LIBRARY SERVICES  DEPARTMENT

Meeting the Information Literacy Needs of 21st Century Learners

Klein ISD faculty, staff, parents, and students have web-based access from any district workstation and at home to the following library information resources.

·  CARLweb, a web-based catalog of  the district’s library books, uses a search format designed for adults and students in Grades 9— 12. 

Searches for library books may be made by an individual campus database, by a group of 2 — 6 campus databases, or by a union catalog of 34 campus databases and the district’s Professional Library. Students and staff  may request inter-library loan by  contacting the library staff at the campus where they are employed or enrolled. 

·  Kid’s Cat WEB, a web-based catalog of all library books cataloged for students to age 14, uses three search formats for Grades K — 8. 

Find It, Grades K —2 , is recommended for beginning readers learning to keyboard and assisted by a parent or teacher.

Explore, Grades 3 — 5, is recommended for students whose expanding vocabulary and  typing skills enable them to locate information using icons for subject searches.

Type Search, Grades 6 — 8, is recommended for students whose developing information literacy skills enable them to type and create searches by title, author, or subject with the assistance of a spell-check feature.

Educationally and developmentally appropriate related web page links in Explore and Find It provide staff and students additional information resources for subjects searched. 

·  EBSCO resources provide more than 30 licensed, web-based databases that include full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, and encyclopedias for student use in Grades K—12. Information includes current events, science, history, the arts, sports, and biographies.

Searchasaurus> is recommended for grades K — 3.

Kid’s Search is recommended for grades K — 8.

For high school students, additional resources include a literary reference center, a history reference center, and 3,600 full-text books.

Copies of all articles may be e-mailed to personal e-mail addresses and may be used as cited in student work. 

Students and staff may obtain the campus’ EBSCO user name and password from library staff.

·  ABC-CLIO resources provide 3 licensed, web-based databases: World History (1500—Modern Era), American History, and World Geography.

Resources include current information, digitized copies of primary documents such as The Declaration of Independence, streaming video of speeches, a 24/7 ask the librarian resource, and maps.

Copies of all documents and images may be e-mailed to personal e-mail addresses and may be used as cited in student work.

Students and staff may obtain the campus’ ABC-CLIO user name and password from library staff.

·  Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition provides licensed access to both the secondary and elementary versions of the encyclopedia as well as the Compton’s by Britannica, multimedia resources, and web-sites selected by Encyclopaedia Britannica staff for student use.

Spanish versions of the Encyclopedia Brittanica databases are also licensed for student use.

Copies of all documents and images may be e-mailed to personal e-mail addresses and may be used as cited in student work.

Students and staff may obtain the campus’ Encyclopedia Britannica user name and password from library staff.

·  Facts on File is a licensed database for interdisciplinary studies.  Three versions provide different search and information resources for elementary, intermediate, and high school students.

Students and staff may obtain the campus’ Facts on File user name and password from library staff.

·  NetTrekker is a licensed, search engine designed for student use with links to web sites evaluated by educators for students. 

Parents may register students to obtain their personal user names and passwords.

·  TeachingBooks.net provides students and teachers information and resources about authors and their works.

Streaming video from author’s web-sites allows users to see and hear authors present their works.