Libraries

What an exciting and unique year it has been! As a result of funding from the Australian Government, and after much effort and planning by Br Paul, the beautifully refurbished Tiverton Library was officially opened on July 26, and has been a remarkably popular venue ever since. The Library is now airy, light and spacious, with twelve computers, six large tables, and the usual fiction and non-fiction collections, as well as a number of comfy reading chairs, and a dedicated Reading Area for primary students. It is particularly well-patronised at recess and lunchtimes, notwithstanding the increased number of classes booked in each day to take advantage of this wonderful facility. Special thanks must go to the wonderful group of dedicated parents and grandparents, who tirelessly tackled the task of applying new security tags to around 13,000 Library books in the Tiverton Library. The sharing of an enormous task like this is greatly appreciated. The Primary Library Program ran as usual, with a number of visits to the Stonnington Library, Malvern. We encourage all students and staff to apply for membership at this Library as it is an outstanding additional resource, supplementing the collections available at school. The Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge was successfully completed by the following students from Year 6: Evan Chatterton, Jack McGrath, Liam Farrell, Michael Dickson, Nicholas

Library staff (Kinnoull), Br Matthew Heron fsc, Ms Susan Jost And Ms Clare Kennedy Buccheri, Oliver Lindsay, and from Year 7: Tanis Van Laake, Aaron Vargiu, George Kouzoumis, Harrison Long, Jacson Lalande, James O’Dwyer, Riley Watson, Samuel Gimisis, Timothy Cafarella, William Wright and Edison Nguyen. Congratulations to you all. The Kinnoull Library was the recipient of new chairs for students in March, with the outdated, bulky and broken “wheely” chairs being replaced. The new blue chairs are a bright and welcome addition to the Library. The Kinnoull Library’s 16 computers continue to be one of our best-used assets. The Library’s presence on Moodle has been increased, with AIMS, the Library catalogue, now available there, as well as the Echo newspaper index, allowing each student and staff member to search these databases without necessarily having to visit the Library. Our print resources, Fiction and Non-fiction, are of good quality and relevance, and our DVD collections continue to be well used. A sincere thank you and best wishes to three members of Library staff — Carmel Eyre who finished with us in March to take up a new position as Head of Library at Glen Eira Secondary College, and finishing at the end of 2011, Br Matthew Heron, who is retiring after two years of dedicated library service with us, and Karol Jovanoski, a wonderful Library technician who willingly and ably stepped in to help us while Miss Ickeringill was away during Terms 2, 3 and 4. We will miss you both. And finally, a welcome back to Leanne Ickeringill who returned to work on November 14 after an extended recovery from illness.

At the library opening Curtis Hayashi (Year 4) and Ben Northey (Year 6) pose for a photo which was later to grace the cover of the September edition of Roll Call.