21 March 2013

Easter Opening Hours

All three LRCS will be closed on the bank holidays:


Good Friday (29 March)
Easter Monday (1 April)

Guildford College


Tuesday 2 April - Friday 12 April             9.30 - 4.30

NB On Friday 5 April the LRC will close between 12.30 and 1.30

Farnham College


Tuesday 2 April - Friday 5 April           CLOSED

Monday 8 April - Tuesday 9 April        9.00 - 5.00
Wednesday 10 April                           CLOSED
Thursday 11 April                                9.00 - 5.00
Friday 12 April                                    CLOSED


Opening times may be subject to change at short notice so please check with the relevant LRC before travelling.




Celebrating World Book Week 2013

All the LRCs took part in celebrating a very successful At the Movies themed World Book Week 2013 which created a real buzz for reading. Here is a round-up of the activities along with our competition winners:


Guildford College

  • 22 students attended a Storyteller event 
  • 67 students entered the Picture Quiz - The winner of the £10 Amazon voucher is Amirali Kheradmand.
  • 8 students entered the World Book Day Quiz - The winner of the Amazon voucher is Mia Sherrington.
  • 64 books and 89 films were added to our wall.
  • 43 fiction books were borrowed during the week. (This is a record!!)






Farnham College

  • 101 students entered the Film Picture Quiz - 1st Prize went to Ellie Gaskin with 2nd Prize going to Durell Chimombo.
  • 72 students entered the World Book Day Quiz - 1st prize went to Chloe Shaw with 2nd Prize going to Ayla Stenning.
  • Students also shared their favorite books and films.
  • 18 fiction books were borrowed during the week.




Merrist Wood

  • 47 students entered the Film Picture Quiz - The winner was Connie Norris
  • 6 students posted on the book wall and lots of discussion took place about books and films.
  • 21 fiction books were borrowed during the week. (This is also a record breaking number!!)






A big thank you to all the students and staff that took part in World Book Week 2013!!


Watch this space for 2014.......

11 March 2013

Top e-books in Februrary


Business and Beauty Therapy hold on to places 1 and 2 in February's top ten e-books by pages viewed.  We have new entries for performing arts and teaching this month - will your e-book make it into next month's top ten...

Here's February's chart:

2757   BTEC Level 3 National Business Book 1
721     Beauty therapy. - 3rd ed. 
565     Travel & tourism for BTEC Level 3 National Book 1
238     Act now! a step-by-step guide to becoming a working actor
131     E-business and e-commerce management
123     Management and organisational behaviour
120     Key studies in psychology    
116     Armstrong's handbook of human resource management practice
101     Teaching today
99       Marketing communications: interactivity, communities and content
   

The top downloaded books for February were:

16 Management and organisational behaviour
6   Practical counselling and helping skills
4   Armstrong's handbook of human resource management practice
4   BTEC Level 3 National in IT