St Joseph's College, Echuca

Library News

Welcome back to our Yr 7-10’s!

 

National Reconciliation Week

Our Library display for National Reconciliation Week 2020 featured a range of books relevant to the theme of reconciliation, and reflecting the National Sorry Day message that reading and learning was one way to “be the change”. This year the theme for NRW was In this Together. “In this together – is now resonating in ways we could not have foreseen when we announced it last year, but it reminds us whether in a crisis or in reconciliation we are all #InThisTogether” (ref. https://www.reconciliation.org.au/national-reconciliation-week/).

 

Author Fleur Ferris visit Weds 17 June

We’re excited to welcome author Fleur Ferris to our College next Wednesday 17 June.  Our Yr 8 students are studying Ms Ferris’ book, Risk, which was her debut novel published by Penguin Random House in 2015.  Risk was nominated and won numerous awards, was published internationally and became an Australian Top 10 Bestseller. Her books include Nullaboo Hullabaloo, Wreck, Black, and Found (ref. http://www.fleurferris.com/home-1). Ms Ferris will have class sessions with all Yr 8 students and a writing workshop with 10 students from each of Yr 7, 8 and 9.  

 

2020 Premiers’ Reading Challenge

Our College is participating in the annual Australia-wide 2020 Premiers’ Reading Challenge (PRC).  The PRC is all about recognising the importance of reading for literacy development. 

 

Click on this link to meet Melina Marchetta, author of Looking for Alibrandi, for video clips about how to encourage your children to read at home https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/prc/Pages/meet-our-author.aspx

 

 To participate in the PRC:

  1. Students get their personal username and password from Mrs Celine Bush, from the College Learning Enhancement Team (cbush@sje.vic.edu.au) or Library staff (library@sje.vic.edu.au).
  2. Go to https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home
  3. Click on “School/Student”

          4. Click on “VPRC login”

           5. Enter Username and Password

 

Let’s beat our 2019 record of 417 books finished, and 14 students conquered the Challenge!   

 Each student who conquers the Challenge receives a special presentation and canteen voucher.

 

Beautiful new cushion covers made by our students

Amy Parker, Yr 8, made this beautiful cushion cover for one of our Library cushions, with help from Mrs Williams. While the cushions aren’t out at the moment, when they make a return to the Library space the new covers will be more hygienic and be washed regularly. 

 

 

Ebooks and E-audiobooks available from the Library Catalogue 

Access to ebooks and e-audiobooks has been extended through the Library Catalogue.  To start reading now, go to:

SIMON/ Student Links/ Library Catalogue/ Wheelers.  Follow the instructions.

Items can be easily borrowed and are returned automatically. They can also be read on a library computer, laptops or mobile devices. To give students greater freedom – we’ve developed a smart and intuitive reading App. Using the App, students can download and read eBooks on a multiple array of devices with iOS, Android and Windows platforms. Students can read anywhere, and anytime, even offline. Helpfully, the App also synchronises reading location between devices.

 

The School Library Association of Victoria has put out a list of free Online Resources for reading and learning. Some of these include:

 

IASL Director International Schools, Zakir Hossain, has created this website for open access to Ebooks & Audiobooks https://icsz.libguides.com/OpenAccessZakir/

 

The World Digital Library at https://www.wdl.org/en/ is curated by the Library of Congress in the USA. It includes almost 20,000 items from 193 countries.

 

The International Children’s Digital Library has over 4600 titles in 59 languages freely available at http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

 

Global Storybooks is a free multilingual literacy resource for children and youth worldwide at https://globalstorybooks.net/.

 

Audiblehave made their children’s platform freely available at https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

 

Australian author Lili Wilkinson is offering online masterclasses and virtual appearances.

 

FREE eBooks About Coronavirus / COVID-19 is a collection of free eBooks in multiple languages for children about the Coronavirus/COVID-19 at https://nycdoe.libguides.com/COVID-19ebooks/free

 

Books Create Australia is the joint book industry platform of authors, librarians, booksellers and publishers at https://bookscreate.com.au/