KISC Library

• The KISC library is fully automated with a user-friendly computer catalogue (OPAC) installed on the 8 computers for student use. This allows students easy access to the school network, to the internet and to the database which contains the details of all the resources housed in the library. The program called Alice has a junior and a senior version and a book wizard to help students find books to suit their own interest and reading level. The Library helps meet the recreational & research needs of our students through its collection of Reference, Non-fiction texts, magazines, videos, DVDs and fiction books. Fiction books for older readers (15+) are located in the separate Senior Fiction Section. There is also a Teachers Reference section and a Parent Collection.

• Internet access is available on the computers for individual or small groups.

• Students in Grade 6 and 7 have Library Skills lessons twice a week, where information literacy skills are developed. The processes of defining, selecting, organizing, presenting and evaluating information are taught in a sequential and developmental way. One of these lessons is in the computer suite, where the skills are applied to electronic information from CD-ROMs &  the internet.

• Our goal is to provide for the teaching and learning needs of KISC; to maintain a collection of resources that meets those needs, to develop information literacy skills and to encourage the love of reading for recreational and research purposes, so that our students will become discerning, independent learners.

• Outside users can apply for library membership. They will be charged a fee for this service.

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