CIS Library Copenhagen International School
What’s in the Library We have a collection of 23,525 items including:
Fiction books (Gr. 4-12)
Nonfiction books (Gr. 4-12)
eBooks (Fiction and Non-fiction)
Picture books
K-3 Nonfiction books
Beginner Readers books
Chapter books
Graphic novels
building
Books in other languages
The City Campus Library located on the F floor in City Campus
Audiobooks
Videos
access to our catalog, our Research Guide and our sub-
Online databases
ject specific Pathfinders. Our facilities are open Monday
Magazines
through Friday 8:00-16.00.
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 Campus
The Primary School Library in the basement of the Primary School
The library is open 24/7 through our Website providing
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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 to 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 your friendly 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.
Access to these resources through the Library Website. Passwords for access from home are posted in the library and on the teachers’ portal— folder: 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 the OUTLOOK calendars. If you need help, ask Urania! 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!
If you have an overdue book/material, no other book/material can be checked out before the overdue item is returned to the library. We don’t charge fines. Books can be renewed up to 3 times, unless there is a waiting list for the book. In this case, the book cannot be renewed. Only one book can be reserved at a time. The reserved book will be on the Reserve shelf for 8 days. In the event that you lose or damage a book or material, a fine of 150 DKK will be issue to replace it, if the publisher’s price plus shipping and handling is not located. You may also purchase the same book /material and give it to the library.
Please inform us in advance if you want us to provide any instruction to your class. We will be happy to help!
Coming up...
Author Visit on 9-10 October 2014
Library Staff
The author and illustrator Lee Harper will be visiting CIS during Book Week! Urania Beyer, MLIS Librarian uraniabeyer@cis.dk
Diana Lloret Library Assistant Main Library dianalloret@cis.dk
Sarah Jørgensen Library Assistant Primary School Library
See you @ CIS Library!
sarahjorgensen@cis.dk