Halloween and Globalization

It’s Halloween this week in the library and we’ve a good few Horror Books on display. We hope you like the decorations. Yes it is an American celebration but social sciences classes have been doing a lot of research about globalization lately.  Click here to search for an article discussing globalized brands.

Many thanks to Madison Wills who helped with making some of the Halloween decorations, when she wasn’t culling books or filing newspaper articles in our vertical files in the G: Curriculum – Common – Vertical Files  sub-folders. You don’t need to know this path because now we have upgraded to V-LIBRARY. Now you will be able to find newspaper articles about e.g. floods by “ticking” the check box called, LAN on the new OPAC search screen. Type in the keyword “floods”  and wait for all the articles on the
network to be listed for you to inspect.  For  instructions/tutorials about how you use the OPAC -database search and other new features click on Using the Library” above.

 Enter this week’s competition – email Mrs Robins if you know what the acronym OPAC means?

I had the pleasure of reviewing an Australian werewolf book this year written by Catherine Jinks. The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group was a real page turner.  Read the review.  Take the new OPAC terminal, our new netbook, for a spin and see if you can find this book on our shelves? Browse over 100 short reviews of Horror titles written by Teacher-librarians all around Australia by searching the CMIS Resource Bank in WA – choose subject and type Horror.

If you’re looking for popular Horror books, the Goodreads.com site is a good place to start.  We found a Best Vampire Books list and a Best Teen Horror/Suspense/Thriller list.   The monsterlibrarian.com site recommends some different vampire books and the list of Horror Novels for teenagers and young adults on the Bestbooks4teens.com site looks good too. This last list is a good place for senior students. Seniors should be reading mainly ‘crossover books’ which are read by both adolescents and adults. Here is a list of crossover titles.  We also have a 15+ section in Fiction. That’s all our news but if you heard Laurie Oaks give the annual Andrew Ollie Media Lecture last week, you would have heard him predict that in the future people will come to blogs to find out the news, not the nightly news on the television. Interesting.