Library News

Busy Term

It has been a busy time in the library this term, as you can see from a usual lunchtime in our school library 

Updated Library Management System

You might be aware that we have updated our Library management system. It is known as Infiniti. There is a help guide to getting started with Infiniti on Compass in ICT guides under School Documentation.

It looks like this: 

ANZAC Commemoration

The Library commemorated the 100 year anniversary of the ANZACs with special library displays 

Sarah Howell

The Geelong Regional Library offered a special opportunity to enjoy a workshop with cartoonist Sarah Howell to our Year 9 students. 

Sarah is known as a producer of comics related events, including as 2009-10 Co- Director of the National Writer’s Festival. Sarah’s illustrations and comics have appeared in various Australian literary journals and as part of the 2011 Melbourne Writers’ Festival’s comic anthology Drawn from Life. In August 2011 Sarah was one of eight Melbourne cartoonists invited to undertake a month long residency project, titled Inherent Vice, at the National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne. As a result of Inherent Vice Sarah has become a founding member of Australia's first comics studio, Squishface Studio, in Brunswick, Melbourne. 

Sarah ran a workshop on drawing faces. Here are some samples of what the girls produced :

National Sorry Day - Luka Lesson

For National Sorry Day the Library also invited Luka Lesson back to the school for an afternoon poetry performance and workshop. Talisha O’Connor and Alysha Whitehand gave an acknowledgement of country before the performance 

Poetry

The girls were asked to write a poem to an object using a letter form. Here is a sample from one of our budding poets.

A Letter To My Shoe - By: Alessandra Pereyra

CBCA Book Week

We are looking forward to Term 3 with CBCA Book Week to be celebrated in August. The CBCA Book Talk was recently held in Geelong - here is a link to this year’s shortlist –

http://cbca.org.au/ShortList-2015.htm

The books are all available from the library.

Inspiration, laughter and tears were also experienced at the recent Reading Matters Conference run by The Centre for Youth Literature in Melbourne. 

Authors such as Clare Atkins, Sara Farizan, Jared Thomas Sally Gardner, and Laurie Halse Anderson

spoke about the importance of diverse voices and characters being represented in fiction for teenagers. The authors have wonderful books for your daughters to follow up on in the MFGSC Library.

Mary Connoley for the Library Team