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"Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container."

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Come the library Tuesday 27/4 - Lunch 1
Bring your ideas, lunch and friends
Why? To organise Term 2 events and have your say
~~Get involved and make a difference!~~

Term 2 in the library

From Week 1: Sky news in the mornings
Week 1: ANZAC Day display

International School Libraries Day
Monday, 27 October 2008
We celebrated by creating 'continents'. We used the books
that were published or were about, countries in each continent.
It was interesting. Each continent had a different 'flavour'.

Delany Book of the year 2008
Announcing our 2008 winners!
This year Delany students really liked the Older Reader nominations, but were generally perplexed by the huge range within both the Younger Readers section and the Picture Book category.
The theme was 'Fuel for your mind' and resulted a highly decorated petrol pump adorning the library.
The Delany winners this year were
Older readers: 'Marty's shadow', almost unanimously.
Younger readers: 'Dragon's moon'. There was a 3 way tie in this section, and 'Dragon's moon' won after a further vote.
Picture books: Our winner was 'Dust' and we also liked 'Ziba came in a boat', however we were amazed by 'Requiem for a beast',
and we do not understand where it fits in the nominations.
The readers read it together to try to get a 'feel' for it, before borrowing. However, its depth and novelty of production were generally not appreciated by the readers.
This lead to an ongoing discussion amongst students and the L-TAG have decided to look into other existing selections of recent books, or ways to create our own shortlist. Meantime we are taking part in the 2009 Inkeys.
More information on the library blog

Announcing our Books of the Year!

...And the winner is...
We held our awards ceremony on
Wednesday August 22
Thankyou to the Reading team, who organised another memorable event.

This year the adult judges agreed with us that
Catherine Bateson's 'Being Bee'
was the best Younger Reader book. But not one student voted for the
winners of the other 2 national categories which were Shaun Tan's
'The Arrival' as best picture book, and Margot Lanagan's 'Red spikes'.
Mrs Radford says these are excellent books, but they were not the books
that we liked this year.
Our winning picture book was
'The water witcher'
and the Older readers' winner was almost a tie, with
'My big birkett'
just winning over
'Don't call me Ishmael'.

Ben Okri's '10 1/2 inclinations' was our theme for today

No entry without a ticket!

Everyone enjoyed it
And now... announcing the INKYS! Starting 24 September!

2007: Delany is reading!

We held our Reading Conference
Monday, 16 July.
Parents, You can still get a copy of the Reading in the home booklet.
Download it from here.
All students benefit from reading frequently. If your teen is a good reader then click here.
If you missed the audiobook session, click 'Professional' on this page
for the handouts and links.

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