• Library Policies
     
    CISD Library Mission Statement
    The school library media center's mission is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information.

    CISD Library Philosophy
    The Library Media Center (LMC) provides a comprehensive collection of varied resources for students, faculty, and school community that presents varying levels of difficulty, diversity of appeal, and multiple points of view.
     
    The LMC recognizes that political, moral, religious, and aesthetic philosophies among individuals or groups may differ and holds that intellectual freedom is accorded to all.
     
    Materials/resources will be selected that complement, enrich, and/or extend the curriculum as well as address diverse needs or rapidly changing circumstances among the population. These materials shall include but not be limited to print, non-print, electronic, on-line resources, and future technologies that may become available.
     
    CISD Library Objectives
    To support the intellectual and educational needs of the school, the LMC will:
    Provide intellectual and physical access to materials in appropriate formats.
     
    Support and enrich the curriculum, taking into consideration the varied interests, abilities, learning styles, maturity levels and diverse needs/characteristics of the population served.
     
    CISD Library Policies
    Our district library policies can be found via the CISD online board policy.
     
     
    Library Resources
       Reference Desk
          Encyclopedia Britannica -- Free online access to 1000's of articles, images and research tools.
     
          Bartlett's Familiar Quotations -- provides the complete searchable database of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
     
          Library of Congress -- includes the Library of Congress catalog, text and images from major exhibitions, periodical databases, etc.
     
          LibrarySpot -- top sites for dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, genealogy tools, etc.
     
       MLA Documentation
          Easy Bib - www.easybib.com - Free Bibliography Maker for all formats.
     
          My Virtual Reference Desk -- links to encyclopedias, newspapers, fact-finders and software
     
          Noodletools -- provides help with composing bibliographies
     
          Pics4Learning--a copyright-friendly source of images for teachers and students.