Location: Grafton Campus, near Pound Street entrance
Phone: 66411667
Fax: 66411617
Email: ncigraftonlibrary@tafensw.edu.au
Cathy – Jill Enks
A thousand splendid suns – Wendy Bruszewski
To kill a mocking bird – Neil Gorring
Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen’s classic country collection – Michelle Whitby
Black kettle and full moon – Kerry Watson
Feral future – Janine Arbuckle
Mao’s last dancer – John Stephens
Pride and prejudice – Simone Gretch
Tully – Terena Tory
The complete book of great Australian women – Annette Griffioen (voted best staff choice by students). The student winner was Patricia Findlay. Annette and Patricia have both won vouchers for the canteen. Congratulations, ladies, and thank you to all the staff and students who participated!
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This week’s website is Studylinks, www.tafensw.edu.au/library/studylinks. It was compiled by TAFE librarians in Sydney, and features great weblinks that provide reliable information in many learning areas.
Please have a look at this website. You might be surprised how much you find!
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The book of the week is called Dealing with people you can’t stand : how to bring out the best in people at their worst by Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner
This book has strategies for dealing with ten specific undesirable behaviours of our fellow human beings and how we can improve our interactions with them.
The ten most unwanted list consists of:
The Tank
The Sniper
The Grenade
The Know-It-All
The Think-They-Know-It-All
The Yes Person
The Maybe Person
The Nothing Person
The No Person
The Whiner
Which categories do the people you can’t stand come under? Borrow the book to find out.
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ANZAC Day has come and gone, but we should never forget the sacrifice and endurance of those who took part in all the wars Australia has been involved in.
So this week I’ve chosen a novel about war and its aftermath, Barbed wire and roses , by Peter Yeldham.
When the First World War breaks out in 1914, Stephen Conway gives up studying for his law degree and enthusiastically volunteers for service. He hastily marries his childhood sweetheart, and sets off on what he thinks will be a great adventure. Four years later, having fought at Gallipoli and in France, he is exhausted, shell-shocked and disillusioned. Then he mysteriously disappears.
Many years later his grandson Patrick finds a diary which leads him to France and England to discover what really happened to his grandfather. This quest changes Patrick’s life forever.
The novel has been extremely well researched and written. Besides being a really good story, it gives the reader much insight into the effects of battle on the volunteer soldiers.
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Office Admin. student Patricia Ferguson was the 25th person to use the library on the last day of term, Friday 11 April. Trish won a voucher from Grafton TAFE canteen.
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