Virtual Library
Our Library

Staff
Jenni van Wageningen -- Teacher Librarian
Treena Ross - Circulation and Textbooks
Sonia Antic - - Cataloguing
Jan Hodgson -- Audiovisual

Resources
The collection of about 30,000 books supports the professional, curriculum and recreational needs of students and staff.
Many departments have additional faculty collections of teaching resource materials and textbooks.
Besides books and other print resources we have organised and/or increased the  accessibility of many digital resources.

• Catalogue -- this can be checked from any computer in the school via the intranet. All our resources can be located using this catalogue
   
• Reference material -- includes encyclopaedias, dictionaries, yearbooks and atlases. Our library web page has links to on-line reference resources
   
• Videotapes and DVDs --  more than 1500 programmes used in all subject areas 
   
• Equipment -- Digital video cameras, tape-recorders, CD player, digital still cameras, colour photocopier, colour printer
   
• Fiction -- the collection caters for a wide range of reading abilities and interests, from picture books to adult novels Staff needs are also covered, particularly in our quarterly reading list.
  Thematic and subject listings are available, and we welcome special requests on unusual topics.
  Many novels have been assigned key words or subject descriptors in our catalogue
   
• Reading programmes - - Students in years 7 and 8 take part in the Premier's Reading Challenge.
  The Australian Reader's Challenge is also open to both students and staff
  Great Books programme is for students who wish to deepen their reading experiences
   
• Magazines -- we have a small core collection. Current issues are kept on display while back copies are stored on the mezzanine. 
   
• Newspapers -- The Advertiser, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review are available. Further titles are available on the Internet
  Newsbank is a newspaper database which gives access to past issues of  all SA newspapers, as well as The Australian
   
• Posters -- general interest posters are available for classroom use and displays. These are located in Dewey order in the picture cabinet. 

 

©2001 Immanuel College Library Resource Centre
Last revised 17th August 2007
URL for this page is http://intranet.immanuel.sa.edu.au/Library/htm/ourlibrary.htm

Jenni van Wageningen jvanwageningen@immanuel.sa.edu.au