Library News

Library News

Librarian

Alice Manning

There have been so many exciting things happening in the library!  Our most recent celebration was Book Week and we certainly did celebrate all things books. Kicking off with ‘Blind date with a book’ students were invited to choose their next good read using only the clues provided on the front of paper-covered books.  Next, we got our poetic juices flowing with ‘Spine Poetry’ – creating fabulous poems using book titles.  Plenty of fun was then had in the Harry Potter tent with a photo booth and dress ups to share our favourite books and characters with others.  ‘Intrigued by the first line’ enticed students to select books based purely on the first line of the story and to write their own intriguing first lines.  Finally, we asked students to check out our face-books and ‘Face a good book today’ and to ‘like’ their favourite. 

Book Week also saw the announcement of some (belated) competition winners.  Tayla-Rose Donovan and Nicole Alsemgeest were the joint winners of our Library and Information Week Scavenger Hunt, scoring the most correct answers on the quiz.  Jamie Mohr came closest to guessing the total number of fiction books in our collection (3127 and still growing).  A big thank you to all students who participated and a reminder that there’s always something happening in the library.

Our amazing teachers got into the spirit of Book Week with a Harry Potter inspired performance on this week’s Assembly. Please visit our Facebook Page to view this video and other fantastic Book Week messages from our College Principal and teachers.  

Book of the Week – The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem–ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. 

She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. 

And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor’s mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities–like the Housekeeper’s shoe size–and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away. 

The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.