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The Great Book Swap

September 3rd 2025

Each year the UC Library hosts a Great Book Swap to celebrate Indigenous Literacy Day and to raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Last year the UC Community raised just over $750! An amazing effort!

We will be running the book sale again this year, on September 3rd and we are looking for book donations!

If you have any finished or unwanted novels, textbooks, cookbooks, self-help books, history book or anything book related really, we would love your donations.

On the day, we set these books up in the foyer of the library, the UC Community can donate to the ILF and walk away with a new book! All the money is then donated to the ILF so they can provide culturally appropriate books to remote communities.

In the Foyer of the Library there will be a trolley set up for book donations, we are accepting books right up until 3rd September. It’s the perfect time for Spring cleaning you book collection and home and in the office!

Here is some more information on the Indigenous Literacy Foundation - https://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/who-we-are

 

Children's Book Week

16-23 August 2025

The National Centre for Australian Children's Literature has a display of many of the books shortlisted in the Children's Book Council of Australia awards down in the UC Hub.

Come down and see these wonderful children's books.

 

Peer Assisted Learning Sessions (PALS) - Semester 2 2025

PALS (Peer-Assisted Learning Sessions) are weekly group study sessions designed to organise and improve the ways in which students prepare for the course outside of class.

Units supported in Semester 2 2025:

  • Biochemistry and Metabolism
  • Business Decision Making
  • Chemical Concepts
  • Concepts in Pharmacology
  • Foundations of Anatomy and Physiology
  • Genetics and Genomics
  • Integrating Pathophysiology
  • Introduction to Economics
  • Introductory Physiotherapy Skills
  • Introduction to Research in Health Sciences
  • Musculoskeletal Interventions 1
  • Systemic Anatomy and Physiology (SAP)

For more information and the timetable go to the PALS page.

Workshops