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The library is celebrating National Year of Reading 2012. To celebrate staff members have been invited to read aloud in the library during lunch. Please contact the library to book a spot. Ms Monckton is going to read the //**Polar Express **// by Chris Van Allsburg this Friday. Every Wednesday at lunch Ms Ballard will be reading the **//Hunger Games //** by Suzanne Collins.

The library now has some books from the **Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year Short List 2012**

Dubosarsky, Ursula The Golden Day Gardner, Scot The Dead I Know McGahan, Andrew Ship Kings: The Coming of the Whirlpool Newton, Robert When We Were Two
 * Books for Older Readers **

Constable, Kate Crow Country French, Jackie Nanberry: Black Brother White Green, Susan The Truth About Verity Sparks Rodda, Emily Ill. Craig Smith [|Bungawitta] Rodda, Emily The Golden Door
 * Books for Younger Readers **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Online Resources
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Science** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Periodic Table of Videos

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Short videos about every element on the periodic table, plus other cool experiments and information about chemistry.

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">HSC Community and Family Studies - Resources from the State Library of NSW **


 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">It's about time //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> //Women, men, work and// //family//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - final paper 2007 available to download
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mothers and fathers with young children: paid employment, caring and wellbeing// [PDF 858KB]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Post-separation parenting arrangements and developmental outcomes for infants and children – Collected reports// [DOC 5.8MB]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Parenting and families in Australia// [PDF 2.6MB]
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Shared care parenting arrangements since the 2006 family law reforms report// [DOC 4.7MB] //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Snapshots of family relationships// [PDF 1.6MB] 2008
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Work-life balance in Australia in the new millennium: rhetoric versus reality// [PDF 1.97MB] ====

Ancient History links from the State Library of NSW

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Herculaneum Conservation Project
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pompeiana.org: an online resource for all things Pompeia

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Currently and constantly in development, this website is designed to be an online repository for electronic resurces on the ancient city.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Pompeii Forum Project

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This an interdisciplinary collaborative research venture sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Virginia, and private contributors.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Digital Egypt
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Archaeology & Ancient History Links
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Women in the Ancient World

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This week I have posted a Stage 6 <span class="wiki_link_ext">**Study and Research Help Page** and emailed the link to stage 6 students. It provides links to resources that could help stage 6 students with their HSC preparation. I will also include titles of any relevant new books that come into the library.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">English **
====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I found this blog entry about 12 Animated Plays by William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Othello and Other Great Tales Brought to Life. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> This site contains some samples of the animations and information about them and a link to where they can be purchased. ====

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Images from space track relentless spread of humanity - Snapshots from space reveal the impact of vast population shifts on cities around the world. Snapshots were created for CNN [|NASA's Landsat department] in collaboration with the [|U.S. Geological Survey] =====

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sircus - Scientific Search Engine <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Scirus claims to be … "//the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 460 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for journal content, scientists' homepages, course ware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information."//

=__Term 2 Week 2 2012__= =This week the newsletter goes online via wikispaces! Links below will open in a new window. =


 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Wolves in the Walls //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> written by Neil Gaiman ; illustrated by Dave McKean

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This book is by the author of the magical best seller Coraline. Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of her house, although others in her family disagree, and when the wolves come out, the adventure begins.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This book contains parodies of familiar fairy tales. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Samsara Dog lived many lives. Coming back again and again didn’t worry him. He lived each life as it came until one day he learned the most important lesson of all. This picture book looks at life, love and dying from a Buddhist perspective. (From publisher's website)
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> by Jon Scieszka
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Samsara Dog //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">by Elen Manos; illustrated by Julie Vivas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">//**The Ballard of Les Darcy**// by Peter Fitzsimons
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">//**Stories from the Billabong**// by James Vace Marshall and illustrated by Francis Firebrace
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">//**Eight Keys**// by Suzanne LaFleur
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">//**Finding Freia Lockhart**// by Aimee Said
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**//City of Fallen Angels//** by Cassandra Clare
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**//Hearts at Stake//** by Alyxandra
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">//**Only Ever Always**// by Penni Russon
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**//Eli the Good//** by Silas House


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">DVDs donated by Chris Abbott **
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Bright Star //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rated **PG** – Stage 6 English – Romantic Poets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Tim Burton’s **//Corpse Bride//** Rated **PG** - Stage 4 English
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">District 9 //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rated **MA 15+** - Sci Fi or Belonging
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Educating Rita //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Rated **PG** – Drama to film text
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Into the Wild //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> and **//The Kite Runner//** Rated **M** – Stage 6 English – Journeys and Belonging respectively
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lars and the Real Girl //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Rated **PG** – Stage 5 English – Love and Romance
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Where the Wild Things Are //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rated **PG** – Stage 4 English
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Polar Express //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rated **G** – Stage 4 -English

