ROFLMAO!

Funny thing happened at work the other day - just proves how efficient our maintenance guys are.

• Maintenance guy (let's call him Mick) sends email to all staff to advise light bulbs are being replaced around the campus today.


• Overworked library staff (let's call her Maxine) coyly replies to Mick saying "Are you going to fix the light at the end of the tunnel? It's been flickering a lot lately. ;-) "


• Mick replies a few days later: "A job has been logged and the light will be fixed today, but how did you know the light needed fixing? You shouldn't have access to the tunnel!"


• Maxine picks herself off the floor. She didn't even know we had a tunnel on campus!

Winner drawn for e-learning survey

Congratulations to J. Herbertson who was the winner of the $50 K-mart Gift Card for completing the e-learning survey.

Thank you to all those who contributed.

Free teacher educational resources from TV, Films and Radio

EnhanceTV is a free service for all educators. It brings to your classrooms an extensive range of teaching resources.On this website you will find what's on TV that is educational, how to get a copy and free teaching ideas for using it in your classes.

This free website and email service for all educators is made available through Screenrights, the organisation that licences educational institutions to copy from TV. Nearly all schools, TAFEs and Universities in Australia have a Screenrights licence.

Top 5 reasons why you should visit enhancetv.com.au

1. Free weekly email subscription - educational TV highlights, tailored to suit you.
2. Over 400 free study guides and growing - download now.
3. Educational TV guide - updated daily online,covers all capital cities, regional areas and Pay-TV.
4. Film and TV database - more than 40,000 searchable records.
5. Feature articles - include discussion questions, links to Audio-visual materials.

The free weekly email guide delivers a detailed recording guide of educational programs a week in advance of broadcast. By subscribing to EnhanceTV you can receive a free online program guide divided into subject areas. This guide also contains a list of relevant web sites for upcoming programs, leading you to a wealth of other teaching resources.

You can copy as much as you like as long as you keep to the rules below:

"The rules for copying under a Screenrights licence are very simple. You can copy anything from radio or television (free to air and pay) and you can make as many copies as you like. You can also copy broadcast material made available online by broadcasters. This includes podcasts and vodcasts of your favourite programs. You can copy all or part of a program. You can also make up compilation tapes of material you have copied. The only requirements are that you have a Screenrights licence, that the copy is made for the educational purposes of the institution, and that it is labeled"

For any copyright queries or questions regarding off-air copying please see the Screenrights website at:- http://www.screenrights.org/copyright/australia/faqs.php

The Bremer Library can also record programs for your classes as long as you give us enough lead time. For more details please talk to your Learning Resources Advisors or the library staff.

Ipswich campus library now open Monday mornings!

Due to popular demand, the library at Ipswich campus will now be open Mondays to Thursdays 8:30am - 4:00pm.

We hope being open Monday mornings will help teaching staff better cater to their students' needs at Ipswich.

We would appreciate any feedback on our extended hours.

Support the library - win a passport wallet & freddo frog!

It's Library and Information Week 25 - 31 May 2009.

The theme this year is "Libraries - your passport to discovery!"

To celebrate this exciting week we are offering a fabulous Passport Wallet and a Freddo Frog to the first 20 people who complete a library task.

To claim your prize you need to search one of our online databases, print an article that would interest you and bring it to the desk, or write your name on it and send it to us.

To access our online databases login* via The Bremer TAFE Library home page:
thebremer.qldtafe.spydus.com

* login using your Bremer ID and pin number (student passwords default to your date of birth (ddmmyyyy)). Contact us on 3817 3065 if you need help.

Have fun!

Online training resources for Graphic Design and IT students

In an exciting win for the Bremer TAFE, we recently obtained access to Lynda.com in what is believed to be a first for Queensland TAFE. This resource offers students the chance to brush up on their skills in programs such as Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and many other products using the latest versions available to industry.

This product should significantly improve the skills of students and staff and ensure they have the cutting edge tech skills to successfully compete in industries like Graphic Design, IT, Photography, etc.

Access to Lynda.com is via login and password and these will be issued by the library from the ELZ desk at Bundamba. Anyone who can’t access this desk is advised to contact the project officer for Lynda.com, Max Evett.

Graphic Design classes have already received a demonstration of the product and training in how to reserve and book access to the accounts via the library catalogue. Initial feedback has been very positive, and we’re expecting that the accounts, like our graduates themselves, will be in high demand.

Google on Steriods!

www.leapfish.com is a new search engine that allows you to search multiple Google, Yahoo or msn sites at the same time. It's not a duplication of their search results but a compilation of web, blog, images, video, news and associated sites. It's very very fast.

So if you want to find something fast, leapfish could be an option. Let's know what you think.

New library opening hours

The library hours have changed!

Starting this semester the Bundamba campus library hours are now as follows:

Hours for the Ipswich campus library are:

Non-semester hours - closed

Hope to see you soon! :-)