Delicious New Faves
These bookmarks have recently been added to our Delicious account. Check them out when you get the chance… Useful for students … Students Online Designed specifically for Year 12 students. Students can register to use the site. It offers a range of support materials produced by the Board of Studies to assist with study. Artinthepicture.com Offers an [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New HSC web sites on Delicious
I have added the following HSC sites to our Delicious account: Ancient History Pompeiana.org An online resource for all things Pompeian Herculaneum Panoramas Virtual tour of Herculaneum English Charles Dickens: An Overview Links relating to Dickens’s works, themes, life and times. David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page Great site, with loads of information on Dickens, his life and times, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Speeches
Here are some resources for any enquiries you may get about famous speeches (I have had a couple lately). We have a number of resources available on the topic in our collection. Recently added are: in the HSC collection Speeches: study notes for advanced English. In ANF Great speeches: words that made history; 501 must-know speeches; Speeches of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Australia’s Health 2010
Australia’s Health Report 2010 has been released and is freely available online as pdf. It’s the premier source of statistics and commentary on: determinants of health and keys to prevention; diseases and injury; how health varies across population groups; health across the life stages; health services, expenditure and workforce; the health sector’s performance. The report [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )HSC site
A new site has recently been added to the HSC section of our recommended sites: Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) This page, a part of the UAC site – Universities Admissions Centre, gives information on the ranking system used to compare the results of students who have completed different combinations of HSC courses in New [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Finding the HSC collection in Hip
A new HSC limiter has been added to Hip (OPAC) this week so borrowers can bring up a list of titles in the fledgling HSC collection. To start a search you can type in HSC (this brings up a few titles that are in the ANF collection as well as those in the HSC collection) [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )HSC web sites
There is now a separate category on the Recommended sites for HSC specific sites. The HSC sites that were already listed under Education have been moved there and 3 new sites have been added: HSC Legal Studies News Watch BlogA blog created by the State Library Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC) that provides help to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What training is needed?
I-Force Team members will be doing 15 to 20 minutes training sessions at Upper, Lower and Information Services team meetings. The training can be reference related or about general library procedures. We are developing a training calendar and trying to isolate priorities. To help us, could you tell us what training you’d like to see [...]
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