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Gifted Awareness Week Competition

To celebrate Gifted Awareness Week (14 – 20 June 2009), the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children is running a competition to celebrate gifted kids, their families and professional educators. Click here to open Gifted Awareness Week Competition Flyer.

Theme for Intermediate Students:
What should schools in the year 2050 be like?
Provide an artwork or short (less than 100 words) answer, poem, or story to this statement.

Theme for High School students:
What constitutes “life”?
Provide a short (less than 100 words) answer to this statement.

Give it a go! Win a $50 book voucher and your entry published in Tall Poppies Mag!

Announcing the new Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device!

It's a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It's so easy to use even a child can operate it. Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM. (It is not waterproof yet, our engineers are working on it.)

Here's how it works: each BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. These pages are locked together with a custom-fit device called a binder which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. By using both sides of each sheet, manufacturers are able to cut costs inhalf. Each sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your brain. A flick of the finger takes you to the next sheet. The BOOK may be taken up at any time and used directly without loading time. The "browse" feature allows you to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward and backward as you wish. Most come with an "index" feature, which pinpoints the exact location of any selected information for instant retrieval.

An optional "BOOKmark" accessory allows you to open the BOOK to the exact place you left it in a previous session--even if the BOOK has been closed. BOOKmarks fit universal design standards; thus a single BOOKmark can be used in BOOKs by various manufacturers. You can use as many BOOKmark as you wish in any one BOOK.

Portable, durable and affordable, the BOOK is the entertainment wave of the future, and many new titles are expected soon...

Plus, you can borrow it for free from thousands of outlets, called libraries. Check the white pages to find one in your community.

[original author unknown; slightly modified]

Library House Competition Term One

The Library House Competition is ON again. Last year, as published in the College magazine page 11, Barker won 4 points, Pisa 3, Roy 2 and Iron 1.

The rules are:
- The number of books issued by each student add points to his or her House;
- The number of overdue days remove points;
- Books that are returned on the day of the issue are not included. Do not try to borrow a book and drop it off immediately. It does not count!

This competition has been organised:
- to encourage you to borrow more books (and to actually issue them, otherwise it is not counted)
- to encourage you to return your books on time
- to promote a whanau culture of managing books
- to add a cultural aspect to the house competition which is otherwise pretty much sportive.

First term results

- Barker is ahead already this year, with more books issued and less overdue penalties.
- Iron MUST borrow more books.
- Pisa borrows enough books but MUST improve its returns habits.
- Roy can improve both.

Next week, I will distribute overdue listings to whanau teachers. Make a point to return those books promptly, collectively. Thus you save penalties to your house AND you avoid the 50 cts invoicing fee.

Audiobooks & Multimedia section

An audiobook is a reading of a book by the author or by an actor recorded on tape or CD.

MACLIC has a collection of 50 audiobooks which you can borrow, together with the book, if you wish to follow the text. Listening to an audiobook is a bit like being read aloud, it is easy and lively. It is great when you travel. If you struggle to read, audiobooks will help you greatly and will offer you the pleasure of discovering a story.

MACLIC also offers more than 20 selected or donated documentaries DVD and videos.

You will also find a few music CDs, mainly donated by Real Groove and NZ Symphonic Orchestra.

Have a look next to the library office. Ask the librarian for the CDs.

Click here for the list of all the section's titles: http://maclic.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/audiobooks-multimedia.pdf

New Sport Books

Check out the "Recreation" section of the library with lots of new books about Sports:

Ball games
Soccer skills for young players 796.3
Rugby skills tactics and rules 796.33
Tana Umaga : a tribute to a rugby legend 796.33
Complete encyclopedia of golf techniques 796.35
Cricket portraits : a century of New Zealand's best 796.35

Outdoors and mountaineering
Coast to Coast: The Great New Zealand Race 796.4
Our Olympic Century 796.40
Tracking & navigation 796.5
Don't forget your scroggin : a how-to handbook for New Zealand tramping 796.51
Tramping in the South Island : Mount Richmond Forest Park to Arthur's Pass 796.51
Avalanche Awareness in the New Zealand Backcountry 796.52
Classic Rock Climbing in New Zealand 796.52
Complete rock climber 796.52
High-tech legs on Everest 796.52
Hillary & Norgay : to the top of Mount Everest 796.52
Danger on the mountain: scaling the World's Highest Peaks 796.52 /P (Picture Book)
Extreme climbing 796.52 /P (Picture Book)
Camp Out! 796.54

