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SERVICES PROVIDED AT SWAN HILL NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL LIBRARY

·        Extensive Seven year Library Skills Program - Instructional & Practical Lessons

·        Comprehensive Literature Presentations

·        One hour Library sessions

·        Additional borrowing opportunities before school, lunch-time (twice a week) and after school

·        Large scale library displays – Theme based -inviting / instructional / pictorial

·        Extensive book and non-book collection – over 13,893 resources

·        Reading and library usage encouraged as a pleasurable, informative and worthwhile lifetime skill

·        The most up-to-date technology in information delivery, retrieval and resource location

·        Five computer work-stations for patron use

·        Five catalogue search engines – cater for all ages and abilities

·        Five search category options – author / title / subject / series / keyword

·        Active visual location map for resource retrieval

·        Secure catalogued web sites

·        Book Wizard – World leading technology bringing suitable books to patrons by reading age / ability & interest - Fact & Fiction

·        Internet access to world resources

·        Access to wide range of CD-ROM resources

·        Constant  addition to and up-dating of Library resources

·        Book Fairs – encouraging book ownership – bringing parents/children and books together

·        Word processing facilities

·        Imaging / scanning capabilities

·        Digital camera capabilities

·        High quality printing

·        Netmeeting - on-line video conferencing - internal/external

·        Pleasant outdoor reading / garden area

·        Library’s own Weather Station – also available on-line