1. Library and Resources
Centre
2013 Progress Report
Music is “Deep ocean” from the album “Lovelite” by “All Colour” downloaded from http://comeandlive.com on 10 December 2013
2. Daniel 5:12
… found to have a keen mind
and knowledge and
understanding… and solve
difficult problems. 2013:
Be seen to
be keen
3. The staff welcomes you!
Mrs Little and Mrs Bertram work
mostly in the Library.
Mrs Turner mostly
manages the
Resources Centre.
5. 45,982 library books, teaching resources
and textbooks
1,950 potential borrowers
Picture books for all ages
Opens on weekdays from 8:00 to 4:30
Fiction and graphic novels
Online and printed information
Magazines, DVDs, eBooks and Reference
Our library has:
8. Opening of our Library Garden
Our principal, Mr Crosbie, cut the ribbon
We thanked the PTA, artists and school
caretakers for all their help.
9. The Book Fair raised just
over $7,500.00, used
towards new books for our
library
“Friends of Bethlehem College
Library” helped to run it this
year. We really appreciate
their help.
Book Fair
10. Joining in with celebrating the
school‟s 25th birthday:
These are some of the uniforms from the Archives.
We had several competitions, such as one based on
history revealed in previous school magazines.
14. There are opportunities to serve,
and learn how libraries are
organised.
Monitors for 2013:
Kate Armstrong, Hayden
Borrows, Ryan Cunningham,
Jacob Davie, Leah Foster,
Justice-Raine Haumaha, Jarrod
Higgins, Ashley Hocking,
Hannah Hockly, Brodie Hunter,
Constance Jefferson, Emily
Kuizinas-O‟Connell, Hugh Lees,
Yuefeng Lin, Michael McAnulty-
Smith, Seeun Park, Seri Park,
Jonathan Pearse, Adara Price,
Ella Rapley-Jones, Kilian Tubbs,
Emma Turner, Nicholas Wotton
as well as the Library Helpers:
Anna Dunstan, Crystal Bang
and Anna Grant.
Some of the monitors, sharing lunch
17. Who took out the most
Library books?
E2, with 29 students, read
1,911books.
Therefore, the average number of
books read during 2013 was 65.8
The top reader was Martin
Loeffen Romagnoli, who read 222
library books.
The top reader in Junior
Secondary was Kate Armstrong
(Year 7), who read 165 of our
books.
A Senior student, Ashleigh Neal
read 137 library books this year!
17% more
library books
borrowed
than 2012
18. Potential users
• 481 students from Year 0 – 6
• 500 students from Year 7 – 9
• 662 students from Year 10 – 13
• 203 staff members
• 68 Kindy students over the whole year
• 36 BTI staff and students electing registration with us.
Are you a
library user?
22. New library books:
3 Reference books
192 Picture books
464 Non-fiction
books
32 Easy Fiction
books
579 Fiction books
40 Adult fiction
1,149 new books
purchased
159 books
donated, via the
Book Fair fund-
raising
23 „lost‟ books
were found
We buy what you
request, provided it fits
our selection criteria!
23. Total assets
46,901 items, worth $626,186.62!
Fiction Year 0-6, $3,125.20
Fiction Year 7-10, $1,935.93
Fiction Year 11-13, $1,992.75
Non-fiction Year 0-
6, $4,328.85
Non-fiction Year 7-
10, $1,031.96
Non-fiction Year 11-
13, $848.47
Picture books, $3,365.55
Graphic novels, $956.15
eBooks, $674.71
Christian books, $1,173.40 Staff books, $285.00
Library book spending
during 2013:
24. 2013 purchases and usage of
Resources
Primary Teacher Resources: 2,863 issued
Primary textbooks: 9,400 issued
Secondary textbooks: 13,188 issued
639 Primary Resources were purchased, valued at $23,457.50
472 Primary textbooks were purchased, valued at $6,336.65
332 Secondary textbooks were purchased, valued at $10,374.75
Altogether, we added 2,753 items, valued at
$62,320.71
25. We support blended learning
Information gathered from
printed books and
magazines, is supplemented
with online sources, thus
extending the core
curriculum.
We provided 2 iPad minis for students to read
eBooks in the library.
245 eBooks were downloaded to be read, this
year, compared to 111 in 2012.
We are impressed with Year 8 student, Hayden
Borrows, who read 39 eBooks, in addition to the 62
printed books that he borrowed.
26. The library is the
place to do
research, learn, r
elax, feel
welcomed…
