The library aims to support the teaching and learning requirements of the school by providing relevant and up-to-date materials. We also encourage student literacy through our fiction collection and high-interest non-fiction books. It is a collection of approximately 15,000 books and audiovisual materials, with
24 internet connections for student use and an interactive
whiteboard.
Library Hours (outside class time)
- 8.30 am - 8.55am
- Closed recess
- Open lunch 1.45-2.15pm
- 3.30pm - 3.45 pm
The library OASIS catalogue is accessible in the "Favourites"
list on Explorer on any school computer. |
Borrowing:
Years 7-10:4 fiction and 4 non-fiction books
Years 11-12:8 fiction and 8 non-fiction books
Students are issued with a Library card for borrowing after photos are taken. This is also a Student Identification card |
Want to comment on books you are reading or see my comments on some recently read books? Go to:
http://dallenwhs.edublogs.org/ and have a blog.
NEW BOOK RELEASES IN THE LIBRARY TUESDAY, 26TH OCTOBER 2009.
FICTION
End of the alphabet Fleur Beale
Chinese Cinderella: the mystery of the song dynasty painting Adeline Yen Mah
The fury in the fire Henning Mankell
Half way to good Kirsten Murphy
The devil you know Leonie Norrington
GRAPHIC NOVELS – FICTION
Life sucks Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, and Warren Pleece
Transformers: War within Simon Furman
Runaways: Escape to New York Brian K. Vaugan
NON-FICTION
The science of self-realization 294.5 Bha
Everything Origami 736 Gar
Draw really cool stuff 743 Dub
Mime time 792.3 Fed
The world of Pompeii 937 Wor
MAGAZINES AVAILABLE FOR BORROWING
Archaeological Diggings, MAD, New Scientist, Ragtrader, The Rolling Stone,
Screen, Studies of Society and Wacky!......but true!
Library Internet Searching Links Page
Recommended Search Engines and Directories for general searching
Search Engines Subject directories
Google : very large index, often rated the best search engine |
Infomine: scholarly internet resource collections |
Hotbot: use the preferences option to limit by date, language, include/exclude words etc. |
Virtual Library: access to selected sites with quality information |
Altavista : useful search options plus language translations |
Intute: hand selected Web resources for education and research. |
Vivisimo : a meta-seach engine which searches several search engines at once at 'clusters' information into subject categories |
Librarians index : evaluated sites, quality information. Available to year 11 & 12 only |
Hakia: hakia is a general purpose "semantic" search engine, dedicated to quality search experience. |
Academic info : evaluated sites, quality information. Available to year 11 & 12 only |
| Kigose: safe search engine for schools that filters information for age appropriate content |
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Anzwers: Australia/New Zealand search directory. Available to staff only |
Google scholar |
HSC links
Deep Web searching
Complete Planet: deep web directory. Available to staff only |
Incywincy: the invisible web search engine. Available to year 11 & 12 only |
