Maitland ESOL and CSE students “Love to read”

Love 2 Read is the official logo of the National Year of Reading and now the Maitland Tafe’s library’s entrance is brightened with flowers, each petal adorned with scripts including Javanese, Urdu, Polish, Tagalog, Telagu, Japanese, Arabic,  Farsi/Persian, Serbian, Spanish, Indonesian,  and Mandarin.

Yes, students have translated the 10 National Year of Reading words: laugh, grow, explore, question, discover, cry, feel, think, escape and  dream into their first languages but more importantly have read books in English and written their own book reviews.  One comment was, ‘Wow, it’s the first time I’ve read a whole book.”  Another, “ I like to learn the handsome frog story with I love you” sums up how books have made us learn  and  laugh our way through some great reads.

Congratulations to all who participated and to our lucky winners.
“Big up”  to teachers, Jenny Vaupel, Helen Boland and Jude Markey for their enthusiastic involvement.

Cesar Millan : the dog whisperer

 

Basset Dreaming

Basset Dreaming - http://flic.kr/p/wUuZ

Why pay $145 to see Cesar @ the Newcastle Entertainment Centre, when you can borrow his DVD’s for free from the Maitland TAFE Library?

Click here to find Cesar Millan’s Mastering Leadership DVD’s

 

Library Holiday Hours

The holidays are nearly here! The TAFE vacation period is from Monday 26th September – Friday 7th October. Some libraries will be closed, or open only for part of the vacation period. Click here to check the opening hours for your campus Library over the break.

Going away? Most Libraries let you return your books after the holidays, but please check with Library staff. Also, please make sure that you have renewed your items if you need to do so.

Remember that you can renew your items online, via TAFEcat. To do this, you will need to get your PIN number from Library staff. Once we have given you a PIN number, you can log in and change it to something that you will easily remember.