Library role in information literacy recognised and rewarded

June 24th, 2010 Posted by ssummersmorrow in blogs, computers, facilities, library services | Post a Comment »

For a number of years St George College Library has been fortunate enough to have a room in the library that the college had given to the lbirary for excusive use as a literacy room. This has meant that when teachers bring students in for literacy classes library staff have been able to give detailed instruction in literacy theory. The weakness has always been that to practice the theory students have had to move to a computer room within the library – this computer room can be difficult for library staff to use as teachers can prebook it class use. A further weakness with this set up is that all theory (up to one hour) must be given in one hit and then all hands on practice done in one go – not good teaching practice.
For several years library staff at St George have put together a proposal to obtain funds from the Institute to allow for the literacy room to be fitted out with computers. This year we were successful!!!! The library literacy room fit out is now complete and boast 16 computers, custom built desks, ergonomic chairs, a ceiling short throw projector, speakers and the capability to run VHS and DVD to the projector.
For the library staff this means that even if a teacher books a literacy session last minute they are guaranteed to have a room ready to go as the room can’t be booked by anyone else at the college. It means for students that they won’t need to listen to one hour of theory first – they can learn one aspect of literacy and practice it, listen to and learn the next section and practice it, etc.
Library staff at St George College wish to acknowledge the wonderful support of the College Management Team in recognising the important role that library staff play in increasing information literacy skills of students and in the need to library staff to always have a room at their disposal to run the many and varied information literacy sessions that they provide.
If library staff are not using the room and the library computer room is booked, teachers can also take classes into the literacy room.

New collection of ebooks on nursing: ask for access details

June 23rd, 2010 Posted by mibragimova in blogs, library resources, library services | Post a Comment »

Please join our community jigsaw!!

June 16th, 2010 Posted by ying.song in events, games | Post a Comment »

Due to the popularity of the jigsaw puzzle during the library week, We have put up another game in the library. Please come and join our community jigsaw and challenge yourself to solve this 2000 piece game.

Drug Action Week 20-26 June 2010

June 10th, 2010 Posted by gail.simmons in events, health, vacations | Post a Comment »

Think B4U Drink

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Winter Vacation Opening Hours

June 9th, 2010 Posted by patricia.murdoch in Uncategorized | Post a Comment »

From Monday 28 June until Friday 16 July, the library will be open from 9:00am to 3:00pm.

Regular hours resume on Monday 19 July.

Renewals may be made online at http://tafecat.tafensw.edu.au/tafecat.html or during opening hours on 9598 6311.

Podcast-Basic catalogue search

June 6th, 2010 Posted by mibragimova in catalogue, library services, podcast, tafecat | Post a Comment »

Listen to this podcast  to learn basic catalogue search skills

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

USED BOOKS SALE END & NEW COLLECTION COMING

June 3rd, 2010 Posted by jason.wang in library services | Post a Comment »

The library used books sale has won overwhelming support. We are considering another book sale in 2nd semester.   The fund raised from book sale may use to improve library service.  We thank all students and teachers contribution and looking forward to your support again.

We have new collection will arrive in the library very soon.  As you may aware we have moving furniture and shelves trying to accommodate new items.  We apologized if there is any inconvenience for our clients and would like  you visiting our new collection section once it finished arrangement.

Library and Information Week- competition winners, community jigsaw etc

June 1st, 2010 Posted by mibragimova in Library week, TAFE, blogs, events | Post a Comment »

We started out community jigsaw on 24th of May

Jigsaw in progress

When it comes to jigsaw puzzle every single piece is important!

Well done! 

Competition winners

Library Quiz

Answers are on whiteboard next to the Front Desk

1^st prize            2 Adult movie

2^nd prize      Black leather folder  

3^rd prize       pack of photographic paper  

What is in the box?

Answer:      cymbals

Prizes:        two 1GB USB flash drives          

                                                                 Guess number of lollies

 Answer:      88 lollies 

Prize:          Jar of lollies goes to one lucky student who guessed  the exact number!

Winners has been  contacted and invited to the library to collect the prizes.

Thank you to St George College Student Association for the prizes.

LIBRARY EXCELLENCE AWARD 2010

May 28th, 2010 Posted by patricia.murdoch in Uncategorized | Post a Comment »

St George College  and Sutherland Campus library staff have won the TAFE NSW 2010 Library Excellence Award.

In 2008 we received funding from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (AFLF).  Our aim was to produce resources to provide information about our libraries and our services.  We developed ilectures and podcasts that are available on our wiki 24×7.  You can watch how our project progressed on our AFLF wiki. We all enjoyed learning new skills and using products such as Adobe Captivate which you have access to on the library computers.  Captivate allows you to record computer screen dumps, useful for giving demonstrations.  Let us know what other iLectures and podcasts we should produce to help you use the library, research and complete your assignments more effectively.

Library and Information Week 2010 @ St George College Library

May 24th, 2010 Posted by ssummersmorrow in Library week, events | Post a Comment »

This is the week when libraries across Australia celebrate LIBRARY AND INFORMATION WEEK. As normal we are marking this occassion at St George with a range of activiteis.

This year the community jigsaw is a 500 piece Australia water birds one.

On Tuesday the children from the college child care center (Kameruka) will be joining us for storytime as we celebrate National Simultaneous Storytime with thousands of other children across Australia.

Wednesday sees us hosting a late morning tea and raising funds for the “Biggest morning tea” as we raise money for cancer research.

There are displays from sections at the college and also daily sessions where librayr staff will be training staff and students of the college in some of our newer products and resources such as the WSGN database, Moodle and more.

Our ever popular competitions are back – “Guess what is in the box”, “Guess how many lollies are in the jar” and our library quiz. All 3 carry some terrific prizes in the main donated by the St George College Student Assocation.

Come along and join us and have some fun and help us celebrate.

What ideas do you our students and staff have that we can implement for Library and Information Week 2011?