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Senior and Junior Library News

The St Edmund’s library catalogue is now available to the students at any time of the day. Click here to be taken to the Oliver Library catalogue and we will bring our Library to you! The boys can login using their normal Canvas details and they will be able to access the resources that are normally available to you at school. The search function will find books and websites that fit your research needs which makes it more effective to use than Google. The library is still open for borrowing so we encourage the boys to email us at library@stedmunds.act.edu.au with their selections and we will leave the books at the front office for collection. Now is a good time to stock up on holiday reading material.

The Library page on Canvas is a great resource for the students to use as we progress with online learning. St Edmund’s subscribes to a wide selection of specialist databases. These resources are invaluable in finding quality information quickly as they have been curated by experts especially targeting the needs of school and College students. Databases such as EBSCO and Infobase  provide excellent, balanced points of view, useful for not only assignment work, but also debating, AST preparation etc, while products such as World Book Online and Infobase eBooks are quality, up-to-date resources.

Study Skills Handbook update

Please login and check the latest resource available on the site: Guide to Remote Home Learning. Here you will find tips from setting up your space at home for learning, to templates for daily checklists and strategies for maintaining focus at home. This guide is being updated on a daily basis and is a great resource for students and parents.  There is a lot of information out there about working from home, but it is often not tailored specifically to the needs of secondary students. You will also find links to lots of online learning resources as well as resources for stress management, such as this great video from Human Connections: https://humanconnections.com.au/blog/dealing-with-the-stress-and-anxiety-of-coronavirus/. The direct link to access the site can be found on the Library page on Canvas.

 

Lisa Millar
Head of Library & Information Resources