Accessing Library Resources at Home

The Pacific Library is very well set up to support students’ research and reading needs from home.

Junior College

Prep – Year 5 students should bookmark our junior library homepage: https://library.pacluth.qld.edu.au/oliver/junior.do . Here students can access our LibGuides, (password plc) which are organised by year level and topic, as well as some great age-appropriate resources such as DK Findout and KidCyber. They can also access our online encyclopaedia World Book Kids, (username: pacluth1 and password: library), which contains lots of games and puzzles, as well as information and multimedia. Year 4 students can also access their coding pages from this site.

Students may borrow as many books as they like in the lead up to the holidays and we encourage families to become members of their local council library in order to access their eBook collections.

Middle and Senior College

Year 6-12 students should bookmark our library homepage: http://library.pacluth.qld.edu.au . We have a dedicated eBook collection for our secondary students and encourage them to borrow as many physical and ebooks as they like and to keep up their reading while at home. We will be supporting our students’ assignment needs through LibGuides (password plc), providing websites, videos and databases on assignment topics, as well as through our videos on research skills. The teacher librarians will also be available via email to help students with research questions. Students can contact Ms Nell Keen at: nkeen@pacluth.qld.edu.au and Ms Madison Dearnaley at: mdearnaley@pacluth.qld.edu.au for help.

Library lessons for Years 6-8 will continue via students’ Nav English page. Year 11 PD research lessons will continue via the Senior Personal Development Nav page.

Co-curricular activities such as Readers’ Cup, our Choc-Lit reading group, Writers’ Group and Reviewers’ Group will also continue to operate through Nav.

The following LibGuides for Senior English text studies were added to our site this week. The password to access them is plc.

• The Boat http://libguides.pacluth.qld.edu.au/home/theboat
• Talking to My Country http://libguides.pacluth.qld.edu.au/home/ttmc
• The Cellist of Sarajevo http://libguides.pacluth.qld.edu.au/home/cellist
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers http://libguides.pacluth.qld.edu.au/home/btbf

Ms Nell Keen, Head of Library