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Movember…

okaras — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:10:41 +0000

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in Australia and around the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and depression in men.

St George College Library has subscriptions to a number of health and wellbeing magazines including Australian men’s health. Funds for these titles are supplied by the Student Assocation of the college. These items are held in the window browsing area of the library.

For more information about Movember, visit http://au.movember.com.

How do I? St George College Library wiki

okaras — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:30:50 +0000

Trying to find out how to access and utilise a particular database, or how to renew your library items on the TAFEcat, or even how to put money on your TAFEcard to photocopy and print at the library? Demonstrations on these and more are found on the St George Library wiki. This wiki is a collaborative collection of web pages containing a newsletter, podcasts, audio library tours and more.
See what Information Literacy we offer; this includes links to our iLectures and you can also listen to podcasts about the Library by clicking on the links here, or going to the wiki and scrolling down past the New Resources list to the links for Information Literacy and podcasts.

Literacy Week activities

okaras — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:00:48 +0000

The Library hosted two National Literacy and Numeracy Week Days on Wednesday 31 August and Thursday 1 September. Activities included a Sustainability Quiz based on a PowerPoint presentation developed for the event, played on our wide screen DVD/CD viewer and wireless headset listening unit. There was also a Library Maze Hunt to find the letters of ‘Literacy’ placed strategically around the library to take participants to the dictionaries and Literacy Collection, questions about new items added to the Literacy Collection, and a fill the speech bubble exercise based on a video clip running on the wide screens in the group study rooms. Thank you to teachers and students who took part in the event and made it a success.

The Library visits Montgomery St.

lradulovitch — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:21:25 +0000

New books in the library

On Monday 15th August, the library paid a visit to Montgomery St campus. The Student Association provided free soup in the tea room and the library had many of their new books and DVDs on display. These new resources in the library were mainly for the fashion, design, graphic and fine arts courses, as well as some new titles for health. Sorry if we missed you, but feel free to visit us in the library to view many new books and DVDs. Also, many new titles are shown and regularly updated on the subject guides which are available via the library website. Just go to the subject guide relevant to your course and scroll down to the “New items in the library” box.

5 for $1

As we have many new DVDs in the library, which we transfer into lockable cases, we now have lots of virtually unused DVD cases for sale in the library. So if you need to organise your DVD/CD shelves at home, or if you need presentation cases for your DVD projects, come on up to the library and pick up 5 cases for $1.00!!

New Literacy Collection (LC)

mayho — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:40:05 +0000

We have just received a stack of story books with audio CDs. These story books can be located at LC 428.6 at the end of the shelves after the history books. Come to the Library & have a look. You are welcome to borrow them!

SI Libraries Mobile Access

okaras — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:52:18 +0000

Now live.

The Sydney Institute library has developed a mobile website which can be accessed from any mobile phone.

Access by going to the Sydney Institute Libraries website and click on the ‘visit the mobile library website’ button on the right hand side of the screen or save this direct link to your mobile browser: http://m.silibrary.com/

TAFE NSW Library Network eJournal A-Z

okaras — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:36:34 +0000

The TAFE NSW Library Network eJournal A – Z is a hosted service from EBSCO, for which we have a 12 month subscription. It provides an A to Z listing, and the ability to search, for eJournal titles that are available from the databases to which TAFE NSW libraries have a state-wide subscription. Please note that the non-journal state-wide subscription databases are not included. To view a listing of the databases that are included, see the Databases A-Z tab within the eJournal A-Z product.

The TAFE NSW Library Network eJournal A – Z, is also accessible from TAFEcat. On the eResources page in TAFEcat, there is now a new heading called “Search for eJournal titles” and below the heading, there is a link to the eJournal A-Z product.

No authentication is required to access and search the TAFE NSW Library Network eJournal A – Z product. You will be asked to authenticate, using the existing TAFEcat eResources authentication pages, at the point where you try to access a journal title.

Welcome to Semester 2 at St George College Library

okaras — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:30:45 +0000

Welcome to new and continuing students and staff. The library has undergone a few changes during the winter break. Greig Thomson, our Library Manager has retired, and we also have some new staff to help you locate library resources.
Teachers may have booked for students to attend an orientation tour or library skills workshop. If not, we look forward to seeing you at the library some time soon.

Schizophrenia Awareness Week

okaras — Mon, 16 May 2011 02:25:29 +0000

The week of the 16th the 22nd of May is Schizophrenia Awareness Week.

