Beijing Olympics 2008

The latest display in the library has a sporting theme ( you will never guess why). It has been very easy to find pictures for our notice board as the papers are full of it. You can check it all out in the Age Australian or Herald sun in your Deni TAFE library. We will also have copies of score sheets for those who want to keep a medal tally. We have have subscribed to the Age Teachers support website for the olympics. There are some great resources there if you want to do an Olympics project with a class or for yourself.There will be a prize for the first person to borrow something from my olympic display so come in and check it out !!!!!

A list of the titles on display:

A brief history of the Olympic games
Black gold : the Aboriginal and Islander sports hall of fame
Catherine : intimate portrait of a champion
Cathy Freeman
Deadly feet [videorecording]
Fun & games in Sydney 2000
Grandpa's games [videorecording]
Gymnastics
Jobs in sport
Karrie Webb ( series Australia’s Outstanding sport stars)
Legends of Australian sport: the Inside Story by Peter Meares
Sporting immigrants : sport and ethnicity in Australia
Sydney 2000 : the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, the official souvenir book
The encyclopedia of exercise, sport and health
The encyclopedia of world sports
The Olympic Games
The proud champions : Australia's Aboriginal sporting heroes
World sports encyclopedia
100 Australian sports stars of the 21st century

Reading in Central Australia

This display has been inspired by my recent Central Australian trip. Some great resources if you are heading off virtually anywhere in Australia.

Art
Aboriginal art – a survey of Aboriginal art from across Australia
Contemporary aboriginal art : a guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture
Hermannsburg potters : Aranda artists of central Australia – famous art colony near alice Springs


Biography
The Indomitable Miss Pink : a life in Anthropology by Julie Marcus
Desert queen : the many lives and loves of Daisy Bates by De Vries, Susanna - Another great easy to read biography by Devries about an infamous Australian woman
The singing line : the story of the man who strung the telegraph across Australia, and the woman who gave her name to Alice Springs
The dig tree : the story of Burke and Wills - Sarah Murgatroyd reveals new historical and scientific evidence to tell the full story of the disaster of Burke and wills

Cooking
Swinging the billy : indigenous and other styles of Australian bush cooking

Plants and Landscape
The old country : Australian landscapes, plants and people -
George Seddon looks at the history of the Australian landscape and local and European influences have shaped what we see today,
Uluru : an Aboriginal history of Ayers Rock
A guide to plants of inland Australia ( beautiful photographs and maps to help identify plants)
Sedimentary Rock ( Uluru apparently falls into this category)
Cronin's key guide : Australian trees – another great guide to help you identify tree and plants no matter where you are travelling

Stories and Writing from Central Australia and beyond.
Yarrtji : six women's stories from the Great Sandy Desert – great photos and stories which give an insight into living in the great sandy desert
Being whitefella - stories written by well known white Australians about their relationships with Aboriginal people
The Milk in the sky: writing from the Centre - and anthology of poems and short stories from people living Around Alice Springs
Inside Black australia: an anthology of Aboriginal Poetry
Live Like Water by Meme McDonald - romance set in Alice Springs

Travel
Australia : the rough guide - an ideal travelling companion for anywhere in Australia
The Australian Adventure Atlas – advice and maps for adventure holidays around Australia
Classic walks of Australia – great read if you are visiting any of Australia’s national parks
The ways of the bushwalker : on foot in Australia by Harper, Melissa - when you head out to the bush with your Dunlop volleys on you realise you are flowing in the footsteps of a long line of walkers with quite a controversial and influence history.

Outdoor Australia - Great magazine if your looking for inspiration for an active holiday around Australia


Websites
http://www.northernterritory.visitorsbureau.com.au/visitors_info.html#abor
http://www.csu.edu.au/australia/nt.html

World Refugee day

In recogniton of World Refugee Day - here is a list of library resources to give an insight into refugees and others who have come from overseas to live in Australia
http://www.oxfam.org.au/refugee/uganda/about-ugandan-camps.php
http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/refugee/

The Australian people : an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins
A fantastic books which gives a historical perspective on where people come from to Australia and why they came.

