When You Say Goodbye and I Say Hello...

The summer term is always quieter in the LRC with students and staff focused on exam preparations but we managed to have a super time at our Marvellous Superheroes event. We celebrated the end of exams with a quiz for fans of Marvel and DC comics– see our 'I'm Holding Out For A Hero' post for more information about the event from our students.

It is also a time of change for the LRC team as we say a fond farewell to students moving on to university or the world of  work and welcoming new student recruits to the team but we finished the year with a bang with our LRC Team student librarian awards evening – excellent achievements from all our students. Look out for our recap coming soon.

LRC Manager: Leane Kinsella

I'm Holding Out For A Hero

As Student Librarians, we help to organise and plan different events in the LRC.

For the summer term we chose to plan our Marvel vs. DC themed comic event called ‘Marvellous Superheroes’.

Students discovered their own superhero name and then joined either the Marvel or DC team to get involved with a scavenger hunt and comic quiz.

Student Librarians:  Jack Lyon & Liam Gowing

 “I thought it was brilliant that we had our own super hero name and super powers—my power was phasing, so cool and even better, our Marvel Team won the quiz and scavenger hunt.”            Student: Jessica Reddington

 

Be Our Guest

Today we have a guest post about the CILIP Carnegie Medal from one of our Student Librarians, Beckie Lees;

"The Carnegie Award was established in 1936 in memory of the philanthropist Robert Carnegie, he was a self made industrialist and after his great experience of using libraries as a child made him resolve to the solution if he ever came into money he'd use it to establish free libraries. Carnegie set up 2800 libraries across the English speaking world and by the time he died over half the libraries in Britain were Carnegie libraries.

Every year a new Carnegie shortlist is announced to the writer of the outstanding book for children. This year in the LRC book Club, 'South Sefton Reads', we decided to each have a cheeky read of the books shortlisted. I chose to read 'The Lie Tree' by Frances Hardinge; it's such an amazing story, I wouldn't know how to describe it. The story is so unbelievable (in a good way) and full of adventure. I'd definitely be happy if it won.

There are quite a few brilliant books up for this years award, with authors such as Patrick Ness, Marcus Sedgwick and Jenny Valentine. All the books look really appealing! The Carnegie award always picks several books that can be tailored to all different people as they are a number of genres. All the shortlisted books are available in the LRC, if you're interested come and take a look."

If You Like It Then You Should Have Put A Ring On It

On Thursday 31st March, the LRC closed it’s doors and allowed ‘no admittance except on party business’ when we explored the fantastical world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, with our Middle Earth Entmoot.

Beginning with a scavenger hunt around the college for the Fellowship’s lost Lorien leaves, the armies then battled in the war of the donut rings to win the middle earth quiz. The conquering army was the Elves - congratulations to our winners, Daniel Hill and Lauren Coady.

LRC Manager: Leane Kinsella

Checkmate

On Tuesday 29th March 2016, the LRC hosted the college's Spring Chess Tournament.
Congratulations to our Spring Chess Tournament prize winners - Liam Gowing and Callum Murphy.