IRONDALE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Media Center

Where Everybody is Somebody!

Dotty Bouchillon, Library Media Specialist

The media center is open from 8:20 A.M. until 3:00 P.M.  

Parents are also invited to visit the media center and use its resources. 

Parent volunteers are always welcomed and needed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our media center features the following:

*   7 networked computers with OPAC

(Online Public Access Catalog), Internet Access,

AR, STAR,

and Conerstone Programs

*   Approximately 8,500 collection titles

*   Nearly 6,000 Accelerated Reader test titles

*   Professional collection includes computer software, videos, manipulatives, games, and books

*   Reference collection includes print and CD-ROM encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, almanacs, and assorted books of interest

*   WICS television studio

*   Nearly 6,000 Accelerated Reader Books; fiction and non-fiction

*   Subscriptions to numerous periodicals

 

 

ICS Media Center Policies and Procedures

MISSION STATEMENT

The purpose of the Irondale Community School Media Center is to promote reading, teach library skills, and provide access to information: thus enabling students to become lifelong users of information.

 

CIRCULATION POLICIES

*  Students may check out 3 books at a time

with the exception of holidays.

*  The fee for all lost books is $15.00.

Parents may opt to replace the lost book

with a hardback copy from a local book store.

*  There are no late fee charges.

*  Accelerated Reader (AR) books are checked out

upon the teacher's request.

 

 

Useful Links

Alavama Virtual Library
Alabama Reading Initiative
Accelerated Reader Program Listing
Yahooligans Search Engine
Do We Really Know Dewey?
Dewey Decimal Classification
 
 
 

More Useful Links:

Principal's Message     Accelerated Reader      Meet Our Faculty

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