The Library Portal on SEQTA offers many authoritative and current resources that can be accessed from home or at school, for both academic and recreational purposes.
Library staff can be contacted via email or direct message if assistance is required with accessing any resources.
Resources include:
1. World Book Encyclopedia
This extensive online encyclopedia includes information on all topics and provides a choice of readability levels and depth. It is an excellent resource to use when starting assignments. This site also includes a “text to speech” option. “Student” level is perfect for most secondary students and includes the headlines of the day and a section for Biographies.
2. World Book e-books
This site includes stand-alone books on many different nonfiction (information) curriculum topics.
3. Issues in Society
These books are in pdf format and include statistics, graphs and information on a variety of contemporary social issues. They are excellent for debates, oral presentations or research.
4. Echo online issues
Echo online provides detailed information on current issues, including arguments for and against various topics. This is an excellent resource for argumentative essays and debates.
5. Newsbank - Online newspapers
All Australian (and many overseas) newspapers can be accessed via this site, including The Age, The Herald Sun and local papers. They can be searched via subject matter. A link to “The Age” online is also available.
6. Wheelers e-platform
This new Wheelers e-platform allows students to “borrow” a fiction e-book, with over 2000 e-books to choose from. Students may also “borrow” audio books, with a choice of over 800 contemporary and classic books.
7. English novels - audio books
Students may also download links to the audio books of the English novels.
8. Referencing
Information on Referencing, including: bibliographies, In-text citation, footnotes and a link to the automated Harvard Generator (for fast and easy creation of bibliographic entries) can also be found on the Library Portal.