Welcome to the new school year everyone and welcome back to the library!

We have had a very busy start to the year with many new students visiting the library at break and lunch. We’ve also had Year 7 library induction classes this week to show Year 7 the library and how to use the brilliant resources we have here. Here is some information about borrowing from the library and our Year 7 & 8 bingo reading challenge.

Reading Challenge for Year 7 and 8

All Year 7 and 8 students will be completing our library reading challenge! It will be a fun competition where you can earn recognitions and win prizes! (See picture below for the bingo sheet, it is being given to students in their library lessons).

Borrowing library books

Students can:

Borrow a maximum of 4 books at a time
For 2 weeks
Renew books by visiting the library or renewing books online
Return books by handing them in at the library desk or putting them in the book returns box

Elibrary

This is a brief description of how to use the online KWS library, more details are given in library lessons and can be found online via the KWS library tab on your chromebook menu where there are links to:

Accessit – our online library catalogue
ePlatform, the place to borrow ebooks and audiobooks.

Accessit – our online library catalogue

You need to log-in with your school login details by clicking the ‘SSO’ button at the top right of the screen. This will bring up your dashboard. You can search for books, check whether we have them in stock, renew and reserve them here. Accessit will show whether the version of the book you’re looking for is a printed book, ebook or audiobook.

KWS ePlatform

You can borrow ebooks and audiobooks in either the dedicated ePlatform app, or in the internet browser on any device or computer. You can borrow 2 items at a time. Books will be automatically returned after 2 weeks. If you have not finished the book you will need to borrow it again.

Visit the link above for information about setting up ePlatform on your computer.

The Library Team