On Wheels
Formula One 796.7
MX bikes : evolution from primitive street machines to state of the art off-road machines 796.7

Snow sports
Illustrated Guide to Snowboarding 796.9
Snowboarding basics 796.9
Snowboarding skills 796.9
New Zealand Snowboarder Trick Tips 101 796.9 /AV (in Multimedia area)
Whiteslide : snowboarding journal 796.9 /P (in Picture Book Area)

Water sports
Boating for all : navigation, boat-handling and skill-building activities 797.1
New Zealand whitewater : 125 great kayaking runs 797.1
Matt's Kiwi fishing adventures 799.1

Other
Angels can fly : a modern clown user guide 791.3
Hip-hop dancing 793.3
Diary of a skateboarding freak 796.22 /P (in Picture Book Area)
Diary of Phar Lap 798

A good book is...

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) said "All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they really happened and after you have finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you".
From http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2473

What do YOU think makes a good book?

You are reading more!

I was wondering why we are so busy this year. The library database told me why...

That is more than 25% increase per student! Congratulation! Keep up the good reading habit!

March 2009 NEW Books

Fiction books
War of the robots, by Trevor Baxendale (Doctor Who)- BAX
Team play and Horse games, by Bonnie Bryant (Saddle Club)- BRY
Harsh Cry of the Heron, by Lian Hearn (Tales of the Otori)- HEA
Heaven's net is wide, by Lian Hearn (Tales of the Otori)- HEA
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini - HOS
Baboon, by David Jones – JON
The escape, by Robert Muchamore (Cherub)- MUC
The killing, by Robert Muchamore (Cherub)- MUC
My sister's keeper, by Jodi Picoult - PIC
The Ringmaster, by Vanda Symon NZ - SYM
Ben Brown’s adventure beyond the Universe, by Michael Thorp NZ – THO
Kiss, by Jacqueline Wilson - WIL
We, by Evgeniaei Ivanovitch Zamiatin - ZAM

Knowledge books
100 Amazing Make-it-Yourself Science Fair projects, by Glen Vecchione – 507.8
How to watch a bird, by Steve Braunias NZ – 598
New Zealand Whitewater : 125 great kayaking runs, by Graham Charles NZ – 797.1
Don't forget your scroggin: A how-to handbook for New Zealand Tramping, Sarah Bennett NZ – 796.51
Tramping in the South Island: more than 200 routes and tracks, by Sven Brabyn NZ – 796.51
Formula One, by Adrianna Morganelli – 796.7
2 deaths in 1 night : poems, by Janet Charman NZ – 821.9
Lovelock's dream run: a play, by David Geary NZ – 822.2

Picture books
Herbert : the brave sea dog, Robyn Belton NZ – BEL /P
Tenderfoot, by Goscinny and Morris (Lucky Luke)- GOS /P
Maus, by Art Spiegelman – SPI /P

2009 Earth Hour on Saturday 28th March 2009 at 8:30pm.

It is an usual subject for a library blog but I cannot help advocating the Earth Hour which happens on Saturday the 28th of March, from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.

Switch off your lights at 8.30pm for an hour and you will be part of a global event. Easy, feels good and helps the earth!

The earth hour New Zealand page is here.
Read about Earth Hour here, or watch the Youtube clip YouTube - Earth Hour 2009 Official Earth Hour 2009 video.

WOW @ MAC

Writers On Wheels Tour in Mount Aspiring College The College was the lucky recipient of the Writers on Wheels tour,
organised by the New Zealand Book Council http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/. The writers included Steve Braunias (Non-fiction), Janet Charman (Poetry), Anna Mackenzie (Teen Fiction), Vanda Symon (Crime Fiction) and David Geary (Scriptwriting). Check out their profile on http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/index.html
More than 120 students listened attentively to them, telling how they became a writer and other stories…

The library now proudly owns some of their books... with autographs :)

MACLIC Book club recommends "The Recruit", first book of the CHERUB serie by Robert Muchamore

Put on the melody of "Mission impossible" in your head, and read on... We recommend this book to all medium level readers, who like adventure and spies stories.

