The Necklace - Guy de Maupassant
4. The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
5. The Door in the Wall - H.G. Wells
Please let me (Ms Veldsman) know via email or come up to the library to sign up in your teams!
Please let me know if you have any questions about this event, I hope to see as many teams signing up and participating as possible - Everyone is welcome!
Issues in Society Publication - new digital access titles
We have received the new mid-year digital access copies of Issues in Society publication.
As these are really interesting topics I thought I would share them with you all - it is as easy as clicking on the links below to have access to the full .pdf titles:
Issues in Society titles are topical, cross-curricular resources. Each book in the Issues in Society series targets a specific social issue and comprises a thoroughly researched compilation of the latest news, facts, statistics and commentary from trusted sources. Many titles cover a range of opinions on controversial topics, providing the perfect platform to provoke debate, stimulate critical analysis and encourage further research.
Issues in Society July 2021 Release - an overview of these release titles
vol.468 Positive and Respectful Relationships
vol.469 Rights of Children and Young People
vol.470 Unemployment and Underemploymentvol.471 Australia's Relations with China
vol.472 Coping with Natural Disasters
Please remember that you can access other earlier volumes of Issues in Society from our dedicated website. This can be accessed through the staff portal:
You can browse by cover or by title and access the .pdf file by clicking on the cover or linked text:
New Scientist Essential Guides:
We now subscribe to the New Scientist Essential Guides as print resources and have received our first editions focusing on:
NO1 THE NATURE OF REALITY
NO2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
NO3 HUMAN HEALTH
NO4 OUR HUMAN STORY
NO5 QUANTUM PHYSICS
NO6 EVOLUTION
NO7 THE HUMAN BRAIN
New Resources at the Library:
We have some great new books at the library as well as Lamont book reviews:
100 Remarkable feats of Xander Maze by Clayton Zane Comber
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott
Instructions for dancing by Nicola Yoon
The last confession of Autumn Casterly
Book Review July 2021: A focus on biographies – strong women and career paths
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
Yumiko Kadota’s book ‘Emotional Female’ tells of her experience going through Medical School and training as a surgeon in Australia. The book tackles themes of burnout, ambitions and expectations, cultural identity as well as being a woman in a male-dominated career path – becoming a surgeon.
Yumiko, a talented and hard-working young surgeon tells of her experience going through surgical training with warmth and honesty. She discusses issues of mental wellbeing and burnout. This book is an interesting read for anyone coming to terms with what they really want in life especially in competitive career paths, the book discusses finding the strength to stand up for yourself in the most difficult of work situations and recovering from burnout and toxic work culture.
Although confronting, Yumiko writes with sensitivity and it is ultimately about remembering to look after yourself even when chasing big, long-standing dreams.
Take care all of you as we work through this week from home!
Kind Regards
Ms Veldsman