The countdown is on!

Only two more weeks until the Literature Festival—how time flies!

Ms Jagger and Ms Tanase have been extremely busy putting the finishing touches on this year’s Literature Festival program. We’re lucky enough to have a wonderful variety of authors, illustrators, graphic novelists, lecturers, researchers, poets and performers coming to present, and it’s with our great pleasure that we announce the final line-up of fabulous guest speakers and presenters. To find the list of presenters and a brief bio of each, head over to the Literature Festival page, on the Library’s SPACES site.

I’m so looking forward to hearing our guest presenters, and I hope the boys are too—they’re in for a wonderful treat, including writing workshops, seminars, presentations, performances and cartooning workshops, among other things.

To other news, last week saw the wrap up of our very successful Year 7 library and research skills orientation program. We ended the program with a second session with each Year 7 history class–this time to introduce students to using the library for their research assignment on Heritage sites.

Students have been given the task of choosing a site and researching its archaeological and historical significance. It’s been wonderful to see Year 7 utilising the library’s many resources in this area, including books from the collection and online resources such as Britannica Online, Ancient and Medieval History Online and Skwirk, a website that holds fantastic information for secondary school-aged students across different discipline areas. There have also been some complex conversations during class about critically evaluating information sources that students find online.

I do hope I get the opportunity to read some of the research upon completion!

Ms Choi
Head of Library Services