Antonine College
Library
A Catholic co-educational College Foundation - Year 12
About Us
Cedar Campus
St Joseph Campus
The Saint Joseph Campus library supports the school community by providing a learning environment with relevant resources and technologies that meet the curriculum and recreational needs of our school community.
The library teaching and learning programs support and are integral to the curriculum. The READ program (Reading for English Acceleration and Development) is run by the library team as part of the English curriculum. It promotes reading as an essential skill for life and fosters the development of a reading culture.
The implementation of the library information and management system software, SmartLibrary, supports our needs. Access to SmartLibrary through the Internet means students and staff can access information and resources from any computer in the school, and at any time. Students and staff can access electronic full text newspaper articles, the Britannica Online encyclopedia, electronic resources - including audio books, DVD and video library as well as our vibrant fiction and non-fiction collection.
Among the increasing student focused activities, there are student group research and independent study areas, Internet ready computers and access to a computer laboratory. There are comfortable furnishings and social activities including Chess Club. The Career Information Resource Centre is also accessed from the library and available for all students and staff.
Homework Club operates from the library each Tuesday after school till 4.30pm.
Opening Hours: 8.30am - 4.00pm
The Cedar Campus library is a place where all students in Foundation to Year 6, along with College staff, can come to learn, read, research and relax. We have an excellent range of non-fiction books that provide interest reading materials for students, as well as support integrated curriculum units taught in class. Colourful picture fiction books and ‘lose-yourself-in-another-world’ novels, can be borrowed by students during their weekly scheduled library lesson.
Our library provides students with access to a range of ICT tools including multimedia computers from which the students can access digital information via the Internet, iPads for exploring e-Books and educational apps, and digital cameras for designing, creating and recording work. The school’s intranet allows students to save their work from any networked computer which can then be retrieved for class presentations or printing for publication.
Each year a number of special events celebrating literature and reading are organised by the Teacher Librarian. These include a Book Fair, the MS Readathon and Children’s Book Week celebrations. These events are eagerly awaited for by the students.
The library is also open at lunch time twice a week so the students can complete research work, access the computers, or enjoy some quiet refuge from the buzz of the playground by exploring the pleasures of the latest books to arrive in the library.