Library News
I hope that you are all doing well in these final weeks of a very busy term.
Well done for getting through your exam periods and all the work that went towards them, now you can look forward to a well deserved holiday break!
The Readers’ Cup Challenge:
We held the Readers' Cup Challenge Kahoot Event on Thursday the 2nd December.
Congratulations to everyone who entered, I hope you all had fun and it was great having you join in the event. You all did so well, thank you for taking part in our first Readers' Cup Challenge.
Congratulation to our Winners of the Readers' Cup Challenge 2021 (Team Fubini's Theorem):
Sancha Fung
Ling Yu (Luna) Kan
Osel Loh
Yuyan Ma
Edward Yeung
Congratulations to your team, you have earned the bragging rights as Winners of the 2021 Readers' Cup and your names will be engraved on our trophy :)
Open Athens:
Over the Term 3 holidays we completed implementing the Open Athens platform.
What does this mean?
Open Athens allows us to host our chosen databases and resources in a way that supports easy single sign on as well as remote access to our resources. It also has many other benefits for managing these databases.
You can now access resources and databases from home and school with easy sign-on!
What does this look like?
We have updated the portal links directly to resources now hosted by Open Athens and it will simply redirect you through the Open Athens easy sign in.
As some databases are set up differently this may look slightly different for each but you can expect to be signed in directly to each resource when clicking on the link from the portal and begin using the resources straight away.
We also have a link to the Open Athens list of resources which allows you to see which databases are included and allows you to access them from there as well, the Open Athens link looks like this on the portal:
Clicking into the Open Athens link will take you to the Research Zone, a nice way to see all the curated databases which we have moved across to Open Athens. We have currently migrated the following databases onto Open Athens (they can still be reached directly from the portal)- as this is an ongoing project more of our databases will be moved across as we progress:
Now on Open Athens:
Overdrive eBooks
Britannica School
AAAS Science Magazine (online access)
New Scientist Magazine (online access)
The Age
Australian Financial Review
The Sydney Morning Herald (current and archival)
Cambridge Core (which is how you will access Atlas of Mars!)
Proquest eBook Central
LinksPlus
ReadPlus
Education Perfect (personal subscription payment still required)
Please let me know if you have any trouble with the links and signing in, we hope everything will go smoothly but this is a new provider for us which might take some getting used to and have some growing pains.
A note on some databases:
All databases should automatically log you in but please note:
Education Perfect and Overdrive eBooks will still require you to select John Monash Science School before entering the first time.
The Atlas of Mars is accessed through the Atlas of Mars icon on the portal or the link from Open Athens Research zone - 'Cambridge Core'. It now takes you here:
This shows you that you are logged in to Cambridge Core and you are all set to search 'Atlas of Mars' book titles:
You can now access the book:
If using this for Terraforming Mars, I suggest bookmarking this book landing page for easy future use :) unfortunately we could not link directly as it is one title in the Cambridge Core library of possible titles.
Thank you for reading through this and familiarising yourselves with the new process, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
New Resources at the Library:
We now have access to the digital archives for Chemistry Review, Physics Review, Biological Review, and English Review magazines.
These are A-level magazines that you can now link directly to through the student and staff portals, these include the magazine archives and allow you to do a targeted search of the magazine articles which you can then print/download or read online.
Please note: the content is great but the site can be a little clunky and heavy on the internet :) it sometimes needs time to open up the pages.
Once you have a page you want to read, I suggest opening it in full-screen as it makes navigating the page far easier.
You are also able to save off and print pages.
Please let me know if you have any questions. It's well worth having a look at these resources for Chemistry, Biology, Physics, and English (literature-based) as they include fantastic up-to-date articles for personal interest and academic development.
New Books:
We have some great new books at the library as well as Lamont book reviews (click the covers to read the reviews):
Book Review September 2021:
One of us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
One of us is Lying is a Young Adult murder mystery set in a high school environment. The characters are interesting and make this book well worth the read. This is now available as an eAudiobook as well so you can sit back and give your eyes a rest as the story unfolds.
One of the most important messages and themes in the book is not to judge people too quickly and that everyone is working through their own personal trials. When an unlikely group of students are brought together through some tragic circumstances it is how they come together that makes the book a lot of fun to read. In the tradition of The Breakfast Club and other classic school coming of age tales it is the inclusion of a murder mystery and the web that they all get caught in that adds some extra depth to the book.
They have released a streaming series based on the book and there is also sequel if you enjoy the first title.
Take care all! Have a lovely Holiday Break
Kind Regards
Ms Veldsman