Sunnybrae's Library Olympics

Our library is dressed up to celebrate the Olympics, so we decided to compete in our own "Library Olympics".
18 year 5 and 6 student librarians entered a qualification round to see who would be the fastest to find 3 books from our library.
From the qualification round the 8 competitors who finished under 4 minutes went on to the finals, to compete for the medals.
In this round the students had to issue and return several books, and then locate 3 more using Access It to help them locate the items.
The tasks took longer than Mrs Sutherland had anticipated and we ran out of time without having a winner.
Amy R11, TJ R12 and Emma R10 completed the most tasks and so were through to the medal round.
The 3 girls had to find 3 books, issue them, return them and finally shelve them correctly.
TJ won the Gold Medal, completing the tasks in just under 5 minutes. Emma finished 10 seconds later and won the Silver medal. Amy received the bronze medal.

Celebrate the 2008 Olympic Games

To celebrate the Olympic Games, which are soon to begin, our Library has been decorated with flags from various nations as well as an Olympic flag, on loan from Mr Eric Verdonk.
Eric Verdonk has represented New Zealand as a single sculler, winning a bronze in one of the Olympic Games. His son, Hugo is in our senior school.
There is also a display of newspaper articles on New Zealand competitors, Olympic related books and information on the Beijing Olympics.
Senior students have entered the "Library Olympics" and are being timed to search for books in our library. The quickest will compete in the finals next week.