Australia's refugee dilemma [videorecording]
What is a refugee? Why do people become refugees? What's People Smuggling all about? What happens to people who come to Australia, claiming to be refugees? The answers to these questions and more are given in this moving program. Includes: * UN definition of a refugee. * Where refugees come from and why? * People smugglers in Indonesia. * Australian government responses to 'boat people', past and present. * Changes to legislation made prior to 2002 election (TEPs, excised territories etc.)\

Immigration : [videorecording] the waves that shaped Australia
This program examines the role immigration has played in the settlement of Australia. It traces immigration from the days of the first fleet, throughout the period of the White Australia policy, to the present day.

Refugees and asylum seekers ( Issues in society)
Human rights ( Issues in Society)

Populate or perish [videorecording]
Populate or Perish explores the insularity and fears which motivated the twentieth
century catchcry of ‘populate or perish’. It examines why this movement has changed
today to one opposed to increasing population, on the grounds of environmental
unsustainability and cultural explosiveness
http://www.filmaust.com.au/programs/teachers_notes/3772populateorperish.pdf

The atlas of war and peace
gives a visual representation of war and its consequences from around the world
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=231


The history of human rights : from ancient times to the globalization era
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9737001.php

World Music Day

To celebrate world music day the library has put together some music books and dvds to listen and watch. Enjoy!!!!

Biography
Most people I know (think that I'm crazy) by Billy Thorpe ( Relive some of Billy’s crazy world )
On the road with Slim
http://www.abc.net.au/snc/stories/s949745.htm
Dame Nellie Melba ( Live Wire Real Lives Australian History)
Silverchair ( Live Wire Real Lives Australian History)
http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/76189/description/9780521776189_description.htm

Music Videos/DVDS
Long way to the top [videorecording] : stories of Australian rock n' roll
A time capsule of music, news, fashion and politics of Australian and New Zealand rock and roll. This series captures it all from the bodgie sex parties and surfie culture to Vietnam and the Sunbury near-death experience; from pub rock and Australia's own sharpies to glam rock, punk, grunge, dance and more.

John Farnham - The last time: complete and uncut videorecording
Complete and uncut footage of the final concert of "The last Time" tour - recorded on Sunday June 15th, 2003, at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Park

Baraka [DVD]
A panoramic view of the tumultuous interaction of earth and man, ... photographed ... on six continents in 24 countries, including ... Tanzania, China, Brazil, Japan, Kuwait, Cambodia, Iran and Nepal, together with major U.S. and European locations. Baraka, an ancient Sufi word ...can be translated as a blessing, or as the breath, or essence of life form from which the evolutionary process unfolds. A movie with no conventional plot: merely a collection of expertly photographed scenes. Subject matter has a highly environmental theme.

Teach yourself
Total guitar Tutor
The ultimate guide to playing recording and performing every guitar style by terry Burrows

Talking Books
Scorpia ( book and Cd) – great for travelling with the kids
Teenage superspy Alex Rider is determined to find out more about his father. He travels to Italy where to infiltrate the world of the beautiful Claudia Rothman, a member of the crime organization, Scorpia. 10 yrs+

Nicholas Nickleby [sound recording]
by Charles Dickens
Read by Anton Lesser
One of Dickens’s earlier novels, dating from 1839, it charts the fortunes of an honourable young man, Nicholas Nickleby, who has set out to make his way in the world.
Dickens presents his remarkably vivid display of Victorian characters and the life they lead, from the generous to the fated to the crushed. Hope springs eternal, however, and righteous persistence brings rewards.
Anton Lesser, the outstanding Dickens interpreter, brings all his narrative expression to bear on this exciting tale.

