Learning Resource Centre

Welcome!

 

Outcomes:

Outcomes for St. Vincent's College Learning Resource Centre are development in our students of independent lifelong learning skills competence, responsibility and discrimination in the use of technology, and a love of reading.

About the Learning Resource Centre:

St. Vincent’s College Learning Resource Centre:

  • provides a learning environment that values the individual as a lifelong learner who possesses a repertoire of independent learning skills as well as a love of literature.
  • has an effective information literacy programme that combines outcomes-based education, information skills, and technology, to provide all students with the lifelong learning skills that are necessary for life and work.

Our Learning Resource Centre programme aims to:

  • involvement of students in research-based units of work, cooperatively planned and taught by teachers and teacher-librarians, which aim to develop lifelong learning skills
  • effective integration of technology at the point of need.
  • making connections between the information skills process and literacy skills
  • fostering of a love of reading in the girls by a programme of wide reading.

Services:

  • Cooperative design and teaching of research-based units of work with classroom teachers.
  • Integration of technology into research tasks.
  • Resourcing of units of work with books, internet sites, DVDs and DVD compilations.
  • Group and individual assistance to staff and students with information needs.
  • Assistance to boarders in the evenings during junior study time, or at any time a senior student requires assistance with research.
  • Assistance to senior students with information needs. There is a seniors' room at the back of the Learning Resource Centre, which may be used by Year 12 students on study periods.
  • Access to resources, print and electronic.

Hours

Opening hours for the Learning Resource Centre are:
Mon-Thurs: 8.00am - 4.30pm
Fri: 8.00am - 4.00pm
The Learning Resource Centre is closed at recess each day for staff briefing.

Learning Resource Centre Bookings

  • Two classes at a time can use the Learning Resource Centre. Bookings are made on the booking form near the librarians' desks.
  • The first class to book (front of Library), has priority use of the available technology, while the second class (back of Learning Resource Centre) has access to five mobile lap tops.

Loans Policy
Loan conditions for Learning Resource Centre materials are:

  • Non-fiction: 2 weeks
  • Fiction: 2 weeks
  • Audio cassettes and videos: overnight
  • Books in heavy demand: overnight

Periodicals: overnight
CD players and cassette recorders: one period

Special demand books may be restricted at the discretion of the librarian. Books may be reserved for loan and held for one week. Books on loan may be renewed for a further 2 weeks if not in demand or on reserve. Books are to be returned to the Learning Resource Centre to the box outside the door.

Learning Resource Centre Rules
Behaviour:

  • No bags are to be brought into the Learning Resource Centre.
  • There is to be no eating or drinking in the Learning Resource Centre.
  • While not a silent Learning Resource Centre, consideration should be given at all times to the purpose of the Learning Resource Centre: of providing a learning environment where groups and individuals can proceed with their learning.
  • Students on study periods (both Year 11 and 12) are in the Learning Resource Centre to work. Year 12 has a room at the back of the Learning Resource Centre to use for silent study purposes. Please cooperate with us to ensure that the room is used properly. It is not for relaxation, but is aimed at providing a quiet place to work in study periods
  • Four computers for Learning Resource Centre classes/senior use are loacted near the Senior Study room.You are expected to use technology in a mature, discriminating and responsible way.

Technology Use

  • Classes booked into the Learning Resource Centre have priority over students on study periods as far as access to computers is concerned.
  • There is to be no use of email in class times, whether on study periods or not.
  • There is to be no use of Hotmail or other web email sites at any time.
  • There is to be no use of MSN or other web chat sites at any time.

Students found violating these conditions will receive a warning, then, with repeat offences, be removed from the network for times appropriate to the offences. Heavier penalties will be incurred by students accessing and passing on pornography.
There are a set of mobile lap tops for class use in the Learning Resource Centre.