E-books have arrived !

The college library is stepping in the e-books era!

Click on the image or the link on the right to open the e-book lending platform and click on Sign in to register. Once the librarian has approved your account, you can scroll the catalog and download one or two e-books on your own device for up to 3 weeks.

To read it, you will need to download Adobe Digital Edition and to create a user account.

There aren’t many books available yet, it’s just a start. Any issue, ask your librarian!

Another celebrity in the library

As part of the Festival of Colours, American Journalist Seymour Hersh enthralled senior students with stories of his long journalist experience and asserts everybody can write.

Publish your book!

To celebrate NZ Book Month, Derek Grzelewski talked in assembly to our students and encouraged aspiring writers to self-publish. “While Gutenberg press created a new era of knowledge diffusion“, he said, “ebook new revolution empowers everyone to publish their work, for free!“

In the Q&A session that followed, he shared the main resources to do so.

• Kindle Direct Publishing to create your Amazon kindle e-book
• IBooks Author, to create and publish multi-touch books for iPad.
• Smashword to publish and distribute ebooks to the major retailers, fast, free and easy for any author or publisher, anywhere in the world.

On his BestSellerLab blog, Jonathan Gunson offers practical advice on how to get published and grow your readership.

And here is a list of writing, poetry and film competitions to test your writing skills.

Hone your writing skills

The NZSA Youth Mentoring Programme is offered annually to three secondary school students (15-18) nationally to foster and develop emerging writing talent with the support of established authors.

The mentorships are hotly contested and application deadline is in 2 weeks, the 2nd April 2013.

Click here for further information and find the forms on the New Zealand Society of Authors website.

And here is a list of writing, poetry and film competitions to test your skills.

Ask your teacher or the librarian for help if you want to participate in any of these.

Harlem shake in the library!

Mount Aspiring College Library Harlem Shake from Mount Aspiring College on Vimeo.

Sorry it takes a while to load, but I think it’s fun!

NZ Book Month at MAC

March is New Zealand book month. Let’s celebrate. Let’s talk books, let’s talk writing… Here are some activities to help!

A whanau quiz will test your New Zealand books and authors knowledge.

There will be local authors talks:
• On Wednesday 20th in Assembly, Derek Grzelewski, author of Trout Diaries
• End of Month: Russell Mawhinney, author of Blogs of the travel bugs.
• And perhaps more…

Students are invited to come to the library and fill in a New Zealand Book Month Competition form: Vote for your favourite New Zealand author and name a book that changed your life. Individual prize: $10 PaperPlus voucher

And $5 Book vouchers will be distributed to students, to spend on books at PaperPlus by the end of March.

Why and how to use MACLIC blog

Here you will find regularly updated informative posts about news, books and events from the college library, as well as information literacy and research skills.

 

Explore the other pages:

• Services and rules: everything you need to know to use your library;
• Book lists: List of books available in the library on most frequently asked themes and links to award-winning teenagers’ books;
• Web 2.0 tools: a feast of wonderful web resources and tools.

 

On the right menu:

• You can search the blog and the Library Catalogue.
• You will find organised lists of useful links:
  • Other Mount Aspiring College’s blogs and websites;
  • Homework and Research links for reference websites which we invite you to use for your homework (great for parents too!);
  • Book find links and lots of good and new book suggestions.

 

MACLIC blog welcomes contributions from students, parents, and teachers. Feel free to add your comments to any post or page (moderated), to give us book reviews to publish or send book suggestions (or email micoudf@mtaspiring.school.nz ).

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I hope you find Maclic blog useful and start making a habit of using it as a first stop shop for all your Information needs.

Florence Micoud – Librarian