Location: Grafton Campus, near Pound Street entrance
Phone: 66411667
Fax: 66411617
Email: ncigraftonlibrary@tafensw.edu.au
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( 3 / 649 )This week the Book of the Week is Letters to Sam: a grandfather’s letters to his grandson on love, loss and the gifts of life, by Daniel Gottlieb.
Daniel, a psychologist, is a quadriplegic, the result of a car accident twenty years previously. When his grandson Sam is born, he begins to write letters to him, fearing that he won’t be around to see Sam grow up. Then at fourteen months old Sam is diagnosed with autism, and grandfather and grandson are bound together by something extra special – a disability. In his letters Daniel tells Sam about the happenings that have shaped his (Daniel’s) life, and explains to Sam how wonderful it is to be unique.
If you would like to borrow this heart-warming book, it is available now at Grafton TAFE Library.
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( 3 / 643 )This week's book is called Australian childhood : a history by Jan Kociumbas.
Imagine being a child in Australia in 1826, where one of your favourite games was to pretend to be a bushranger, while your mates were soldiers trying to capture you.
If you were a child from a poor family, you owned so few books that the ones you had you knew off by heart. If you were a boy, your parents took you to cock fights, man fights and hangings, but this was only if you weren't one of the many children who died from falling down uncovered wells or being burnt to death by primitive cooking facilities.
This book describes how children were seen by adults from the first settlement and beyond, including indigenous children. At a time when school was not compulsory, wealthier children had a great and varied life, while poorer children often became little more than slaves.
The diet, medical treatment, discipline and schooling of children is described and shows the huge differences between being born into a poor or wealthy family.
How did your childhood compare to the ones within these pages?
Read the book to find out.
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( 3 / 651 )This week our website of the week is that of Tertiary Press. It is now part of the Pearson Education website as the company was acquired by Pearson in February of this year.
The website can be found at http://www.pearsoned.com.au/Professiona ... /Home.aspx
By looking under the heading Teachers on the home page, you will find a link called Vet Resource Finder. When you have clicked on this link you will be able to search by Training Package or Competency unit, by subject or by searching the entire Pearson catalogue.
When you find a book that has the information you want, please ask us if we have it in the library. If we don’t, we will purchase a copy for the library.
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( 3 / 692 )On Friday August 22 the library celebrated Daffodil Day, a very important fund raising occasion for the Cancer Council. Kerry and Jill dressed in yellow, as did some of the staff and students.
Morning tea in the library consisted of yellow food and was supplied by the TAFE Canteen, Kerry and Jill. Many people made generous donations which will be sent to the Cancer Council later this week.
Thank you all those who wore yellow, came to our morning tea and/or made donations to this very worthy cause.
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