Library News

TYNE & ESK YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR 2014
Published: Tue 13 May 2014

S1 – 4 pupils are invited to let their imagination run wild in this year’s Tyne and Esk Young Writer of the Year competition.

Entrants must reside in East Lothian and are allowed to enter one piece of original writing. The work can be either prose or poetry. Prose should be no more than 1500 words with poetry being no longer than 40 lines. There is no charge for entering the competition.

Entrants must ensure that they include their name; age; class; title of their entry; name of school and their class teacher on the back of their piece of original writing. Please keep an electronic copy as you will need this should you win.

All secondary school entries should be handed into their school librarian no later than Wednesday 11th June 2013.

LONG JUMPING INTO HADDINGTON
Published: Mon 12 May 2014

Sarah Warnock, Commonwealth Long Jumper, will be in Haddington Library tomorrow evening (Tuesdday 13th May) at 7.15pm to discuss her Commonwealth journey.

Library staff would like to invite pupils, parents and staff along to this free event to hear Sarah talk about her career and aspirations for the upcoming games.

STAN LEE EXCELSIOR AWARD
Published: Thu 20 Feb 2014

Pupils have the opportunity in selecting the winner of the Stan Lee Excelsior Award 2014. The School Library has a copy of each of the short listed graphic novel titles along with voting forms for pupils to select their favourite. Pupils will be able to borrow books using their smartcard and completing a permission form. Any pupil who would like to participate in the award selection should contact Mr Plain in the School Library by 28th February 2014.

LIBRARY AMNESTY
Published: Mon 3 Feb 2014

As part of National Libraries Week, the School Library is holding a Book Amnesty from the 3rd - 7th February 2014. During this time pupils can return any overdue material (including department textbooks) to any East Lothain Library without any questions asked on time overdue.

FREE E-MAGAZINE SERVICE (STAFF AND PUPILS)
Published: Sat 26 Oct 2013

East Lothian Libraries have recently launched a FREE On-line Magazine service.

The titles currently available are:
25 Beautiful Homes; Amateur Photographer; Computer Shopper; CrossStitcher; Digital Camera World; Economist; Essentials; Health and Fitness; Horse and Hound; Ideal Home; Kitchen Garden; MacUser; Marie Claire; Mountain Biking UK; National Geographic; Newsweek; Papercraft Inspirations; Sailing Today; SFX; Teen Now; Total Film and Woman & Home Feel Good Food.

To access the service as a member of staff, or pupil, you must create a FREE account using your staff card number (see Mr Plain for further instructions), pupils use their Young Scot card number to register. There are a few simple steps to follow to create your account; once you have completed them you will have access to current and some back issues of the titles mentioned above.

FREE Zinio Reader app available for iPhone; iPad; Android; Kindle Fire/HD; Blackberry; Nook HD/HD+; PC & Mac.

The link to the service is here and it is also available on the school library webpage. If you have any questions regarding the service please just ask Mr Plain and he will do his best to answer them.
 

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