Library Society

Library Society

” I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library.”
-Argentine author, Jorge Luis Borges

Other than being a ‘paradise’ for our librarians and students, Library Society strives to spread the joy of reading amongst our 姐妹们, and to hone our librarians’ confidence and other soft skills with various public speaking opportunities, group projects, competitions and presentations.

2023 was a year full of fun and excitement as our librarians embarked on various CCA highlights- Virtual Escape Room for Mother Tongue Language Fortnight, book recommendations for English Language and Literature Festival (ELLF) based on the theme of ‘Weird and Wonderful’ on Instagram, and an exciting journey to discover the Truth in Libraries through the workshops and a learning journey by The Little Entrepreneur. Librarians also attended other workshops like ‘Finding Poems in Trash and Trees’ a creative writing workshop by local author - Dr Ann Ang, as well as a scrapbooking workshop where our librarians got to try making their own personal scrapbooks. We also explored ‘Women authors’ this year and had discussions on their literary works.

Library Society was also given the opportunity to work with a local Chinese author to create a virtual escape room website for one of her books. Our librarians were split up into various subgroups, namely the scriptwriters, actors, props, directors and questions and we all worked as best as we could to make this project a successful one.

One of our learning journeys this year was to the National Gallery of Singapore, where our librarians were able to learn more about the history and stories behind each artwork. Subsequently, the librarians worked in groups to pick out a book to recommend as well as artworks that were related to the plot.

Three lower secondary teams took part in English competitions organised by NLB. Our two teams did exceedingly well in Prove It! Contest 2023 and were awarded Gold for both video and written categories. The HSI Challenge 2023 team were awarded Silver for their video and report.

After receiving the CDAC awards last year, our members continued reading newspapers to the elderly at the CDAC centre in Ang Mo Kio every Thursday. This is the first year since the pandemic that we were able to resume in-person sharing sessions, which provided the platform for more interactions with the elderly. We also ran 23 reading sessions in July as part of “Read for Books 2023” VIA organised by NLB aimed at raising awareness of reading and sharing the gift of reading so that books could be donated to less privileged children via The WondeRead initiative, Ready to Read @ NLB and kidsREAD.

Due to the ease of Covid-19 restrictions, we were able to work with other CCAs and we organised our very first St. Nick’s Poetry Slam Competition together with Chinese Drama Society, Literary Drama Society and Chinese Cultural Society where our 姐妹们 wrote and performed their own poems. Another collaboration was with Art Club and Green Club, where our librarians wrote poems or did up book reviews that tied in with the artworks that were on display. In consideration of our Primary 妹妹们, we sourced for several books that were suitable for them to read. We look forward to working with more CCAs to provide meaningful experiences to everyone in the school next year.

We also had a trip to Kinokuniya bookshop in Semester 2 where we had a thoroughly enjoyable time selecting new books from a wide range of genres for our library. Library Society is hopeful that we will have a ‘fun filled’ 2024 to hone our literary talents and develop us further as well-read young women.