=**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Online Resources **=

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Great FREE online resource - Encyclopaedia Britannica Online **
==<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Access the Encyclopaedia Britannica via the National Library of Australia for free. Users can search full-text articles and maps or browse the encyclopaedia in its traditional alphabetic arrangement. If you are already a member of the National Library of Australia you can use your Library card to access <span style="color: #04a8dc; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Encyclopaedia Britannica Online or if you and/or your students don’t have a Library card you can <span style="color: #04a8dc; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">register online .==

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|OzCoasts]
==<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">OzCoastsprovides comprehensive information about Australia's coast, including its estuaries, coastal waterways and climate change impact. OzCoasts is managed by the Marine and Coastal Environment Group at Geoscience Australia, and represents a collaborative effort of more than 100 scientists and mangers from across Australia.==

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**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__ Book News __ **
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The following resources are now in the library <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This DVD documents the relationship between aboriginal women, the Dreamtime and the earth. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">“Readers will have the good fortune to experience poetry as art, game joke, list, song, story, statement, question, memory. A primer like no other”. (School Library Journal). <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This is a book about some very successful Aboriginal Australians.
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Excel HSC Food Technology //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (2010) edited by Donna Kerr & Sandra Wilson
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Women of the Earth DVD //**
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">A Kick in the Head //****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">: //An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms// ( **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">2009) edited by Paul Janeczko
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Deadly Australians //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">(2009) by Rhonda Craven and James Wilson-Miller
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dancing with Ben Hall and other Yarns //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (2001) by Jackie French
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Night they Stormed Eureka //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">(2009) by Jackie French

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Goblin Threat - Plagiarism Game This game is from Snowden Library, Lycoming College. Students have to destroy the goblins and save the day by answering questions about plagiarism.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Slide presentation on the many ways to use Flip Video Cameras in the classroom

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Create a Graph <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Here you will find five different graphs and charts to create.

<span style="color: #242a65; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">EasyChem <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">EasyChem is an online resource for students studying Chemistry in the NSW HSC.

<span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">NewScientist.com <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">New Scientist.com carries an archive of over 76,000 content pieces. NewScientist.com online content is enhanced by an international team posting breaking news every day. This website also features blogs, photo galleries and videos.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sites2see Human Body <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Here are some visual and interactive resources that explore the human body.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">EnhanceTV <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">EnhanceTV helps you teach with TV and film content. At www.enhancetv.com.au you can find out about upcoming educational programs, get copies of broadcasts, and discover new teaching ideas and resources to inspire and engage students of all ages. Keep in mind that the school subscribes to**TV4Education** so if there is a free to air digital TV program you need downloaded contact Jason Towers or the library.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__ Books News __** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The library has received the first shipment of new books for the Premier’s Reading Challenge 2012. The focus of the Premier’s Reading Challenge this year will be on getting Year 7 students registered for the challenge and reading. The books from //The Hunger Games// trilogy by Suzanne Collins, consisting of //The Hunger Games//, //Catching __Fire__// and //Mockingjay// are now at CHS library.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__ Electronic Resources __** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks with the ability to zoom in on artwork.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Art Project

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Teacher resources aim to support cybersafety education. All resources are supported by units of work and Cybersmart multimedia.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Cybersmart Teacher Resources
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">__Special education__ Cybersmart Access is a set of four fun games and units of work designed to reinforce key cybersafety messages to children with __special__ education needs. It is designed for use within __special__ schools and mainstream schools and can be enjoyed by all middle year students regardless of their abilities.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Classroom resources and tips for using Google Earth in the classroom.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Google Earth for Educators

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This website presents a history of conflicts using an interactive timeline. It provides locations and summaries of conflicts throughout history.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">History of Conflict Timeline


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> LibriVox - Volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as __free__ audio books. Here is an example of a link from LibriVox. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This site introduces the information process in a step-by-step guide that breaks down research tasks into manageable parts.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Research Skills


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Visuwords — Use this fun graphical dictionary to look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Place your cursor over any of the words that appear in the web and the definition appears. Use the color-coded key to understand the connections between the words.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Here is a link to a LiveBinder that I have created to store resources from newsletters http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/340735. Click on the tabs to reveal sub tabs.

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