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What to read next?
If you are not sure what to read next, you can always come to one of the friendly Library staff for suggestions or you can simply go to one of the following websites to find something to read. You can also search for authors who write your favorite books to discover more writers to love. There are endless books waiting for you!
Click on the book cover to go to the Library catalogue to place a hold. Use your school email as user name and password when you access from off campus.
Audiobooks
- LibriVox
To make all books in the public domain available, narrated by real people and distributed for free, in audio format on the internet. - Open CultureDownload hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you’ll find great works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more. Also please see our related collection: The 150 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind.
- Children’s Book Council of Australia This link opens in a new window
Established in 1945, the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is a not-for-profit, volunteer run organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians.
The CBCA presents annual book awards for outstanding contribution to Australian children's literature. Click here to see previous winners of Children's Book of the Year Awards. To see the latest shortlist, click this link.
- Internet Shakespeare Editions This link opens in a new window
The Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) is a non-profit scholarly website publishing
in three main areas: Shakespeare’s plays and poems, Shakespeare’s life and times, and Shakespeare in performance.
- Project Gutenberg Australia This link opens in a new window
Project Gutenberg Australia hosts free ebooks which are in the public domain in Australia. There is great deal of information about the History of Australia and the Exploration of Australia.
- OverDrive: eBooks & eAudiobooks This link opens in a new window
OverDrive is a digital library offering both ebooks and audiobooks for the ACK community, anytime, anywhere! Sora is a reading and listening app from OverDrive. With Sora, students and staff can access a large collection of eBooks and audiobooks with your laptop and personal digital device.
Purchase Requests
Purchase Requests
We welcome suggestions for new titles which are suitable for our Library Collection.
If you can't find an item in our catalogue you can request for it to be purchased.
Once you have made your suggestion, we will let you know if we will proceed with the purchase.
The time for arrival of a new title will vary, but we will notify you once it has been received.
Please fill the following form as much as you can. It is OK to leave blanks in some of the fields.