Library
Opening Hours
8.15am – 3.15 pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Staff
St Patrick’s College Library is staffed by a professional duo
who are passionate about promoting reading and literature, supporting the
college community with research enquiries and assistance, technology and
eLearning support, textbook hire, borrowing resources, and printing and copying
services.
Michelle
Tappin – Teacher Librarian and Library Manager
Passionate about digital citizenship, information and
literacy development, Michelle provides students with online resource and
textbook support. All year levels receive workshops on referencing, use of
online resources to source information and the use of our nonfiction collection
for research tasks. Michelle promotes a love of reading for pleasure through
the Accelerated Reader program, and a regularly updates the Fiction collection
to cater for reader interest.
Ivie Fernandes Rodrigues – Library Aide
Oliver
‘Oliver’
is our Library Management System which allows students to search our Library
catalogue and access our digital resources 24/7. Oliver also provides the
school community a highly personalised library experience where students can
manage their own library profile, reserve, renew, request and create personal
reading lists of library resources. Of course, Library staff are available
during school hours for any assistance.
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Collections
Fiction collection
shelved by Genre – Dystopian, Mystery, Adventure, Sci- Fiction, Relationships,
Animals, Sport, Horror, Humour, Historical, Fantasy, Crime, War, Romance, Teen,
Thriller, Short Stories and Graphic Novels.
- Non- Fiction and
Biography
- Reference
- Magazines
- Audio-visual
- Textbooks- hard copy
and online
- Games and cards
Accelerated
Reader
Accelerated
Reader (AR) is our Year 7 and 8 reading program, where students visit the
library for a reading lesson once a week. When it comes to motivating students
to read, choice is the key, and our dedicated staff guide students towards
books on genres they love to read. The Accelerated Reading program gauges and
tracks student comprehension and provides feedback data to assist in increasing
student literacy ability. The comfortable environment allows students to relax
and encourages them to lose themselves in literature and the joy of reading for
pleasure.
Research
LearnPath
LearnPath allows library staff to support
teachers and students by providing curated subject guides and resources
specifically structured to the learning curriculum. LearnPath is navigated by
year level and subject, and has embedded digital, interactive and other content
linked to assignment tasks and curriculum, all accessed through ‘Oliver’ and
available to the school community 24/7
Online
Databases
St Patrick’s College Library has subscriptions to the following
databases. Usernames and Passwords are required for these sites if you are
accessing them outside school. Please see Library Staff for more information.
World Book Student
World Book combines
technology with traditional editorial excellence to produce authoritative,
trustworthy and unbiased information.
Library Webs
Library Webs
present users with an extensive Internet library which contains primary
sources, reliable websites from educational, government and commercial
establishments, radio and television transcripts, newspaper and magazine articles.
Britannica School
Britannica School -
a safe, up-to-date, and age-appropriate information resource for Primary, Middle and Senior School. Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary
sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research,
classroom exploration, and curriculum standards.
Britannica LaunchPacks
Britannica
LaunchPacks allow staff to personalize learning through curriculum-aligned,
multimedia content sets.
Clickview
From curriculum-aligned videos produced at ClickView to the best available free-to-air content
JSTOR
JStor provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles,
books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Referencing
Our referencing section offers guides and ‘how to’ video
help for referencing using APA Format. Also access our Automatic Reference
Generator CiteMaker.
Campion
MyConnect
MyConnect
allows the College Community to access digital content and textbooks from the
one simple location through Oliver.
Pro Quest
Pro Quest - Supports the learning needs of business focused contents from a variety of sources including newspaper, dissertations, eBooks, and audio books from library.
Sora is a digital library which provides access to eBooks, Audio books, and magazines from the school library
for reading and referencing.