Pakenham School Library Association

Eastern region libraries gave me this information.
Thanks to Paul Burden, Information Services Manager
and Lyn BainesCollections Manager
I found it very interesting and thought you might find it useful also. Anne Fuller
HARDY BOYS UNDERCOVER BROTHERS Lobdell, Scott
ARTEMIS FOWL THE GRAPHIC NOVEL Colfer,Eoin
BOY PRINCESS Kim, Seyoung
NANCY DREW GIRL DETECTIVE Petrucha, Stefan
ONE PIECE Oda, Eiichiro
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST Arakawa, Hiromu
TOKYO MEW MEW Ikumi, Mia
CLAYMORE Yagi, Norihiro
YU-GI-OH DUELIST Takahashi, Kazuki
STAR WARS OMNIBUS Anderson, Kevin J.
SPIDER-MAN VISIONARIES Stern, Roger
SIMPSONS COMICS SPECTACULAR Groening, Matt
000100 PERFECT GIRL Wann
BLACK CAT PIRATES Oda, Eiichiro
DOLLARS TO DONUTS Groening, Matt
SUPERMAN BATMAN THE GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD Siegel, Jerry
SARDINE IN OUTER SPACE Guibert, Emmanuel
BRIDGE OF COURAGE Kishimoto, Masashi
000000 000006 ZERO SIX Lee, Youjung
YU-GI-OH THE CARDS WITH TEETH Takahashi, Kazuki
WHITE TIGER A HEROS COMPULSION Pierce, Tamora
JUNE Lee, Youngran
KAGETORA Segami, Akira
SUPERMAN CAMELOT FALLS Busiek, Kurt
POINT BLANC GRAPHIC NOVEL Horowitz, Anthony
NANCY DREW GIRL DETECTIVE THE OLD FASHIONED MYSTERY OF THE Petrucha, Stefan
NEGIMA 000014 Akamatsu, Ken
TOKYO MEW MEW BOOK 000004 Ikume, Mia
SCHOOL RUMBLE Kobayashi, Jin
SPIDER-MAN 000002 THE MOVIE Sacasa, Roberto Aguirre
STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION Friedman, Michael Jan
GREAT CATSBY Doha
AMULET THE STONEKEEPER Kibuishi, Kazu
WES HARTMANS SKY SHARKS Hartman, Wes
ABSOLUTE POWER Loeb, Jeph
BONE Smith, Jeff
EMILY THE STRANGE LET THERE BE DARK THE MYSTERIES OF COSMI Reger, Rob
FALLEN ANGEL Furman, Simon
HOMECOMING Cabot, Meg

St Francis Xavier College Berwick
Most popular books at Berwick 2009

Evernight Bk : 1 Clauida Gray

Then Bk : 2 Morris Gleitzeman

Specky Magee & The Great Footy Contest Bk : 2 Felice Arena

Twilight Bk: 1 Stephenie Meyer

New moon Bk: 2 Stephenie Meyer

In ecstasy Kate McCaffrey

The recruit Bk : 1 Robert Muchamore

One of those hideous books where the mother dies .Sonya Sones

Eclipse Bk: 3 Stephenie Meyer

Destroying Avalon. Kate McCaffrey

N.B. Many of these books have multiple copies so statistics show they have been borrowed many times.

Dear Chris,
Thanks for all your hard work as President of the Pakenham School library association.
We wish you well in your new position.
We hope you can find time to visit us during the year.
Best wishes for this year and beyond
Anne Fuller
President PSLAV
ie The person filling your shoes for 2010

Thank you all for your support and active participation in the PakSLAV branch over the last year. I hope that you all have a fabulous 2010. For those of you who are unable to make tonight’s meeting at Fountain Gate S. C. (Josephine Avenue @ 4.15pm) I have included the President’s Report to make my individual thanks.

S. L. A. V. Pakenham Branch
President’s Report
15th March, 2010.

I would like to start this report by acknowledging the support that I have had over the last year from our very professional committee secretary Carolyn Brown, Assistant Secretary Anne Fuller and Treasurer Joy Board. Your work for this branch has been much appreciated by me as a new member of the committee.

My thanks also go to Anne Fuller, Jennie Easson, Eileen Cooney and Lynne Moller and their staff for their very generous hosting of our 2009 meetings.
Thanks also to Eileen for adding Library Thing to our Blog. Make sure that you all share your favourite reading experiences – and those that your students enjoyed most – through this forum.

As I said when I set up the Sharing Ideas Blog www.pakslav.edublogs.org
Any group is only as strong as its willingness to share and this branch has been particularly active in sharing at their meetings over the last 12 months.

In Term One at our AGM and first meeting Arthur Wizenried http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/staff/winzenried.htm

shared with us all his view of our profession in the 21st century.

In Term Two, Miffy Farquharson, CBCA Judge shared with us her responses to the short-listed titles for Children’s Book of the Year.

In Term Three, at our Things we do meeting many members shared their successful experiences in their libraries and Carolyn recorded all of these on the Blog as a ready reference to inspire us.

In Term Four, at our ‘Technology focus’ meeting Michelle McLean from Casey Cardinia Library came out to talk to us about eBooks and other electronic resources available through the public library.

All in all it was a most productive year due to the active participation of our members. As much as I am very happy with my new role at Mentone Grammar, it is with some sadness that I leave this branch and the wonderful committee who have looked after their novice president. I wish you all a happy and successful year in your libraries and the branch and encourage you to keep ‘sharing’.

Chris te Lindert
2009 President.

