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Learning Centre enhances learning

Information is at the core of all learning. Information literacy, the ability to use information effectively in life and work, is as essential to the development of independent learners as is the ability to communicate directly with others.

The need to be able to use information effectively has, in many cases, become more important than the acquiring of factual knowledge itself.

The role of the Learning Centre is to assist teaching staff to develop and enhance information literacy skills whilst encouraging the growth of students as independent learners.

The Learning Centre staff work in collaboration with teaching staff to assist developing learners and to ensure that pathways to information can be accessed.

Our goal is to encourage the effective integration of information resources and technologies into student learning, whilst maintaining an enjoyment for, and an appreciation of, literature and the written word (there's nothing like a good book!).

The physical resources of our Centre ensure that all students have access to traditional print and global sources of information, online journals and email. Students are encouraged to use the facilities to access, analyse and select information and to create and share their knowledge with others.

It is a dynamic environment in which the girls learn the skills of information literacy and prepare for independence in future learning and the world of work.

We work hard at the continuing development of the Learning Centre in order to guide Fairholme students in their quest to become independent, lifelong learners.

"…the ability to process and use information effectively is more than a basic tool for the empowerment of school students: it is in fact the basic survival skill for those who wish to be successful members of the 21st century." (ASLA & ALIA, 2000)