Hours

Monday - Thursday 8.00 - 30
Friday 8.00 - 4.00

Staff

Jillian Diedrich : Resource Centre Manager
Julie Wilkinson : Teacher Librarian and Learning Technology Specialist
Susan Hills, Michele Herrick: Library assistants
Suzanne Alexander : Audio Visual Assistant

Services

Resource Centre staff are committed to providing a high level of service to the school community. Staff work actively with students in order to help them to locate and use resources and help prepare them to become life long learners in the future.

Staff work co-operatively with classroom teachers to develop resource based learning so that students have the skills necessary to access and use information. This includes teaching the skills needed to make effective use of new electronic resources such as the internet.

Reading is regarded as an enriching, enjoyable and worthwhile activity for all our students and is encouraged through book talks to classes in Years 7 - 10.

The Centre provides curriculum based resources to support the teaching programs of the school, an extensive fiction collection which focuses on adolescent fiction, recreational material, a large collection of magazines and newspapers and a valuable video collection which can be accessed through the video commander system.

 

Technology

Staff at CLC are concerned to keep abreast of the latest educational technology and to incorporate whatever is most appropriate into the school learning environment. The Resource Centre has a class set of laptops which can be borrowed by classes. These can also be used by individual students when they are not in class use. There are 12 laptop access points to the School Network in the Resource Centre. Laptops can be borrowed by VCE students overnight.

There are personal computers in the Resource Centre available for students both individually and as part of class research. These provide access to the internet, CD ROM towers and the library catalogue. A range of CD Roms are permanently available on all computers and others can be used on single machines.

The library catalogue, internet and CD ROMS can be accessed from around the school via the college Intranet.

 

Book Club

There is a Book Club which meets once a fortnight in the Resource Centre and is engaged in such activities as book discussions, visits to authors and setting up displays around a book theme.