On Chesil Beach [sound recording] ( beautifully ready by Ian McEwan himself)
It is July 1962. Edward and Florenece, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding nights to come
http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Books/Default.aspx?Page=Book&ID=9781846571008

Two Caravans [sound recording]
Notes
Narrator : Sian Thomas.
Summary
An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday. But who picks our strawberries these days? Ukrainians, Poles and Chinese are among those who lead dangerous lives as they take to the caravan road until each of them peels off to find their destiny. Hilarious, gritty, moving and slapstick by turns. Two Caravans has every bit of the extraordinary wit and heart that made A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian so successful.
http://vpn.fremantle.wa.gov.au:81/amlib/webquery.dll?v1=pbMarc&v2=j%20picoult&v4=441265&v5=3X&v8=441266&v9=20&v10=Y&v13=4B&v20=4&v23=0&v25=Chivers%20CD%20audio%20books.&v27=100185867&v35=%7b%5d0%5b%7d%7b%5d0%5b%7d%7b%5d0%5b%7d%7b%5d0%5b%7d&v46=441266


Books to the Movies

The taming of the shrew [DVD] Shakespeare retold
Katherine is extremely abrasive in her dealings with everyone, both in Parliament and her personal life. Her sister Bianca couldn't be more different -- a popular model whom everyone loves. Bianca's long time manager wants to marry her; in order to put him off she says she won't marry until her sister is wed (a prospect she knows will keep her safe.) So her manager arranges his friend -- who is a titled Earl -- to meet and marry Kate and the battle is on.

I'm not scared DVD
Something sinister is lurking under the surface of 10 year old Michele idyllic summer in 1978. While the days in this remote southern village are filled with the familiar routines of childhood, a chance discovery leads to a shocking revelation…
http://www.miramax.com/imnotscared/

Reading about films
100 greatest films of Australian cinema
http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=64178

Music to relax by
Chill out : music to relax to [sound recording
Rhythms of Life Sound Recording

Reconciliation week

Reconciliation Week
http://www.reconciliation.org.au/i-cms.isp
The library has put together a resource display to help celebrate reconciliation week. Hopefully using these resources will help with the understanding of the reconciliation process and help develop a greater understanding about why there is a need for reconciliation.


Law
Indigenous Australians and the law
http://www.spinneypress.com.au/248_book_desc.html

ART
Hermannsburg potters : Aranda artists of central Australia by Jennifer Isaacs

History
Nowhere people by Henry Reynolds
http://www.readings.com.au/product/9780143001911/nowhere-people


Blood on the wattle : massacres and maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1800
http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=14272

Wiradjuri places : The Macquarie River Basin and some places revisited

Survival : a history of Aboriginal life in New South Wales

Timeline Australia ( Macmillan set)

Aboriginal Victorians : a history since 1800 by Richard Broome
http://www.allenandunwin.com/_uploads/BookPdf/TeachersReview/9781741145694.pdf

The original Australians : story of the Aboriginal people
http://www.shop.nsw.gov.au/proddetails.jsp?publication=8329

Famous Australians
Dhirrabuu mari -Outstanding Indigenous Australians
http://protocat.nla.gov.au/Record/3562785 = outstanding indigenous Australians


Reconciliation
Around the kitchen table [videorecording] Reconciliation kit
http://protocat.nla.gov.au/Record/3535873

Aboriginal Australia
Aboriginal issues series. Land : notes & activities booklet

Being Aboriginal : comments, observations and stories from Aboriginal Australians : from the ABC radio programs
Being whitefella
http://paperchain.seekbooks.com.au/featuredbook1.asp?StoreUrl=paperchain&bookid=9781863680806

Aboriginal disadvantage ( Issues in Society)
The racism debate ( Issues in Society)

Films
Lousy Little sixpence ( video) featuring Margaret Tucker
http://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/1832221.html little sixpence [videorecording]

Return to Cummeragunja : [videorecording] Hyllus Maris and her mother Mrs Geraldine Briggs speak, 26-8-85 35555010906149 ON_SHELF

Ten canoes ( DVD)
http://www.tencanoes.com.au/tencanoes/
Rabbit proof fence ( video)
http://www.abc.net.au/message/blackarts/film/s644749.htm


The dreaming: a six series collection on DVD
Harry's war: aborigines in wartime ( DVD)

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