Last week the library combined two events; National Science Week and a promotion of the James Cook University Open Day Aug 21. The JCU Medical & Health Sciences Faculty Marketing Department kindly supplied anatomical models and the Minister, Hon Cameron Dick, visited the library on Wednesday while paying his respects to our own award-winning HOD Science, Mr Callin.
Lots of students expressed interest in the JCU Course book for 2012 as well as our own title, “Careers in IT”. We have two contests running until the end of August. The first is an anatomy quiz and the second involves writing a Nano Story (50 word story) mentioning one of the health science careers listed on the competition. All our competitions this week and next week, which is book week, close at the end of August. Snapshots of the Science Week/JCU display are sprinkled through the blog today.
Inspecting the Medical realia on loan from JCU
Sites to help you study & read
This week, we’ve added heaps of good research sites to our Library Bookmarks like the Creative Commons website. Search by tags or look down the lists to check if a list has been created for your assignment. A very cool Study webpage for 13-17yr olds has just been launched by the Western Australian Government. Spend some time at STUDY VIBE and watch your grades improve. The WA government has always been innovative, they have been running a journal featuring reviews of adolescent fiction for many years. You can read the reviews online. Search the CMIS website for Book Reviews (search by title or author) You can even search for information pathfinders (search by topic) and be rewarded with a hotlist of websites. This is one example of a book review which appears in the Fiction Focus quarterly journal and also in their online database. Here’s the review of “Lean on Pete”, a new novel on the shelves.
Steampunk
“Lean on Pete” is great for those of us who like realism, but hold onto your hats fantasy lovers, there’s a new genre to describe the speculative yet historical stories that are increasing in number. It’s “Steampunk”. Explore these bookmarks from the Marcellin Library to learn more about Steampunk novels.
More visitors arrived from Hong Kong and were partnered up with eager Smithfield students. Teachers, Ann, Petula & Ray spent some time with us in the library, while the students were off with their buddies.
- Visiting students from Hong Kong using a library laptop
