Literacy Week activities

September 4th, 2011 Posted by okaras in display, events, library facilities, library resources | Post a Comment »

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.

Children’s Book Week at Kameruka!

September 1st, 2011 Posted by jdrainas in library services | Post a Comment »

On Thursday 25^th August, one of our St George College librarians conducted a storytime poetry session about places where children live in the world for Children’s Book Week. Our librarian provided a map and world globe for the children at Kameruka Childcare Centre and showed them where Australia is situated compared to the rest of the world. The pre-schoolers were enthralled with the session and participated in the storytime activities and later concluded the session by singing one of their favourite songs.

The Library visits Montgomery St.

August 22nd, 2011 Posted by lradulovitch in display, library resources | Post a Comment »

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)

August 5th, 2011 Posted by mayho in library resources | Post a Comment »

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

July 28th, 2011 Posted by okaras in Internet resources, library resources, library services | Post a Comment »

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

July 19th, 2011 Posted by okaras in catalogue, database, Internet resources, library resources, tafecat | Post a Comment »

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.

Access to TAFE exam papers through TAFEcat

July 19th, 2011 Posted by okaras in Internet resources, tafecat | Post a Comment »

Welcome to Semester 2 at St George College Library

July 19th, 2011 Posted by okaras in library resources, library services | Post a Comment »

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.

Winter vacation hours

June 23rd, 2011 Posted by okaras in library services, vacations | Post a Comment »

You can download discounted Microsoft Academic software

June 19th, 2011 Posted by okaras in Internet resources | Post a Comment »

Microsoft products are now available for electronic DOWNLOAD – you can download the latest versions instantly.

The only requirement is that you have a NSW DET email address.

NSW DET Employees only  :
1. WAH media  – www.sigroup.com.au/teachers.
You  have two options: either Download or order physical media.

2.  Full Licenses only – www.sigroup.com.au/education.html
and choose- “Student & Teacher Educational Licenses”  for both  Microsoft and Adobe software.

NSW DET Students only :
Full License Download  – www.sigroup.com.au/download.
This is now the cheapest way to purchase Microsoft Academic products and the only way to DOWNLOAD legal copies.
Visit www.sigroup.com.au/download/studentdownload.pdf  and print or download the information sheet.