{"id":4311,"date":"2020-02-13T05:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T05:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/?post_type=article&p=4311"},"modified":"2020-02-14T02:00:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T02:00:59","slug":"library-lovers-day","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/article\/library-lovers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"This year, make reading your Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Library Lovers Day is celebrated by libraries across Australia on Friday 14 February. As the library team at St Ursula’s, it is a great opportunity to share our love of books with our students.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the theme this year of \u2018uncover something new\u2019, students have been invited to nominate their favourite books to add to our display, and to have a \u2018blind date with a book\u2019. This involved the students collecting a book wrapped in brown paper with only the genre and some clues supplied!<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday each student or teacher who borrowed a book also received a special Library Lovers\u2019 chocolate to celebrate!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nurture your love of books today<\/h6>\n

It has been wonderful to see so many students borrowing books already. While Year 7 students have not received their library cards yet, they are still able to borrow books. Our fiction collection has now been organised into genres to make it easier for students to select books they like. Chapter Chat<\/a> (library blog) is also a great way to keep up with what\u2019s happening here. Students are invited to follow our blog by entering their email address in the \u2018follow by email\u2019 box. Each week we\u2019ll post about our new genres and some great reading suggestions.<\/p>\n

Why reading is so important<\/h6>\n

Award-winning author Ursula Dubosarsky has been announced as the Australian Children\u2019s Laureate for 2020-2021<\/a>. This significant role is designed to promote the importance of reading, creativity and story in the lives of young Australians. Ursula is passionate about the importance of libraries in supporting teenagers in becoming life-long readers. \u201cReading is a lifetime project, it\u2019s not something you learn, and that\u2019s it. To be a good reader you have to read all the time,” she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ursula’s theme for the two years is Read For Your Life<\/i>. She recognises that reading often drops off after primary school, which is why at St Ursula\u2019s we place such high importance on reading. We have a wonderful collection of fiction books waiting to be read!<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Lansdown<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Resource & Information Coordinator<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Library Lovers Day – a chance to nurture your love of books…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-4311","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}