To celebrate Winter and to bring some joy into July, we created a number of fun bookmarks and posters to celebrate ‘tasty’ International Days including:

National Chocolate with Almonds Day	8 July
National French Fries Day	13 July
National Sour Candy Day	18 July
National Lollipop Day	20 July
National Vanilla Ice-Cream Day	23 July
National Tofu Day (How did THAT get included?)	26 July
National Milk Chocolate Day	28 July
National Cheesecake Day	30 July

The students have been loving the light-heartedness of the topic to celebrate and the bookmarks have become collectors’ items!  I will be eschewing making bookmarks for other notable days which happen outside of the month of July: Broccoli Day; Brussels Sprouts Day; Cabbage Day; World Rat Day and Global Fertiliser Day.

The Library has been very full since the weather has turned cold.  We flatter ourselves that this popularity is in part because of our warm personalities, and not just the heating.  Whichever it is we have been kept very busy doing the daily housekeeping tasks needed to keep the service running smoothly while at maximum occupational capacity.

Mr Pearson has donated a guitar to the Library and it now sits atop our piano in the foyer.  So far, we have heard only a few piano guitar duets – but who knows?  The Library foyer may soon be the place for our country’s next teen artistes to be seen!

Ms Greaves has been conducting a weekly informal knitting club once a week at lunch time in the Reading Room and this has become quite popular.  Ask at the desk for more information.  Also, Mr Fak has been entertaining and engaging students in new games during lunchtimes.  More news on this as it develops over the coming weeks.

Ms Saugy has been cataloguing the Kilbreda Archives along with Mr Smith.  Mr Smith has brought over many, many boxes of archive materials and Ms Saugy looks into them and assigns subjects to each object so that a search of the Library catalogue will be able to identify the events in each of the College Yearbooks, which will then enable future researchers to interrogate the catalogue/collection with ease and find information on specific events which are mentioned inside archival publications.

We are looking forward to Book Week which is coming up between 22 to 26 August.  The theme set by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is “Dreaming with Eyes Open.”  As a lead up to this Ms Langford has been working with nine Year 9 students, who volunteered to be part of the Shadow Judging Project being run by the CBCA. We submitted a proposal and were successfully funded, to buy the six books shortlisted for ‘Book of The Year’ and to fund an author to visit the school and work with the students. They will read the books and present a creative response to a book of their choice. This will be shared through the CBCA Website and used as part of the 2022 Book Week Promotion. We will share this response with the school community later in the month.

Angus Pearson
Library Coordinator