Thursday, July 24, 2008

Case Studies - Radford College & Tara


InCite Volume28 July 2007 (page 8)

Radford College -Canberra, Australia

"Our resources are varied: books, periodical, videos, DVDs, posters and maps. Our multimedia equipment includes data projectors, laptop computers, digital video and still cameras, headphones, CD players, which can be loaned out for school use. The library has two teaching areas with computers for class use and also a separate area for reading and class use. We have a media room set up for viewing and dubbing videos and DVDs for assignments and oral presentations. Our online presentation room has a permanently mounted data projector connected to a DVD player and a VCR, an interactive whiteboard and a trolley of laptops with wireless connection.The library support staff take care of most of the traditional daily tasks which include the loans desk duties, customer service, orders receipt, cataloguing, end processing and other requests such as: How do I use the photocopier? The printer won’t work. Where do I ind … I left my USB in the computer, do you have it? Can I have a tissue? Can I borrow a pen? Can I use the stapler? Can I borrow headphones? Where do I watch a DVD?"

"We also have ClickView, a digital video library of educational videos and teaching resources from Australian providers. We supplement this with programs that are recorded from free-to-air and pay-TV channels and made accessible through Oliver. The technician monitors upcoming curriculum-related programs in consultation with teaching staff and teacher librarians; these are recorded, edited and linked through Oliver using a web address. They are then accessible to staff and students, either individually or as a class."




Tara Anglican School For Girls Annual Report (page 56-57)

"Our Intranet has continued to be a very successful communication tool within the Tara Community. We have successfully tested a number of online mediums, including BLOG and Moodle, which we hope will soon be available for everyone to use. "

"Our Libraries are moving into the Clickview system allowing teachers and students to view video from the School’s digital video collection from any computer on the network. This new system will help keep the videos in digital format. Videos are currently pushed across the network from a server to computers in the School. From 2007, all recording will be in digital format instead of video taped.

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