In 2018, Book Week runs from 18-24 August, and the theme is "Find Your Treasure".
We usually order the books nominated for book of the year, so we have quite a number of award winners (and very-nearly-award-winners) in our collection.
Which all sounds like a good reason to talk about our Curriculum Collection.
To help our Education students, we have a Curriculum Collection located in both library buildings (Townsville and Cairns). This collection is intended to be a model school library, giving our students access to the kinds of books they're likely to be using in classrooms or recommending to school students.
The best part of this collection is the literature (810s-850s), which contains a strong showing of Australian children's literature found at 820.94. It's a mixture of picture books, chapter books, YA novels and the like, and you'll never find a better introduction to Australian literature than browsing through these books.
The Curriculum Collection is available for loan to all of our members (you don't have to be an Education student), and we happen to think it's one of the best parts of the library (we raid it frequently for the Reading Challenge).
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