CIS Library A Quick Review of 2012-2013 Highlights The library has a collection of 20,845 titles which include print books, e-books, videos, audiobooks, 14 online databases and 6 Kindles. The library is open 24/ 7 through our dynamic Website providing access to our catalog, and guiding learners through the research guide and subject specific pathfinders. The new City Campus library opened in August with a collection of 2,000 books, videos and magazines, a study and working area as well as a ’hang out’ area. The librarian is there twice a week and volunteers are there the rest of the time. A comfy area with nice sofas and carpet was created in the main library in Hellerup. It has been big hit with students and teachers! Sarah Jørgensen has joined the staff as a library assistant. Sarah worked at the Primary School library until April, when she went on maternity leave. Anuradha Chander is replacing Sarah for the period of her maternity leave. The ”no food” rule was broken in the library! We started the ”Book Lunch” with students from grades 5 and 6. Once a week, during lunch time, students are eating lunch in the library as they listen to books read by the library staff. It’s been such a success that we are planning to offer the Book Lunch to grades 4 and 7 next year.
Library Snapshot The library offers: 4,029 Fiction books (Gr.412)
The book week in November culminated with the visit of the author and illustrator Simon Murray who gave many exciting presentations on how to draw and taught the kids how to draw his famous character, Icky Doo Dah. During the book week, the primary school students also had special guest readers during their weekly library visit.
5,778 Nonfiction books (Gr.4-12)
Our international collection is growing with the help of PTA! We now have separate collections in Spanish, Dutch, Chinese and Japanese, besides the Danish, German, French and Swedish. Our International collection also has books in many other languages as well as bilingual books.
2,241 Picture books
Staff members from Malmö International School, Sweden, came to visit us in May. They are setting up a library and wanted to get some inspiration from our library. They were well impressed with the library and the school as a whole.
138 eBooks (fiction and nonfiction)
2,952 K-3 Nonfiction books 257 Beginner readers books 417 Chapter books 254 Graphic novels 1,215 Book in other languages 903 Professional dev. books 69 Audiobooks 323 Films 14 Online databases 26 Magazines 4 Newspapers
Curriculum & Instruction The librarian collaborated with teachers providing library orientation and research sessions in the three programs. Grade 2 students learned about Tomie de Paola’s life and works. They read many of his books and even learned how to draw one of his characters! Grades 4 and 5 Danish visited the Gentoft Library in Spring and learned about all the resources and programs they offer. Grade 6 and 7 Science had library orientation and introduction to research in their unit on Safety and Science, Atoms and Molecules and Variation and Classification. Grade 7 Humanities learned about information resources for their assignment on Global Issues. Grade 8 Humanities had an orientation to the library and its resources as well as session about bibliography & citation.
Library Volunteers
Grade 10 had a session on how to make bibli-
Thanks to the volunteers, we were able to keep the Primary School Library and the City Campus Library running smoothly. A big thank you to our dedicated volunteers Mariko Thomsen, Maridith Woodward, Nicole Bardonner, Lisa Mariner, Louise Fordyce, Sheila Smyth Kramer, Helle Kirstein, Elizabeth Schul, Debra Sinnhuber, Sonali Chander, Shilpa Shinde, Sonali Kale, Amber Cormency and Chao-Feng Wu.
ography & citation for the Personal Project. The library supervised two students doing the Personal Project, and met students individually to guide their research process. Grade 11 Humanities had an introduction to information resources and bibliography & citation for the Extended Essay. The librarian is meeting individually with many of the students to support their research, both helping finding relevant sources of information and teaching bibliography & citation. Grade 11 students also had the opportunity to visit Gentofte Library in the spring to get to know their resources.
Our summer reading program for the Primary School, The Bookworm Club Challenge 2013 has launched! Students who complete the program will receive a certificate and a book.
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The trend from last year continues for the Primary School students. They checked out more books this year compared to last year. Staff also checked out more books this year than last year.
1779 new books/materials were added to our collection. 157 books/materials were removed from our collection due to bad condition or age.
The number of check outs in the Senior School increased due to the creation of the City Campus library.
765 books/materials were lost (from 2007 to present).
Top Ten Most Checked Out this Year:
Top Ten Search Terms this Year: World War 2 Energy The Great Depression Avengers Civil War Percy Jackson Transformers Underground Railroad Desert Noughts and Crosses
Icky Doo Dah Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants: The Fourth Epic Novel The Hunger Games Star Wars: Beware the Dark Side Star Wars, The Clone Wars: Meet Ahsoka Tano Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith The Big Book of Dinosaurs Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1 Garfield Treasure Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot: An Adventure Novel
Author Visit The author and illustrator Simon Murray visited us on November 21 and 22. He offered sessions to all classes in the Primary School and to 6th grades students. In his session he talked about the process of writing a book, his inspiration to create his stories and characters and taught the students how to draw his famous character, ”Icky Doo Dah.” Even though it all happened in November, his books are still very popular in our library!
Book Lunch Students from Grades 5 and 6 are enjoying eating their lunch in the library while listening to a good story being read to them. Grade 5 enjoyed Mokee Joe by Peter Murray, and Grade 6, Flip by Martyn Bedford.
Library Staff
Susan Marenco Lib .Assistant
Urania Beyer
Diana Lloret
Librarian
Lib. Assistant
Sarah Jørgensen Lib. Assistant
Anuradha Chander Lib. Assistant