Welcome back pupils and staff! As we adjust to evolving social distancing guidance, access to the Library is currently limited. It will regularly be reviewed in line with the official guidance.  In the meantime, the Library has been reaching out to pupils in alternative ways to ensure access access to resources to support their learning.

The school library newsletter is back, now more  compact featuring new books, eBooks and eAudiobooks from Libby and BorrowBox, and free music available through Freegal, along with author spotlight, reading lists, reading challenges, and book reviews. The newsletter will be circulated monthly in addition to the new Glasgow School Libraries eMagazine, Swatch, which will be circulated quarterly. Keep a look out for the first issue due shortly.

View the reading list of books featured on Twitter. Don’t miss our Middle Grade Monday books for S1-2 pupils, Senior Tuesdays, What’s Next Wednesdays to find your next read, Nonfiction Thursdays, YA Fridays for S3+, Comic Book Saturday, and Scots Book Sunday featuring titles set in or written by authors living in Scotland. We also run an Author of the Week every Monday and themed rading lists to coincide with cultural/literacy days.

This month, the Library has targeted S6 pupils, introducing them to online databases ProQuest, Core, and Gale Literature Resource Centre that will prove invaluable to their independent research topics this year and for university/college work.

ProQuest is an online database service that holds scholarly journals, dissertations/theses, articles, trade journals, multimedia files and much more. Pupils studying Higher and Advanced Higher subjects will benefit from the resources available from ProQuest as they prepare for academic study. The workshop introduced them to different functions of the website, including search and browse functions, navigational and refinement tools and how to use the citation generator. ProQuest is only accessible with their school or community library cards.

Pupils were also introduced to a similar online service called CORE. CORE is the world’s largest collection of open access research papers, meaning the information is accessible to anyone with a device and internet access.

The Advanced Higher English class benefited from learning how to use GALE Literature Resource Centre.   GALE is a Literature specific data base of scholarly articles, literary criticism, primary source, and multimedia which will be useful for their dissertations.