PS: Should you wish to keep in touch my email address is: cjt@mentonegrammar.net

Hi All,

I know you are all very busy but don’t forget to write the details of our next meeting in your diaries;
Thursday 5th November at Gleneagles Reema Boulevard Endeavour Hills Phone number is 9708 1319

Please RSVP to Lynne by email; moller.lynne.l@edumail.vic.gov.au or on the above phone number.
The focus is ‘Technology’ and we have a guest speaker Michelle McLean from Casey Cardinia Library.

See you there,
Chris te Lindert.

Creating a welcoming library

1. Flowers. Option 1 dried so you can reuse. Option 2. Branches eg wattle; flowering gum leaves. Color the water with food coloring for effect. Adopt a plant. Washington State university found that when perople performed a computer task in a room with plants, their productivity rose and their blood pressure lowered.
2. Welcome the students when they come in. “Great to see you” “I haven’t seen you for awhile – have you been ill” etc. As you greet them you can use No 3
3. Tub of books recommended reading at the circulation desk. These are books you know the students love; Book 1 in a series; other books by a popular author.
4. Sign that says welcome. I have a little dog with “Welcome hanging from his collar.
5. Answer the phone “Welcome to the library” This means you don’t need to think to say Good morning or Good afternoon
6. Cushions on the chairs. Colorful and comfortable. Many people have commented how welcoming and inviting the look. Studies show that it is difficult to get motivated if you are uncomfortable.
7. Reading area. Chairs from a 2nd hand from an office supplier. We have 6 comfortable individual chairs and two rows of 5 linked chairs and 6 normal chairs with cushions. This seating is near the magazine and comic novel sections. Students sit quietly and read.
8. Competitions. These keep the library an interesting place to visit. We try to link them with curriculum. At the moment the school is having a blitz on the mobile phone policy. “Staff have eyes in the back of their head … so keep your mobile off and out of sight” Ten staff photos of the back of their head with a small clue in some e.g. medicine for sick bay staff. Students win a small prize from items collected from scholastic book club.
9. At the desk: puzzles, books, cartoons etc to occupy them while they wait.
10. Not everyone will like this one. Music playing softly in the background. When vistors enter they often comment on the relaxing and inviting music. Music requires good listening skills. Listening is essential to cognitive development. You may have heard of the “Mozart Effect” – a temporary increase in spatial reasoning skills after listening to the music of Amadeus Mozart. Play Baroque music is also suitable. According to The Center for New Discoveries in Learning, learning potential can be increased a minimum of five times by using this 60 beats per minute music. The ancient Greeks sang their dramas because they understood how music could help them remember more easily. Yoland Lim – Chinese temple music. This moulds your brain wave into operating at the “Theta”: level.

Ideas contributed by Anne Fuller

 

Idea for VPRC

Main activity was to share ideas. (I am putting the name of the school so you can contact these people for more information if you are interested. Carolyn)

• Anne Fuller (St Francis Xavier) and Jan Kenney (Maranatha) both spoke about how to create a friendly environment and welcoming environment in the library – both in a physical way and by words. Anne provided us with a document covering her main points.
• Joy Board (Beaconhills) – eCafe is run twice a term for staff. Runs for 1 hr with an ICT focus including tips, demonstrating programmes, concepts etc by library staff. Food & wine on offer. Big hit with staff.
• Fay Pattison (Sacred Heart) “Elluminate” programme will be used by subject associations and SLAV to run on-line conferences. People logged on can speak to each other, type onto the screen or draw/upload to a common desktop. Check Bright Ideas SLAV website.
• Lynne Moller (Gleneagles) showed us some photos of some great display ideas done by a parent helper. Also jigsaw idea (face of teacher) for VPRC to encourage students to complete the PRC. Lynne also uses the website The Rastabator. (http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/) to produce huge photos – image is split up and printed on A4 paper. Very effective. Also contact publisher if hosting an author for freebies – Penguin very good.
• Margaret George (Narre Warren Sth P-12) Morning tea for early achievers in the VPRC. Very successful motivation for other students to join in VPRC.
• Marion Robinson (Padua) showed us the RED (Read every day) program. Students are rewarded for achievement by stickers which then go onto their manila folder. Marion has provided all the documents for this program. Marion had lots of photos of some fabulous Book Week displays they have created. Lots of great ideas.
• Carolyn Brown (St Margaret’s School Snr Lib) Survey of students who use the library after school (3-5pm) why they come to library, what they like, don’t like about library/collection, ideas for after school activities etc. Ran the survey for two weeks. Great feedback on what we are doing right (most things) and some suggestions about changes which we have prioritized to implement. Some didn’t cost very much to do.
• Eileen Cooney (Berwick SC) spoke about her successful annual “Book Bash” that she runs for teachers with display of current book resources from publishers. Eileen kindly provided a step by step outline of how to run a similar event. Eileen also showed us some great display ideas on promoting well-being.

You may have spotted the little slideshow of books on the right-hand corner of the blog. Go to librarything.com and login with the same username and password as for this blog and add your favourite books to the list BSC library staff have started!

Lots of fun!
Eileen B

Just a quick post to update the details for our next meeting.  It will have a technology focus – with the emphasis on ebooks and be held at;

It is Gleneagles       Reema Boulevard       Endeavour Hills     Phone number is 9708 1319

Please RSVP to Lynne by email moller.lynne.l@edumail.vic.gov.au  or on the above phone number.

And, while I have the opportunity, thank you to Eileen for hositing our Term 3 meeting and all those wonderful members who contributed so freely with their ‘ideas that worked”.

Chris.

I wouldn’t mind hearing from all of you about what games the kids like to play at your schools.
The favourites at Berwick at the moment (they tend to move in phases!):
-Chess
-Cards
-Uno
-Blockus
-Connect 4

Yours?

Eileen B