Randwick campus is now home to a Wollemi pine – one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees
Elizabeth Butel has won the $50 prize book voucher in the raffle which allowed us to purchase the pine seedling. The pine is potted up and on display on the campus grounds. Royalties from Wollemi Pine sales fund ongoing conservation research. Thank you to Randwick Student Association and the Library for contributing towards this project.
Holiday Library Hours
During the September/October vacation Randwick College Library will be open from Monday 27th September to Friday 8th October, 10am to 4pm. Please note the library will be closed on the public holiday, Monday 4th October. Normal hours will resume Monday 11th October.
Cordless Screen Listening System
Randwick College Library has recently installed a cordless Sound/Screen Listening and Viewing System. It enables individuals or groups of up to ten people to listen to DVDs/videos, and/or CDs simultaneously. Individuals are able to plug in their earphones into a cordless receiver and view a CD or DVD without disturbing other people in the library. [...]
Randwick College Library has donated a $50 prize voucher to help raise funds to purchase a Wollemi Pine for the College – raffle to be drawn 8 September 2010
How can we help conserve the Wollemi Pine? Horticultural experts believe that growing the Wollemi Pine in pots or in gardens and parks everywhere is one of the best forms of insurance against loss in the wild. .. How old are they? Some of the older adult Wollemi Pines such as “The Bill Tree” [...]