CIS Library 2013-2014
What’s in the Library We have a collection of 20.845 titles including:
4,029 Fiction books (Gr. 4-12)
5,778 Nonfiction books (Gr. 4-12)
138 eBooks (Fiction and Non-fiction)
2.241 Picture books
2,952 K-3 Nonfiction books
257 Beginner Readers books
Campus
417 Chapter books
The Primary School Library in the basement of the Primary School
254 Graphic novels
building
1,215 Books in other languages
The City Campus Library located on the F floor in City Campus
69 Audiobooks
The library is open 24/7 through our Website
323 Videos
providing access to our catalog, our Research Guide
14 Online databases
and our subject specific Pathfinders. Our facilities
26 Magazines
are open Monday through Friday.
4 Newspapers
Welcome to the Library! The CIS Library exists to serve its community: students, staff and parents. Our aim is to foster the development of life-long learning and a love of reading. It also functions as a center of intellectual and cultural life, providing resources and activities for pleasure and learning. Our facilities include:
The Main Library on the C floor of the Main building in Hellerup
CIS Library is yours to enjoy so pay us a visit soon!
What We Can Do for You The librarian, Urania Beyer, is happy to collaborate with teachers in all three programs by planning units of inquiry, providing library orientation, research and bibliography sessions as well as Personal Project and Extended Essay research and bibliography guidance. Come for a visit and talk, or e-mail Urania. She works at Hellerup on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; and on City Campus on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We’ve got great resources to support learning and teaching. We can train you and your students on the use of our many resources. Ask for help. We offer a growing professional collection in the main library. If you have a suggestions for new acquisitions for the library or for the library services, please let us know! E-mail Urania with your suggestions.
Online Resources CIS Library Research Guide and Pathfinders—instruction on the research process, bibliography and citation, and relevant online resources for specific topics and assignments put together by the librarian. EBSCO—access to journal and magazine articles, primary source documents, images and videos in all subjects. WorldBook—encyclopedia, books, images and primary source documents. ABC-CLIO—Humanities database offering primary and secondary source documents, biographies and research guidance (Middle School level). Oxford Art and Oxford Music— articles, biographies and criticism on the Arts and Music.
Visit our website @ www.cis.dkAcademicsLibrary
JSTOR—access to academic journals and e-books (high school and university level). Ordbogen—Danish-English/ English-Danish online dictionary. TumbleBooks—Audiobooks collection for Primary and Middle School students. Discovery Unitedstreaming— educational video streaming database and lesson plans and support materials.
To search the library catalog, click on Library Catalog on the library website. There you can search for book, ebooks, selected websites and articles. To find lists of recommended books, new books, and books related to class topics, click on Resource Lists located on the sidebar of the catalog, then click on the Public Lists tab.
PressDisplay—access to newspapers from all over the World.
Access these resources on the Library Website. Passwords for access from home are posted in the library. If you need help, contact us .
Our Rules Help make the library a great place to be!
Respect others by not being too loud
Food makes a mess—please clean up after yourself
Library staff is here to help—Ask us for advice
Borrowing from the Library Students Pre-K to 1: 2 items for 2 weeks Students Grades 2-5: 4 items for 2 weeks Students Grade 6– 12: 6 items for 2 weeks Teachers: 60 items for 2 months Parents: 6 items for 2 weeks
How to sign up to bring your class to the library: You are very welcome to bring your class to the library! To make sure your class will take full advantage of the library, please use the booking system on OUTLOOK calendars. Primary School—Classes come to the library once a week. The sign up time for the classes happens in the beginning of the school year through Outlook: Open Outlook Public Folders and find Primary School Library on the list. Click on the days you wan to visit the library and sign up. Middle School—Sign up through Outlook to bring your class to the library: Open Outlook Public Folders and find Main Library on the list. Click on the day you intend to bring your class to the library and sign up. Contact us, if you need help signing up! Please inform us in advance if you want us to provide any instruction to your class. We will be happy to help!
Opening Hours Main Library (Hellerup Campus)
Monday—Friday 8:00—16:00
Primary School Library (Hellerup Campus)
Monday—Friday 8:40—15:00
City Campus Library
Monday—Friday 8:00—16:00
Coming up...
Library Staff
Book Week 2013 November 18-22 Urania Beyer, MLIS Librarian uraniabeyer@cis.dk
The author and illustrator Bryn Barnard will be visiting us during Book Week!
Diana Lloret Library Assistant dianalloret@cis.dk
Anu Chander Library Assistant Primary School Library anuradhachander@cis.dk
Sarah Jørgensen Library Assistant Primary School Library (maternity leave) sarahjorgensen@cis.dk
See you @ CIS Library!