LIBRARY NEWS

LIBRARY CLOSURES

Due to the VCE exams please the following closures for the library:

Thursday 10/11/2016, all day;

Friday 11/11/2016, all day;

Monday 14/11/2016, from 11:00am onwards;

Tuesday 15/11/2016, closed until 2:00pm;

Wednesday 16/11/2016, closed from 2:00pm onwards.

SILENT READING AREA

During lunchtime the “comfy seat” area becomes phone/computer/conversation free. It is dedicated to quiet reading. Increasing numbers of students are making use of this. If you are looking for some quiet place during lunchtime please come on down for some “book meditation”!

TERM 4 – RENEWING BOOKS/NEW RELEASES

Please check your emails for library messages. Return or renew all outstanding loans. If you cannot find a book please come and speak to a library staff member. The normal procedure in this case is to pay the cost of the book. This is fully refundable should the book be found later. Prior to holiday borrowing 2016 - 2017 all outstanding loans must be returned.

New Laurie R King books arrived. Some new books in this excellent series have arrived:

“Mary Russell walked into my life with the first line of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and took over. At the time, I had little knowledge of the Great War, England in the Twenties, or Sherlock Holmes, but that didn’t seem to matter to her, she just waited (graciously stifling her impatience) for me to catch up.

Fourteen books later, I have learned a great deal about Russell, Holmes and their world. I have learned even more about myself and my world, since a central raison d’etre of reading history, even fictional history, is that it is a mirror, reflecting unexpected sides of our times and ourselves. Politics, women’s rights, religious expression, governmental oppression – all these and more wander through the Russell stories, so that although they are primarily, as Graham Greene called his books, “entertainments,” they also have the real-life grit and dimension that a crime novel demands.”

From: http://laurierking.com/books/russell-holmes

Russell Absalom

Library Resources Manager