QR Codes

Inside the books on display are QR Codes that provide more information about the story.

By scanning the code with a QR reader on your cellphone, it will take you to a website that gives you the summary, setting, reviews about the book and information about the author.

Go to your app store to find a QR Reader if you do not already have one.

 

Father's Day

This Sunday, being Father's Day, we get to show our dads how much we love and appreciate them (not reserved just for Father's Day). In this link Best Dad's in Literature there are five fathers who have been listed. My favourite is Atticus Finch, he has strong values and instills honesty, a sense of fairness and justice into his children.

Who is your favourite father in a book you have read?

Course Planning for 2014

The library hosted representatives from universities around the country who provided Year 13 students advice about planning their courses for next year.

Agriculture students get the low down

Year 12 agricultural students benefited from a visit from a representative from Telford, a division of Lincoln University. Feedback from the boys was positive. They discovered there was more to it than they realised. The range of courses and programmes available provided them with a range of opportunities for their future careers. As a bonus for attending they all received a dog whistle and a pen.

New books on the Shelfari shelf

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemminway has a theme of facing death with courage. For more on this book go to Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers is written by a veteran of the war in Iraq and is the story of tow soldiers trying to stay alive.
For a review go to The Yellow Birds
The following clip is an interview with the author Kevin Powers who gives some insight into why he wrote the story and the style he used.

                                          (Source: You Tube - Kevin Powers )


Pure by Julianna Baggott one to read if you like The Hunger Games.

                                          (Source You Tube: Pure )


We the Animals by Justin Torres 
A range of reviews can be found here We the Animals

IPads now in the library

Thanks to a TSB grant, i-pads have been made available to students this term and have proved very popular. The benefits of being portable and smaller than laptops makes them easy for students to use anywhere within the library. Chess, mahjong, checkers, chess, word search are apps that have also been provided to keep minds engaged.