What we really liked in "The Recruit":

• The hero does not know where he goes, nor what happens when CHERUB recruits him
• The story could be real
• It is quite deep
• It is sometimes funny too
• The illegal activities of the Mum are surprising

The down points of the book:

• There was no strong climax
• We are disturbed by the fact that the hero is not bad, not good, does he become good?

We should read the second book! We would like to find out:

• What does Cherub stand for
• The hero gets to use his computer skills, his maths abilities
• What happened to his Mum, to him in the past

There could be a film or a video game made from the book.

FANTASY display @ MACLIC

Grab a book from the display and escape in fantastic worlds! Proudly brought to you by MACLIC book club.

MACLIC book club news

We have been busy:

• Designing a logo and finding a motto, making bookmarks with it
  
• Deciding on a book we all agree to read, and starting to read it... We chose the first of the Cherub series, The Recruit, by Robert Muchamore, not original, but really cool...


• Creating a new display for the library. FANTASY is our first theme, because it is a great genre and fairly easy to illustrate. We gathered the materials we needed and designed it, with lots of glitter!
  

Favourite books for Girls

When students are asked what is their Favourite book, here are the girls answers:

Girls aged 11 and 12

Finding Father, by Pauline Cartwright
Fiddlesticks, by Alan Fraser
The Priests of Ferris, by Maurice Gee
Mother Stone, by Maurice Gee
Once, by Morris Gleitzman
With Lots of Love From Georgia, by Brigid Lowry
"Tomorrow" series, by John Marsden
Aldophus Tips, by Michael Morpurgo
Ways to Live Forever, by Sally Nicholls
"Goosebumps", by R. L. Stine
Candyfloss, by Jacqueline Wilson

For Girls aged 13 and 14

Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah
Shearwater Bell , by Margareth Beames
Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
Dear Mr. Sprouts, by Errol Broome
Missing Judy
Love letters, by Anne Cassidy
Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn
Pip: The Story of Olive, by Kim Kane
Good Night Mr. Tom, by Marjorie Magorian
Peter Pan in Scarlet, by Geraldine McCaughrean
Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer
Hunted, by Chris Ryan
A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket
The Polar Express, by Chris van Allsburg
The Diamond Girls, by Jacqueline Wilson

For Girls aged 15 and +

A child called “It”, by Dave Pelzer
Bent Not Broken, by Lauren Roche
Ravens Gate, by Anthony Horowitz
The Thin line, by V. R. Joseph
Plain Truth, by Jodi Picoult
Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone, by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince, by J. K. Rowling
Third Degree, by Tania Roxborough
Fairest, by Gail Carson Levene

(You can find the list of Favourite books for boys on this blog, published in February 2009)

Is YOUR favourite book not listed? Leave a comment to add it...

Bookworm favourite books for Boys

In 2008, students were invited to fill in a "favourite book form". Each form was a segment added to our bookworm on the library window. These books are recommended by your mates, they must be good!

Here is what our Bookworm says:

“Favourite books for boys aged 11 or 12 are:”
Paul Jenning's Funniest Stories, by Paul Jennings - JEN
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J. K. Rowling - ROW
Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig Neild, by Diana - NEI /P
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, by J. K. Rowling - ROW
The Thin Line, by V. R. Joseph - JOS
To the Max, by Mark Inglis - 796.6

“Favourite books for boys aged 13 and 14 are:”
Mort, by Terry Pratchett - PRA
The Navigator, by Eion McNamee - not yet in Maclic

Tomorrow When The War Began, by John Marsden - MAR
Holes, by Louis Sachar - SAC
101 Cool Science Experiments, by Glen Singleton - 507.8
Through the Rings, by Ruben Sanchez - 796.90
One Shot, by Lee Child - CHI

“Favourite books for boys aged 15 and older are:”
Murder in Orbit, by Bruce Colville - COL
Area 7, by Matthew Reilly - REI
Lord of Snow and Shadows, by Sarah Ash - Not yet in Maclic
Why Dick Fosbury Flopped, by Damian Farrow Justin Kemp - 796
Tenth man down, by Chris Ryan - RYA
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller - HEL

Hey! YOUR Favourite book is not listed?!. Send a comment to recommend your favourite book. You can even write why you like it (and please, mention your age).

