As research projects begin and news affect everyone, here are a few information literacy skills resources, to help identify the truth.

How to conduct a research project? Follow the Define, Locate, Select, Organise, Present, Assess steps in this Prezi!

How to use the internet efficiently for research -senior: Youtube video 3.19 mn

To help with research, here is the direct access to selected databases for New Zealand schools -no login required. Scroll down on the page to this search box:

Spot Fake News

Here is an interesting article about identifying Fake information:  Visual clues, resist emotional response, look for the motives. 1000 words – 5mn read

More than 130 books have been added to the collection this year and it will keep growing, of course.

Check them out on the New Books revolving shelf in the library or on the Book Lists page. If the book you want to read is already borrowed, ask the librarian to reserve it for you.

Well done to Anataia White from Mount Aspiring College for her beautiful drawing published on page 48 of the TOITOI Magazine.

Quite special to have a work actually published!

You can send your writing and art for Issue 20 by April 9, 2020.

More information here https://www.toitoi.nz/submit/

A very wide subject profusely declined in fiction as well as documented in knowledge books. Grab one from the display area or choose your own from the collection.

Keywords to try in the library catalogue: oppression, rebellion, civil rights, slavery, freedom, social control, resistance, equality…

In Knowledge area: 303.6, 305, 305.8, 320, 324, 355, lots of biographies…

Grab your paper copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the issue desk or read online here. 

The theme is challenging but essential to human growth and well-being!

We know reading is good for us so how can we read more in our busy lives?

• Always carry a book with you: waiting time becomes reading time
• Download a book in your phone – MAC students and staff can access nearly 2000 books on MAC e-library
• Have another book near your bed. Studies have shown that reading 15mn before sleep improves sleep quality
• Stop scrolling and reading random bits from magazines and phones, use this time to dive into your chosen read
• Use a bookmark to find where you stopped instantly
• Skip parts, read how you like. A boring paragraph? Scroll to the next.
• If you don’t like what you are reading, stop and choose another book

Observe how more reading changes your life!