LIBRARY & BOOKS

The AISW secondary school library is a large learning space on the 3rd floor that is shared by students, teachers, staff, and parents. The library serves as an information center for all subjects taught in the middle and high school divisions, as well as a resource for pleasure reading and the pursuit of individual research interests. The library offers a wide selection of fiction and non-fiction print books for in-library use and for checkout. It also provides access to ebooks and periodicals and research materials through database subscriptions.

The librarian is available during posted office hours and also by appointment to assist individual students with research. Students are welcomed and encouraged to ask for help locating, analyzing, organizing, sharing, and citing information.

In order that everyone may enjoy and make use of the library, library users must be respectful and share:

• The materials and resources, by returning them on time for others to borrow, by putting them where they belong, by keeping them in good condition, and by taking turns.

• The space by allowing others to use the facilities

• The sound space, by not interfering with someone else’s need to read, to find information, or to study.

The library is a classroom where students learn Information Skills:

• to find

• to select

• to analyze

• to organize

• to communicate all kinds of information meaningfully

The library uses the Follett DESTINY system for cataloging and checking out books. One useful feature of DESTINY is WEB-PATH EXPRESS, a safe and leveled computer database search engine geared for students and school curriculum. DESTINY can be accessed on the library computers and also on your personal computer from home or school at follett.aiswest.com. Students can reserve books online by using their individual DESTINY login (see the librarian for more information). The library computers offer internet access for use in doing research under teacher supervision.  No games are allowed on library computers.

Library hours are from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday and from 8:00am to 3:00 pm on Wednesday and Thursday.

Students are responsible for all items checked out under their name so you are strongly advised not to check items out for other people. Books and other circulating materials may be checked out to students for two weeks. To renew a book beyond two weeks, please bring it to the library to be rescanned. Overdue notices are sent periodically through the classroom teachers. Students with lost or overdue books may not check out additional materials until the missing items are returned or paid for.

Reasonable care must be taken to maintain borrowed books in good condition. Overdue notices are sent periodically to students through their school email accounts. The library does not impose fines for late books, however books that are six weeks or more overdue will be regarded as lost.

Students will be charged for lost or damaged materials. Any fees due to the library must be settled prior to the end of the final term or report cards will be withheld. 

The library is a well-equipped facility and the pride of AISE. The librarian and library assistants are here to help you.

Textbooks

Textbooks will be issued to you by your teachers. Each teacher maintains a list of each textbook with an identification number and a description of the book’s condition when it was issued.

Each student is responsible for keeping track of his/her own books and for maintaining them in good condition. If you lose or damage a book, you are responsible for paying the replacement cost of the book. Damage or loss should be reported and payment made in the Business Office. To obtain another book, payment for replacement must be made. In the event a student has an outstanding book fee, school records will not be released. This includes student transcripts and report cards. 

Books which are consumable, such as workbooks, which must be used/consumed by students are issued on a permanent basis, and are not expected to be returned.

Damaged or Lost Items Policy

The school issues texts, library books, instruments and other valuable materials to students each year. Students are responsible for returning these items in good, reasonable condition at the end of the year, or whenever the teacher asks for them back. If items checked-out to students do not return, or are returned in a manner deemed damaged or in need of repair, the student will be charged a repair or replacement fee. If the fees are not paid, the report card and/or final transcript is not issued to the student until the items are accounted for/repaired

If students lose something, they should check with security at the Lost and Found.