To learn more about Mental Illness and see what events are on around the country side see the links below
http://www.sfnsw.org.au/About-Schizophrenia/Schizophrenia/default.aspx

http://www.sane.org/information/factsheets-podcasts

For resources in the St George Library, click on the links to see TAFEcat records.
“From seed to sunflower…” by Virginia McLeod.
“What is mental Illness” by Richard McNally.
“Understanding Mental Illness” by Justin Healy.
“Indigenous Spiritual Wellbeing” eResource.

Blog post by Maureen Mulquiney

St George online subject guides – podcast

okaras — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:55:44 +0000

St George College Library have developed subject guides to help you access and learn about the wide range of resources available for your research and studies at St George College. They are designed to assist staff and students of the campus to find high quality information on the internet and make the most effective use of the library.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about the guides, and have a look at the guide of your choice by clicking on the link.

New Resources

rchen — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:06:47 +0000

A substantial number of new material has been added into the St George library collection recently. To access these new resources in detail, you just need to simply click on the link of the following website: http://tafecat.tafensw.edu.au/STG_NEWTITLES.html

Autumn library holiday hours

ssummersmorrow — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:48:16 +0000

St George College Library will be recarpeted over the Autumn holidays. It is necessary for the library to close from Friday 8th April 2011 and not reopen until the first day of term 2 (Wednesday 27th April) 2011.
No item will be due during the time that the library is closed.
It will still be possible to return items during this time in the return chute between 9am and 5pm each day (public holidays excluded).

What’s Hottest?

greig.thomson — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:01:20 +0000

Can you guess our hottest title at the moment? You can find out on TAFEcat after selecting St George as your local library.


You might also like to browse the list of New items added to the collection over the summer vacation. There are books on information technology, sociology, finance, real estate, human resources, fine arts, graphic design, etc.



Welcome to 2011 at St George College Library
okaras — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:29:40 +0000
Hello and welcome. For those of you who are new to TAFE or continuing study, please have a look at this blog to keep up to date with things happening at St George College Library.

Click on the links for catalogue search results on study skills and time management to see the library resources on offer.

All the best in your studies.



A great “chick-lit” read and fun
jason.wang — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:13:22 +0000
I have borrowed a paperback from our library lately and read it while I was taking the train to work. The title is Remember me? by Sophie Kinsella. Kinsella is the New York Times best-selling author of Shopaholic & Baby
The story starts from when twenty-eight-year old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital. She’s in for a big surprise; her teeth are perfect, her body is toned…having survived a car accident.  She has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed and what  she has done.  What happened to her?  Will she ever remember?  And what will happen if she does?
I think it is great fun for our students to read on the train. It is not new, but it is light and a great “chick-lit” read.  The print size is also good enough for my eyes.  If anyone is interested in it, the book’s call number is GC/KINS on the fiction collection shelf next to the library display area.  Or you can ask library staff help.



National Recycling Week
okaras — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:38:39 +0000
Now in its 15th year, Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week aims to improve the environmental benefits of kerbside, industrial and community recycling programs. This year’s campaign focuses on three streams: Big Aussie Swap, Friday File Fling and Improving the understanding of kerbside recycling, principally through an educative quiz hosted on RecyclingWeek.PlanetArk.org. Come and see the recycling and sustainable living resources available at St George College Library.




October is Mental Health Month
okaras — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:15:14 +0000
The Mental Health Association NSW has dedicated October to be Mental Health Month (MHM).

The theme is “Good friends help us bounce back.” Bring a friend and come and see the displays and resources available in the display cases and on the tables at the library. Pick up a postcard with ways to help you stress less or with the theme of the month.







Click on the pictures to see full versions.



St George College 2010 Information Evening
mibragimova — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:33:13 +0000
On Wednesday night 15th of September St George College Library hosted the 2010 Course Information Evening organised by St George College. Visitors had the opportunity to talk to staff about study and career options and services offered by the college.







Visitors had a chance to win one of the Lucky Door prizes:
1st prize- Dinner for two at Embark Restaurant, Loftus
2nd prize-Two IMAX Movie tickets
3rd prize- 8 Gig Flash Drive



Jigsaw in the library
mibragimova — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:20:49 +0000

The new 1000 piece jigsaw has been solved in less than a week! Thanks to all participants, we hope you had good fun!

The next jigsaw is going to be a 1000  piece Sweet Tooth puzzle we are going to put out after the Spring vacation. We look forward to your participation next term.



F.A.Davis eBook podcast
okaras — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:32:14 +0000
St George College Library has subscribed to F.A. Davis Company ebooks. Listen to the podcast to find out more about what the site and titles offer.