Library

The library has a fulltime librarian who has responsibility for the day to day management of the library, including responsibility for the student librarians, issuing and returning books, preparing books and other resources for use in the school and entering new resources on the accession computer. 

When new books are purchased they are classified to ensure that maximum use is made of them. Increasingly sophisticated awareness of genre, visual language, and requirements of the curriculum in areas other than English are enabling a greater variety of key words to be entered, thereby ensuring that cross curicular use can be made of individual titles.

The library programme used in the library is Karant.

The library has a budget of $10,000 and a collection of about 6,500 volumes. Our purchasing policy is set each year in conjunction with major school curriculum focus. Purchasing with reference to the long term plans of teaching teams, ensures that book resources are available to support in-class learning programmes.

The collection includes several encyclopaedia and other reference books, but an increasing amount of reference material is being purchased in the form of CDRom. This has the advantage of being more up to date than reference books and often cheaper to purchase.

There are two issuing computers in the library and one computer used for search. The computer suite on the mezzanine floor with five computers is currently used in conjunction with the special needs programme,"Successmaker", and with the after school homework programme. It has also been used by students for research work.

Our new library has a spacious environment suitable for whole class, small group or independent learning activities. Our research area provides a working space for students which is well utilised.