“We read to know we are not alone” C.S Lewis

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CCA Highlights

Prove It! Contest 2023 (EL NLB Competition) Our two Lower Secondary teams were awarded Gold in this contest organised by National Library BoardThe Written Category team were required to write an article on their chosen topic of “Social Media Usage Among Teenagers: Positive or Negative?”. To produce quality work, they did extensive research, ensured appropriate use of images, careful citations of sources, meticulously crafted survey questions for data collection and analysed data for the article. The team did exceedingly well and was overall 2nd amongst all schools that took part. The Video Category team chose to create an engaging video regarding the same topic as the written category team, “Social Media Usage Among Teenagers: Positive or Negative?”. They researched deeper into the positive and negative aspects of social media, utilized information literacy skills and cross-referenced other sources to check the reliability and accuracy of information. The video was shared school wide to create awareness of information literacy skills. Historical Scene Investigation (HSI) Challenge 2023 (EL NLB Competition) Four lower secondary librarians took part in this annual competition organised by the National Library Board - our team won a Silver Award for their video and report. This year’s theme was on Singapore’s Road to Independence.	Prove It! Contest 2023 Gold Award Winners Award Ceremony at National Library for Prove It! – 2nd Gold Award (Written category)
Learning Journeys to the National Gallery Singapore and Kinokuniya Library Society went for a learning journey to the National Gallery Singapore on Friday, 24 March 2023. Our librarians were led by facilitators from the museum to look at art pieces from the gallery such as  ‘Wood Print of a Malay Kampung’ by Lim Yew Kuan and ‘Shipyard’ by Lee Boon Wang. The guided tour by the facilitators honed our skills on analysis of art such as highlighting textures, contrast and colour. This greatly benefitted us in the process of working on a follow up project which involved complementing an art piece for a book we were recommending. We were also able to visit City Hall Chambers and Supreme Court building to learn about historical events that happened there such as the surrender of the Japanese. In semester 2 we also had a fun-filled trip to Kinokuniya bookshop to select a variety of new books for our library -  we will certainly review these books and have presentations done on them in 2024.	National Gallery Visit Intricacies of Art analysis by our helpful tour guide
Read for Books VIA 2023, ‘Finding Poems in Trash Trees’ & other snippets Read for Books 2023 In July, we organised 23 sessions of ‘Read for Books Charity Drive’ school wide in collaboration with NLB - for every 10 people who read a book for 15 minutes, one book would be donated by NLB to less privileged children via The WondeRead initiative, Ready to Read @ NLB and kidsREAD. We were glad to be able to give back to society by raising awareness of reading and sharing the gift of reading with the less privileged!	Read for Books Charity Drive 2023
Creative Writing EL Workshop- Finding Poems in Trash and Trees On the 10th of February 2023, Library Society had the invaluable opportunity to invite local author and poet Dr Ann Ang to host a creative writing workshop. Through this workshop, librarians explored concepts such as nature, trash and Anthropocene – the human effect on the environment – through Dr Ang’s insightful presentation as well as various writing activities. We did a fill-in-the-blank poem, writing a haiku inspired by trash and crafting a poem about a plant’s life, as told from its point of view. All of which truly unlocked our inner poets!	Workshop by Dr Ann Ang a local writer Synergise 2023
CL activities（华文活动) 与本地作家合作设计《蓝宝石号上的七天》 密室逃脱线上游戏 (Online Escape Room) 今年，我校图书馆学会的同学再一次与本地作家合作，共同制作线上密室逃脱游戏，推广华文阅读。本次与我们合作的是《蓝宝石号上的七天》的作者陈帅。有了去年的经验，同学们从写稿、编剧、制作道具、表演、后期制作到制作游戏都进行得相当顺利 。 经过本次的学习体验，大家有了更多的机会了解本地作家，通过与作家的交流与讨论，也对华文阅读和写作有了更浓厚的兴趣。不仅如此，历经了九个月时间，同学们也学会了许多重要的软技能，锻炼了自己的能力，并且促进了彼此的关系，可谓收获颇丰。 剪贴簿工作坊（Scrapbooking Workshop) 为了让同学们接触更多元的学习领域，探索并掌握更多新技能，也能有机会将自己的阅读体验更好地记录与展示出来。今年月，我校图书馆学会的同学参加了一个剪贴簿工作坊，学习了一些制作技巧，尝试使用各种材料和技巧制作自己的阅读剪贴簿。通过运用新学到的技能，她们将在卓尔书店学习之旅留下的珍贵回忆转变成了富有创意的剪贴簿页面。	Design Online Escape Room Scrapbooking Workshop
小书迷读书会讲故事 (little-avid-volunteer) 今年4月，我校八位中二的学生参与了国家图书馆举办的小书迷小小书迷>义工讲故事活动。她们在活动前认真准备，并利用周末的空闲时间去图书馆为小孩子们讲了有趣的故事，并耐心地教他们一起做手工，受到孩子和家长们的欢迎和好评。通过这次愉快和难得的经验，同学们提高了讲华语的自信心，也学会了如何与他人沟通相处，跨出舒适区，挑战自我。最重要的是明白了我们应该回馈社会，为有需要的人伸出援助之手。	Story Sharing as little-avid-volunteer

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