Orientation
2015 will be an exciting year for the whole school community. Our library will need to service hundreds more students and teachers as we welcome Year 7 to the “big school” for the first time in the history of our school. We promise you – and all our “Freshmen”, that it won’t be long until you get in the swing of things, like all Year 8’s and all the Year 8’s before them. We’ll be talking to you about our “ways of working” in the Library, but don’t expect to remember everything the first time. If you need any help to log in to a computer, find a resource etc. – just ask. Who? Our Library staff of course! Another strategy to learn these information skills, is to visit our Information Portal .
New Staff Member
A big welcome to our newest library staff member, Mrs Colgrave, who transferred to our faculty from Admin this year.
Australia Day
We have our usual Australia Day display running this week, mainly to highlight books to the International Students who may want to familiarize themselves further with our geography and customs. Thank you to Mr Colgrave for helping us erect the display. The Australia Day Honours List can be found here.
A welcome bit of news to we Library folk is the announcement of the Senior Australian of the Year – Childrens’ Laureate Jackie French. Overcoming dyslexia herself, French believes in the transformational power of storytelling in the lives of young Australians. Read more about Jackie here… Check out one of her books from our shelves…
“Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child’s brain,” she told the crowd on the lawns of Parliament House on Sunday as she received her award.
“If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.” The 61-year-old from NSW has published 140 books, for both adults and children, in 32 languages and received more than 60 literary prizes. Read more..
International Year of Light and Light Technologies
Late in 2013, a resolution was passed by the UN General Assembly to make 2015 The International Year of Light. The Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon delivered his message in Jan 2015. You can read his message, which ends with “Let there be a year of Light.” and find out more by visiting the International Year of Light website.
CGBF Grant for New Lights – A Coincidence?
Last week, we were delighted to learn that our CGBF grant application to have our original energy hungry lights, fans and security replaced, was successful. Our energy footprint will be only a third of what it used to be, with more efficient systems. Over the holidays our new cabinet for housing the security system unit, photocopy paper and Book-It computer, was delivered. Thank you to Mr Robins and Mr McClelland for moving the electronics and installing our new TNLA logo. THANK YOU to our supporters who supported out application, Prof Paul Gadek (JCU), Sam O’Connor (Police), Mark Allen (TBSS), Keith Seaton (P & C) and Michael Trout (MP). Finally we acknowledge the generous Community Gambling Benefit Fund for donating over $30,000 to upgrade our facility.