MACLIC Book Club is born!

So we just met and it was great. 8 keen readers, keen to share, keen to discover, keen to read. We decided:

• Our name is MACLIC Book Club
• Our logo will be an indefinite triangle with the words "Reading never stops"
• We will meet on Thursdays lunchtime, in the library
• We will read one same book and share our comments
• We will also read our own and talk about it to the group
• We will choose and set up displays for the library
• We will feed the blog, here, this one!
• We are interested in book-related competitions
• We will choose new books and meet authors
• We will have a maclic book club tea at the end of each term
• We will organise a book fair or book swap

The hardest is really to choose ONE book to all read and share. Lets bring ideas next week or post a suggestion!

MACLIC Book Club Launch

Come to the meeting Thursday lunchtime and you’ll decide what you want to do:

- Choose a name for the book club
- Read and share books, of course
- Choose new books
- Contribute to MACLIC blog
- Choose and design the library display
- Meet writers
- Participate in book-related competition
- Organise a bookfair, a reading campaign, do posters
- All ideas welcome

Become a MACLIC book club member !

Check out our new BOOKS on display... and start reading NOW.

New Fiction Books
Milad : the voyage to Ophir, by Anhar, Nazam -ANH
Whole truth, by Baldacci, David -BAL
Ender's game, by Card, Orson Scott -CAR
Artemis Fowl : the Opal deception, by Colfer, Eoin -COL 770
Lionboy, by Corder, Zizou -COR
Aliens ate my homework, by Coville, Bruce -COV
Kin, by Dickinson, Peter-DIC
Bansi O'Hara and the bloodline prophecy, by Dougherty, John; De la Rue, James -DOU
Sword quest, by Fan, Nancy Yi -FAN
Swordbird, by Fan, Nancy Yi -FAN
Pirates galore, by Fleischman, Sid -FLE
Stone heart, by Fletcher, Charlie -FLE
Don't kiss girls, by Flynn, Pat -FLY
Bumageddon : the final pongflict, by Griffiths, Andy -GRI
Bloodfever, by Higson, Charlie -HIG
Silverfin, by Higson, Charlie -HIG

The River Runs, by David Hill - HIL
Evil star, by Horowitz, Anthony -HOR
Mister Pip, by Jones, Lloyd-JON
Ruby key, by Lisle, Holly -LIS
Haunted city of gold, by MacKenzie, Jake -MAC
Naked and the Dead, by Mailer, Norman-MAI
Kristy and the walking disaster, by Martin, Ann M -MAR 650
Mad dogs, by Muchamore, Robert -MUC
Turing's delirium, by Paz Soldan, Edmundo -PAZ
Golden Compass Audiobook, by Pullman, Philip -PUL /A
Contest, by Reilly, Matthew -REI
Beyond the deepwoods, by Stewart, Paul; Riddell, Chris -STE

Breezy Reads
ARE /B Halloween gotcha
ARE /B Bike daredevils
ARE /B Birthday party bedlam
ARE /B Space invaders

ARE /B Skateboard Dudes
ARE /B Pony club
BEA /B Annie and Mitch
HIL /B Between the lines
KET /B Doubles trouble
STO /B Dracula


New Knowledge Books
179.3 Animal Rights, Human Values, Social Action
503 /R Children's science encyclopedia
507.8 100 amazing make-it-yourself science fair projects
551 A continent on the Move

551 Central Rocks: A guide to the geology and landscapes of Central
Otago
551.2 Volcanoes : the fiery mounts
574.92 Coral reefs
591 Watching wildlife
594 Collecting New Zealand sea-shells
598 Common and garden birds of New Zealand
612.6 Body image
613.8 Cannabis
622 New Zealand's golden days
736 Pounamu : a stone of many uses
741.2 Drawing in perspective
791.4 New Zealand film-makers
796.35 Complete encyclopedia of golf techniques
808.3 Write your own adventure story
821 Another 100 New Zealand poems for children
829 Beowulf : dragonslayer
915.97 Vietnam : the people
916 South Africa : the people
918.6 Jamaica : the people
92 TOL Leo Tolstoy
940.54 New Zealanders of action in World War Two